Sony’s WF-1000XM3 made quite the splash when they launched, topping our list of the best wireless earbuds and remaining in pole position to this day, thanks to their top-notch noise-cancelling and audio quality.

Rumors of the earbuds’ inevitable successors – the Sony WF-1000XM4 – have been steadily growing over the past months, but now we’ve been given a good idea of what they’ll look like and even when they’ll land (early June) thanks to The Walkman Blog.

While the images shared on the blog are of prototype models, they’re very likely to reflect the final design (albeit with a slightly more rough-and-ready appearance) and they line up with the leaked images we saw in February this year, giving the legitimacy of the leak further weight.
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