 Hey, this is Dan with The Verge, and this is Microsoft's new Surface earbuds. This is the company's first truly wireless earbuds, and they follow along the Surface headphones that were announced last year in the company's new audio line of products. As you can see, they're pretty similar to other wireless earbuds we've seen before. You wear them in your ears, you've got a little case that you put them in to charge, and it's got a USB-C port on the back to charge it back up. Now Microsoft says these will last about eight hours on a charge, and in the case you get a full 24 hours. So it's pretty standard stuff that we've seen from other companies before. Now if you look at the design of these, you can tell that they do look a little bit different. They're quite a bit bigger than maybe you're used to from, say, Samsung's Galaxy Buds or even Apple's AirPods. But they're so big because there is this touchpad on the outside that you can use to control a bunch of functions. You can skip tracks, you can raise volume, you can launch applications if you've got it connected to an Android phone, play Spotify automatically, things like that. And they are pretty typical sounding earbuds. These do not seal out sound, they are designed to allow ambient sound in. And here we are in the demo area, it's super loud, there's some bumping music, like a club at, I don't know, it's at noon right now. So it's kind of hard to tell how these things actually sound in here, but if I were playing music I would be able to hear it through my ears and also be able to hear the ambient sound. There's no noise cancellation or anything else like that. Now because this is Microsoft, they don't just play music. They actually do some other things. And there's some microphones on here and some technology that Microsoft has developed with PowerPoint and its AI processing to allow you to speak into the headphones while you're presenting say a PowerPoint slideshow and it will live transcribe what you're saying on the screen. So I can say, hey this is Dan with The Verge and these are Microsoft's new Surface earbuds. This is the company's first truly wireless earbuds and they accompany the Surface headphones that were announced last year as part of Microsoft's new audio product lineup. Pretty wild. The design on the inside is a little bit different than other earbuds. This ear tip does not actually go inside your ear canal. Like I said before, it's not designed to block out sounds. It's supposed to let sounds in. So it kind of just rests in there and then there's a little hook on the backside of it that when you rotate the earbud into your ear, it kind of locks in place. Microsoft's including a few different sizes with this so you can customize it to fit your ears and find whichever size is most comfortable and fits you best without falling out of your ear. Microsoft says these will be available before the holidays this year, so real soon. They're going to sell for about $250, which is a bit more expensive than what we're used to seeing from say like AirPods which start at $160 or Samsung's Galaxy Buds which are about $130. So Microsoft is really counting on the added productivity features that are coming with these to justify that price. Obviously we're going to have a review coming for them when these are released and we'll have lots more time to test out their audio quality and see what they're like in the real world. But that's a real quick first look at Microsoft's Surface Earbuds. Hey, thanks for watching. There's a ton of other stuff that Microsoft announced today. There's new Surface Pro laptops, there's new Surface Laptop laptops, and then the company actually announced a new foldable thing that's not coming for another year. We've got all of it on theverge.com and also youtube.com slash theverge so please go check it out.
 Hey, this is Dan with The Verge, and this is Microsoft's new Surface earbuds.
 This is the company's first truly wireless earbuds, and they follow along the Surface
 headphones that were announced last year in the company's new audio line of products.
 As you can see, they're pretty similar to other wireless earbuds we've seen before.
 You wear them in your ears, you've got a little case that you put them in to charge, and it's
 got a USB-C port on the back to charge it back up.
 Now Microsoft says these will last about eight hours on a charge, and in the case you get
 a full 24 hours.
 So it's pretty standard stuff that we've seen from other companies before.
 Now if you look at the design of these, you can tell that they do look a little bit different.
 They're quite a bit bigger than maybe you're used to from, say, Samsung's Galaxy Buds or
 even Apple's AirPods.
 But they're so big because there is this touchpad on the outside that you can use to control
 a bunch of functions.
 You can skip tracks, you can raise volume, you can launch applications if you've got
 it connected to an Android phone, play Spotify automatically, things like that.
 And they are pretty typical sounding earbuds.
 These do not seal out sound, they are designed to allow ambient sound in.
 And here we are in the demo area, it's super loud, there's some bumping music, like a club
 at, I don't know, it's at noon right now.
 So it's kind of hard to tell how these things actually sound in here, but if I were playing
 music I would be able to hear it through my ears and also be able to hear the ambient
 sound.
 There's no noise cancellation or anything else like that.
 Now because this is Microsoft, they don't just play music.
 They actually do some other things.
 And there's some microphones on here and some technology that Microsoft has developed with
 PowerPoint and its AI processing to allow you to speak into the headphones while you're
 presenting say a PowerPoint slideshow and it will live transcribe what you're saying
 on the screen.
 So I can say, hey this is Dan with The Verge and these are Microsoft's new Surface earbuds.
 This is the company's first truly wireless earbuds and they accompany the Surface headphones
 that were announced last year as part of Microsoft's new audio product lineup.
 Pretty wild.
 The design on the inside is a little bit different than other earbuds.
 This ear tip does not actually go inside your ear canal.
 Like I said before, it's not designed to block out sounds.
 It's supposed to let sounds in.
 So it kind of just rests in there and then there's a little hook on the backside of it
 that when you rotate the earbud into your ear, it kind of locks in place.
 Microsoft's including a few different sizes with this so you can customize it to fit your
 ears and find whichever size is most comfortable and fits you best without falling out of your
 ear.
 Microsoft says these will be available before the holidays this year, so real soon.
 They're going to sell for about $250, which is a bit more expensive than what we're used
 to seeing from say like AirPods which start at $160 or Samsung's Galaxy Buds which are
 about $130.
 So Microsoft is really counting on the added productivity features that are coming with
 these to justify that price.
 Obviously we're going to have a review coming for them when these are released and we'll
 have lots more time to test out their audio quality and see what they're like in the real
 world.
 But that's a real quick first look at Microsoft's Surface Earbuds.
 Hey, thanks for watching.
 There's a ton of other stuff that Microsoft announced today.
 There's new Surface Pro laptops, there's new Surface Laptop laptops, and then the company
 actually announced a new foldable thing that's not coming for another year.
 We've got all of it on theverge.com and also youtube.com slash theverge so please go check
 it out.