Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound: Chip-creating giant Qualcomm has announced the launch of Snapdragon Sound to enhance wireless headphones. As per the firm, Snapdragon Sound is a chain of audio application and innovations aimed at enhancing the audio high-quality for earbuds, and wireless headphones amongst other devices. Qualcomm voice, music, wearables VP James Chapman mentioned that the objective of this platform is to bring the higher-resolution audio high-quality of wired headphones to the customers in wireless merchandise.
Snapdragon Sound tends to make use of its flagship Snapdragon 888 Mobile Platform for processing when Qualcomm FastConnect Mobile Connectivity program is applied, along with Bluetooth Audio SoCs, to improve the connectivity of the audio enhancement platform. Moreover, in order to enhance the audio high-quality, aptX Adaptive and Aqstic codecs are applied, so that the item would be in a position to provide playback of hi-fi music up to 24-bit 96kHz. The platform also has help for echo cancellation, noise suppression as nicely as active noise cancellation.
This notion is not new, what with Sony pushing its personal technologies which is capable of transmitting thrice the quantity of information a typical SBC Bluetooth codec can. However, elements from Qualcomm are currently present in various headphones and earbuds like these of Audio-Technica, Bose, Sennheiser, and so on, proving the audio capabilities of Qualcomm. Now, the boxes of audio merchandise and smartphones that jump onto the wagon of this HD audio would also be displaying a Snapdragon Sound badge, to let customers know that they include Qualcomm sound capabilities. But current merchandise would not be updated to help this.
The next handful of months are probably to see the launch of the initial merchandise creating use of Snapdragon Sound, with Audio-Technica and Xiaomi getting currently announced themselves as the initial two partners for this platform.
The program would not only bring higher-resolution music to customers, but would also bring clearer voice high-quality, as nicely as decrease latency when the user is playing games, along with connection stability. However, the program nonetheless did not concentrate on multipoint pairing for the headphones with two Bluetooth devices simultaneously, a thing which is increasingly becoming a necessity due to the numerous devices customers are regularly getting themselves making use of.