Marshall's most popular headphone, the Major III Bluetooth, gets smarter with Google Assistant support on the new Major III Voice the company is announcing today
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Sony today introduced its next generation WF-1000XM3 wireless and noise cancelling headphones, joining the 1000X family of products.
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Learn more about the new Sony WH-1000XM3 that were just announced at IFA 2018, in addition to other products focused on audio.
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There are two different AirPods upgrades in the pipeline, according to rock-solid tipsters, as well as "studio-quality" over-ear Apple headphones.
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IFA may be in our rear view mirrors, but we're looking forward to cans and beans from Aftershokz, Jabra, Beyerdynamic and Sennheiser this season.
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Google seems to be legitimately cooking up an avalanche of hardware releases this fall, including mysterious headphones with built-in Assistant support.
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We don't know if these APIs will be put into the initial version of Android 8.0, but the fact that we see them in AOSP code is encouraging.
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You know those Harman-made AKG earbuds shipping alongside Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ at no extra cost? Here's what they're all about.
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Similar in design to the fitness-centric Blaze, but with GPS support and extra smarts in tow, Fitbit's full-on smartwatch isn't ready for primetime yet.
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Wrapping up 2016, we’re starting off with audio! Which phone had the best speaker performance? Which phone will do the best job powering your headphones? Can there be one overall winner for the audiophiles in our audience?
Just because a phone might have speakers and the ability to use headphones, doesn’t mean all smartphones are created equal. Where 2016 was an amazing year for camera hardware, audio wasn’t as well supported from manufacturers we’d normally turn to for high quality solutions.
No cop outs here, these are the top five audio performers of 2016, ranked by our personal listening experiences, and the benchmarks we run each phone through while producing our reviews. So let’s get to it. Time to take our final listen to all of the phones we reviewed this year and deliver a proper ranking!
Top 5 Smartphone Cameras of 2016
Best phones of 2016 at any price
Pocketnow Real Audio Reviews
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When it was announced that HTC would be manufacturing Google’s newest phone, we smartphone audio snobs were all hoping we’d see (hear) the same great sound quality we’ve come to expect from HTC. Recently revisiting the HTC 10 in an After the Buzz review, that phone produces some of the highest audio quality we’ve ever tested here at Pocketnow. It really is a joy to listen to, so we had fingers and toes crossed that the Pixel and Pixel XL would perform similarly.Unfortunately, it would seem that Google had ...
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We finally have a real production version of the LG V20. Hardware destined to be handled by real consumers. No longer are we toying with pre-release or engineering samples. It’s time to dig into this phone for some real analysis, and what better place to start than by assessing the audio claims made by LG.Last year’s V10 was a surprising entry in the multimedia market. LG had a rather poor reputation for audio fidelity opposite leaders like Apple and HTC. With one phone they completely flipped the script on what consumers should expect from mobile audio. LG looks to continue ...
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Continuing our series of Real Audio Reviews, we’re circling back to one of the most popular phones of the year. We’d certainly be reviewing a different Galaxy phone if it weren’t having such serious issues, so we’re left to focus on the options from Samsung which are actually available. While phones still have headphone jacks, we’re going to continue expanding our testing and coverage of smartphone audio quality.We routinely point to the Galaxy S7 as being one of the best phones of this year, and hold it ...
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We recently produced our first Real Audio Review, and we got MANY questions and comments regarding our testing procedure. Many Apple fans felt we were unfair to the iPhone 7 by using the Lightning to 3.5mm adapter cable which Apple includes with in the box. The idea being, that you can only hear what the iPhone is really capable of by connecting expensive third party headphones directly to the iPhone’s data port.Of course, using a data port on a phone is little different than using a USB port on a computer. We wouldn’t say a laptop has ...
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It’s the little things, the fun small discoveries you make while reviewing tech. We recently produced our first Real Audio Review, and started the series off taking a closer look (and listen) to the iPhone 7. Apple touted the move to a digital port as “courage”, and noted that one reason for the switch would be to provide “smarter” audio accessories. They overlooked one small issue however.Not everyone uses the same quality of headphones.
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