Have you heard about Snapdragon Sound? Well if you haven’t, it’s a Bluetooth streaming platform dreamed up and made real by Qualcomm that enables the transmission of audio over Bluetooth at lossless quality.
But there is a catch.
And that catch is that to benefit from the high bandwidth and lossless audio that the Snapdragon Sound platform can output to, all devices need to support aptX Lossless. That means your headphones need to be able to playback streams at lossless quality over Bluetooth, and your mobile device, in this case your smartphone, also needs to be transmit data over Bluetooth at aptX Lossless.
Not every smartphone supports the Snapdragon Sound platform, so if sound quality is of great importance when you’re listening to music, here are smartphones that we know support aptX Lossless.
Which smartphones support aptX Lossless?
Asus
Motorola
Nubia
Sharp
Although not as readily available in the UK, it’s worth noting that the following Sharp handsets support APTX Lossless:
- AQUOS Sense10
- AQUOS R10 series
- AQUOS R9 series
- Sharp AQUOS R8 series
- Sharp AQUOS R7 series
Sony
Vivo
- iQOO Neo 11
- iQOO Neo 10 and Neo 10 Pro Plus
- iQOO Neo 9 Pro Plus and older (up to Neo 7 Racing Edition)
- iQOO 15
- iQOO 13
- iQOO 12 and 12 Pro
- iQOO 11 series (including Pro and 11S)
- iQOO 10 and 10 Pro
- iQOO 9 and 9 Pro
- iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro
- iQOO Z9 and Z9 Turbo
- Y300 Pro Plus
- Y200 GT
- S30
- S19
- S18
- X100 Ultra
- X Fold 5
- X Fold 3 Pro
- X Fold 3
- X Fold 2
- X Fold and Fold Plus
- X Flip
- X Note
- X90 Pro Plus
- X80 Pro
- X200 Ultra
A lot of the above Vivo handsets are either a China-only launch, or are not yet available to buy in the UK.
Xiaomi
Just note that not all of the above handsets are readily available to buy in the UK, such as the Civi 5 Pro.
Finally, we should mention other handsets that support APTX Lossless but aren’t currently available to buy in the UK. These include: Nio Phone, The Fairphone (6), Leica Phone 2 and Phone 3, and ZTE Libero Flip.
FAQ
There’s currently no iOS support for Snapdragon Sound. Qualcomm’s tech platform is only available on Android devices.
