With no news or leaks of a WH-1000XM6 model, the WH-1000XM5 remain Sony's flagship wireless headset. Which is good news, since they are not almost 20% off on Amazon.
The smaller compact WF-1000XM5 sibling is also around 20% off right now as well.
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I was hoping Sony would release a LE Audio update for the WH-1000XM5, but for some reason they are holding out. Not sure why. The model did pass through Bluetooth SIG again, so it is only a matter of just pushing a firmware update out.
If you are wondering where the WH-1000XM6 is, check out my post here for more details. We can still have a release for early Fall 2024 if we get a FCC filing in the next 1-2 months, otherwise I feel Sony will push the release out further.
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Not sure whether it's just a typo but Qualcomm may have secretly released a new revision of the QCS2290, now manufactured in 4nm instead of 11nm. I know it's not realistic but imagine buying a brand new A306 to find out that yours already features the new SoC. 11nm to 4nm is quite a step - approx 10 years newer, depending on which processes are used exactly.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.qualcomm.com/products/technology/processors/application-processors/qcs2290
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If the chip has a date of manufacture stamped on it, then yes you could find out, but looking at the internal photos of the A300, I don't see a date.
Deletebtw that table is a disaster in firefox, can't scroll the top and bottom at the same time, same issue on chrome. Shame that they didn't improve the BT to 5.3.
Will be interesting if we'll even see any new walkmans anytime soon.
I'd expect hardware info tools to also show a different revision. Such a huge step in manufacturing would probably also be easily identifiable by a massively improved battery life.
DeleteYes, the homepage really bad that's why I'm not sure if it isn't just a typo. Top of the page still says 11nm under "Powerful CPU and GPU in its tier". I tried to use the Wayback machine and check whether 4nm has been there from the beginning but the page is so buggy it wasn't saved properly.
I'd expect a WM1 Mark 3 as next Walkman if Sony wants to stay in the ultra high end game.
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True, should say. Would have to check geekbench to see if it says anything, the scores for recent entries seem the same. Not sure if the chip would be faster, or just more efficient.
DeleteBy the way, I doubt that the XM5s will receive a LC3/LE Audio update. When you compare the supported Bluetooth profiles from the latest certification with those from the Linkbuds S (both devices only supporting only BT 5.2), you'll see that the Linkbuds support much more, including for example the "Basic Audio Profile" which is used for Audio over Bluetooth LE. https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/basic-audio-profile-1-0/
ReplyDeleteSo the re-certification was probably only needed for the new features that already came with 2.0 (the firmware used for the certification and released in July 2023).
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WF-1000XM5 (YY2963) re-certified with publicly unreleased Firmware 4.0. No new BT profiles.
ReplyDeletehttps://launchstudio.bluetooth.com/ListingDetails/211885
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guess we should expect a new firmware update soon.
DeleteI really wonder what it will include that needs a re-certification. At this point I don't really expect anything apart from bugfixing. Maybe Auracast? Haven't heard anything about it from Sony...
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