Recently, the appearance renderings of Sony's two headphone products have been exposed, namely the HEAD-mounted Bluetooth headset WH-1000XM5 with the main ANC active noise cancellation function and the LinkBuds S with the main open ambient sound.
Although the WH-1000XM5 is still a head-mounted appearance, available in black and silver gray colors, compared to the WH-1000XM4 design is more minimalistic design style, the ear cushions look thicker. In terms of performance configuration, the WH-1000XM5 can provide about 40 hours of battery life in the state of turning on the active noise cancellation function, which is about 10 hours of battery life compared to the WH-1000XM4, but the charging speed is correspondingly slower, although the interface is still USB Type-C, but it takes 3.5 hours to charge the headphones.
LinkBuds S is a true wireless Bluetooth headset, should be released in February this year LinkBuds replacement products, but the new LinkBuds S appearance is more similar to the noise-canceling bean style WF-1000XM4, no longer use the design of the hollow ring drive unit, the headset provides gold and black two colors, although not equipped with physical buttons, but should support touch operation and wide area click and other functions.
Of course, the current size and release time of the two Sony headphones are not yet known, and further disclosure of follow-up news is yet to be revealed.