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Is there any smartphone with supporting of Bluetooth 5 Long Range feature?

Hi!

Please, help me! Maybe someone knows the answer. Is there any smartphone with supporting of Bluetooth 5 Long Range feature?

Best Regards,
Pavel

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  • I agree completely, SIG should have made all features of BLE 5 mandatory for a device to be labeled BLE 5.0 otherwise you just have confusion as we have now.

    And yes, as you stated, even Nordic does it too with the 52832 vs. 52840. On the 52832 they seem to have no hardware support for doing the arduous deconvolution for receive processes for coded phy. I have asked that they put in crude software support in the SD for TX coded phy for 52832. This should be easy since coding the frame is pretty easy math.  I didn't hear back on the suggestion though.

    As developers we really have no idea which devices when, if ever,  will have coded phy support and it's tough to adopt it as a platform if only random consumers will have access to it.

  • SIG should have made all features of BLE 5 mandatory

    I wouldn't go that far - but they should certainly have defined and mandated some clear & definitive terminology to make things clear.

  • I stand by my statement. When even top tier phones don't have LE Coded as a feature, as a product designer I might as well consider the feature not existing.  I can't sell a product that nobody or very, very few people can use.

    As a result, I have already revisited the plans for our next product and completely removed LE Coded from the feature set. It is pointless to offer it.

    I agree with you that at a minimum the terminology should be very clear such that people realize what they get and do not get with their phone.

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