Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud Dell has entered the earbud market with a product you can manage from the cloud. The new Dell Pro Plus Earbuds cost $229 – $20 more than Apple’s latest AirPods Pro 3 and $50 more than Cupertino’s AirPods 4. We mention those models because, like Dell’s offering, they include active noise cancellation, transparency mode, and …
Can a hacker render thousands, or maybe even millions (if this product is successful) people deaf at once by commanding them to send the loudest possible sound it can generate bypassing any safety measure or volume limits users have configured?
Such a hack is pretty much inevitable (the loud sound part, though deafness is unlikely unless people are so shocked by the sound they won't immediately grab them out of their ears and toss them to the ground)
HP didn't even come up with the brand themselves, but bought it off Kingston a few years back.
Not sure about their products since the purchase but under Kingston the headsets were half decent and sounded pretty good.
As for this Dell offering, I'd be surprised if they weren't just something else with their logo slapped on and a significant markup because "cloud" (that selling point is soooo 2015).
I've had plenty of luck with a set of £25 Anker Soundcores that sound perfectly good.
Someone bought me a set of Raycons (yes, I know) as a present, and for what are more or less knockoffs they also work well enough.
Dunno, the feature that filters out the voice of your colleagues in your office when they are talking at the same time as you makes sense. This is so bloody annoying! It's even worde if two of you are in teh same office, because you then first hear your colleague "live" and then with some time deay the same thing over the headphones. Or you hear people twice, because the automatic gain rips open the mic when that person is not talking to pick up the other one in the room talking.
Yes, the company I work for has pretty shite headsets, though the have indeed been much worse in the past.
Is this worth 229 USD? Like, without tax, so we are talking about more like 250 USD, which is a helluvalotta pints you can buy with that...
>” Dunno, the feature that filters out the voice of your colleagues in your office when they are talking at the same time as you makes sense.”
That’s what “noise cancelling” does.
I suspect the selling point of these is the “Dell” branding, I can include them in the purchase of a new Dell system, just like laptop bag, mouse etc.
