Samsung's Gear IconX---wireless earbuds with fitness tracking
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| Source: Samsung Newsroom |
Samsung's Gear IconX---wireless earbuds with fitness tracking
Truly wireless ear-buds are having their moment this year: we've seen numerous startups launch or announce headphones that have no wires to your phone or between the two earbuds themselves.
The Bragi Dash have been the most promising ones we've seen, but even those have major compromises that demonstrate the early nature of this product category.
Samsung is today throwing its hat into the ring with the announcement of the Gear IconX. The $199.99 IconX are the first truly wireless headphones from a major manufacturer, though they echo many of the same features and design of other models we've seen already. Click Here to Read More in Verge's Review
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| Source: Samsung Newsroom |
The ear-buds provide data such as heart rate, distance, speed, duration and calories burned through the Voice Guide, even without a smartphone. In addition, utilizing its built-in heart rate monitor, the Gear IconX’s standalone voice guide helps you stay in the Vigorous Intensity Zone for a more effective workout.
Samsung claims that the ear-buds storage is up to 4GB of internal storage (which can play up to 1,000 songs), users can enjoy a seamless and fully standalone music listening experience, easily controlled by a user-friendly interface. Play or pause music, adjust volume or switch tracks by simply tapping or swiping the Gear IconX ear-buds.
Streaming music to your earholes without any wires getting in the way may be a dream of many people, but Samsung's actually pitching the IconX as a fitness tracking device first and personal music product second. The IconX has sensors to monitor movement, heart rate, and distance traveled, and can calculate calories burned, just like a wrist-worn fitness tracker. It syncs all of that data to Samsung's S Health app, which can export to a handful of other fitness apps.
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| Source: Samsung Newsroom |
The Gear IconX will be available in white, blue, and black when they launch later this year. We'll reserve final judgement on them until we've spent more time with a production-ready version, but if Samsung's able to deliver with the IconX and do so at its aggressive price point, it may very well eat the lunch of all the startups trying their hands at truly wireless earbuds.
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