Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro leak reveals killer sound and design features

Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro leak reveals killer audio and design features

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The Samsung Milky way Buds Pro leaks continue to come with a study by 91mobiles, citing regular leaker Ishan Agarwal, claiming that the truthful wireless earbuds will feature dual drivers, an IPX7 waterproof rating and upwards to 28 hours of bombardment life.

Agarwal'due south info also backs up the Galaxy Buds Pro specs and features revealed in previous leaks, like active noise cancelling (ANC) and the AirPods Pro-style 3D spatial audio feature.

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Maybe the most interesting detail in this leak is the Galaxy Buds Pro'southward potential dual-speaker design, combining an 11mm bass driver with a six.5mm tweeter in each earbud. That could spell good news for audio quality, as almost in-ear headphones merely use unmarried dynamic drivers to save infinite and weight. But separate drivers might practise a improve job of reproducing their respective ends of the frequency spectrum.

IPX7-rated waterproofing would exist some other big reward to the Samsung buds. None of their predecessors, including the contempo Milky way Buds Live, had an IP rating for h2o resistance, permit lone full waterproofing. So the Galaxy Buds Pro could exist much safer to utilize while exercising or out in the pelting. The AirPods Pro are water- and sweat-resistant, just not fully waterproof, potentially giving the Galaxy Buds Pro an border.

The report too details the Milky way Buds Pro battery life at a total of 28 hours, inclusive of fully draining the charging case over multiple recharges. That's 6 hours more than what the Milky way Buds Live are rated for with ANC, and would take the Galaxy Buds Pro past the 24-hr stamina of the AirPods Pro as well.

The 91mobiles report ends by suggesting a Galaxy Buds Pro price of €229 (virtually $279, non bookkeeping for regional tax differences), though its source for this detail item is a Netherlands-based unofficial Samsung news site that doesn't state its own source. Equally such we'd take this with a lot more salt than the specs detailed higher up.

That said, with all this credible talk of a vastly upgraded feature set, it wouldn't exist surprising if the Galaxy Buds Pro really did plow out much more expensive than previous models. Somewhere in the $250-$300 range wouldn't be entirely unrealistic for a pair of loftier-end true wireless earbuds, either – the Bose QuietComfort EarBuds, which currently sit down in the number 4 spot on our all-time wireless earbuds list, are $279.

We'll know for sure in what could exist but a few weeks, equally the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro are expected to exist revealed alongside the Samsung Galaxy S21 at a Samsung Unpacked event on January 14.

James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, merely before that was Audio Editor at Tom'southward Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes dissonance. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard it is to find graphics bill of fare stock.