All items tagged with true wireless (492)
Shure New AONIC Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones And True Wireless Earphones Are Now Available
April 3, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Shure New AONIC Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones And True Wireless Earphones Are Now Available

Following a preview at CES 2020, Shure now confirmed the launch of its latest AONIC 50 and AONIC 215 wireless products, both important achievements for the American brand. The new AONIC 50 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones are nicely designed, high-quality headphones which offer up to 20 hours of battery life, signaling a strong entrance in the wireless ANC category. The AONIC 215 True Wireless Sound Isolating earphones employ the same Shure design for in-ear monitors, boasting eight hours of battery life.
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Micro Loudspeaker Innovator Arioso Systems GmbH Ready To Enter the Market
April 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Micro Loudspeaker Innovator Arioso Systems GmbH Ready To Enter the Market

The Fraunhofer IPMS spin-off company Arioso Systems GmbH has successfully completed its first round of financing. The company is launching an innovative sound transducer principle for miniaturized headphones, in-ears and hearables to the market. The company's new micro loudspeaker technology made from 100% silicon, is based on the patented Nanoscopic Electrostatic Drive (NED) principle developed by Fraunhofer IPMS. The technology can considerably extend the functional scope for true wireless earbuds and revolutionize the industry, Arioso believes.
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Sony Announces New Truly Wireless WF-XB700 Earbuds and WH-CH710N Noise Canceling Headphones
April 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sony Announces New Truly Wireless WF-XB700 Earbuds and WH-CH710N Noise Canceling Headphones

Sony Electronics introduced two new wireless headphones – the WF-XB700 and WH-CH710N – offering two new options for any environment, and benefiting from the latest Bluetooth technology. One model is the true wireless WF-XB700 with Extra Bass ($130 USD), and the other is a circumaural headphone with noise cancelling, the WH-CH710N ($200 USD). Both new models have prices below current Sony products in the category, showing how determined the Japanese company is about maintaining and expanding market share.
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Qualcomm Offers New Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth Audio SoCs for Truly Wireless ANC Development
March 26, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Qualcomm Offers New Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth Audio SoCs for Truly Wireless ANC Development

With its previous generation of QCC SoCs for Bluetooth true wireless earbuds development, Qualcomm enabled virtually every single mobile and CE brand to finally create products able to compete with Apple's massively successful AirPods, still the market leader by a wide margin. Then Apple introduced its AirPods Pro with ANC and its market share expanded even more. Now Qualcomm launched a new generation of SoCs combining hybrid ANC and other technologies to enable brands to design new competitive TWS products.
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Samsung Introduces Industry’s First All-in-One Power ICs Optimized for Wireless Earbuds
March 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Samsung Introduces Industry’s First All-in-One Power ICs Optimized for Wireless Earbuds

Showing its importance to the CE industry as one of the world's largest advanced semiconductor manufacturers, Samsung Electronics announced the first all-in-one power management integrated circuits (PMIC), MUA01 and MUB01, optimized for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) devices. The new Samsung PMICs integrate multiple discrete components in one chip to make room for longer battery life and more efficient designs in today’s true wireless earbuds and other very low power designs.
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Sennheiser Announces Momentum True Wireless 2 with ANC
March 13, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Announces Momentum True Wireless 2 with ANC

The new Momentum True Wireless 2 are Sennheiser's latest effort to demonstrate they are also in the major league when it comes to true wireless earbuds, offering an updated proposition that combines style and convenience also with quality sound. The second generation of the Momentum True Wireless from Sennheiser bring enhancements such as Active Noise Cancellation, refined ergonomics and an outstanding 7-hour battery life that can be extended to up to 28 hours by charging on the go using the supplied case.
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Essential Updates on Headphones, TWS, Hearables, Voice and More in audioXpress April 2020
March 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Essential Updates on Headphones, TWS, Hearables, Voice and More in audioXpress April 2020

The April 2020 edition of audioXpress is now available and features two essential Market Updates, one focusing on the industry transition to active headphone and earphone designs, and another on how to leverage the latest voice capture and processing technologies. The issue also explains how to evaluate listening effort, and Stuart Yaniger puts the Linear Audio Autoranger Mk II Interface to the test, while Ed Simon writes about AC Power Rectification. Another issue to read and use as reference.
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MagnaChip Launches New MOSFET to Enhance Protection for Wireless Earphones While Recharging
February 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

MagnaChip Launches New MOSFET to Enhance Protection for Wireless Earphones While Recharging

MagnaChip Semiconductor, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products from South Korea, announced the company is entering the wireless earphone market with the introduction of a new MOSFET solution that helps preventing the battery in these wireless devices from overcharging. This MOSFET is designed to control excessive current flowing into wireless earphones while recharging the battery in order to protect wireless earphones from being damaged.
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Goodix Licenses and Deploys CEVA Bluetooth Low Energy IP in SoCs Targeting Connected Devices
February 24, 2020 by Joao Martins

Goodix Licenses and Deploys CEVA Bluetooth Low Energy IP in SoCs Targeting Connected Devices

CEVA announced that Goodix Technology has licensed and deployed CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth low energy IP in its GR551x series of Bluetooth low energy System-on-Chip (SoCs). The GR551x series is designed to help users develop low-power Bluetooth-based products including smart mobile devices, wearables, and connected applications. Goodix just acquired NXP’s Voice and Audio Solutions (VAS) business.
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House of Marley Launches Redemption True Wireless ANC Earbuds
February 19, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

House of Marley Launches Redemption True Wireless ANC Earbuds

House of Marley launched a greener alternative to existing true wireless earbuds and the second generation TWS design from the brand, now adding active noise cancellation (ANC). The new Redemption ANC are also being released to commemorate Bob Marley’s 75th Birthday and House of Marley’s 10th anniversary. A follow up to Marley's Liberate Air earbuds, the new Redemption ANC are similar in their use of eco-conscious materials which includes bamboo, natural wood fiber composite from sawdust and recycled silicone. And they look great.
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