Any Mobile phone with BLE 5.0 "LE Coded PHY" feature

[beemavishnu]

Hello,

I am using nRF52840, SDK_16.0.0, S140 SoftDevice and Segger 4.16 for flashing the image.

Most of our devices are Peripherals. To control them, we will relay on Mobile apps.
Till BLE 4.2 its going fine. Now we started working on BLE 5.0 and especially with long range (LE Coded PHY).

To my understanding, not only software even hardware need to support for "LE Coded PHY". Even I searched in Launch studio about any Mobile phone with "LE Coded PHY" as End product. But some are BLE 5.0 complaint but could not find on "LE Coded PHY".

My queries is, are there any Mobile phones in market with "LE Coded PHY".

Thanks & Regards
Vishnu Beema

[ovrebekk]

Hi Vishnu

The list of phones that support coded phy is still very small. They mostly support the high speed 2Mbps mode in Bluetooth 5, but not coded phy. 

For this reason I wouldn't recommend implementing an application that relies on coded phy being available if you are using a phone as the central. 

There is already an open thread discussing which phones currently support coded phy:
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/33060/is-there-any-smartphone-with-supporting-of-bluetooth-5-long-range-feature

The thread is pretty long and parts of it is outdated, but Joakim told me he is working on a summary that will show more clearly which phones support this.

In other words I suggest putting a bookmark on the thread and there should be some more information there soon. 

Best regards
Torbjørn

[beemavishnu]

Thank you for confirmation