Sony announced a new pair of LinkBuds wireless earphones earlier today with Microsoft Teams certification. These are essentially the same earbuds that launched earlier this year but with a bundled USB receiver that can be plugged into a laptop and used to assign Teams commands and gestures on the earbuds all from the Sony Headphones Connect app.
Sony says you can receive calls, mute and
unmute as well as use the raise hand feature during Teams meetings directly
from the buds. Sony LinkBuds UC are priced at US$ 249.99 which is US$ 70 more than
the regular LinkBuds model and come in a single Gray color.
Sony also announced a new LinkBuds S Earth
Blue model which is features panels made out of recycled water dispenser
bottles. Buyers will get the benefit of exclusivity as no two patterns on the
new earbuds are the same. LinkBuds S retail for US$ 199.99 with deliveries in the
US expected later this week.
The third announcement of the day is that
all premium Sony wireless earbud models will receive multipoint pairing later
this year via a software update. LinkBuds and LinkBuds S will get the feature
in November while the top of the line Sony WF-1000XM4 in-ear buds will get
multipoint pairing later this winter.
