In case you weren’t excited enough to finally welcome the first true wireless headphones from Oneplus on Next week’s big launch event dedicated primarily to the mid-range OnePlus Nord 5G phone, the company has revealed another way it hopes to gain an advantage over Apple’s market-leading AirPods line.
As joked on Twitter, OnePlus Buds will be “ready in 10.” But if that’s somehow too vague or cryptic for you, project manager Jay Liu exclusively tells people in TechRadar, in a new interview, says that the small wireless headphones have the latest generation Warp Charge technology.
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past few years, we should mention that Warp Charge is without a doubt one of the most impressive proprietary charging solutions in the mobile industry, carrying the considerable 4,510 mAh battery inside the The flagship OnePlus 8 Pro 5G from 0 to 50 percent capacity in just half an hour without using cables or 23 more mind-blowing minutes using the “standard” power pack found in the phone’s retail box.
Considering those remarkable numbers, it should come as no surprise that OnePlus Buds are able to provide 10 hours of use after a short 10-minute charge. Of course, since CEO Pete Lau estimated true fast-approach wireless headphones “only” could offer “more than seven hours of continuous use”, we can assume that the undoubtedly small battery of these bad guys will go from 0 to 100 percent capacity in even less than 10 minutes.
Rather, Apple simply touts 3 hours of listening time for its “regular” Second generation AirPods after spending 15 minutes in its charging case, while the AirPods Pro takes 5 minutes to deliver an hour of uninterrupted melodies, which is … basically the same. Then you have Samsung’s Galaxy Buds +, which can squeeze an hour of juice from 3 minutes of charging, thereby dwarfing the world’s most popular true wireless headphones, but not the OnePlus Buds.
On the not-so-bright side of things, the first true OnePlus wireless headphones won’t support wireless charging, a decision that was predictably made to keep production costs low enough so that the retail price can easily beat AirPods and Galaxy Buds. +. Unfortunately, we don’t have a real number to share at the moment, but we do have a possible sighting of a fancy blue model in Carl Pei’s ears at the time. MKBHD video showing the final design of OnePlus Nord.
That’s one of at least three colors that the OnePlus Buds are ready to offer AirPods only white to run for their money, next to white and black options
