Urbanista debuts extra environment friendly and ch...

Private audio model Urbanista has been on a photo voltaic kick over the previous couple of years, placing out headphones, true wi-fi earbuds, and a portable speaker with power-generating panels from Exeger constructed proper into them. With CES 2024 across the nook, each Exeger and Urbanista are again for a second spherical with next-gen Los Angeles noise-canceling over-ears and Phoenix earbuds.

There’s a lot using for each firms on the brand new headphones. Exeger is trying to construct investor confidence in client photo voltaic know-how. Urbanista, in the meantime, desires to construct upon its repute as a still-young equipment producer with an obsession over design, good sound, and cities; the latter driving its product naming conventions with the Miami ANC headphones being an instance we reviewed.

As with their unique variations, Urbanista has built-in Exeger’s PowerFoyle photo voltaic cell substrate know-how into the scarf of the Los Angeles headphones and charging case of the Phoenix earbuds. If these surfaces see any gentle, they are going to cost the units. It is harder to say whether or not the Phoenix’s charging case will see as a lot solar as the scarf of the Los Angeles, however that is the strategy Urbanista has chosen.

The Verge experiences that the second-gen PowerFoyle materials has been included into the later manufacturing runs of the Los Angeles and Phoenix, so there should not be a lot distinction in efficiency on the brand new {hardware} from that issue alone.

Oddly sufficient, modifications within the design of the Los Angeles imply it can lose 20 hours of battery life, dropping to 60 hours – supposedly, this and some different tweaks will assist make them extra snug to put on in addition to maintain them forward of the competitors with most different comparable units providing between 30 and 40 hours of battery life. Two options in excessive demand are right here and people are a 3.5mm audio jack and Bluetooth multipoint help.

The Phoenix earbuds will nonetheless final for eight hours a cycle and their charging case will present for 4 full energy cycles as they did earlier than. In addition they have had their IP score bumped from X4 to 54 with mud safety within the combine.

The perfect information out of all of that is that each will promote for $20 lower than their predecessors – the Los Angeles will go for $179 whereas the Phoenix is tagged at $129. That stated, it’s going to be some time but earlier than you’ll be able to take that to the financial institution. Urbanista continues to be within the growth stage on each merchandise and will not be promoting these till the center of the yr on the earliest.