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hey this is Sam from the verge and I'm here with the new surface headphones from Microsoft now these are the first wearable devices in Microsoft Surface product line we've seen tablets and laptops and crazy desktop computers like the surface studio but the server's headphones are something you can actually put on and wear out of the house now they are wireless Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones and their over ear style so they go on top of the ears of your on the side of your head and they're pretty similar in a lot of the features that we're familiar with this kind of headphone so if you're familiar with Beats wireless headphones or Bang & Olufsen 2bl play headphones and many others these are pretty similar but there are some really unique features here that Microsoft built in now you've got touch controls on the side so you can tap to play and pause and you can double tap to skip tracks you can also long press to launch Cortana or you can say hey Cortana and Cortana will launch on your phone or your PC and then give you answers you've got a USB C charging port ten point five millimeter line in so you can use some wired standard button to mute the microphone and then power and then on the other side you kind of got a similar design now what's really unique here is on the right Cup you've got a volume scroll wheel so you can raise your and lower your vanguard easily but on the left side you've got a same kind of wheel that adjusts the noise canceling features so you can adjust it from 13 different levels you can completely block out all outside sound or you can turn it down and let in some outside sound if you need to talk to a colleague or hear traffic or whatever it's a really unique feature many headphones that are like this let you either just turn the noise canceling off or on or maybe not even bad it's just always on even will do adjust it to that many levels is really quite unique now inside they've got 40 millimeter drivers you got big padded memory phone ear cuffs arch it really quite comfortable they've got this like big cutout for your ears or yours fit right inside of them an adjustable headband they fold flat they're gonna come with a case that you can put it in for travel and such like that and they're mostly plastic and this kind of squishy material memory foam material very similar to kind of beasts headphones if you're familiar with them in the past now Microsoft says that it's going to be shipping these by the end of the year before the holiday season they're gonna cost about three hundred and fifty dollars which is about right in line with the price of other headphones of this style now for sound quality I briefly try them and it's a pretty loud environment but they sound basically like a lot of other headphones like this you're gonna have really punchy bass you're gonna have good decent presence but it's not gonna be a super wide soundstage and you shouldn't expect like audiophile sparkly highs and stuff but for this price point and what these offer I think a lot of people are going to be really happy with the way they sound so that's it on the surface headphones for everything else that Microsoft announced today the new surface pro 6 the surface laptop to the new surface studio be sure to check out the verge comm and youtube.com slash the verge