Cloud-managed earbuds sound strange - as a concept, and on a plane
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The Register tests Dell’s first attempt at outplaying Apple’s AirPods
Last year, The Register spotted Dell selling cloud-manageable wireless earbuds that feature the company’s famously stoic styling at a price higher than Apple charges for its latest AirPods.
Dell eventually offered your correspondent a pair of the Pro Plus Earbuds to try so we could hear what all the fuss is about – and we accepted, on condition that the company showed us the cloudy management tools that make the buds worth the big bucks.
Divya Soni, a go to market lead, showed me Dell’s cloudy Device Management Console, a tool that lets admins enroll and track the buds, send them new firmware, or do things like turn on active noise cancellation by default across a fleet of earbuds.
New firmware matters for earbuds because they’re Bluetooth devices and the wireless protocol has had its fair share of...
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