- Much faster data transfer
- Longer range, lower energy consumption
- Many phones do not have technology
Samsung’s headphones could obtain a great boost to their sound quality and general performance through the use of the same technology as the company’s own smarttags and Airtags of Apple: UWB.
The ultra wide band, such as Bluetooth, is a short -range wireless technology. It works in different frequency bands to Bluetooth, has a potentially longer range than Bluetooth and has exceptionally low latency: sub-miliseconds compared to Bluetooth milliseconds.
That’s not all. UWB uses less power, and can offer much better data transfer speeds.
So everything that is considered was considered, is the type of technology that you may want to put in a set of headphones. And Samsung clearly intends to do that precisely.
What is Samsung doing with UWB headphones?
For now, it is just a patent: as reported 91mobiles, the patent is called wireless headphones and their control method, computer equipment and a medium storage. It was filed at the end of 2023, but it was only published this week.
According to the patent, the headphones would connect to their device through Bluetooth before letting a UWB connection take over. Then, the device would transmit audio through UWB directly to the headphones in the same way that Bluetooth does so in most of the best wireless headphones today.
The patent suggests data transfer speeds of around 20mbps, in addition to being very low in latency. While Bluetooth is theoretically capable of this, it does not happen in practice for the audio: the maximum known data speed for Bluetooth audio at this time is the 990kbps of LDAC. If Samsung’s UWB can use this large bandwidth, it is more than enough to In fact High resolution audio: true sound without loss.
The disadvantage is that while Bluetooth is in everything, UWB is not; For example, even the Samsung Galaxy S25 base model does not have it. That means that if Samsung continues with the UWB outbreaks in the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro successor, it will only be benefit for the most expensive smartphone owners until UWB is more widely compatible.
