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hey what is up guys um could be HD here and welcome back to the explained series so the galaxy si is a head-turning phone and there are plenty of awesome new things about it but one thing that kind of went under the radar I don't even know if it was officially said during the announcement is that this is the first phone in the world to ship with Bluetooth 5.0 so you've probably heard of Bluetooth and you may even know if your phone has bluetooth 4.0 or 4.1 or 4.2 but generally those different iterations of Bluetooth are just slight improvements to things like pairing time and low energy modes etc it doesn't really change the way you use it you just know your phone has bluetooth 5.0 that's a pretty big new number that seems to signify sort of a bigger change so there's a couple things that you should know that so what is new with Bluetooth 5.0 there are three main things that all enable one pretty dope new features so number one is it's 2 times faster so bluetooth pairing is generally not that quick of a process you have to do it very often but it's pretty slow you're someone like me who's connecting a lot of Bluetooth speakers as I test a bunch of them for a video then you know that it's not super quick but doing it with this Galaxy s8 with Bluetooth 5.0 shows a direct advantage of data transferring twice as fast which is the pairing process is a bit quicker and there's also less delay you ever watch a video like on Bluetooth speakers or bluetooth headphones and like the audio is a little bit behind the video like someone's talking and then you hear it like a split second behind usually not too bad but that actually does get solved a bit with Bluetooth 5.0 that delay is a lot smaller so that's data speed number two is four times the range that's actually been a real-world weakness of Bluetooth especially in my past it depends on what pair of headphones you use but sometimes you can be listening to music in your headphones and you leave your phone in another room you walk a little bit too far away and it starts cutting out and then eventually stops that happens like all the time the theoretical maximum range of Bluetooth 4 was about 50 meters with a direct line of sight but about 10 meters in everyday use through walls and around corners and around different rooms of the house so 30 feet tops so that means you can't get very far away from your phone it's you're trying to listen to music or if you walk around the corner it's going to cut out and that's kind of a nine-to-five like I said quadruples that max range so a theoretical maximum of 200 meters with a direct line of sight or about 40 meters around a house or indoors so that's that's 120 feet that's a legitimate serious improvement so that's not just like downstairs and around the corner that's like you can walk out in your backyard while your phone's upstairs you can walk to the front yard or around the gym what have you got to do you can get a lot further from your audio source with Bluetooth 5.0 and then the number three improvement is eight times the data throughput Allu tooth four and this is where a lot of the real world improvements and doh features start to get enabled so first of all this has benefits way beyond just like audio like I'm talking about speakers because usually that's what we use bluetooth for but bluetooth can also be used for things like Bluetooth beacons and parking meters and small wireless things those can also be helped by more data throughput through Bluetooth five but if you think about a Bluetooth stream like a highway it used to be a two-lane highway going 40 miles an hour for 20 miles now it's a 16 lane wide mega highway going 80 miles an hour for 80 miles it's a completely different story so having all these lanes of data moving so fast enables a pretty sweet feature which Samsung calls and which will call since they're kind of first to it dual audio which lets you output to two different Bluetooth speakers at the same time so let me demo that real quick I'm going to connect to bluetooth one at a time here plays it sound whenever it turns on so this is one speaker it's pretty decently loud but let's say I want that stereo listening experience I want to have two different outputs at the same time just bear with me here I'm gonna connect this one now so you go into the dual audio mode you turn it on and then you make sure both of your sources are connected that you want to play - whoa okay I'm gonna play so the fact that that works so easily is awesome you might have noticed there's this this super tiny delay in the the audio timing one of them plays like a tiny bit before the other one that can be negotiated just by moving them further apart you'll notice that way left oh yeah this used to be a lot more difficult to do like you've heard of Sonos right so knows essentially made its living of a couple of things but mainly the stock that you could connect to a bunch of different speakers all around the house in different places at one you have to get certain so no speakers and you have to have that Sonos app and then you connect the app to the mesh network up to so no speakers create amongst themselves and when you plug that into those speakers then you'll get the one audio source among several so notes but you have to buy those very inexpensive so no speakers to make that happen this Bluetooth 5.0 and this feature enables that Sonos experience on any Bluetooth speakers so that is Bluetooth 5 more data more range and faster speeds and it's good to know about a phone that you may potentially get later this year so that's pretty much it thank you for watching talk to you guys the next one hey looking for a freak someone who likes to please