London-based smartphone maker Nothing has launched its first over-the-ear headphones, the Headphone (1). The brand new machine follows Nothing’s first step into audio {hardware} with final 12 months’s debut of the Ear 2 open-ear headphones.

The brand new Headphone (1) headphones had been designed in collaboration with British audio model KEF and have the modern, clear design that Nothing has develop into recognized for. The machine itself is a bit cumbersome, even for an over-the-ear headphone, however it supplies satisfactory adaptive noise cancelling and clear modes.

This mannequin additionally presents adaptive bass enhancement, which got here throughout when listening to quite a lot of music genres. 

As well as, the headphones supply immersive spatial audio. This creates a 3-D listening expertise that, paired with the dynamic head monitoring, creates a extra lifelike audio expertise.

A spotlight is the tactile buttons. Nothing stepped away from sensors in favor of a easy button to set off your AI assistant or ChatGPT, when you have the Nothing X app, and a quantity curler that will also be pressed to play, pause, and activate and off noise canceling.

Plus, the curler has a really satisfying click on while you flip it up or down. 

The headphones had been a bit heavy and tended to slip round whereas carrying them to do some family chores, however had been in any other case completely comfy for a protracted put on time.

The corporate claims a protracted battery life with as much as 80 hours of listening, 35 hours when you have noise cancelling turned on, and a fast cost time. 

The Headphone (1) shall be accessible for preorder within the U.S., U.Okay., and elsewhere beginning on July 4, 2025, for $299.