Drained: JBL introduced the Tour PRO 2 earbuds with lively noise cancellation (ANC). Wired: The case has a touchscreen.

That’s proper. Within the off-chance you didn’t have enough screens in your life, the new earbuds’ case provides one other 1.4-inch LED contact show. Customers can flick by a number of screens like totally different watch faces that permit them to handle multimedia playback and shuffle by totally different noise cancellation modes.

Customers can even obtain notifications from social media apps, take a take a look at incoming messages and deal with calls instantly from the JBL Tour Professional 2 case’s display. Sadly, there’s no keyboard on the display, so you possibly can’t actually reply to any messages.

It’s laborious to purchase the argument that customers can go away their telephones of their pocket and use the case as a lot of individuals additionally simply put them of their pockets. The concept sounds weird, however JBL is likely to be making an attempt to focus on customers who don’t have a smartwatch. Notably, the JBL Tour Professional 2 case doesn’t have LTE connectivity. So not like some smartwatch fashions that have telephony capabilities, the case doesn’t will let you ditch your telephone whenever you exit.

Aside from the weird display, the earbuds intention to problem the top-of-the-line ANC buds with 10mm dynamic drivers and assist for Bluetooth 5.3. The corporate claims that these buds will have 10 hours of battery life, with the case offering 30 extra hours on a single cost. What’s extra, JBL’s new buds have six mics to deal with calls — it’s not clear if this array can be used to deal with noise cancellation.

The JBL Tour Professional 2 will likely be accessible subsequent 12 months at a worth of €249 ($249.75). Sadly, the corporate didn’t share any element about a potential U.S. launch. The corporate additionally introduced its Tour ONE M2 headphones with 40mm dynamic drivers and as much as 30 hours of battery life with ANC activated.