Amazon launches AirPods with cheaper Alexa headphones

Amazon is making its own wireless headphones connected with Alexa to compete with the AirPods. These true wireless headphones would have better sound quality and would be sold for months. They are expected for the second half of 2019 according to Bloomberg magazine.

Amazon is preparing to launch wireless headphones with Alexa integrated. This is the most important hardware project of the US giant for this year according to Bloomberg. The new connected headphones will offer a design similar to that of the AirPods and Amazon engineers would bet everything on a better sound quality to believe the internal source cited by the American magazine.

Amazon will launch its wireless headphones to compete with AirPods

The wireless headset market is growing and Amazon does not intend to let Apple continue to dominate it with its AirPods. Its new wireless headphones will boast several assets. They are announced with the voice assistant Alexa who would make them connected. Users will be able to trigger it by simply saying the word "Alexa". They will be able to "make purchases, access music, weather and other important information", all by voice commands.

In addition, Amazon would have made sound quality a priority. And like the AirPods, these headphones will offer gesture controls, such as tapping to take calls or to navigate between music tracks in a playlist. And like all devices of this type, it would be accompanied by a protective case that will also charge them.

Finally comes the crucial question of price. If Bloomberg gives no details at this level, he says that Amazon's headphones could cost less than the AirPods. As a reminder, AirPods 2 recently launched by Apple are sold 179 $ or 229 $ with the wireless charging box. If all goes as planned, these headphones should be launched in the second half of 2019. By then, we will probably have more details about them.