This Samsung and Google competitor is bringing Bluetooth audio sharing to i

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• The latest smartphones from Xiaomi support Auracast, i.e. Bluetooth LE Audio broadcasting.
• Auracast lets phones share audio to multiple devices over Bluetooth.
• The feature is supported on all flagship phones released by Xiaomi in 2024, but there’s a catch.

Sharing your phone’s audio is easy if you don’t mind being that person who blasts their music in public, but it’s challenging if you want others to privately listen in. That’s because most smartphones only support streaming audio to a single Bluetooth device. Fortunately, a key feature of the next-generation Bluetooth LE Audio standard enables streaming audio to multiple Bluetooth devices, and it’s coming to flagship smartphones from one of the leading smartphone brands.

Xiaomi, the consumer tech giant that’s behind some of this year’s best Android phones, has enabled support for Auracast on its flagship phones released in 2024. Auracast, if you aren’t aware, is a feature of the Bluetooth LE Audio standard that lets devices broadcast audio to one or more nearby devices over Bluetooth Low Energy.




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