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you really would think bluetooth would be good by now and not routinely a pain in the ass but no
It is, you just can’t buy bottom of the barrel garbage.
And don’t ignore your phone itself. I know Sony in particular has some of the worst Bluetooth connectivity. Which is very funny because they make a fuck ton of Bluetooth headphones.
I swear it actually gets worse over time as devices try to cram more complexity into the protocol it craps out for me constantly regardless of device. I could write a thesis on how much shit Bluetooth has caused me over the years and anyone who says to me "it just works" instantly becomes my sworn enemy
My theory is that its at least partly the incredibly polluted nature of the 2.4Ghz band but bluetooth as a protocol has also always been fuckign atrocious
yep i still find myself constantly having to forget and re-pair shit especially when multiple host devices are involved, really seems like that should be a solved problem.
That’s unfortunate but I feel like it has gotten incrementally better especially with exercise centric earphones where before I had to have line of sight between the phone and the earphones otherwise the audio would cut out also the general improvements over time are volume used to be independent between sending and receiving devices, range was extremely limited, pairing was slow and unreliable, RF interference was a constant problem, much better battery life
I’ve been using Bluetooth since 2010 when I got my first smartphone. I’ve had various iPhones and androids but iPhones have always been more reliable with their BT implementation not sure why. Some devices just suck though
Fundamentally at the end of the day unrepairable lithium battery devices will never be something i want for the nebulous benefits they bring. We need less battery operated ewaste not more
agreed