When Bluetooth headphones first hit the market in the mid-2000s , it was a skillful approximation to guide clear . The speech sound was discernibly worse . Connection problems were abundant , and they were expensive . But a decade later , consumerresearch house NPD Groupsays that Bluetooth headphones have finally outsell their wired competition .
As of June 2016 , Bluetooth answer for for 54 percent of sales with Beats and LG gobbling up the lion ’s share with 65 per centum . Bose , Jaybird , and Skullcandy lash out out the leaning . NPD attribute this Bluetooth milestone to the steady decreasing terms for Bluetooth - connect headphones . It does n’t suffer that sure phone makersare finally nonplus in on the technologyin a big way and are get some truly telling head train .
Of course , the second stern is in all probability going to see another surge thanks in part to smartphones ’ slow move away from the 3.5 mm headphone knave , seen first with theMoto zandApple ’s iPhone poise to follow suit . Anew and better version for Bluetoothis also total later on this year or early 2017 .
unfeignedly , a wireless future is upon us .
[ NPD GroupviaQuartz ]
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