Sony has another wireless headset coming this year, the WH-H910N, replacement for the WH-H900N, or H. Ear On 2. This new headset seems to follow the same naming scheme like the WI-C310 (from WI-C300) and WH-CH510 (from WH-CH500). I can confirm Bluetooth 5.0 and noise cancellation, but do not have any information about codec support, design or colour options for now.
Design
The FCC documents do not provide any actual photo but a general drawing of a headset, identical to the WH-XB900N and WH-XB700 FCC images. Naturally when I saw the WH-XB900N FCC image earlier this year, I assumed the design would be like the WH-XB700 but with noise cancellation since their FCC images were identical. Of course that was not the case but their designs are very close, if only slightly altered (see below). So perhaps we might be looking at a similar situation here with the new WH-H910N taking some design ideas from the XB900N and adding a new updated design.
The H. Ear On 2 offered a varying selection of colours, but there is no information if the new model will continue this trend or will stick to only more conservative colour options. There is also a possibility the headphones will carry the H. Ear On 3 branding along with the upcoming WF-H800 and WH-H810.
Codec Support
The previous model (WH-H900N) offered a nice selection of wireless codecs, apart from the standard SBC, AAC, it offered support for aptX, aptXHD and Sony's own LDAC. It is unknown if LDAC or aptX will be offered, the WF-1000XM3 lacks any LDAC or aptX support and this has been one of the complaints from users.
This is probably because the WF-1000XM3 has changed SoC/BT chips from Qualcomm's CSR8675, to Mediatek's MT2811 (WF-1000XM3 teardown).
Update: So it appears that Sony could have added LDAC to WF-1000XM3 but did not because of its higher battery consumption so it was not included, via AV Watch (thanks to @aborne25 from twitter for bringing this to my attention).
So with that, I am sure Sony will add LDAC to the larger headphones, like WH-H910N and its smaller sibling WH-H810.
BluetoothThis is probably because the WF-1000XM3 has changed SoC/BT chips from Qualcomm's CSR8675, to Mediatek's MT2811 (WF-1000XM3 teardown).
Update: So it appears that Sony could have added LDAC to WF-1000XM3 but did not because of its higher battery consumption so it was not included, via AV Watch (thanks to @aborne25 from twitter for bringing this to my attention).
So with that, I am sure Sony will add LDAC to the larger headphones, like WH-H910N and its smaller sibling WH-H810.
The new WH-H910N will use Bluetooth 5.0 like all recent and upcoming Sony headsets. The FCC documents do not specifically mention version 5.0 but the headphones use BLE at 2 Mbps which is only available in Bluetooth 5.0. USB type C should also be offered like all new and upcoming headsets.
If I find out any more information I will update the post or if I find any spelling/grammatical errors. As always if anyone has any more details, please contact me or leave a comment.
Hi man, do you think this may carry q1 chip like 1000xm3 or not? If xm4 doesn't come out this year could this become the successor of xm3？
ReplyDeleteI'm seriously considering buying wh-1000xm3 but at this point I don't know which one to buy after this year's IFA.(very little hope for xm4) Personally I want to buy the one with the most noise cancelling ability.
Looking forward to your reply.
This is not the successor of xm3 but wh-h900n from 2 years ago.
ReplyDeleteIf you need NC headphones now, I would recommend the WW-1000XM3, while there is still a chance the WH-1000XM4 will come out this year still, no solid proof that it exists just yet.
It seems extremely unlikely we'll see the XM4 given there has been no filings for it. At least not for IFA.
DeleteAlso the H900N has a better and cleaner sound than the XM3. The XM3 sounds absolutely horrendous, overpowered bass and totally muddled sound, just like beats headphones.
Yes, this the same info I wrote on this post, that no FCC filing has happened yet. IFA is out for mark 4, still a chance for a holiday release, but I suspect we are looking at CES 2020 as the earliest chance of a new model.
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