Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
Link to see devices impacted: https://whisperpair.eu/
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
Link to see devices impacted: https://whisperpair.eu/
I want to agree, I used to hate wireless headphones, until I realised that wired don’t last long if I wear them anywhere outside my desk.
The cable keeps getting caught in door handles, accidentally stepped when I need to crouch and then snapped when I get up or the plug simply gives up from being constantly bent inside the pocket.
I’m a person who can use a soldering but that doesn’t make repair much easier, phones don’t usually like the 3.5mm jacks available in the market, opening and closing whatever plastic thing covers the contacts or the back of the drivers often break after a third time opening it.
The cables themselves start to breakdown and that time I ordered a whole replacement cable off eBay the phone lost all bass (probably high impedance).
Another issue is that modern phones output a very quiet signal that doesn’t get loud enough even when plugged the HD25.
In end wireless headphones solve this problem, I still use wired headphones on my desk. But for mobile use wireless it is.
I’m almost exactly in the same boat, except even at my desk I want wireless. I often turn my camera off and get up to make coffee or go pee in big meetings. It’s great. Even when I’m presenting things, it’s usually only at a specific time, and I can still talk when I’m away from my desk (flip-to-mute microphones are great.)
I have several sets of wired headphones I used to love. I’d buy several sets at once so I already had a replacement when they inevitably broke But I literally can’t remember the last time I used a pair of wired headphones. I only miss 3.5mm on my phone for plugging into my car’s aux port.
Wires are annoying as hell, and a proper desktop wireless headphone will have basically no loss in quality as they have a base station and are not using Bluetooth.
Same with the mouse, for things like gaming latency can be an issue, but a proper one isn’t using Bluetooth either so no issues on that end (or at least the difference is lower than my skill issue, which causes me to lose games)
The quiet issue is due to impedance. You need a better amplifier than your phones garbage dac. High ohm headphones require more juice.
I dont listen to headphones on the go really. Only in office. Usually it sounds awful and there’s too much noise around me to enjoy it, and I prefer to enjoy music on my actual listening setup at home amyway, headphones will always sound worse due to no depth. But im weird about sound. Music isnt background noise to me.
Noise cancelling headphones and background music helps a ton when I’m in the office. Stupid open office…