Galaxy Buds ‘Able’ May Actually Be Bone Conduction Earbuds

Samsung is working on something completely different, and it may not be your typical Galaxy Buds upgrade. Recent leaks suggest a new audio product, possibly called “Buds Able”, is on the way. And after some digging, it looks like these could very well be the bone conduction earbuds.

Everything suggests Galaxy Buds “Able” could be bone conduction earbuds

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this. And just to tie everything together, I remember seeing a post (now retracted) from tipster Ice Universe on Weibo. It already pointed to Samsung developing bone conduction headphones codenamed “Able”. SammyGuru’s Abhinav found out the original post.

In fact, we also covered this exact possibility last year on SammyGuru. Early reports from Korean outlet Sedaily hinted at an H2 2025 launch window, but that didn’t happen. And more recently, a new BIS certification suggests Samsung is preparing a completely new category of Galaxy Buds, not just another iteration. So yeah, this has been building for a while. That post lines up almost perfectly with what we’re hearing now. So this isn’t just a random rumor anymore, it’s multiple sources pointing in the same direction.

Even more, DalgleishGX on X suggests that these “mysterious buds” could indeed be bone conduction, or at least something very close to it. That lines up pretty well with everything we’ve seen so far.

If you’re not familiar with it, bone conduction works differently from regular earbuds. Instead of sending sound through the ear canal, it delivers vibrations through your skull directly to the inner ear. That means it bypasses the eardrum entirely and doesn’t require anything to sit inside your ear. In most cases, this falls under open-ear (OWS) designs. Here, audio is transmitted from around the ear rather than inside it.

Why this could explain the early Galaxy Buds 4 series launch

Here’s where things get interesting. Samsung released the Galaxy Buds 4 series unusually early this year, something it hasn’t really done since the Galaxy S21 series era. And that could mean one thing: Samsung is making room for something new.

Instead of launching earbuds alongside Galaxy S flagships, the company might be saving its next-gen audio product for a bigger stage. If the leaks are accurate, these new earbuds could debut alongside Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide and Galaxy Z Flip 8. Therefore, that would position them as part of Samsung’s next wave of experimental hardware.