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It’s funny, anytime anyone mentions the loss of the 3.5mm jack on flagship phones, the loud Bluetooth brigade conveniently forgets just how inconvenient Bluetoo

It’s funny, anytime anyone mentions the loss of the 3.5mm jack on flagship phones, the loud Bluetooth brigade conveniently forgets just how inconvenient Bluetooth can be.

crazygringo 7y ago
My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless, across keyboards/mice, headphones and speakers. I'm curious if the problems are with Android, with non-premium speakers/headphones, or a combination of the two? And why? (Is it not following the spec, bad UX, or insufficient QA/testing?)
- slig 7y ago
  > My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless Mine have been terrible. I have a 2018 MB Pro and a pair of QC35 II and it stutters dozens of times during the day. Before that I had a 2014 MB Pro and a cheapo BT headphone and have similar issues.
  - vel0city 7y ago
    I had been using bluetooth headphones without issues for a few years. After moving into a new apartment, I started having all kinds of intermittent problems. Turns out the microwaves in the apartment complex were pretty bad, causing a ton of 2.4GHz noise. The Chromecast would also start dropping video streams whenever my roommate would cook stuff. Is there a source of a ton of 2.4GHz noise causing your problems?
    - slig 7y ago
      That makes a lot of sense. I had to upgrade to a newer 5 GHz router because the 2.4 was impossible to use, and I do live in an apartment complex. Thanks for the insight.
- m-p-3 7y ago
  The bluetooth on my MBP2017 seems to work like shit if I try to use my bluetooth headphones (Plantronics Voyager 8200UC) and a bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 3600). The sound will stutter and the mouse will lag, no matter if I reset the OS, and I even got the MBP replaced under AppleCare yet it didn't resolve the matter. None of this happens with those two peripherals on my Dell work laptop (Dell Precision 5200).

It’s funny, anytime anyone mentions the loss of the 3.5mm jack on flagship phones, the loud Bluetooth brigade conveniently forgets just how inconvenient Bluetooth can be.

crazygringo 7y ago

My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless, across keyboards/mice, headphones and speakers. I'm curious if the problems are with Android, with non-premium speakers/headphones, or a combination of the two? And why? (Is it not following the spec, bad UX, or insufficient QA/testing?)

slig 7y ago
> My experience with Apple and Bose devices has been pretty flawless Mine have been terrible. I have a 2018 MB Pro and a pair of QC35 II and it stutters dozens of times during the day. Before that I had a 2014 MB Pro and a cheapo BT headphone and have similar issues.
- vel0city 7y ago
  I had been using bluetooth headphones without issues for a few years. After moving into a new apartment, I started having all kinds of intermittent problems. Turns out the microwaves in the apartment complex were pretty bad, causing a ton of 2.4GHz noise. The Chromecast would also start dropping video streams whenever my roommate would cook stuff. Is there a source of a ton of 2.4GHz noise causing your problems?
  - slig 7y ago
    That makes a lot of sense. I had to upgrade to a newer 5 GHz router because the 2.4 was impossible to use, and I do live in an apartment complex. Thanks for the insight.
m-p-3 7y ago
The bluetooth on my MBP2017 seems to work like shit if I try to use my bluetooth headphones (Plantronics Voyager 8200UC) and a bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse 3600). The sound will stutter and the mouse will lag, no matter if I reset the OS, and I even got the MBP replaced under AppleCare yet it didn't resolve the matter. None of this happens with those two peripherals on my Dell work laptop (Dell Precision 5200).