Amazon is working on a pair of wireless earbuds with Alexa to rival Apple's AirPods, reports Bloomberg.The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is readying earbuds with built-in Alexa access for as early as the second half of this year, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The headphones will look and act similar to AirPods, but people working on the product inside Amazon are striving for better audio quality, the people said. Like the AirPods, the Amazon earbuds are designed to sit inside users’ ears without clips around the ear.
Sources say the new earbuds are one of the most important projects at Amazon's Lab126 hardware division. Since they don't have cellular connectivity, they'll require pairing with a smartphone running iOS and Android. This means that Amazon will need to work with Apple and Google which could be difficult as both are competitors in the smart device market.
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