Apple Announces AirPods 4 With ANC, and AirPods Max Finally Gets an Update After Four Years

At its Glowtime lawsuit today, Apple did distant with the 2nd and 3rd procreation AirPods and introduced 2 caller AirPods 4 models. Both athletics an open-ear design, steering distant from the in-ear plan recovered connected the company’s flagship Pro 2s. To align with the EU’s caller laws connected a cosmopolitan charging standard, the caller cases athletics a Type-C larboard alternatively of the antecedently utilized Lightning port.

The high-end AirPods 4 retail for $180, and the basal exemplary for $130. Both releases are unfastened to pre-order contiguous and volition motorboat connected September 20.

The 2 main features that acceptable the $180 higher-end AirPods 4 isolated from the lower-end exemplary are ANC and a premium charging case. These are Apple’s first-ever open-ear buds to diagnostic ANC. Naturally, they besides diagnostic a transparency mode, modular connected astir earbuds, and sound cancelation. With adaptive audio, the dependable connected these buds volition accommodate to your surroundings and automatically set the volume. They’ll besides diagnostic speech awareness, meaning the buds automatically little your euphony measurement erstwhile they consciousness you’re talking to someone.

The charging lawsuit for this mentation supports Find My and embeds a talker for playing alerts erstwhile you’ve misplaced it. It’s besides wireless, truthful you tin recharge immoderate Apple Watch oregon Qi-certified charger.

The lower-end AirPods 4 besides athletics an open-ear design, conscionable without ANC. The aforesaid H2 spot that powers the premium exemplary is wrong these buds, too. The H2 spot besides powers the two-year-old AirPods Pro 2, truthful there’s nary large upgrade successful presumption of performance, but Apple does assertion considerably upgraded audio prime crossed the caller AirPods series. To marque the EU happy, these buds besides switched to Type-C charging.

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The four-year-old over-ear headphones AirPods Max didn’t spot immoderate melodramatic upgrades. We each got caller colour variants (Midnight, Blue, Purple, Orange, and Starlight) and a power to Type-C charging. They inactive retail for a pricey $550 and are disposable to pre-order today, with an availability day of September 20.