Sony WH-1000XM4 headphone gets listed on company's India website, Amazon listing reveals launch date

Sony, at the time of unveiling its flagship WH-1000XM4 headphones globally, confirmed to HT Tech that it will be coming to India in September. Now, the product is officially listed on Amazon India along with the launch date. As per the listing, WH-1000XM4 will be released on September 18. There’s no mention about the price tag though. For now, interested buyers can only click on the ‘Notify me’ option to know when the product goes live on the e-commerce website.

Since the headphones were launched in the US last month, the specs and features are already out. The company is using the 1000XM3’s QN1 noise-cancelling processor that works in real time along with a new Bluetooth Audio SoC that senses and adjusts to music and noise signals. Also, the headphones include Personal Noise-Cancelling Optimizer and Atmospheric Pressure Optimizing as well.

In addition, you can always connect the WH-1000XM4 with the Sony Headphones Connect app to adjust the ambient sound control. There's support for LDAC as well so you get more audio data reaching your ear during wireless streaming.

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Some other features included are DSEE Extreme to upscale the compressed audio files, Speak-to-Chat that pauses the audio when it senses the wearer speaking, wear detection using two acceleration sensors and Adaptive Sound Control tech that uses Sense Engine to customise the audio based on the environment.

Like seen in other Sony earbuds, the WH-1000XM4 headphones also support Quick Attention feature to hear ambient sound for a short while by tapping and holding the finger on the headphone. As for the battery, Sony WH-1000XM4 is claimed to deliver up to 30 hours of battery life in a single charge and up to 5 hours in 10 minutes of charge. Google Assistant and Alexa support is also there.