Devialet Unveils Devialet Gemini True Wireless Earbuds with ANC

It's official! After the Devialet ADH amplifiers and connected Phantom speakers, the French company operating at the intersection of luxury and cutting edge technology, now unveiled its first true wireless earbuds. The Devialet Gemini mark also the company's entry in the portable product category, with a top IPX4 design, built to last, and offering superior sound. And working in direct cooperation with Qualcomm, Devialet was able to build upon a Bluetooth 5.0 solution with Active Noise Cancelling, by adding unique proprietary technologies.

What do you do when you are late at the Active Noise Cancellation party? You launch your product and call it Advanced Active Noise Cancellation. With the Elite 85t, Jabra introduces a product that finally updates the brand's reference Elite 75t designs, literally. The new Elite 85t benefits from Jabra's own ANC miniaturized chipset, allowing it to maintain the same familiar small form factor and optimal fit. The "advanced" comes from the fact that Jabra implemented a fully adjustable digital ANC.

The pioneer in noise cancelling, Bose introduced the new QuietComfort Earbuds, delivering what the company claims is the "quiet" of Bose around-ear noise cancelling headphones in an in-ear design. For the QuietComfort Earbuds, Bose developed an entirely new platform with proprietary processing and algorithms. Bose also introduced the new Sport Earbuds — entirely re-engineered to produce improved sound from smaller, slimmer enclosures that stay securely in place, without causing pain, pressure, or needing ear hooks.

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In another product announcement that didn't go as planned, following a lot of rumors and leaks coming from China, Apple was forced to unveil its latest addition to the AirPods family. As widely anticipated, the AirPods Pro have a new improved design, combining a slightly similar shape to the original loose-fit design, but slightly twisted to support a silicon in-ear tip, in order to make Active Noise Cancellation effective. The all-new lightweight design is now available.