Google confirms Pixel 8 phones will support lossless audio over USB

[Redaktion]

In a Reddit AMA, Android's VP of Engineering has just confirmed that the new Pixel 8 phones will soon support lossless audio output over USB. OS-level support was already added to Android 14, but a future software update will unlock the ability in the latest Pixel phones. In addition, app developers will have to enable the use of the API on their end.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-confirms-Pixel-8-phones-will-support-lossless-audio-over-USB.760024.0.html

[NikoB]

It's just funny and ridiculous. All smartphones have long been obliged to support USB Audio by USB in digital transmission mode.

As well as the ability to use as a stationary player - with the protection of the battery from a redesigning - it should begin no earlier than the drop of the charge up to 95%, a self -discharge, when working from a power supply, as is done in all normal laptops for decades (well, except for idiotic models from Huawei).

The owner of any smartphone of the last 6-7 years should be able to connect to the USB-C port in a hub with DP/HDMI outputs with parallel power supply from the PSU (and the mandatory protection scheme indicated above, which today does not have Apple smartphones, but which is in the most Cheap laptops!), Mouse, keyboard and transmit the sound in the digit to the external USB DAC/headphone amplifier/linear output and use the smartphone as a player or replacement of a laptop/PC with a large monitor.

But none of this is still intentionally done, especially in the initial and medium models and, adequately, not even made in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Chinese manufacturers, such as Xiaomi, are especially negligent. It is not beneficial to smartphones manufacturers when the smartphone is often used from BP, without loading, thereby protecting the battery from quick wear with a constant reduction to 100%, when the charge drops even to 99%, because In this case, especially within the framework of 3-5 years, the buyer for new ones will definitely not come at least once every 2 years, namely such a period of change of smartphones to manufacturers is beneficial.

In fact, at the level of performance of the last generations of smartphones, these are laptops without an external periphery, which allows you to comfortly surpite them on a large screen silently (unlike most idiotic laptops made). All that is needed in practice is that all smartphones have the thresholds programmed by the beneficiary and the end of charging - for example, charge up to 100%, but do not run charging, previously discharged up to 80%. In this mode, a smartphone, when working from PSU, will lose 20% by a self -discharge no earlier than a month, being constantly connected to the PSU. So one single reloading cycle will be used once a month or only 12 cycles per year, if for some reason the owner wants to use it more often from the PSU than autonomously.