Poco Pods announced with 12mm drivers, up to 30-hour playback

Xiaomi’s Poco has announced its entry into the AIoT house in India with the launch of Poco Pods TWS earphones within the Asian nation. The Poco Pods are finances wi-fi earphones that pack a 12mm driver in every bud and have an IPX4 ranking.

The Poco Pods have Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, assist Google Fast Pair, and are marketed with a latency of up to 60ms. The earphones come with Environmental Noise Cancellation (ENC) and solely assist SBC audio codec.

The Poco Pods additionally assist contact controls, permitting customers to management their calls and music playback. You can reply the decision and play/pause music by tapping the Pods twice, and reject/finish a name and skip to the subsequent monitor by tapping them thrice.

Poco hasn’t revealed the battery capacities of the Pods and its charging case, however the firm says the Poco Pods can provide up to 30 hours of music playback on a single cost, seemingly when paired with the charging case, with a 10-minute top-up offering up to 90 minutes of playtime.

If all this sounds acquainted, it is as a result of Xiaomi launched the Redmi Buds 4 Active in India final month with comparable options for INR1,399 ($17/€15). The Poco Pods, however, are priced at INR1,199 ($15/€13) and will be bought from Flipkart in India. They are supplied in a single Midnight Groove colour.