Dear listers I asked Rene Ritchie (anyone who listens to Twit or Apple Talk or reads imore.com will know who I’m talking about) who has a pair of AirPods on loan prior to their launch to test them for lag when using VO on his iPhone 7. He very kindly had a go and here is our DM exchange on Twitter. It’s not conclusive but moderately encouraging:
Me: Hiya. I'd really appreciate it if you could fire up VoiceOver and see if there is any noticable lag when flicking right/left through items on the screen when using AirPods. The one showstopper for VO users would be any lag using VO. Thx Rene: I played around with it a little but I’ll get some regular headphones and airpods and see if I can find a difference. My one word of caution is that these are preproduction hardware and may not reflect what the final shipping version can do. Rene: I tried it and I think there’s still a little BT lag, though I’m really bad at judging this stuff and I’d hate to give anyone the wrong impression. The magic, as I understand it, is mostly in connecting and keeping the two buds in sync. I’m not sure how much they can do to improve the speed of BT. Me: Thanks *so* much. The very fact that you're unsure as to whether/how much tells me volumes. It sounds like it may well be on the right side of acceptable which is all we needed to know. If when flicking through items on the home screen, say, you had noticed definite lag then this would be conclusive - but the very fact that you aren't sure sounds promising. My £20 BT headset has something around 0.5-0.75s delay per swipe and it makes it incredibly frustrating to use. This sounds v different. I'll report this back to the community. Rene: Sorry - I’m *really* bad at audio. The opposite of a golden ears :) Thanks, Robin -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
