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TL;DR
- Code throughout the Hey Melody app factors to a brand new “Headphone recording” characteristic. OnePlus and OPPO use the Hey Melody app to handle the settings of their earbuds.
- The “headphone recording” characteristic would allow you to document sounds with the microphones current in your headphones whereas taking pictures a video. The characteristic might additional have clear mode and immersive mode settings.
- This characteristic is at the moment in improvement and never obtainable to be used.
OnePlus makes some good telephones, however it additionally makes some good earbuds. The OnePlus Buds Professional 2 and the OnePlus Buds 3 have been obtained fairly properly, with the latter being praised extra particularly for its worth proposition. It appears the corporate desires to make its earbuds extra helpful sooner or later, as we’ve noticed a brand new characteristic that might can help you shoot audio throughout a video recording via your earbuds.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s doable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
OnePlus (and, extra broadly, OPPO) ships the Hey Melody app that permits you to handle OnePlus and OPPO earbuds on non-OnePlus and OPPO smartphones. This app lets you deal with all of the settings your earbuds can help you customise with out locking you into OnePlus/OPPO smartphones. We’ve noticed new strings inside Hey Melody v114.3, giving us a good suggestion of what the corporate is engaged on for its future earbuds.
Code
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_hd_mode_summary">Excessive-definition recording. Authentically reproduces surrounding sounds.</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_hd_mode_title">Clear mode</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_immersive_mode_summary">Multi-channel encompass impact. Offers a wealthy and immersive audio expertise.</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_immersive_mode_title">Immersive mode</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_summary">Document sounds with the microphones in your headphones whereas taking pictures a video.</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_title">Headphone recording</string>
<string identify="melody_common_headset_shoot_record">Recording</string>As we will see from these strings, OnePlus is engaged on a brand new characteristic referred to as “Headphone recording.” This characteristic will allow you to document sounds with the microphones in your OnePlus (and OPPO) earbuds whereas video recording. This can presumably bypass the cellphone’s microphone which is normally used when recording a video.
The characteristic could be additional complemented by a “clear mode” and an “immersive mode.” Clear mode will “authentically reproduce surrounding sounds” with “high-definition recording,” whereas immersive mode will present a “wealthy and immersive audio expertise” with a “multi-channel encompass impact.” It’s not instantly clear to us the distinction between the 2 modes (apart from one being expressly centered on stereo recording), so we must watch for OnePlus to roll out the characteristic.
This characteristic is at the moment nonetheless in improvement. We’ve tried out the brand new model of Hey Melody with the OnePlus Buds Professional 2 and the OnePlus Buds 3, paired with the OnePlus 12 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely, and we couldn’t get the characteristic to indicate up in any phone-earbud mixture.
We don’t know if and when OnePlus will launch this characteristic, however it does sound like a pleasant characteristic to have on earbuds. Some telephones, just like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely, can help you use Bluetooth (and, by extension, Bluetooth earbuds) as an audio recording supply when recording video in Professional mode. We presume this new characteristic will can help you use the earbuds as a recorder throughout extra units without having a handbook digicam mode.
There’s a likelihood that this characteristic might be restricted to OnePlus and OPPO smartphones, so we’ll have to attend to see how precisely OnePlus implements this characteristic.
