Along with its flagship Galaxy S10 series smartphones and the much-awaited Galaxy Fold smartphone, Samsung also launched the Galaxy Buds true wireless earphones at its Samsung “Unpacked” event in San Francisco.
The newly launched Samsung Galaxy Buds are the next generation true wireless earbuds from the South Korean company. They are the successors to the Gear IconX that were launched back in 2016 and are claimed to be 30 percent smaller.
The Galaxy Buds come with a 5.8pi dynamic driver in each earbud. Powered by Bixby voice assistant, the company claims that the earphones understand instructions in British English, German, Italian, and Spanish languages. Users can use voice commands to make calls, send text messages or check the battery life.
Samsung is also touting an ‘Enhanced Ambient Sound’ feature that lets users hear their surroundings when required. It comes with Adaptive Dual Microphone tech, which features one inner microphone and one outer microphone in each earbud, letting users be audible when speaking both in quiet and loud environments.
The earphones connect to the smartphone with Bluetooth 5.0. They are powered by a 58mAh battery in each earbud, which is claimed by the company to deliver up to 5 hours of calling, or up to 6 hours of music playback on a single charge.
The charging case features a 252mAh battery, delivering a boost of up to 7 hours – increasing music playback time to 13 hours and talk time to 11 hours, Samsung claims. The charging case can deliver up to 1.7 hours of playback with a 15-minute charge. Further, the charging case and are also compatible with the company’s Wireless PowerShare feature that lets them be charged wirelessly by the Galaxy S10 series of smartphones.
Samsung has revealed that the Galaxy Buds have been tuned by Austrian audio specialist firm AKG, and are also compatible with the Bixby voice-based virtual assistant on Samsung Galaxy devices. They are compatible with Android devices running v5.0 or higher and requires at least 1.5GB of RAM. They also support SBC, AAC, and Scalable (Samsung proprietary) codecs.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds come with a price tag of $129 and will be available for purchase from March 8 in limited markets. They will be offered in three color options — Black, White, and Yellow.
