New Qualcomm TrueWireless earphone tech makes cutting cords easier
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Many Bluetooth headphones still have some sort of physical connection between the earphones, whether it's a wire or a host unit. A while back, Qualcomm launched a tech called TrueWireless Stereo that does away with the wires in favor of connecting left and right earphones themselves via Bluetooth. Now, the company has baked a new version of the tech into its latest low-power Bluetooth SoCs that it says solves most of the issues of the earlier revision.
TrueWireless Stereo headphones are "truly wireless"-two separate headphones that lack physical connections. With first-gen TrueWireless hardware, one headphone is the designated the primary unit, and it gets the audio stream from the device (e.g. a smartphone). It then shares one ...