All items tagged with wireless earbuds (523)
Comply Foam Launches Tips for Apple AirPods Pro
April 27, 2020 by Joao Martins

Comply Foam Launches Tips for Apple AirPods Pro

It wasn't an easy development, but as the largest supplier of foam tips for earbuds, Comply Foam needed to respond to the challenge. Plus, it promised to be a very profitable investment, given the many million AirPods that Apple sells, compared with other earbud models which the company also serves with dedicated tips, in different materials and multiple sizes. After a series of delays caused by the current pandemic situation, the new Comply Foam Tips compatible with AirPods Pro are now available for $24.99.
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Samsung Makes Software Update Available for Original Galaxy Buds
April 27, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Samsung Makes Software Update Available for Original Galaxy Buds

In a rare move for a company that introduces new versions of each product faster than it ever updates anything, Samsung confirmed a software update for its original true wireless earbuds - the Galaxy Buds. The updates, Samsung explained, bring new connectivity features now found on the latest Galaxy Buds+ model, including the ability to automatically filter unwanted noise or selecting an Ambient Aware mode, allowing important sounds from the outside world to be heard.
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Hearables Predicted to Reach More Than 50% of the Wireless Headphones Market by 2024
April 21, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Hearables Predicted to Reach More Than 50% of the Wireless Headphones Market by 2024

A new report from Juniper Research says that the number of hearables in-use will grow to more than 970 million by 2024. This is an increase of 270% over the 260 million estimated for 2020. This updated report identifies vendors that are leveraging hearable technology to add value to premium audio products, such as Bose and Sennheiser, while technology companies are producing earbuds that incorporate sensor platforms and AI capabilities. Juniper predicts a convergence of the market towards Multimedia Hearables.
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Idtechex Forecasts 14% Growth YoY Until 2025 for the Hearables Market
April 14, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Idtechex Forecasts 14% Growth YoY Until 2025 for the Hearables Market

IDTechEx released a new report covering the market, technology and players in hearables. The market research company uses the term "hearables" loosely to describe all true wireless devices in the consumer electronics space, but also medical devices such as hearing aids and even cochlear implants. In this overview, it finds that the market was worth $24.5bn in 2019 and will continue to grow at a forecasted 14% YoY from 2020-2025, driven primarily by the true wireless consumer category.
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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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