When Samsung announced its Galaxy S25 flagship phone last month, I made a beeline for the specifications section of the official website listing. I was specifically looking to see whether the new Galaxy handsets supported the highest-quality Bluetooth aptX codecs its generations of forebears had disappointingly overlooked. But I couldn't see codec support listed. My colleague trawled through the press materials provided by Samsung, but no luck there either. Hmm.
I presumed no specs meant no support; that the Galaxy lineup would, for at least another year, continue to be without Qualcomm’s aptX HD, aptX Adaptive or aptX Lossless, three of the four higher-quality Bluetooth codecs* widely supported nowadays by premium wireless headphones and speakers. Conspicuous by their absence and, to a large extent, historically incompatible.
