London-based smartphone maker Nothing has launched its first over-the-ear headphones, the Headphone (1). The brand new system follows Nothing’s first step into audio {hardware} with final 12 months’s debut of the Ear 2 open-ear headphones.
The brand new Headphone (1) headphones had been designed in collaboration with British audio model KEF and have the modern, clear design that Nothing has grow to be identified for. The system itself is a bit cumbersome, even for an over-the-ear headphone, but it surely gives enough adaptive noise cancelling and clear modes.
This mannequin additionally provides adaptive bass enhancement, which got here throughout when listening to quite a lot of music genres.
As well as, the headphones provide immersive spatial audio. This creates a 3-D listening expertise that, paired with the dynamic head monitoring, creates a extra lifelike audio expertise.
A spotlight is the tactile buttons. Nothing stepped away from sensors in favor of a easy button to set off your AI assistant or ChatGPT, when you have the Nothing X app, and a quantity curler that will also be pressed to play, pause, and activate and off noise canceling.
Plus, the curler has a really satisfying click on if you flip it up or down.
The headphones had been a bit heavy and tended to slip round whereas carrying them to do some family chores, however had been in any other case completely snug for a protracted put on time.
The corporate claims a protracted battery life with as much as 80 hours of listening, 35 hours when you have noise cancelling turned on, and a fast cost time.
The Headphone (1) might be obtainable for preorder within the U.S., U.Okay., and elsewhere beginning on July 4, 2025, for $299.