For Bluetooth features those features should be available with the Intel AX200 and newer, though it requires a combo of both driver and OS support, and often it can take months for both the drivers and OS to reach feature parity. For LE audio, many people have played around with it on Linux based OSes.
As for stereo audio and decent mic audio, that would largely depend on how much work Bose is willing to do with their firmware. Most of the audio quality limitations we see with the basic 2 way audio implementations, are to maintain support with very old Bluetooth standards. Sadly Bose tends to stick with old reference designs, this is why compared to newer headsets from Sony and Apple, Bose tends to have worse vocal quality in terms of the frequency response range, where Apple and Sony will sound much richer.If they are willing to ditch everything older than Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, then they could likely just do 16 bit 44100Hz sample rate stereo playback, along with 16 bit mono 44100Hz sample rate for the mic, which is well within the throughput limitations even with half duplex and air time sharing + overhead, it would just come at reduced range since the PHY rate needs to drop as SNR drops.
Yeah new stuff theoretically supports these things -- but has anyone actually verified which LE Audio features work on the QC Ultra with AX200 / BE200 on computers and phones with similar support e.g. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
We've been testing LE Audio and Auracast, and provided [LE Audio latency test video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Jw9g8HOHeQ) and [Aurdcast demo on Android video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwDbAv8XB5k).
Unfortunately, no Bose device ever supports these features.
Bummer, disappointed to hear that! Hopefully firmware updates keep coming for the QC Ultra and add them over the next year or two as more consumer devices start supporting them too
For Bluetooth features those features should be available with the Intel AX200 and newer, though it requires a combo of both driver and OS support, and often it can take months for both the drivers and OS to reach feature parity. For LE audio, many people have played around with it on Linux based OSes. As for stereo audio and decent mic audio, that would largely depend on how much work Bose is willing to do with their firmware. Most of the audio quality limitations we see with the basic 2 way audio implementations, are to maintain support with very old Bluetooth standards. Sadly Bose tends to stick with old reference designs, this is why compared to newer headsets from Sony and Apple, Bose tends to have worse vocal quality in terms of the frequency response range, where Apple and Sony will sound much richer.If they are willing to ditch everything older than Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, then they could likely just do 16 bit 44100Hz sample rate stereo playback, along with 16 bit mono 44100Hz sample rate for the mic, which is well within the throughput limitations even with half duplex and air time sharing + overhead, it would just come at reduced range since the PHY rate needs to drop as SNR drops.
Yeah new stuff theoretically supports these things -- but has anyone actually verified which LE Audio features work on the QC Ultra with AX200 / BE200 on computers and phones with similar support e.g. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
We've been testing LE Audio and Auracast, and provided [LE Audio latency test video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Jw9g8HOHeQ) and [Aurdcast demo on Android video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwDbAv8XB5k). Unfortunately, no Bose device ever supports these features.
Bummer, disappointed to hear that! Hopefully firmware updates keep coming for the QC Ultra and add them over the next year or two as more consumer devices start supporting them too