Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Microsoft Surface Earbuds hands-on”.
[ Dan ] Hey – this is Dan with The Verge, and this is Microsoft’s new Surface Earbuds.. This is the companies first truly wireless earbuds and they follow along the Surface Headphones that were announced last year in the companies new audio line-up of products.. As you can see, they’re pretty similar to other wireless earbuds, we’ve seen before., You wear them in your ears. You’Ve got a little case that you put them in to charge and it’s got a USB-C port to charge it back up and Microsoft says these will. Last about eight hours on a charge and in the case you get a full 24 hours., So it’s pretty standard stuff that we’ve seen from other companies before..
Now, if you look at the design of these, you can tell that they do look a little bit. Different. They’re quite a bit bigger than maybe you’re used to from say, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds or even Apple’s AirPods., But they’re so big. Because there is this touchpad on the outside that you can use to control a bunch of functions. You can skip tracks.
You can raise volume, you can launch applications if you’ve got it connected to an Android phone play. Spotify automatically things like that. And they like are typical sounding earbuds.
These do not seal out sound, they are designed to allow ambient sound in, and here we are in the demo area. It’s super loud there’s some bumping music like a club at I don’t know it’s at noon, right, now.. So it’s kind of hard to tell how these things actually sound in here.. But if I were playing music, I would be able to hear it through my ears and also be able to hear the ambient sound.
There’s no noise cancellation or anything else like that.. Now, because this is Microsoft, they don’t just play music.. They actually do some other things. Then there’s some microphones on here and some technology.
Microsoft has developed with PowerPoint and its AI processing to allow you to speak into the headphones while you’re presenting, say a PowerPoint slide. Show and it will live transcribe what you’re saying on the screen., So I can say, “ Hey. This is Dan with The Verge “ and these are Microsoft’s new Surface Earbuds. “.
This is the companies first truly wireless earbuds “ and they accompany the Surface Headphones “. That were announced last year, “ as part of Microsoft’s new audio product line-up.”, Pretty wild.. The design on the inside is a little bit different than other earbuds. This ear tip does not actually go inside your ear canal, like I said before.
It’S not designed to block out sounds. It’s supposed to. Let sounds in so it kind of just rests in there and then there’s a little hook on the back side of it that when you rotate the earbud into your ear, it kind of locks in place. Microsoft’s, including a few different sizes. With this. So you can customize it to fit your ears and find whichever size is most comfortable and fits you best without falling out of your ear. And Microsoft says these will be available before the holidays this year, so real soon., They’re gon na sell for about $ 250, Which is a bit more expensive than what we’re used to seeing from say, like AirPods, which start at 160 or Samsung’s Galaxy Buds, which are about 130..
So Microsoft is really counting on the added productivity features that are coming with these to justify that price.. Obviously, we’re gon na have a review coming for them when these are released and we’ll have lost more time to test out their audio quality and see what they’re like in the real world.. But that’s a real quick.
First, look at Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds., Hey thanks for watching., There’s a ton of other stuff that Microsoft announced today. There’S new Surface Pro laptops, there’s new Surface laptop laptops and then the company actually announced a new foldable thing: that’s not coming for another year. We’Ve got it all of it on theverge.com and also youtube.com/theverge, so please go check it out. .