AirPods Studio design and specs just leaked — here's your first look

AirPods Studio design and specs simply leaked — here's your first look

(Image credit: Jon Prosser / Concept Creator)

The Apple AirPods Studio may have finally had their first truthful leak, and it's not pretty. Alleged video and concept images of the headphones have begun making the rounds, revealing a pattern that could prove polarizing.

Yeah, the AirPods that won't actually be pods — but instead larger, over-ear headphones — may have just made their first visual appearance. A clip of the alleged headphones was posted by internet leakers choco_bit and Jioriku, though the latter user seems to have deleted theirs.

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Watermark-less white. I did say they looked a bit worse IMO pic.twitter.com/AiYNMyfktRSeptember 16, 2020

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While the band that goes between both cups seems potentially legit, with a mix of textile and metallic fixtures, the rest of the AirPods Studio looks especially pre-production, equally an off-screen person in the video slides the unit into what looks to exist a holster of some type.

The part of these AirPods Studio that looks unfinished are the metallic cups that have what look to be some sort of exposed facets or fixtures.

While this being part — merely non all of the AirPods Studio — makes a lot of sense, the sleeve they're being packed into is giving u.s. some concern. There'south a squeeze that the person off-photographic camera is securing after the headphones go into the sleeve, and it all gives some sort of feel that this is all a part of the terminal packaging.

And if that's the packaging, that would mean these AirPods Studio are more legit and final than we desire to believe.

Probably Sport variant of Apples headphonesPersonally not impressed, looks too much like 2 Palm Pre's fastened to 2 tuning forks :/ difficult to unseeLooks a lot like what @markgurman described in April, but with homepod mesh pic.twitter.com/dzAufRRl7mSeptember 16, 2020

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Choco_bit also posted what they merits to exist a "sport variant" of the headphones, which feature a similar blueprint but in black instead of white. While the cans look a little better here, fifty-fifty the leaker makes a annotate about non being impressed, and that the headphones wait like two Palm Pres attached to tuning forks.

Frequent Apple leaker Jon Prosser quickly followed upwards on these leaks with several specs, as well as renders from Concept Creator that wait quite similar to the leaked headphones in question.

Prosser says the headphones will feature magnetic earcups, a high quality leather or metal design, can be worn in any orientation cheers to ear detection and will use USB-C over a standard headphone jack.

According to previous leaks, the AirPods Studio are expected to feature active-noise counterfoil as well as head and neck detection that can automatically pause your playback when you take them off. Bloomberg previously reported that they volition have a "retro" look with swappable earpads, which seems to track with these leaked videos and images.

Stay tuned to Tom'southward Guide, every bit we keep tracking the AirPods Studio through their next leaks and (hopefully) official appearances. Prosser has said they'll be a function of the rumored October iPhone 12 event, where we promise to see the Apple Silicon MacBook Pro and Apple AirTags.

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