Photo Credit: Arne Müseler / CC by 3. 0 AirPods Max battery drain issues are surfacing on social media, even inside the charging case. Some AirPods Max owners report that their $550 headphones can’t hold a charge overnight. That’s even if the headphones are inside Apple’s official bra-like case designed to put them into ultra-low-power […]
Photo Credit: Miguel Tomas A new market research study found AirPods market share dropped from 41% to 29%. Counterpoint data found the drop took place over nine months in 2020. Despite the significant drop in market share, Apple still remains well ahead of its main competitors. Most other big-box competitors like Sony and Bose hover […]
Photo Credit: Sony UK The first Sony speakers with 360 Reality Audio will debut this year – here are the details. Sony revealed the new speakers at the all-digital CES 2021 show, which usually occurs in Las Vegas. Sony unveiled the 360 Reality Audio format two years ago with a pair of headphones; now, it’s […]
Photo Credit: Apple Apple is celebrating the Chinese New Year with a limited-edition AirPods Pro design. The design will be available in multiple Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. The new year is the Year of the Ox, which Apple celebrates with the clever design above. The Ox design, surprisingly, won’t […]
Apple appears to be working on its own branded version of the Powerbeats Pro design – with formable ear hooks. Apple has been granted two design patents for BEats headphones in December and another in September. Patently Apple has been tracking how Beats IP is slowly shifting to Apple. A new patent application entitled “Earphones […]
Apple is going all-in on its AirPods brand with the new AirPods Max – with a $549 price tag. The AirPods Max is the long-rumored AirPods Studio that Digital Music News has reported on for nearly two years. These headphones are a long time in the making and pack some hefty features for that hefty […]
Photo Credit: Google A new report suggests Google is working on Nest Audio and Chromecast integration to rival Apple and Amazon. The Wall Street Journal reports Google hopes to connect the smart home and streaming gadgets. It would bring feature parity with Amazon Alexa and Apple’s HomePod home speaker systems. Combining its streaming platform with […]
Photo Credit: Noveto Systems A new sound tech can send a sound bubble to your head using sound beaming – no headphones are required. Noveto Systems, an Israeli start-up, is debuting the new futuristic audio tech with a new desktop device. The device can beam sound directly to a listener without the need for headphones […]
Photo Credit: Amazon So much for our ‘amazing’ wireless future. Amazon Echo Buds are overheating due to a firmware update. Remember the last time your 3.5mm headphones overheated while charging? Me neither. Amazon has issued a dire email warning to owners of their new $130 Alexa-powered Echo Buds. The email says the Echo Buds overheating […]
Photo Credit: Daniel Romero Apple’s next-generation ‘AirPods 3’ will feature system-in-package chip technology – like the AirPods Pro. Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared the prediction via Twitter. The AirPods 3 featuring a SiP chip would replace the surface mount technology (SMT) the current devices use. So what’s the difference, you ask? SiP chip systems allow […]