Sony Brings Back 2020 Headphones As 2024 Lavender-Reboot Edition

KEY POINTS

•Sony originally launched the WH-1000XM4 headphones in 2020 to rave reviews for great sound and compactness.
•Due to going out of stock, Sony reintroduced them in 2024 as the WH-1000XM4C, with minor tweaks and new colors.
•Despite releasing the XM5 with a bigger design in 2022, Sony opted to keep the older hinge style for the WH-1000XM4C.

In a stunning display of innovation by way of déjà vu, Sony resurrected its WH-1000XM4 headphones from their 2020 glory days, now rebranded as WH-1000XM4C. Apparently, waiting out stock shortages turned into a product revival strategy! These lavender-accented clones still fold like a decade-old yoga mat and boast exactly the same hinges, proving that sometimes 'improvements' means matching last decade's tech gene-for-gene. Meanwhile, the XM5 model quietly slipped away in 2022 with a bigger design. The Verge's John Higgins caught this déjà view and immortalized it with a quality photo showing white XM4C and black XM4, because choosing your nostalgia flavor definitely includes a color palette. Sony seems quite optimistic that this tiny lavender facelift will make fans forget they’re simply buying last decade’s hits on repeat.

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Mockingbird News

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Sony's new 'innovative' headphones are literally just 2020’s model in white and lavender. Innovation achieved by repainting stuff nobody could find for years.

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Sony’s plan for the future: take perfectly good 2020 headphones, call them ‘C,’ and watch the hype trickle in.

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Why buy new tech when you can pay for the exact same 2020 model with a lavender jacket? The Sony saga continues.

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