and this is Microsoft's new Surface Earbuds.

This is the companies first truly wireless earbuds

and they follow along the Surface Headphones

that were announced last year

in the companies new audio line-up of products.

As you can see they're pretty similar

to other wireless earbuds we've seen before.

You wear them in your ears,

you've got a little case that you put them in to charge,

and it's got a USB-C port to charge it back up,

and Microsoft says these will last

about eight hours on a charge,

and in the case you get a full 24 hours.

So it's pretty standard stuff that we've seen

from other companies before.

Now if you look at the design of these,

you can tell that they do look a little bit different.

They're quite a bit bigger than maybe

you're used to from say Samsung's Galaxy Buds,

or even Apple's AirPods.

But they're so big because there is this

touchpad on the outside that you can use

to control a bunch of functions,

you can skip tracks, you can raise volume,

you can launch applications

if you've got it connected to an Android phone,

play Spotify automatically, things like that.

And they like are typical sounding earbuds,

these do not seal out sound,

they are designed to allow ambient sound in,

and here we are in the demo area.

It's super loud, there's some bumping music

like a club at I don't know,

it's at noon right now.

So it's kind of hard to tell

how these things actually sound in here.

But if I were playing music,

I would be able to hear it through my ears

and also be able to hear the ambient sound.

There's no noise cancellation,

or anything else like that.

Now because this is Microsoft,

they don't just play music.

They actually do some other things,

then there's some microphones on here

and some technology Microsoft has developed

with PowerPoint and its AI processing

to allow you to speak into the headphones

while you're presenting say a PowerPoint slide show,

and it will live transcribe

what you're saying on the screen.

So I can say, "Hey this is Dan with The Verge,

"and these are Microsoft's new Surface Earbuds.

"This is the companies first truly wireless earbuds

"and they accompany the Surface Headphones

"that were announced last year

"as part of Microsoft's new audio product line-up."

Pretty wild.

The design on the inside is

a little bit different than other earbuds,

this ear tip does not actually go inside

your ear canal like I said before,

it's not designed to block out sounds.

It's supposed to let sounds in,

so it kind of just rests in there

and then there's a little hook

on the back side of it that when you rotate

the earbud into your ear it kind of locks in place.

Microsoft's including a few different sizes with this

so you can customize it to fit your ears

and find whichever size is most comfortable

and fits you best without falling out of your ear.

And Microsoft says these will be available

before the holidays this year,

so real soon.

They're gonna sell for about $250

which is a bit more expensive

than what we're used to seeing

from say like AirPods which start at 160,

or Samsung's Galaxy Buds which are about 130.

So Microsoft is really counting

on the added productivity features

that are coming with these to justify that price.

Obviously we're gonna have a review

coming for them when these are released

and we'll have lost more time

to test out their audio quality

and see what they're like in the real world.

But that's a real quick first look

at Microsoft's Surface Earbuds.

Hey thanks for watching.

There's a ton of other stuff

that Microsoft announced today,

there's new Surface Pro laptops,

there's new Surface laptop laptops,

and then the company actually announced

a new foldable thing that's not coming for another year

we've got it, all of it

on theverge.com and also youtube.com/theverge

so please go check it out.