Apple AirPods 3/Pro Lite with $50 lower price and better battery life tipped for 2021 release again

As if to verify what famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo already disclosed, a brand new report out of The Elec ideas that Apple is certainly getting ready to release the AirPods 3 (or AirPods Pro Lite, relying on the way you take a look at it) quickly.

Apple AirPods 3/Pro Lite options and battery life

The AirPods Pro Lite/AirPods Three mannequin would fairly take out the ANC elements, and depart a square-shaped SiP with Apple’s H1 chip, leaving room for a bigger battery, for occasion. In reality, that is precisely what Ming-Chi Kuo suggested within the earlier leak – that Apple will skip noise-cancelling for the Pro Lite model, however enhance the battery life as compared.

Apple AirPods 3/Pro Lite price and release date

As for when will Apple release the AirPods 3/Pro Lite, the report ideas the primary half of subsequent 12 months, leaving March 2021 as a completely believable launch time for the AirPods Three model, provided that the AirPods 2 have been launched in March 2019. Alterntively, they could possibly be launched round Apple’s WWDC 2021 occasion in June, or with a easy press release at any time in between.

The new publication claims that its provide chain sources tipped the brand new SiP is already pinned to start out high quality verification by 12 months’s finish (not a lot left for that course of already), and will likely be getting into mass manufacturing subsequent 12 months, so we hold our hopes excessive for a March 2021 Apple AirPods 3 release date.

Apple nonetheless holds 29% of the worldwide true wi-fi buds market however mentioned market is rising by leaps and bounds. There is nary an electronics maker that does not provide a pair now, and most of them are less expensive than Apple’s AirPods.