7/4/2023: An overlooked Bluetooth feature


Bluetooth buds’ most overlooked feature

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When the folks at Jabra reached out about reviewing their Elite 4 earbuds, it wasn’t the sound quality, noise cancellation, or design that interested me. The thing I was most curious about had nothing to do with Jabra at all.

Instead, what I really wanted to check out was Bluetooth Multipoint, a feature of the Bluetooth standard that’s more than a decade old, but only recently has worked its way into consumer wireless earbuds and headphones. Multipoint lets you connect with two devices at the same time, for instance letting you move between a phone and computer without clunky Bluetooth pairing menus.

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