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Samsung Unpacked 2025: Google is bringing improved hearing aid features


Alongside a slew of announcements tied to Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced a pair of accessibility

Wednesday’s updates bring LE Bluetooth compatibility, which, in turn, delivers features like hands-free calling and lower latency connections. Introducing the HID standard in 2018, the USB-IF foundation noted that it will, “make it easier to use a braille display across operating systems and different types of hardware. It will also simplify development, removing the need for braille devices to have custom software and drivers created for a particular operating system or screen reader.”

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