{"id":931625,"date":"2026-10-17T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931625\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:18:20","slug":"i-would-ditch-my-galaxy-buds-for-the-galaxy-studio-headphones-in-a-minute-if-they-had-these-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/931625\/","title":{"rendered":"I would ditch my Galaxy Buds for the Galaxy Studio headphones in a minute if they had these features"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love my Samsung Galaxy Buds. I really do. But a recent leak has me excited about what looks like a full-size upgrade.<\/p>\n

Android developer @evowizz said Samsung is working on its first premium over-ear headphones.<\/p>\n

Digging through the Galaxy Wearable app, people at SammyGuru<\/a> found app assets that hint at dedicated noise controls and head tracking, plus some kind of USB connection behavior.<\/p>\n

Samsung bought Harman in 2017 and picked up AKG and JBL along the way, so this has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

Even so, it hasn’t released a high-end over-ear model under its own name since the Level On Wireless in August 2015.<\/p>\n

Eleven years is a long time to keep quiet, so Galaxy Studio better make some noise.<\/p>\n


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Related<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, and I’m totally addicted to the sound
\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

I just wish it was available to more people<\/p>\n

Multipoint has to work outside Samsung’s bubble<\/p>\n

Great inside the Galaxy, useless outside<\/p>\n

\"Android
\n Source: Google<\/a><\/p>\n

The Galaxy Buds hop between devices using a Samsung feature called Auto Switch.<\/p>\n

However, both devices need modern Samsung software and have to be signed in to the same Samsung account.<\/p>\n

The second I bring my Windows work laptop<\/a> into the picture, the magic is gone. <\/p>\n

What I need from the Galaxy Studio is a standard Bluetooth multipoint. A true multipoint can hold two active connections at once, no matter who made the device.<\/p>\n

I want to go from a YouTube video on my PC to a call on my phone without opening a pairing screen.<\/p>\n

If Sony and Google can make multipoint work with anything, Samsung has no excuse.<\/p>\n

I want a battery that lasts a work week<\/p>\n

Earbuds die too fast<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Galaxy Buds 4 Pro drain their 61mAh cells in about six hours with active noise cancellation turned on. If you listen while you work, that means a midday timeout in the charging case.<\/p>\n

Over-ear cups have more room for bigger batteries. I want to plug the Galaxy Studio in on Monday morning and forget the cable exists until Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The competition shows it’s doable. The Sennheiser Momentum 4 is rated for 60 hours with ANC on. Sony’s WH-1000XM5 gets 30 hours, and the Bose QuietComfort Ultra gets 24.<\/p>\n

Samsung doesn’t need to beat Sennheiser. But beating Sony’s 30 hours is a reasonable bar, and anything near 40 would make me very happy.<\/p>\n

Bespoke colors that match my phone<\/p>\n

Samsung already does this for the Flip<\/p>\n

\"Multiple
\n Credit:\u00a0Lucas Gouveia \/ Android Police<\/p>\n

Samsung definitely knows how to make hardware with personality<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The company that lets you design your own Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Watch clearly has a soft spot for color.<\/p>\n

I’d love to see Samsung bring that same attitude to the Galaxy Studio. Ideally, the Galaxy Studio should let buyers mix and match the ear cups and headband.<\/p>\n

If my phone is Peach, my headphones could be Peach too. (I know how this sounds and I don’t care.)<\/p>\n

Magnetic ear pads I can swap in seconds<\/p>\n

Glued cushions shouldn’t be a death sentence<\/p>\n

\"Open-back<\/p>\n

If Samsung can only grant one wish, I’d take this over colors. Apple’s AirPods Max showed how easy magnetic ear pads can be.<\/p>\n

Glued-on cushions eventually fall apart, and then a perfectly good pair of headphones becomes e-waste because of some dead foam.<\/p>\n

Magnetic pads let you swap out gross cushions in seconds and keep the hardware going. They would also make the color mixing I mentioned earlier easier to pull off.<\/p>\n

Wired USB-C audio for the seatback screen<\/p>\n

Bluetooth won’t help you on a plane<\/p>\n

\"Spotify
\n Credit:\u00a0Lucas Gouveia \/ Android Police<\/p>\n

Most Bluetooth connections compress your music before it reaches your ears. Now that Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal stream lossless, it feels like a waste to lose that detail. A cable fixes that.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy Studio needs wired USB-C audio with the digital-to-analog converter built into the headphones.<\/p>\n

Beats Studio Pro does 24-bit, 48kHz lossless over USB-C, with the converter built in.<\/p>\n

Bose also recently released a firmware update that brings 24-bit, 48kHz lossless audio to the QuietComfort Ultra over USB-C.<\/p>\n

Samsung may already have this in the works.<\/p>\n

Those Galaxy Wearable app assets I mentioned earlier hint at some kind of USB connection behavior, and “Studio” in the name begs for a cable.<\/p>\n

Where my Galaxy Buds still win<\/p>\n

If the Galaxy Studio checks these boxes, I’ll be first in line on launch day, but don’t worry, Buds, you’re not being replaced<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Over-ear headphones turn into ear saunas after a few hours, so my Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are still coming with me to the gym.<\/p>\n

Plus, they disappear into the front pocket, while big headphones need a lunchbox-sized case. Over-ears are for getting in the zone at my desk. Earbuds get everywhere else.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

\"Android<\/p>\n

7.5\/10<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tWired\/Wireless \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWireless<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tBattery Life \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6hrs \/ 26hrs ANC, 7hrs \/ 30hrs ANC Off<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tNoise Cancellation \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYes<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tBluetooth \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love my Samsung Galaxy Buds. I really do. But a recent leak has me excited about what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-931625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}