On: Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start

[brookside]

I agree with all of this, but the knock on bluetooth sound quality doesn't fall into this category of audiophile foolishness.

It's real & severe downsampling, and incredibly noticeable.

Bluetooth 5 should have the bandwidth to solve this problem.

[dpkonofa → brookside]

While I get what you're saying, I only find this drop in quality on really cheap Bluetooth headphones/headsets. I have tried 2 "high-end" wireless headphones (1 of which are my AirPods that I own) and I find no downsampling or quality loss that's noticeable.

[chrischen → brookside]

On airpods there’s so much background noise and lack of sound isolation the quality drop won’t make a difference.