Last year, in the month of September, along with launching a slew of Echo products, Amazon had also unveiled its Echo Buds true wireless earphones. Now, the earphones are getting a new interesting feature — workout tracking.
Amazon has confirmed that it is rolling out the new workout tracking feature to the Echo Buds over the next few days. It’s noteworthy that the company had started testing the feature last year, a few weeks after launching the product.
The company says that with the new update, the Echo Buds can monitor the duration of a workout and can also estimate the number of calories burnt. It also acts as a step counter and can measure how fast the user walks or runs.
Given that the earphones come with built-in Alexa voice assistant support, the user has the option to start, pause, or end the workout session just through voice commands. The user can also ask for workout details with voice commands.
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The Amazon Echo Buds are rated IPX4, making them waterproof and dustproof. They come with Knowles dual balanced armature drivers along with Realtek RTL8763B Bluetooth SoC, Intel S1000 Digital Signal Processor, and Analog ADAU1777 Audio Codec.
There’s also Bluetooth 5.0 Hands-Free Profile (HFP) support and it uses Wi-Fi or mobile data connection for connectivity. It also has an Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming.
The Echo Buds weighs 7.6 grams while the case weighs 70 grams, as per the company. Amazon claims five hours of battery life and adds that charging them for 15 minutes can provide 2 hours of playback time. Further, the charging case adds 20 hours of playback.
The company claims that it has adopted an active noise cancellation (ANC) technology from Bose. As for the pricing, the Amazon Echo Buds are priced at $129.99.
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