10 T3 DECEMBER 2020
Horizon
When you’re
popping
something in
your ears, you
want to be damn
sure it’s clean.
Fortunately, LG
has packaged
these buds with
the UVnano case,
which blasts bugs
and keeps your
true wireless
spotlessly clean.The best new tech heading your way
“Great buds, and
hygienic too. What’s
not to like?”
Josh Russell, EditorTECH-O-METER
LG TONE
FREE FN
£TBC, lg.comThere’s a long, long list of things that makes for
great true wireless ear buds, and in creating the
Tone Free FN7s LG is determined that it has
ticked absolutely every box. Fit? Covered, with
innovative new ear tips offering solid passive
isolation and IPX4 water resistance enough to
stop sweat and rain ingress. Noise cancelling?
Well, yes: there’s that passive isolation, and a
newly developed ANC, which LG reckons
squashes sound more effectively over a wider
range of frequencies than its competitors.
Sound? Tick. LG continues its processing
partnership with Huntingdon’s Meridian Audio,
which has tuned the FN7’s DSP to replicate the
experience of listening to actual loudspeakers,
added its own Headphone Spatial Processing
tech to significantly widen the soundstage, and
packed in a whole host of EQ options.
LG is so confident that it has covered
everything, it’s added a new entry to that list of
crucial features: cleanliness. You’re dumping
your buds into their case when you’re not using
them anyway, so why not blast germs and
nasties away at the same time? The UVnano
charging case from the FN6 makes a
reappearance here, killing bacteria while your
buds are docked, and LG has added a quality
of life improvement with outer LEDs to tell you
how much battery remains and whether
UVnano is active. This is a package which could
(and we stress, could) put up a solid fight
against Apple’s AirPods Pro, and LG has
definitely fired its shot in the true wireless wars.