Though it may have been kicked off by Apple, most phone makers are now ditching the analog 3.5mm headphone jack and attempting to build their own truly wireless earbuds. Everyone wants to build Apple AirPods clones and Huawei is next in line to have built its own truly wireless earbuds, dubbed the FreeBuds 2 Pro.
The Huawei FreeBuds 2 Pro has been priced at 999 yuan in China, which will roughly translate to around Rs. 10,400 and goes head-to-head with Apple AirPods – not only in terms of features but also the retail tag.
The highlight of Huawei FreeBuds 2 Pro is what the company is calling the ‘BoneID’ technology’ or Bone Conduction technology that enables these truly wireless earbuds to recognize the user with a mix of voice and bone sound pattern recognition, backed by AI. The earbuds can identify who’s speaking into them, which sounds crazy.
This works as biometric authentication on these earbuds and can be used to complete a payment simply by speaking the word, which will open either Alipay or WeChat on your device.
Each of these earbuds from Huawei includes 2 microphones, which help reduce ambient noise, and you can tap either of them to either activate Huawei’s voice assistant, control music playback, answer calls or more – the usual stuff you would expect from a wireless earbud.
