Palm’s Next Comeback Starts With Its New Wireless Earbuds

Whether you’re launching a model new firm or attempting to revive an iconic model, it looks like the best strategy to rapidly get the first product out the door now could be to launch a pair of wi-fi earbuds—and that’s precisely what the startup behind the Palm brand is doing with the brand new Palm Buds Pro.

The final we’d heard from the Palm model (whose identify is revered for creating a few of the first PDAs and smartphones effectively over a decade in the past) was again in 2018 with the Palm Palm: a tiny smartphone billed as each a companion and various to a smartphone, which might be why you don’t hear a lot about it anymore. It was designed to fill a necessity that actually didn’t exist.

This time round, Palm is delivering a product that buyers are at present ravenous for. The variety of wi-fi earbud choices obtainable has exploded lately, and Palm took one have a look at an overcrowded market and figured it will toss its hat into the ring too. Like the Ear (1) earbuds launched by Carl Pei’s Nothing a number of months in the past, the Palm Buds Pro function lively noise canceling, similarly-sized 10-millimeter drivers, IPX4 water resistance so that they’ll shrug off sweat, 5.5 hours of battery life on buds alone, or 24 hours in whole when paired with a charging case.

Unlike the Nothing Ear (1), nevertheless, the Palm Buds Pro doesn’t seem to function a wholly unique design. As The Verge pointed out, a fast search on Amazon is all it takes to seek out wi-fi earbuds that look precisely like the Palm Buds Pro do, proper right down to the charging case. The firm does declare to have custom-made the performance and internals of its wi-fi earbuds, however there don’t look like any evaluations of how they sound or carry out simply but.

Available for pre-order now for $99 via the company’s website, the Palm Buds Pro are anticipated to ship someday in early November (a timeline that would probably slip given the provision chain challenges we’ve been seeing with electronics in addition to delivery delays) and also will be obtainable via Amazon beginning on November 9, however for $129 as an alternative.