Hear the world around you with the brand-new LinkBuds.
LinkBuds connect all your worlds perfectly with an open ring design that allows you to hear calls, music and other online content anytime, as well as the ambient sounds around you transparently, all whilst feeling nothing on your ear! Small and light with super fit styling for hours of comfortable wearing, they ensure you're always connected to your life, so you'll never miss a thing.
So how does this unique design work? The newly developed ring-type driver unit allows for audio transparency. This means you'll hear when someone calls your name during a call or can chat with friends while listening to music on your Bluetooth earphones.
Call quality on these earphones with mic is fantastic, with our Precise Voice Pickup Technology delivering crystal-clear sound to the person on the other end of the phone, even if you're in a noisy environment.
For you, you'll hear incredible sound quality every time, our Integrated Processor V1 reproducing all the detail in your music for rich, well-balanced sound and DSEE technology restoring compressed files closer to the original recording quality.
Featuring a number of smart listening features such as Adaptive Sound Control, as well as a Wide Tap Area for greater playback control, LinkBuds are super easy to use. They are also IPX4 water resistant, with up to 17.5 hours of battery power, and fast charging, so you never have to switch your ear phones off.
Super Small, Light and Comfortable Fit
Extremely small and approximately four grams in weight, LinkBuds are a marvel of miniaturisation. Unlike conventional earbuds, the protective surface covering the speaker diaphragm is integrated within the housing, saving space.
LinkBuds combine a shape that perfectly matches the human ear with a new ergonomic surface design for a more stable fit. Sony have designed these wireless earbuds utilising extensive ear shape data collated since introducing the world’s first in-ear headphones in 1982.
Connected and Aware
With dual listening capability you can also hear the world around you with these unique earbuds.
These Bluetooth earphones feature a newly developed ring-type driver unit, with the centre of the diaphragm open for audio transparency, allowing you to clearly hear the sounds around you and feel your ear totally open. You'll hear when someone calls your name during a call and can chat with friends while listening to music.
Hear Calls and Music Clearly
Linkbuds are your perfect mobile phone companion.
With Precise Voice Pickup Technology that optimally controls multiple microphones and performs advanced voice signal processing, the person on the other end of the call will hear your voice clearly, even when you are in noisy situations. Our noise reduction algorithm was developed using AI machine learning using more than 500 million voice samples to suppress ambient noise and extract your voice clearly in a wide range of environments.
Enjoy balanced, high quality sound with a clear mid-high range. Our Integrated Processor V1 reproduces all the detail in your music with minimal distortion for an authentic listening experience. A specially designed 12mm ring driver with a high compliance (low recoil) diaphragm provides rich, well-balanced sound that’s ideal for beat-heavy tracks.
When an original music source is compressed, it loses the high-frequency elements that add detail and richness to a track. Our Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) on these in-ear headphones faithfully restores the elements to produce high-quality sound that’s closer to the original recording.
Everyday Ease
LinkBuds may be small but they are still easy to use. With the Wide Area Tap, you can use double or triple taps in front of either of your ears to control your music playback so there’s no need to touch the LinkBuds themselves to operate.
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Adaptive Volume Control is a smart function that automatically optimises volume based on where you are. Enjoy lower volume in quiet places and higher volume in noisier environments with your in-ear wireless headphones. Swift pairing feature makes for easy connection to your mobile phone.
Be Ready for Splashes and the Day Ahead
With an IPX4 water resistance rating, splashes and sweat won’t stop these Sony earbuds, so you can keep on moving to the music.
If you are using these earbuds for sporting actvities, you can still hear the world around you, for example chatting with your running partner or hearing any hazards in your environment.
You can enjoy a full working day of charge 5.5 hours from your headphones and store another 12 hours in the case. That means a full 17.5 hours of listening time every time you leave the house with your Sony Bluetooth headphone. In a hurry? Just a 10-minute quick charge gives you up to 90 minutes of playtime, and the Sony Headphones Connect app will even notify you when your charging case drops below 30%.
