Samsung Galaxy Buds +: big leak

Considering how little we know about the mysterious next smartwatch fromSamsung, it's very unlikely that this

The accessorywill be announced alongside the flagship Galaxy S20 family and the new Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone on February 11.

But the company is expected to launch another new device in San Francisco next Tuesday. It's about the Galaxy Buds + wireless headphones.

The official name for wireless headphonesSamsung was unveiled two months ago, and at the same time, a constant stream of leaks based on reliable internal information, slowly revealed to us the design, colors and most of the key features of Galaxy Buds +. However, in the list of features and functions of the new items there were many gaps that blogger Evan Blass managed to fill. This man has already become a legend, and it is he who reveals most of the details about the news.

This time on Twitter, he simply shared with his subscribers an image comparing the new Galaxy Buds + with their predecessors.

Although the leak does not contain muchinformation on sound quality, we expect them to sound better than the first version of the headphones, and the biggest update, undoubtedly, concerns the battery life.

It looks like the Galaxy Buds+ will deserveits suffix “Plus”, at least if we are talking about the battery. Instead of 6 hours, they will offer 11 hours of continuous playtime. The Galaxy Buds+ look very similar to their predecessors in appearance, weighing less than a gram as a result of a significant increase in battery size from 58 to 85 mAh.

The wireless charging case will obviously receiveslightly smaller jump in battery capacity — instead of 252 mAh, it will receive a capacity of 270 mAh. In addition to these major improvements, Samsung is gearing up to significantly improve its fast charging capabilities, with the Galaxy Buds+ delivering a full hour of playback after just 3 minutes of charging. Other notable improvements appear to include multi-device connectivity, a two-way speaker with woofer, two external microphones instead of one, and an improved touchpad.

Galaxy Buds + will be presented in black, white,blue, red with the same modest IPX2 water resistance rating as the original Galaxy Buds, and without active noise reduction (noise isolation only) at a price of $ 149.

Note that it is still too early to compare Galaxy Buds+ with Apple's AirPods released in 2019. But the original Galaxy Buds sounded pretty good, and we have every reason to expect at least a slight improvement in sound quality. In terms of battery life, the above numbers will absolutely crush what the $159 second-generation AirPods and $249 AirPods Pro are capable of. In particular, Apple rates the first model for a listening time of up to 5 hours without recharging, while the latter has even more modest figures — no more than 4.5 hours. AirPods Pro also have a higher IPX4 water resistance rating, not to mention top-notch active noise cancellation. But they still cost 100 bucks more.