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Sony Japan Finally Teases the WH-1000XM4 for an Early August reveal (update 5)

Sony WH-1000XM4

Sony Japan has finally teased the upcoming WH-1000XM4. The press conference or reveal is scheduled for August 7th, at 9:00 local time I am guessing, so Japan. If this is local time, then the press conference will be at 17:00 PST/ 20:00 EST and 02:00 CET for other regions.

Edit, seems like Sony North America has also put up a teaser but with a different time and date, August 6th, 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, which could be 17:00 CET. So it seems like North America will have the earlier introduction, with Japan a bit later on the 7th.

Update 2: A promotional video leaked on youtube, it will eventually be taken down for sure.


Update 3: Argos UK has support up for the new WH-1000XM4 (black, silver). Uploading screenshots just in case the links are removed. Click on the photos for larger size. Also the price on alza.co.uk is £369.90.

Sony WH-1000XM4

Sony WH-1000XM4
Update 4: Amazon.fr have the WH-1000XM4 listed on their page. It is listed for €380.00 with a release date of August 7th. One little piece of information from the page is the weigth, 254grams for the new headphones versus 255g for the WH-1000XM3.

Sony WH-1000XM4

Sony WH-1000XM4

Here is the text in case the page goes down:

Le casque Bluetooth WH1000XM4 ร  rรฉduction de bruit concentre toute la technologie de Sony en termes de qualitรฉ de son, de rรฉduction de bruit et de fonctionnalitรฉs innovantes. Il propose la meilleure rรฉduction de bruit du marchรฉ avec intelligence artificielle pour une expรฉrience sonore immersive exceptionnelle. La rรฉduction de bruit est rรฉglable sur 20 niveaux et ce casque bluetooth est compatible avec le mode Ambient Sound pour rester ร  l’รฉcoute de votre environnement. Les fonctions intelligentes Quick Attention et Speak To Chat permettent de rรฉduire instantanรฉment le volume de votre musique pour suivre une conversation en posant la main sur le casque ou en parlant tout simplement ร  quelqu'un. Jusqu’ร  30 heures d’autonomie avec la rรฉduction de bruit active et 38 heures en Bluetooth uniquement. Fonction charge rapide (15 minutes = 8 heures de lecture). Le WH-1000XM4 est รฉquipรฉ de la fonction dรฉtection de port : il met en pause automatiquement votre musique quand vous retirez votre casque. Compatible Bluetooth multipoint pour changer d’รฉcoute facilement et rapidement entre votre smartphone, votre tablette, pc … Le contrรดle tactile intuitif sur le cรดtรฉ droit pour piloter votre musique, le volume, les appels et les assistants vocaux du bout des doigts sans toucher ร  votre tรฉlรฉphone. La technologie Voice Pickup permet de passer des appels clairs sans bruits environnants. Compatible Hi-Res Audio Wireless pour un son Haute Rรฉsolution digne du studio et 360 Reality Audio pour une expรฉrience immersive comme si vous รฉtiez en studio ou sur scรจne. Optimisรฉ pour Amazon Alexa et l’Assistant Google. Accรฉdez ร  votre assistant vocal d’une simple pression sur une touche.

