Nothing’s first open-ear headphones keep you aware of your surroundings

Nothing has announced its archetypal brace of unfastened wearable stereo (OWS) earbuds that could beryllium amended suited for activities wherever you really privation to perceive what’s going connected astir you. With a plan that rests conscionable wrong your ear, the caller Nothing Ear Open could besides beryllium a much comfy alternate to earbuds that trust connected silicone tips inserted into the receptor canal.

The Nothing Ear Open articulation a increasing inclination successful headphones wherever progressive sound cancelling exertion is eschewed for a plan that deliberately lets extracurricular sounds in. Shokz’ headphones person agelong offered this done the usage of bony conduction exertion that keeps your ears wholly open. In February, Bose introduced its $299 Ultra Open earbuds and positioned them arsenic headphones that tin beryllium comfortably worn each time long, adjacent astatine work. Nothing’s caller Ear Open earbuds connection akin functionality but for $149.

Nothing’s erstwhile models, the Ear and Ear (a) that debuted past April, connection a flimsy vantage successful artillery beingness with 8.5 and 9.5 hours, respectively, portion ANC is turned off. But the Nothing Ear Open inactive negociate 8 hours connected a afloat charge, oregon a full of 30 hours erstwhile occasionally docked and recharged wrong a slim lawsuit that’s 19 millimeters thick. It lacks wireless charging, but Nothing says a speedy 10-minute complaint with a USB-C cablegram volition supply 2 hours of listening.

That’s coagulated artillery beingness fixed the Ear Open diagnostic the largest 14.2-millimeter drivers Nothing has included successful its earbuds to date, but with a directional plan to assistance minimize dependable leakage. Each earbud besides includes a brace of microphones and Nothing’s latest noise-canceling exertion (Clear Voice Technology 3.0) to assistance halt extracurricular noises from muffling your dependable during a call.

The Nothing Ear Open usage a “three-point equilibrium system” and a silicone receptor hook to support the earbuds securely positioned conscionable wrong your ears. At 8.1 grams each, the Ear Open are the company’s heaviest earbuds to date, but that hook volition assistance dispersed the value retired crossed your ear. However, arsenic The Verge’s Victoria Song discovered portion reviewing the Shokz OpenFit Air, headphones with receptor hooks tin sometimes beryllium hard to deterioration with immoderate styles of glasses erstwhile the arms and the hooks are competing for abstraction atop your ears.

The earbuds usage Bluetooth 5.3 with enactment for the AAC and SBC codecs, tin link to 2 Bluetooth devices and rapidly power betwixt them, and connection a “Low Lag Mode” for gamers that’s automatically activated erstwhile Nothing Phone users are successful Game Mode. When paired to different phones, the Low Lag Mode tin beryllium activated utilizing Nothing’s mobile app, which besides facilitates an integration with ChatGPT.

The Nothing Ear Open tin beryllium preordered successful the US, Canada, and Europe starting connected September 24th through the company’s website and volition beryllium disposable globally starting connected October 1st.