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Tammy Rogers

Whatever happened to Wi-Fi headphones?

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Wi-Fi headphones have been rumored for some time at this point. Correction — more than rumored, we've seen them in real life at events like CES. The promise of top-quality audio on the go that uses your phone's Wi-Fi antenna instead of its Bluetooth module.

So why, then, are we still without a pair of Wi-Fi headphones? Why do I not have a lovely pair of cans that play We Didn't Start The Fire to the best of their ability, instead of relying on lossy Bluetooth codecs and battery-draining sound improvement engines? Where, oh Zeus, are my Wi-Fi headphones?

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