> Bluetooth continues to be one of the most critically under-delivered standards, in my view. LC3, that this update discusses at the end, was announced January 2020. Over two years ago. There's still, to my knowledge, no devices that support it. None, not a one.
Bluetooth >= 5.2 and LC3 are some of the prerequisites of LE Audio, but LE Audio is a separate standard that builds upon them.
The Bluetooth has only finalised the core parts of the LE Audio standard 22/Mar/2022 [1].
Some optional parts of the standard, e.g. "TMAP: Telephony and Media Audio Profile" are still not finalised. [2]
Many of the phones that support Bluetooth 5.2 should be able to support LE Audio.
On the software side, Android 13 (expected Q3 2022) will be the first OS to fully support LE Audio, and that's a few months away.
It was indeed very poorly communicated, and there was poor expectation management, but within a few months all the pieces should come together and the first devices should appear.
Taking a year to deliver on your promise is ok. But it's well over 2 years and there is jack fucking shit, squada, naught, nothing, zilch. This is a super super super embarassing shit show, a disaster. If things were only just starting to show up, maybe, if adoption was slow, maybe, but literally no one adopting this? Yeahh no, this is a train-wreck technology. This particular organization is incompetent, is bound by their own bad system that has obviously clearly inarguably failed.
LC3's non-delivery is just one drastic vast highly-observable fuck up. The failure of 5.0 to arrive in consumer devices for basiclly half a decade rings so profoundly scarily true. There still being noting post 5.0 available so widely confirms these horrible beliefs. Bluetooth miserably fails to make it's way into the world. It's a constant wreck, constantly vastly behind. Specs that are so under-performant dont deserve this endless chance to deliver more.
We're well past the point where there need to be other possibilities. Bluetooth has held the world hostage, has perpetually been lopsided in what it does. In other threads I mentioned how pipewire, finally, is creating a more equitable situation by creating a Hands Free Profile bluetooth device, but only via minimal circumstances, short of all the good & better specs. Bluetooth just fails, can't do, is resistance in the world, giving more fixedness & constraint than benefit today. Bluetooth is sad.
Bluetooth >= 5.2 and LC3 are some of the prerequisites of LE Audio, but LE Audio is a separate standard that builds upon them.
The Bluetooth has only finalised the core parts of the LE Audio standard 22/Mar/2022 [1].
Some optional parts of the standard, e.g. "TMAP: Telephony and Media Audio Profile" are still not finalised. [2]
Many of the phones that support Bluetooth 5.2 should be able to support LE Audio.
On the software side, Android 13 (expected Q3 2022) will be the first OS to fully support LE Audio, and that's a few months away.
It was indeed very poorly communicated, and there was poor expectation management, but within a few months all the pieces should come together and the first devices should appear.
1. List of recently adopted standards: https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/
2. Diagram of all the different pieces of the specs: https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-bluetooth/recent-enhan...