Bluetooth

[jennyjoan]

Like what is it. I am about to buy another pair of cheapie wireless headphones as the other ones are finished. This time they mention bluetooth. What the heck.

I've had all kind of teeth in my head, metal ones, implants, mercury fillings but no bluetooth.

If I go with the cheapies - will I be alright.

[tiggerblue10]

Bluetooth https://g.co/kgs/KDK7mp

[Buenchico]

The type of wireless headphones I think you had before used an older technology, whereby the device that you're getting the sound from (such as a radio, TV or whatever) doesn't have a transmitter built into it. Instead you plug a transmitter unit into the device's headphone socket, which then sends a signal to your wireless headphones:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dUYAAOSwjcdhZZrb/s-l640.png

Devices using Bluetooth (such as some mobile phones, tablets, laptops, radios, TVs, etc) already have a little transmitter unit built into them. So you don't need to plug anything into the device's headphone socket. (Indeed, many mobile phones, etc don't even have headphone sockets these days, as they've got Bluetooth transmitters inside them). You simply need to 'pair' some headphones with the device in order to hear the sound.

Both technologies have their advantages and disadvantages. The older one, for example, can send signals over a much greater distance, whereas the newer one (Bluetooth) 'pairs' headphones to devices, so that there's never any interference between the signals.

There's no point in buying Bluetooth headphones if you're using a device that doesn't have a Bluetooth transmitter in it (unless you buy an adapter to equip it with one). Equally, there's no pint in trying to use the older technology with a Bluetooth-enabled device that doesn't have a headphone socket. So you need to choose your headphones carefully!

(If you need specific advice, you'll need to tell us exactly which device it is that you want to hear the sound from).

[Musictv2019]

I have wireless headphones by a brand called walk I use them everyday and I really love them.

[RandyMarsh]

The other ones were probably blue tooth as well x

[Buenchico]

^^^ Randy:
Jennyjoan has previously bought the headphones shown in my link at 2049. (I use that type myself). They're excellent for devices that don't have built-in Bluetooth. (I actually prefer them to Bluetooth headphones anyway, as they're far more reliable over longer distances).

[ToraToraTora]

Did You Know, Bluetooth is actually named after Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, king of Denmark and Norway 958 - 986.

[jno]

blue could mean black to Vikings - rather vague about colours, they were - so Harald's tooth was probably just dead rather than sky-coloured.

[THECORBYLOON]

I knew that and the Bluetooth logo is the Nordic rune for "H" superimposed on the rune for "B".

[ichkeria]

"Did You Know, Bluetooth is actually named after Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, king of Denmark and Norway 958 - 986. "

Tora is surely now become an Answerbank national treasure :-)