# Plaud put a cellular radio in its recording earbuds case

Source: https://idevice.com/plaud-one-earbuds-esim-credits
Published: 2026-08-27

> The agent that drafts your follow-ups runs on credits. Two hundred dollars of them ship in the box, and then you buy more.

Plaud announced the [Plaud One Explorer Edition](https://www.engadget.com/2244839/plaud-made-earbuds-for-people-who-want-to-record-every-meeting-and-call/) on Thursday, a pair of earbuds whose charging case carries a built-in eSIM. Bloomberg reported the price at $250. The case has its own microphones, so a conversation can be recorded with the buds still sitting in it, and Plaud says it has terms with carriers in more than 80 countries so the case reaches the internet without a cellular contract. Each earbud holds 16MB of storage and the case adds another 512MB, which Plaud puts at about 30 hours of audio.

Recordings upload to Plaud’s servers for transcription and summary, and Plaud Agent then acts on them inside Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Every one of those actions spends Plaud Credits, and the Explorer Edition includes $200 of them. For music the earbuds pair to a phone over Bluetooth 5.4 with multipoint support, and the codec list is SBC and LDAC. Plaud rates them at six hours of playback with noise cancellation switched off.

## Sources

- [Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/2244839/plaud-made-earbuds-for-people-who-want-to-record-every-meeting-and-call/) (Engadget)