Qualcomm turns to Wi-Fi to take wireless earbuds and headphones to the next level - The Verge
Leave your phone behind and keep the music playing.
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Figuring out how to login to the wifi for you earbuds sounds like a fun time
That's a solved problem. You use an app for setup, like so many other screenless devices.
more apps unique to every device sounds awful lol
Hopefully once it's common enough a standard process arrives. Actually I don't think this will take off without that, else we will need an app for iOS, android, windows, Mac, Linux, several tv OS...
It can also start an adhoc network that you join on your phone, and input the wifi details via the browser, although this is more complicated for the device itself. Lots of low spec/low power devices do that though.
It's addressed in the article. It'll just share the credentials from your phone.
That's unfortunate. Devices like that are basically impossible to use on certain enterprise networks (e.g. college campuses). There really needs to be an override
it would be a dedicated network between your phone and the earbuds based on how I understand
I'm personally more worried about SECURING the network between my headphones and my phones ....
Yet another vector of attack .... let's hope they use a modern encryption standard and that they update in a timely manner when a 0D on the protocol is found
but it's Qualcomm, it will be fine, right? right? ..... guys? Right?
Talking like someone that's never used a PAN
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