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- Pixel 10 is the first American phone to receive Bluetooth 6.
- Bluetooth adds 6 upgrade, which includes accurate channel sounding.
- Both devices require Bluetooth 6 to fully benefit, so adoption will slow down.
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Google’s Pixel 10 smartphone The native magnetic wireless charging, an industry-first IP68 dust- and waterproof foldable phone design and more intuitive AI features including AI features were launched. However, one of the most important updates is to adopt Bluetooth 6 phone, which makes them the first in the US with the latest Bluetooth connectivity standard.
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In addition to the stability of wireless connection, improving power consumption and power, Bluetooth 6 introduces channel sounding, which makes the device location more accurate. Despite its 2024 release, Bluetooth 6 and channel sounding are in a slow adoption process. Nevertheless, two pixel devices are compatible with it. What does it mean to you here and now in future.
What is the channel looking?
The channel makes the two tools on the positioning technology of Sounding Bluetooth lend to enable them to install the distance between them. Currently, Bluetooth devices use signal strength to determine the distance, but the channel sounding takes time for signals to travel. This more secure and accurate method provides the information of the device location to the centimeter.
Current Bluetooth-able device tracking can tell you where your device is, in a normal sense, but channel sounding you should be able to alert you that your device is within 10 feet and the following is on the right, which is between the cushion of your couch.
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Bluetooth according toChannel sounding, or exact location tracking, requires a hardware update. However, existing devices can be upgraded to support Bluetooth Le, which provides infrastructure awareness.
The exact location-tracking devices like the Airtag have an internal ultra-wideband (UWB) chip, which helps in tracking ultra-sequence. The UWB is incredibly accurate, but it is more expensive and complicated than Bluetooth to universally applied.
Which pixel devices have Bluetooth 6?
Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro fold support Bluetooth 6. Thanks to the recently worn OS update, Pixel Watch 3 also supports channel sounding. Google has not confirmed how the Pixel Watch 3 is supplied with this update, the Bluetooth version update requires historically new hardware.
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Bluetooth 6 Bluetooth device scanning, better-quality audio codex, Bluetooth Le devices brings better audio and video latency streaming and more efficient connections.
What does this mean for the future?
Bluetooth aims to standardize technologies in devices. When introduced in 1999, the purpose of Bluetooth was to standardize our communication methods, eliminating the wires to join the headphones, phones and computers.
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Today, wireless communication and connections are standard, and Bluetooth’s next challenge is standardizing the channel sounding. This will implement safe and accurate location capabilities in all our Bluetooth equipment, enabling our smartphone one day Act as a digital car and house keys,
The devices will be the days of living within the ecosystem to access the device tracking features. This picture: Instead of buying a dedicated location tracker to find your gym bag, you can act as your headphones, earbuds, or tablets inside your bag as your Bluetooth tracker.
Apple’s iPhone 17 and Samsung’s Galaxy 26 lineups, which have been slated to release the decline and at the beginning of the following year, potentially Bluetooth 6 support smartphones are the next smartphones.
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