hardware - How do the AirPods communicate with the phone? - Internet of Things Stack Exchange: I think Apple has implemented its own patent US8768252: Un-tethered wireless audio system for the Airpods. What they may have got in place is a Bluetooth Scatternet with one piconet having phone and one of the pods, and the other piconet has both the airpods.
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