Many people are not pleased with the fact that Samsung phones won't support Aptx Adaptive, which means many earbuds/headphones (like Sennheiser momentum 4) won't display their full potential over bluetooth.

The only solution now is getting an external dongle like BTD600 or BT-W5, or listening to music wired, which besides increasing the costs, it also defies the whole purpose of getting bluetooth products: comfort.

This situation is worsened if we consider:

• Not even flagship phones have it, even costing $1.500. But other brands have it on way cheaper phones.
• Qualcomm open sourced the codecs, so there's no major cost of implementation asocciated.
• Samsung already includes LDAC (Sony's hi-res codec) and their own hi-res codec for Samsung earbuds (SSC).
• Aptx standard is available (10+ years old).

This might not be that noticeable for most users, but there's a growing community of audio enthusiasts who will find this a deal breaker. Mostly because it has a noticeable impact on the audio experience and it makes no sense other than Samsung trying to force on us their peripherals over the competition.

I've been a Samsung user for many years, but for the first time I'm considering switching brand.