From its mirror finish and solid build quality to its excellent audio and software experience, there is a lot to love about the HTC U11 . An upcoming update is unofficially announced by an FCC, however, it revealed the phone which has another special feature: Bluetooth 5..
As our colleague Gary Sims said eloquently, today's Bluetooth has two flavors: “classic” and “low battery”. The former allows devices like keyboards, mice, headphones and speakers to communicate with other devices, while the latter being called "BLE", uses relatively less power and is designed for laptops. and tags.
The main moment when Bluetooth 5, unveiled by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) at this time of 2016, is in increasing BLE's range and transmission speed. Datas. Fortunately, these performance increases do not lead to an increase in power consumption: Bluetooth 5 uses at most 2.5 times less than its predecessor..
As the new Bluetooth 5 chipset became available in early 2017, however, we have yet to see a bunch of devices that support the new standard. The standard has yet to enter the earphones and laptops taste in any meaningful way, even though phones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 support Bluetooth 5, there's no point if other devices don't.
U11 will encounter the same conundrum when its software update lands, with the update requiring no hardware changes on the HTC part. This probably means that the hardware is already built in, but a software update is needed to activate it..
Bluetooth 5 shows a future for U11, especially for those who will be using it for more than a year, as future accessories will support the new standard. Keep in mind that FCC archiving doesn't say when the software update will land, but it will happen soon.
