{"id":4845,"date":"2016-06-03T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2016-06-03T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:23:55","slug":"samsung-enters-the-wireless-headphone-market-with-their-gear-iconx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/samsung-enters-the-wireless-headphone-market-with-their-gear-iconx\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung enters the wireless headphone market with their Gear IconX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samsung&#039;s Gear IconX wireless earbuds\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yU4CPn7pJk4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Samsung is today throwing its hat into the ring with the announcement of the Gear IconX. The $199.99 IconX are the first truly wireless headphones from a major manufacturer, though they echo many of the same features and design of other models we&#8217;ve seen already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A direct competitor to the long coming Bragi Dash Samsung&#8217;s offering seems bogged down with the same complications ie. battery life.<\/p>\n<p>1.5 hours of bluetooth streamed audio is less than ideal. Even with it&#8217;s little case that offers a couple of charges you hardly want to be popping them in and out of that on a flight from Sydney to Perth and still not make it through.<\/p>\n<p>Love where this tech is headed but maybe take out the heart rate &amp; fitness features that I&#8217;d argue most people don&#8217;t want\/need and boost up that phat battery life man!<\/p>\n<p>Available in Q3 the only pricing mentioned\u00a0is US$199.99.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/6\/2\/11841388\/samsung-gear-iconx-wireless-earbuds-fitness-tracking-hands-on\">Samsung&#8217;s Gear IconX are truly wireless earbuds with a focus on fitness tracking | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung is today throwing its hat into the ring with the announcement of the Gear IconX. The $199.99&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}