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e massive wireless headphone market that Apple has created (and dominated) in the past few years? It’s possible, but only as long as it can continue to listen to its fans, and as long as its software updates keep coming.Drawing straight from the leader-of-a-company playbook, right after the chapter entitled “Don’t Panic, Pivot,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence thinks the company’s late conversion to Bluetooth is far from an issue for the streaming audio brand, it’s an “opportunity.”A Sonos Shift“I was talking to somebody yesterday, and they were saying how walking the dog used to be a time of like silence, and now everybody has a podcast on, or is listening to something,” says Spence. “And so this is a big opportunity: how we expand our product portfolio to deliver on the diverse wants of all the listeners that are out there—a more frictionless sound experience that moves with you as you go throughout the day.”Photograph: SonosWith the new Ace headphones (8/10, WIRED Recommends), Sonos has now finally embraced mobile. For Spence, the difference between making speakers and headphones felt distinct inside the brand, and it impacted Sonos’ strategy. He claims that the company has now shifted its internal focus to “moving sound”—products designed to seamlessly transport listeners from one situation to the other.It should be noted, of course, that Sonos trotted out a similar line about seamlessly transitioning its listeners from inside to outside on the release of its first Roam speaker three years ago. However, Spence now sees headphones as the pinnacle of this vision for Sonos.“It’s truly a personal product, and there is an intimacy, and I think big responsibility in making something that people will wear throughout the day,” he says, “That’s new for us, that’s different.”Most PopularGearThings Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai PinBy Boone AshworthGearSmartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue LightBy Simon HillGearSome Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using BluetoothBy Boone AshworthGearUnhappy With a Service You’ve Been Paying For? It Might Be Time for a BreakupBy Omar L. GallagaCreating something that people will constantly touch and wear, rather than a speaker that they mostly interact with via an app or via a few simple buttons on top, proved to be a formidable challenge for the brand, which perhaps explains why it’s taken so long for the Sonos cans to land.“This is going to be the way millions of customers get to know Sonos.”Patrick Spence, Sonos CEOSonos designers and sound engineers spent years making sure everything from fit (they used more than 500 different head shapes) to the gloss and durability of the paint on the headphones (which Spence admits was a shockingly annoying pain point).Early in our conversation, Spence acknowledges that to play in a space with Apple, Sony, Bose, and other heavy hitters in audio, you need to launch with a formidable product. Anything less would spell disaster. “It’s our first entry into a $5 billion category that is growing by double digits every year,” he says. “So this is going to be the way millions of customers get to know Sonos.”While focusing on making sure the experiences of new listeners with the Ace headphones are as good as possible, Spence concedes that the company also needs to retain existing customers who want to add a great pair of headphones to their Sonos ecosystems.“We’ve had tens of thousands of customers that have requested that we do headphones,” he says, “So it’s pretty cool to actually be delivering something that people have been asking for.”But heeding the cries of existing customers for cans does not bring headphones into an existing Sonos setup. To do just this, features such as the ability to use the Ace to take over for a Sonos Arc soundbar in your living room, or the ability to map your room and recreate it in the spatial audio of the headphones, aim to please long-term Sonos users.Durability and longevity are also key. Spence claims that the brand’s headphones will be the longest-lasting on the market. Sonos has, for years, said it will support even discontinued products for five years after they aren’t on store shelves, which is better than most brands can promise.Rough SeasThe shift to the new portable era hasn’t been without its hiccups. For one thing, the recently updated Sonos app has been buggy for a few weeks. I personally haven’t had any issues, but multiple members of the WIRED Gear team who have set up Sonos products since the recent update have experienced issues getting devices to pair, updating firmware, and generally getting them to work properly in the home.This is a concerning trend, and one that we will keep an eye on as we continue to test Sonos’ latest products. (In addition to