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> the game was running at 34.5 fps

It can run Doom at 35 fps, but can't stream a good bluetooth signal to headphones more than 5 m away smh.

You're right, because the nRF52 series are Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, they can't stream music at all :-) Music streaming is done via Bluetooth Classic (as of now). BLE != Bluetooth Classic

That's not true. BLE can stream music now, it's in the Bluetooth 5 standard. The nRF52 isn't great for it, there's nRF53 for that, but it's possible

https://www.nordicsemi.com/News/2020/01/Nordic-launches-a-Bl...

I was under the assumption that BLE chips have regular BL support as well as a fallback for when you actually want to use the thing for something productive. Is that not the case or are most phone manufacturers just lying while putting two chips on devices?

Like if a chip supports Bluetooth 5.1 that should include both, no?

Have you tried a Bluetooth 5 LE headphone? It's a completely different radio and protocol from previous generation Bluetooth headphones. I don't know if there are any in the market yet. There certainly isn't any based on nRF5340 yet.

I don't know if the range will be better, but latency and pairing process should be much better.

>but can't stream a good bluetooth signal to headphones more than 5 m away smh.

So many factors, right I can't pull out the Bluetooth specs.

Bluetooth devices are in such a sad state :^(

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