The Nothing Headphone (a) Wireless Over-Ear Headphones are built around a battery big enough that you stop thinking about charging them at all. Nothing rates them at 135 hours with noise canceling off and 75 hours with it running, so a couple of hours of listening a day works out to about a month between charges. The rest of the design follows that same idea of keeping things simple, which is why the controls are physical instead of touch-based. Inside each cup is a 40mm titanium-coated driver, and the headphones come in black, white, pink, or yellow.
Head over to Amazon to get the Nothing Headphone (a) Wireless Over-Ear Headphones for just $159, down from their usual price of $199. That’s a $40 discount and 20% off.
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The battery in these is 1,060mAh, which is where the 135-hour figure comes from. Most noise-canceling headphones in this price range land somewhere between 30 and 50 hours, so this is several times what you would normally expect. With ANC turned on, the number drops to 75 hours, and that is still more than double what a lot of competing models manage with it off. A five-minute charge gets you around five hours of playback if you forget to plug them in overnight.
Noise cancellation goes up to 40dB and adjusts on its own based on your surroundings and how the headphones sit on your head. There are three intensity settings plus an adaptive option that picks for you, and a transparency mode that lets outside sound through when you need to hear what is going on around you. The five microphones handle both the noise canceling and your phone calls.
The controls on these headphones are what make them different from everything else. Rather than hitting the side of an earcup in hopes that the headphones will recognize the signal, you get a roller to control volume, a paddle to skip songs or move back and forth through audio, and a button you can program as you want. That button can also act as a remote shutter for your phone’s camera or as a voice assistant command.
The 40mm drivers are titanium-coated, which keeps them rigid as the volume climbs and cuts down on distortion. Frequency response runs from 20Hz to 40,000Hz, and AI algorithms boost the bass in real time, which fits how these are tuned in general. The Nothing X app adds an 8-band EQ and spatial audio settings for movies and concerts, and Bluetooth 5.4 handles the connection.
At $159, down from $199, the Nothing Headphone (a) Wireless Over-Ear Headphones come in black, white, pink, or yellow, with memory foam on the headband and the earcups. Some of the button features, including Channel Hop, work best with a Nothing phone rather than any Android device.