Nothing Headphone (a) is 35% off at Amazon — is the 135-hour battery real or a gimmick?
Amazon has the Nothing Headphone (a) 35% off right now. The headline spec is 135 hours of playback with ANC off, 75 hours with ANC on. Those numbers are absurd compared to everything else I own. I travel for work and charging headphones is my least favorite ritual. But I do not trust headline battery claims. Anyone actually own these? Does the ANC hold up on a plane, and does the Nothing X app EQ actually fix the tuning, or is this a battery king that sounds like a battery king?
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- Battery this big changes the habit, not just the spec
I think about battery differently than most reviewers. 135 hours means you charge these once a month, not once a week. That is not a spec, it is a behavior change — you stop doing the little ritual of plugging them in and you just always have them ready. I did a long version of this test with a different pair and the moment battery stopped being a thought, I used the headphones twice as much. The ANC will not match Sony XM5s on a plane, that is physics. But if your real problem is a dead headset on a Tuesday, nothing else competes.