Sony WF-1000XM4 long-term review 

The Sony WF-1000XM4 TWS earphones have been on the market for a while now and have built up a reputation for themselves. Widely praised for their audio quality and especially their active noise cancellation feature these quickly become an industry benchmark. Our review from last year echoed similar sentiments, with my colleague coming out very impressed from his experience with the earbuds.

Having spent some time now with the WF-1000XM4, I had some thoughts to share myself. Like how there's no easy way to shorten the name; you can't just call them 1000XM4 because then someone will confuse them with the WH-1000XM4 over-the-ear headphones. And it's not like you can call them WF, either. Sony really doesn't make this easy for us. I wonder if regular users even acknowledge these names.

Aside from that, I do have some other thoughts on the WF-1000XM4 (sigh) as well, particularly related to the sound quality and comfort aspect of these earbuds. So read on to find out.

Design and comfort

The WF-1000XM4 continue Sony's tradition of oddly shaped earbuds. They have a strange globular design with steampunk gold vents for the microphones. It's certainly distinctive but whether it's attractive is something for you to decide.

The outer shell of the earbuds have large touch-sensitive areas for gestures. You can just touch lightly on these to activate the gestures, which certainly beats prodding your ears the way most other earbuds require.

On the inner side of the earbuds are the optical proximity sensors that detect when the earbuds are placed inside your ears and play/pause the audio accordingly. Speaking of which, does anyone want to see a magic trick?

( Details and picture courtesy GSMArena, the content is auto-generated from the feed.)

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