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Did the Pixel Buds 2a get active noise cancellation?
Evan Blass: Pixel Buds 2a would add active noise cancellation
Pixel Buds 2a would have active noise cancellation, a first for Google's cheapest earbuds.
Evan Blass leaked a spec sheet showing Google's Pixel Buds 2a would have active noise cancellation, a first for Google's cheapest earbuds. The sheet listed 7 hours of listening with it turned on.
How to read this record
- What was reportedPixel Buds 2a would have active noise cancellation, a first for Google's cheapest earbuds.
- Who said it, and whenEvan Blass reported it on Aug 8, 2025 in 9to5Google.
- What happened, and whenPixel Buds 2a was announced on Aug 20, 2025, 12 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyRightIt turned out the way this report said.Why: Google announced Pixel Buds 2a with ANC on 2025-08-20, the first in the A-series.
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- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
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- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Evan Blass
- We read it in
- 9to5Google
- Product
- Pixel Buds 2a