Nothing’s over-ear headphones are all about the buttons

Nothing has launched its archetypal brace of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to vie with flagship fare, distinguished chiefly by their distinctive Nothing plan connection — close down to the buttons.

While the boxy outline calls to caput Apple’s AirPods Max, the semi-transparent detailing connected the extracurricular of each earcup is each Nothing. So are the buttons, each otherwise shaped, with immoderate you press, immoderate you flick, and immoderate you toggle. They’re meant to beryllium much intuitive to usage by interaction alone, truthful you don’t person to instrumentality the headphones disconnected to punctual yourself which fastener turns connected pairing.

With progressive sound cancelling, spatial audio, and enactment for lossless playback, these tick disconnected astir of the accustomed high-end headphone features. There’s 35 hours of artillery beingness with sound cancelation on, an IP52 standing for water-resistance, and the audio itself was developed successful concern with HiFi marque KEF, with customized 40mm drivers.

My workfellow Andru Marino has already reviewed the Headphone 1, truthful check retired his review to find retired however they stack up. Preorders motorboat connected Friday, 4th July, with a afloat merchandise connected the 15th.