Nothing Headphone (a): Affordable headphones officially announced with ANC and up to 135 hours of playback

Alongside the Phone 4(a) and Phone 4(a) Pro, Nothing has unveiled an affordable variant of its Nothing Headphone (1). Dubbed the Nothing Headphone (a), it aims to deliver more or less the same experience at a  slightly more affordable price. For starters, it has the same 40 mm dynamic drivers with a frequency response of 20 Hz to 40 kHz. The only difference appears to be a lack of tuning by KEF. 

The Nothing Headphone (a) supports ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) with two dedicated microphones that can cancel sounds up to 40 dB. It has a 1,060 mAh battery that can offer up to 135 hours of AAC playback without ANC and 75 hours with ANC. With the LDAC coded, those figures go down to 72 hours and 50 hours, respectively. Nothing claims a five-minute charge is enough to power the Headphone (a) for up to eight hours. A full charge via USB-C takes about two hours. 

Other features include Bluetooth 5.4, the ability to connect to two devices simultaneously, a dedicated power on/off switch, a pairing button, a paddle to answer/reject calls, and an explicit button to invoke virtual assistants like ChatGPT. Design-wise, the Headphone (a) keeps the same aesthetic found on its predecessor, complete with a boxy housing for the actual headphones. 

Nothing offers the Headphone (a) in four colours: black, white, pink, and yellow. It costs EUR 159 in Europe and can be bought worldwide starting now via Nothing’s official website and third-party retailers. However, the black and yellow variants will not hit shelves until April 6.