"Hole -open" headphones appear from Sony!Why "Linkbuds" may become innovative

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Sony's complete wireless earphone "Linkbuds" with a unique design with holes

　Sony announced "Linkbuds" as a new wireless earphone product on February 16. The price is open, and the actual price is around 23,000 yen. The colors are white and gray. It will be released on February 25. ● Realizes the earphone "always wearing" by devising design and functions "Linkbuds" is a completely wireless earphone that uses a newly developed ring -type driver unit. The feature is that the housing is hole, as you can see immediately. Because you do not close your ears, you can listen to the surrounding sounds while listening to music. The company has also realized the minimum and lightest as the company's completely wireless earphone so that it is hard to get tired even with long -time installation. In terms of sound quality, high -quality sound quality is realized by installing a "integrated processor V1" that reduces sound distortion. It condenses the technologies unique to Sony, such as "DSEE", which reproduces the compressed sound source with a sound close to the original sound, and "adaptive volume control", which automatically adjusts the regenerative volume. In addition, the use of an algorithm that clearly separates voices and noise through the machine learning of AI using more than 500 million samples, provides excellent call performance. I was particular about operability. Small complete wireless earphones have a drawback that the operating part is small and it is difficult to control, but Linkbuds is equipped with a "wide area tap" that allows you to play, pause, and skip music by tapping around your ears. It also has a "Quick Access" that links with Spotify Tap, where you can quickly play Spotify and switch playlists. In addition, as a Linkbuds function that emphasizes conversation, when the user speaks while wearing, the headphones are automatically recognized and the music being played is paused. After the conversation, it is nice to switch between music and communication between the time and outside of the music, such as automatically playing music. The battery time is 5 by itself.5 hours, 17 when combined with the attached case.5 hours. It also supports fast charging that can play 90 minutes with 10 minutes of charge. The drip -proof performance is equivalent to IPX4, and there is no worry about failure due to rain or sweat. Voice assistants support Google Assistant, but the iOS version is not compatible. ● The advantages of products can be maximized by partner cooperation The idea of ​​earphones that can incorporate external sounds is not new, but this is unique in this "Linkbuds", but proposing new usage in cooperation with external services. That is what you do. For example, in collaboration with Niantic, famous for location information games such as "Pokemon GO" and "Ingress", it fuses AR games and sounds by supporting the head tracking function of Sony's Sound AR application "LOCATONE". It will provide an unprecedented game experience. Microsoft is a 3D audio map app "Microsoft Soundscape". The app is recognized by the compass and gyro sensor built into the Linkbuds, and it is possible to guide the direction of the destination with just the sound without a smartphone. These features are not only more convenient, but also contribute to the support of visually impaired people safely walking around the city. Linkbuds's "link" not only connects "online and real" and "people and people", meaning "connect with a partner." Headphones and earphones were only hardware, and content (software) was preferred. But Linkbuds is innovative in that hardware can work on the content of the content. It will be tested whether it will actually be a new experience, but I would like to expect a new direction in the field of maturity. (BCN / Daisuke Okura)