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Bose puts the wire back on ANC earbuds — with no Bluetooth and no battery

Eleven years after its last new wired earbuds, Bose is putting a cable between the phone and the listener again. The $99 Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds still contain plenty of modern electronics: active noise cancellation, digital signal processing and a call microphone are all present. USB-C simply supplies both audio and power. There is no Bluetooth pairing and no internal battery to charge, although the energy for ANC now has to come from the connected device instead.

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Sony WH-CH730N delivers 50 hours of ANC playback for €119.99

Fifty hours with noise cancellation enabled and as much as 75 hours without it gives Sony's WH-CH730N a very different battery proposition from many premium ANC headphones, despite a €119.99 German list price. The smaller WH-CH530 still skips ANC entirely but reaches 55 hours for half the money. Sony is not turning the CH line into a miniature 1000X range. It is methodically removing everyday inconveniences instead.