franzdom
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Are Airpods supposed to work with any phone or just the 7?
Are Airpods supposed to work with any phone or just the 7?
Are Airpods supposed to work with any phone or just the 7?
I was going to post that they only work with the 7, but then I went to the Apple Store to look something up using my iPhone 6S Plus, and it said my phone is compatible with AirPods. I did not get that impression at all from the keynote, but now that I read through the product description, it seems that they're just another Bluetooth headphone with a customized pairing scheme.
No they are not Bluetooth. It's a whole new protocol. They will be compatible with your 6S ONLY AFTER you update to iOS 10...That's the whole difference, because the new software will make your phone compatible with the W1 chip, not the Bluetooth hardware inside your device...
You make no sense, the phone side still needs a protocol to receive data from the AirPods unless the iOS update will also magically update my phone hardware to have a new chipset to talk with the AirPods I'm pretty sure it's the existing Bluetooth chipset that will communicate with it. So at the end of the day it is using Bluetooth.
The fact that it was stated to work with current gen MacBooks and iPads is already enough of a hint to tell you it is Bluetooth as that and wifi are the only wireless protocols available.
It may work with the Bluetooth chip of your phone but it is redesigned in order to not present the known Bluetooth problems, cruppy sound, interruptions etc. So to put it more accurately it is a new / better Bluetooth...
How do you know that? If you're going off of the keynote, Schiller also said that Apple was the first company to try to come up with a high fidelity audio wireless standard, so you probably can assume that their audio quality claims are just as accurate (i.e. not at all). The only thing that's definitively unique to the AirPods is the automatic pairing, and that's probably just an OS shortcut that overrides the usual pairing methodology. Do you have any evidence that AirPods have better wireless performance than any other Bluetooth devices? I mean, aside from shorter battery life than almost any currently offered Bluetooth phones.