Samsung works on UWB headphones: what it could change

At the beginning of 2025, the UWB (for Ultra Wide-Band) is a short-range wireless technology mainly used by a handful of connected tags from Apple and Samsung in order to geolocate them. According to a patent filed by the latter, it may well be that headphones using this technology are coming soon. If conditional and measure remain in order, could nevertheless take shape here a small wireless audio revolution.

UWB hand in hand with Bluetooth, before replacing it?

Spotted by 91mobilesit is a patent filed by Samsung at the end of 2023 that suggests that. Indeed, the UWB promises a very low latency, a very high transfer rate to distribute audio without loss of quality (up to 20 MB/s), strong resistance to interference and even lower energy consumption than that of Bluetooth.

According to the patent, the Samsung solution would initially go through Bluetooth to connect a source to a earpiece. Then, the audio transmission would rock on the UWB on the first earpiece, then would be on the second. Once the UWB connection is made between the device and the two headphones, the Bluetooth would then be disconnected.

A democratization not for immediately

However, there are several problems to be resolved before seeing the UWB coexist, or even replacing Bluetooth. First of all, the scope of the UWB is currently much less than that of Bluetooth, namely a handful of meters against several dozen.

Then, very few devices are currently equipped with UWB chips to use such headphones, as for the opposite Bluetooth is everywhere. Even the very recent Samsung Galaxy S25 is devoid of it. For the moment, the iPhone since 11 and some high -end Android terminals from Samsung, Google and Xiaomi are equipped with it, but democratization is still far away.