February 16 news, Sony today officially released a new open true wireless headset - LinkBuds. The headset adopts a very different design idea from the commercial products, the overall appearance is similar to the Arabic numeral "8", consisting of two parts of the circular component, the speaker part worn on the outside of the ear canal adopts a ring design, and the ear canal is not obscured, which also makes this headphone inherently has a true transparency mode.
Sony said that LinkBuds uses a dedicated ring driver unit, equipped with an integrated processor V1, combined with neodymium magnets, hollow ring diaphragm, the sound quality is clear and transparent, so that people can feel the music at the same time, but also pay attention to external sounds, such as walking, calling, holding a conference call or playing games in a timely manner to feel and respond to changes in the surrounding environment. In addition, deep neural network learning (DNN) and voice pickup technologies improve the call quality of linkBuds in open headphones. According to Sony's official data, LinkBuds supports fast charging function, including a charging case that provides 17.5 hours of battery life, and fast charging can support continuous playback for 90 minutes.
In terms of localization, Sony and Tencent Xiaowei have launched the Quick Access (Quick Play Music) function, which allows users to quickly play QQ music playlists through the Tencent Xiaowei App and support the corresponding voice assistant functions. Sony said that in the future, it will further cooperate with Tencent to launch 360 on-site sound effects with QQ Music and promote the research and development of high-quality headphones.
Sony LinkBuds and the vast majority of headphone products on the market to take the opposite path, as one of the pioneers of active noise reduction headphones, Sony's corresponding product line in the market performance by many consumers welcome, but LinkBuds not only abandon noise reduction, but also completely open to accept the noise of the outside world. Some netizens believe that this headset may be a layout for the promotion of augmented reality products in the future, after all, when virtual things are superimposed on the real scene, the sound should also be matched.