And here are the bullet points.
  • La meilleure rรฉduction de bruit* du marchรฉ avec intelligence artificielle pour une expรฉrience sonore immersive exceptionnelle. Rรฉglable sur 20 niveaux et mode Ambient Sound pour rester ร  l’รฉcoute de votre environnement. Plus de rรฉglages intelligents grรขce ร  l’application gratuite Sony | Headphones Connect. (*D'aprรจs une รฉtude menรฉe par Sony Corporation, conformรฉment aux directives de la JEITA. Sur le marchรฉ des casques sans fil de type bandeau ร  rรฉduction de bruit.)
  • Fonctions intelligentes pour rรฉduire instantanรฉment le volume de votre musique et pouvoir suivre une conversation : soit en posant votre main sur le cรดtรฉ droit avec la fonction Quick Attention ; soit en parlant ร  quelqu'un sans toucher ร  votre casque avec la fonction Speak To Chat. Fonction pour rรฉduire instantanรฉment le volume de votre musique et pouvoir suivre une conversation en posant votre main sur le cรดtรฉ droit.
  • Jusqu’ร  30 heures d’autonomie avec la rรฉduction de bruit active et 38 heures en Bluetooth uniquement. Fonction charge rapide (15 minutes = 8 heures de lecture) Dรฉtection de port : met en pause automatiquement votre musique quand vous retirez votre casque pour รฉconomiser de la batterie.
  • Utilisation intuitive et intelligente : Bluetooth multipoint pour changer d’รฉcoute facilement et rapidement entre votre smartphone, votre tablette et votre PC. Contrรดle tactile sur le cรดtรฉ droit pour piloter votre musique, le volume, les appels et les assistants vocaux du bout des doigts sans toucher ร  votre tรฉlรฉphone. Optimisรฉ pour Amazon Alexa et l’Assistant Google. Accรฉdez ร  votre assistant vocal d’une simple pression sur une touche pour รฉcouter de la musique, demander un itinรฉraire, consulter la mรฉtรฉo et bien plus.
  • Compatible Hi-Res Audio Wireless pour un son Haute Rรฉsolution digne du studio et 360 Reality Audio pour une expรฉrience immersive comme si vous รฉtiez en studio ou sur scรจne

One interesting section is the 3rd bullet point about multipoint, but this could be the same a the WF-1000X3 multipoint, you will need to physically pair the devices. Here is the google translation:

Intuitive and intelligent use: Multipoint Bluetooth for quick and easy listening changes between your smartphone, tablet and PC.

Update 5: Thanks to user koenssociallife on reddit for pointing this out. The Sony WH-1000XM4 has appeared on the mediamarkt belgium website in a banner, but the links do not work yet.

Sony WH-1000XM4


Here is the video from twitter.


The rumour is that the headphones will become available for purchase about a month after introduction, so early September but I feel availability will vary from region to region, with perhaps certain markets having retail availability earlier. I have provided a link to the Youtube stream below.

Update:

Seems that some retailers are once again showing the WH-1000XM4, elviapro.cz being one of them.

Sony WH-1000XM4


11 comments:

  1. The wait is over...Finally!

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  2. not mark 4, bro. the color pattern is belong to Signature series. maybe the successor of 1A/1Z and IER-Z1R.

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    1. Except the Mark 4 and 3 have gold accents, Sony logo, likewise, it says 4 in the teaser, eluding the to the WH-1000XM4.

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    2. I'm sorry but I'll make you loose hope here.
      1. The picture above is posted on the Headphones section in Sony Japan's website.
      2. The sentence "wait 4 something" is definitely a teaser for the wh1000 MARK 4.
      3. Sony doesn't have any Walkman or any other device registered to the fcc other
      than the wh1000xm4.
      4. Here is the link to Sony's devices registered to fcc: https://fccid.io/AK8
      Go check for yourself and you'll see that Sony is not cooking up any successor of
      1A/1Z and IER-Z1R yet.

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    3. bad news 4 me. :( i don't give a shit for this product. so cry now.
      but tks 4 ur information, bro. have a nice day!

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  3. The official PS5 price could be announced as well,,,I hope

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    1. I don't think Sony will mix the release of an audio device with gaming. I thought that Sony would mix the release of the Alpha 7SIII with the release of the xm4 but that didn't happened. Sony also said that they will organize an event for the PS5 like they've done for other devices so far. The thing that I care right now, is I want the xm4 to be compatible with the PS4 and PS5. That way, I won't have to buy both the xm4 and PS5 headset.

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  4. Why Sony? Why?? Are you telling me there is no automatic switching between 2 devices and we have to manually do it just like the wf1000xm3? That's fked up Sony!

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    1. No 100% confirmation about how the switching will occur, I am basing this on the WF-1000XM3 multipoint function since the xm4 will share the same bluetooth chip. Best to wait for reviews, which I suspect will go live after the press conference.

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    2. Okay, let's wait. I hope it won't be just like the wf1000xm3.

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