Headphone Features:
- Headphone Style: Truly Wireless
- Headphone Type: Open, Dynamic
- Magnet: High power neodymium magnets
- Weights: 4.1 g x2
- Waterproof (IPX4)
Charging Case Features:
- Open-Close Detection
- Number of Charge Cycle for Headphones: 2
- Weight: 34 g
- Dimension (mm): 41.4 x 48.5 x 30.9mm
Microphone:
- Unit of Microphone: MEMS
- Direction of Microphone: Omni directional
Active Headphones:
- DSEE
- Battery Charge Time (Buds): 1.5 hrs
- Battery Charge Time (Charging Case): 3 hrs (USB charging)
- Quick Charging(10min charge/more than 60min playback time)
- Playback time(Quick Charging): 10 min charge, play up to approx. 90 min
- Battery Charge Method: USB Charge(with case)
- Battery Life(continuous music playback time): 5.5 hrs
- Battery Life(continuous music playback time)(Buds+Case): 17.5hrs(5.5hrs+12hrs)
- Battery Life(continuous communication time): 2.5 hrs
- Battery Life(Waiting Time): 11 hrs
- Power Consumption: Headset: 1W Charging case: 3W
Application:
- Music center
- Headphones Connect
- EQ Preset selection
- EQ customize
HPC Supported Function (Setting):
- Adaptive Control
- Linking with Services(locatone)*
*not available in all languages and countries/regions
- Linking with Services(Sounscape)*
*not available in all languages and countries/regions
- Device Currently Being Connected
- Speak-to-Chat
- Equalizer
- Clear Bass
- Quick Access(Spotify)*
*not available in all languages and countries/regions
- Now Playing
- Pauses when headphones are taken off
- 360 Reality Audio Setting
- Sound Quality Mode
- DSEE
- Change the button (touch sensor/Wide Area Tap) function
- Auto Power Off
- Notification & Voice Guide
- Software Auto Download
HPC Supported Function (Indication):
- Battery Level Indication
- DSEE Extreme status indication
- Connected Codec Indication
- Background Fill Corresponding to Headphone Color
HPC Supported Function (Others):
- Firmware Update
- Upload set operation log
- Easy Pairing
- Power Off
- Help based on headphone status
Bluetooth:
- Bluetooth Technology: Version5.2
- Power Output: Bluetooth Specification Power Class 1
- Effective Range: 10m
- Frequency Range: 2.4GHz band(2.4000GHz-2.4835GHz)
- Interface: A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, HSP
- Supported Audio Format(s): SBC, AAC
- Supported Content Protection: SCMS-T
- Frequency Range(A2DP): 20Hz-20,000Hz(44.1kHz sampling)
- Multi Pairing
- Manual Pairing
- Initial Automatic Pairing
- Google Fast Pair
- Headphones Connect Easy Pairing
Operation Method:
- Wide Area Tap
- Wearing Detection
Voice Guidance:
- Voice Guidance
- Initial Language: English
- Voice guidance deactivation
- Voice guidance language switching
Voice Assist Function:
- Siri
- Google Assistant
- Amazon Alexa
Call Function:
- HD Voice
- Echo Cancellation
- Noise Supression
Battery Info(Headphones):
- Battery Cell Type: Coin
- Chemical Composition: Li-ion
- Number of Batteries: 2
- Battery Weight (g): Approx.0.8gx2
- Energy Content (Wh): 0.12Whx2
- Battery Voltage (V): 3.85V
- Discharge Capacity (mAh): 32mAhx2
Battery Info(CargingCase):
- Battery Cell Type: Square
- Chemical Composition: Li-ion
- Number of Batteries: 1
- Battery Weight (g): Approx. 6.2g
- Number of Lithium Ion Cells: 1
- Energy Content (Wh): 1.11Wh
- Battery Voltage (V): 3.7V
- Discharge Capacity (mAh): 300mAh
Product Features:
- Compact and lightweight
- 12mm ring driver
- IPX4 water resistance
- 17.5 hours listening time (5.5 hours from your headphones and store 12 hours in the case)
- Super clear hands-free calls
- Quick charge - 10 mins charge gives up to 90 mins of playtime
- Optimised for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa (wake word compatible)
- Google fast pair and Windows swift pair compatible
- Multipoint / multiconnect - Connect two devices simultaneously
- Headphones connect app
