- Much faster data transfer
- Longer beach, lower energy consumption
- Many phones do not have technology
Samsung headphones could get a big boost to their sound quality and overall performance using the same technology as the company’s own smarttags and Apple AirTags: UWB.
Ultra wide strip, like Bluetooth, is a short -range wireless technology. It works in different frequency strips to Bluetooth, it potentially has a longer beach than Bluetooth and it has an exceptionally low latency – submilliseconds compared to milliseconds from Bluetooth.
That’s not all. UWB uses less energy and can offer much better data transfer speeds.
So, well considered, this is the type of technology you may want to put in a set of headphones. And Samsung clearly intends to do this exactly.
What is Samsung doing with UWB headphones?
For the moment, it’s just a patent: as 91mobiles report, the patent is called wireless headphones and the control method, computer equipment and storage environment. It was filed at the end of 2023, but only published this week this week.
According to the patent, the headphones would connect to your device on Bluetooth before leaving a UWB connection to take over. The device would then broadcast the audio on UWB directly to the headphones in the same way as Bluetooth does it in most of the best wireless headphones today.
The patent suggests data transfer speeds of around 20 Mbps, in addition to being very low. Although Bluetooth is theoretically capable of this, this does not happen in practice for audio – the data rate known maximum for Bluetooth audio at the moment is 990 kbps of LDAC. If the UWB of Samsung can really use this large bandwidth, it is more than sufficient for Really High resolution audio – a really loss -free sound.
The drawback is that if Bluetooth is in everything, Uwb is not; For example, even the basic model Samsung Galaxy S25 does not have it. This means that if Samsung goes with UWB Buds in the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro, this will only be beneficial for more expensive smartphones owners until the UWB becomes more widely sustained.