the Ace, we also have the new Roam 2 Bluetooth speaker in for review, and we haven’t yet had any connection issues.)That said, the Sonos team has historically been extremely responsive to users when it comes to listening to and issuing fixes to the app as it is made aware of them. I’ve personally seen my own app and devices update multiple times during this short review period, and I expect fixes to keep on coming.Still, it’s not great to always have to update your software, and there’s really no way to justify the new app issues other than to note them and to say that it’s clear there is truth to Sonos’ claims it is working on solving them.Most PopularGearThings Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai PinBy Boone AshworthGearSmartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue LightBy Simon HillGearSome Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using BluetoothBy Boone AshworthGearUnhappy With a Service You’ve Been Paying For? It Might Be Time for a BreakupBy Omar L. GallagaSidestepping the rocky rollout, for his part, Spence claims that the team inside Sonos is excited about the app update—and, what’s more, it was woefully necessary. “I would argue it’s the hardest, and scariest, thing for companies to re-invent something that’s working,” Spence says. “We built the new app from the ground up with a goal of delivering an experience that was easier to navigate.”Sadly, not all users agree Sonos has achieved this goal. But it’s true that the old Sonos app was getting a little laggy due to 20 years of code written on code. Moreover, the external benefits might not be obvious to listeners now, but they will be in the long term, Spence claims, thanks to how considerably less messy it will supposedly be to implement new options in the new app. “It enables us to evolve the app faster, and it supports our move into delivering on moving sound,” Spence says.Can Sonos Be Your Audio Everything?In now offering speakers, soundbars, Bluetooth speakers, and headphones, Sonos is merely a pair of earbuds (Spence wouldn’t confirm or deny their development during our chat) away from making every audio product a person could need. That’s no small feat, and as long as the app woes get worked out, it could really give the brand a serious lead on virtually all competition.There simply isn’t another brand that makes good products in every single audio category. Even players such as Samsung and LG, who also make headphones, speakers, and soundbars, tend to have a middling offering somewhere in their lineup.“For our first 20 years, we focused on homes, and we were talking about filling your home with music,” says Spence, “Now we’ve shifted to be focused on humans in those homes, and how they interact with sound throughout the day, through all aspects of their life.”Provided that it can keep this hardware quality up, I think Sonos’ change to “whole-life audio” will be met with the same success it had in the home.Sure, most folks already know how good a decent pair of Bluetooth headphones can be, but the premium listening experience, and introduction to the ease of the Sonos universe at large, could make the Ace some of the most compelling over-ears since the AirPods Max. Just as soon as that darn app gets sorted out.You Might Also Like …In your inbox: Will Knight’s Fast Forward explores advances in AIWelcome to the hellhole of programmatic advertisingHow many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?A nonprofit tried to fix tech culture—but lost control of its ownIt’s always sunny: Here are the best sunglasses for every adventureParker Hall is a senior editor of product reviews at WIRED. He focuses on audiovisual and entertainment products. Hall is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied jazz percussion. After hours, he remains a professional musician in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.Writer and ReviewerXTopicsSonoswireless speakersaudioBluetoothHeadphonesceointerviewsRead MoreSonos Finally Has Headphones and We’re ExcitedIt’s been a long time coming, but the Sonos Ace are the headphones you’ve been waiting for.Simon LucasThe Best Smart Speakers With Alexa, Google Assistant, and SiriChatty assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google are popular. But whic

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根據爆料推主Majin Bu 釋出的兩組對照圖來看, 公司收購手機iphone 15、公司收購手機iphone 16在外觀上並沒有明顯差異,僅有相機排列的位置不同、鏡頭略顯突出一點及按鍵的大小略有不同;而公司收購手機iphone 15 Pro、16 Pro的差異上就比較明顯,不僅在長度、厚度上公司收購手機iphone 16略顯厚實外,螢幕尺寸從前代 6.1 吋改為 6.3 吋,鏡頭也略顯突出。

在這次外觀差異上,鏡頭所調整的幅度較大,根據中國爆料客「數位閒聊站」日前爆料指出,蘋果公司收購手機iphone16 Pro Max 確認採用之前爆料的 48Mp SONY IMX903 ,1/1.14超大感光元件為史上最大尺寸,而且還配備雙層晶體管技術,支援14Bit ADC 和DCG。

此外,還是根據爆料,蘋果 公司收購手機iphone 16 Pro 將配備6.3 吋螢幕,15 Pro 為6.1 吋;公司收購手機iphone 16 Pro Max為6.9 吋,15 Pro Max 為 6.7 吋,但詳細仍得等待官方正式在發表會上宣布才能得知。

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