In France, a pair of headphones of five sold for less than 100 euros are not signed. The manufacturer of London, born in 2020 of the desire of former co -founders of OnePlus to resort to the audio, has multiplied the innovations and models of headphones for all prices, all desires and styles.
From the ear to the headphones Open earWith rods or without, nothing above all successfully administered an identifiable design, added to the impeccable audio quality. It should be said that the brand has been associated with experts in the field since its inception. And she decided to continue on this path and expand its range of proposals with the addition of an audio helmet. The first for the company and the first for a Android smartphone manufacturer.
But, above all, a new product that meets the brand requirements: design, quality and efficiency, with the small differentiating turn. In a helmet market where many devices are similar, you should know how to highlight on store shelves. “The helmets often find three main concerns: a boring and repetitive design, frustrating controls and difficult to find, a sound that is not always optimal,” said Carl Pei. Then nothing tries the originality and solidity card of the proposal.
Shine differentiating high quality design and sound
During her London event, she presented the headphones (1). A helmet “designed to be seen and recognizable at 10 m”. And it is quite successful with rectangular atrios and rounded shells on which they protect the acoustic room (specific 40 mm driver), a transparent design now emblematic of the brand. The arch is made of aluminum and everything is extremely premium.
It should be said that the announced objective is to compete with the Apple, Sony, Bose and others in the high -level helmet segment where prices easily exceed 450 euros. Obviously, nothing, we want to do it so well. But no less good.
And for that, the brand went to obtain a renowned partner, KEF, a British brand that brings all its experience in the FI. The headphones (1) thus offer a space sound with the monitoring of the head movements, the active reduction of reduced noise (ANC), the promotion of the voice during the call in a noisy environment (AI analyzes the environment every 600 milliseconds thanks to its four embedded microphones).
The helmet admits high-resolution audio (LDAC, HI-Rés, Hi-Res Wireless, audio without loss through USB-C). It also has a cat to be connected.
A pleasant and intuitive helmet, at a more affordable price
Tech & Co could have a first preview of this original helmet in the background and shape. Very nice to use, its weight is very well distributed in the head. Rectangular headphones are perfectly trapped in the ears.
Nothing has also done a lot of work to make the most ergonomic control buttons possible. There are three of them: two in the portion in the form of a side wheel, which reproduces the noise of the iPod wheel of yesteryear, to administer the volume or reading/pause by pressure and change of ancient long support. Next, a palette allows you to change the track leaning to the right/left, receiving a pressure call or moving/removing a title to the right/left.
In one of the headphones, a physical button is customizable to activate functions, change between audio services or start a voice assistant, open essential space, the space of the functions of AI …
The set is very intuitive to use and the controls fall well under the fingers. The audio quality, which will deserve to be more pushed with a more personal reproduction list, is crystalline and the balanced sound. Nothing announces up to 80 hours of autonomy without ANC and 35 hours with activation. The helmet is compatible with Bluetooth 5.3 and offers support of several devices at the same time. It is able to recover up to five minutes in five minutes of load.
With 299 euros, headphones (1), offered in black or white, is a summary of the vision of Nothing for Audio: products with innovative and identifiable design, advanced audio quality thanks to a renowned partner and the desire to be an easy -to -use technological innovation. It remains to be convinced of potential buyers where the Airpods Max, the Wh-1000x M6 of Sony or the Bose 700 and even the brands such as JBL and Bowers & Wilkins have been recognized for a long time. But at higher prices.
Price and availability of Nothing headphones (1)
Headphones (1) are announced in 299 euros in black or white. It will be available as an anticipated order on July 4 at the Nothing site and could sell on July 15 with partners (Baker, FNAC, etc.).
Source: BFM TV
