Another OEM is making its phones work better with Google Fast Pair

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Opinion post by
Mishaal Rahman

• Xiaomi is using the ultra low-power co-processor found in its 2024 flagship phones to boost Fast Pair responsiveness.
• Fast Pair is the feature that lets you pair your phone to Bluetooth accessories with a single tap.
• Xiaomi is using Android’s Context Hub Runtime Environment to offload Fast Pair scanning to the ultra low-power co-processor, making scans faster and more power efficient.

Pairing Bluetooth accessories to your Android device can sometimes be a hassle, which is why Google created Fast Pair, a protocol that makes the pairing process a single tap. Certain Android phones from Google and OnePlus are able to quickly detect when a Fast Pair-enabled Bluetooth accessory is ready for pairing, while other devices may experience a bit of a delay in picking that up. Xiaomi phones used to have that slight delay, but starting with their 2024 flagships, they’ve included support for a feature that boosts Fast Pair responsiveness.

Fast Pair simplifies connecting Bluetooth accessories like headphones, smartwatches, tracker tags, and mice with devices running Android or Chrome OS. The service is baked into the Google Play Services app, which scans for the Bluetooth Low Energy packets that Fast Pair-enabled accessories advertise. When the service picks up one of these packets in a scan, it looks up the accessory’s details in Google’s Fast Pair database and then shows you a dialog asking you if you want to pair to the device.




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