Two Apple AirPods 4 options launch, one with noise cancelling and
Personalised Spatial Audio

Date:
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:58:00 +0000

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If you waited faithfully for Apple's latest AirPods, your patience just got rewarded! Meet AirPods

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Huge news, AirPods lovers: the Apple AirPods 4 are finally here in two variants! On top of that, Apple has unveiled significant. updates across the entire AirPods lineup. The AirPods 4 and AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation just made their entrance at Apple's much-vaunted It's Glowtime iPhone 16 event and, in addition to a fresh lineup of handsets from the Cupertino giant, two brand new pairs of ice-white buds has landed.

We shouldn't be surprised; Apple's biggest AirPods launch to date was prophesized earlier in the year, as was the customizable noise-cancellation
we all wanted from our AirPods, thanks to iOS 18 .

So here we are! Here's the full scoop from Apple Park (yes, we've got our people on the ground but if you need to catch up, our Glowtime live-blog is the place to go).

Oh, and in case you came here looking for them, the cheaper pair is likely
the hotly-anticipated AirPods Lite . Meanwhile, the AirPods Pro 3 haven't landed, but there have been several updates to the software. And although new AirPods Max did land (to a degree) Apple Park shindig, it's not the lossless audio support we might have hoped for.

That said, we'll take one all-new set of AirPods over none at all (we've been waiting a while). AirPods 4: the dual AirPods release you need to know about (Image credit: Aplpe)

The design is well, at a glance, it's just another day at the office for
Apple (and if you wanted the purple colorway Apple once planned , you'll be disappointed) but Apple has worked extensively on its open-ear sizing, developing over 50 million size mapping charts, and there's an "all new acoustic architecture" in what Apple's calling its "best open-ear AirPods design ever".

Specs-wise, the headline-grabber is the inclusion of Apple's H2 chip, which means support for active noise cancellation in the step-up set (for the first time in non-Pro AirPods) plus support for Conversation Awareness and wireless charging support in the case which now also contains a speaker for easier Find My support.

Battery life was one area ripe for improvement in 2024 across Apple's pioneering earbuds, and Tim Cook's behemoth has well, been a little quiet about the stamina within these new Spatial Audio-supporting headphones. But we'll report more when we hear about it.

Pricing? Of course it's a big factor when considering whether to buy a new
set of AirPods. You won't be shocked to learn that while they might well land in our best noise cancelling earbuds guide soon, neither is a set of budget wireless earbuds .That said, they're not ridiculously expensive either, at $179 for the active noise-cancelling set (so probably 169 / AU$279) and $129 for the entry-level AirPods 4.

Availability? Stick with us, we'll update you as soon as we have that.

Given that the 2021-launch AirPods 3 arrived priced at $179 / 169 / AU$279
and the late-2022 issue AirPods Pro 2 landed with an asking fee of $249 / 249 / AU$399, it's (dare we say it?) sensible pricing from Apple. Because Apple. You may also like Not tied to Apple? See our pick of the best earbuds you can currently buy See our roundup of the best AirPods on the market right now Prefer cans? Our roundup of the best over-ear headphones is what you need



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