No, Vinci can work completely independent from your phone. But, it can also connect to your phone via Bluetooth or wires.

Currently, Vinci offers music streaming from your Spotify, SoundCloud, and Amazon Prime Music accounts. Through future OTA software updates, Vinci can be connected music content services, such as Google Play, Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Music, and more. Alternatively, you can also upload songs directly into Vinci’s local storage.

Vinci’s local storage is 16GB and Vinci Pro’s local storage is 32GB.

Vinci Pro offers several key points of value over regular Vinci:
- Most simply, the larger storage.
- ANC (Active Noise Cancelling), which requires two extra AMS3412 chips (industry top liners). Most other branded headphones with the ANC feature are typically priced over $200.
- HiFi grade DAC. AKM3476 is a premium DAC for mobile devices that offeres HiFi grade sound quality (125Db S/N and -106Db THD).
- Wireless charging, which is difficult to pull off. It requires engineering from the headphone side as well as the charging dock. We believe wireless charging makes Vinci a truly wireless headphone.

You can log into WiFi directly on Vinci. Vinci is also enabled with standalone 3G connectivity that is compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile.

Currently, Vinci supports English. However, we are quickly adding new languages in future OTA software updates.

After the Kickstarter, we will email all of our backers to allow them to choose colors.

The shipping cost covers: 1) Overseas shipping. The final product is assembled in China thus the shipping cost was calculated based on origin of manufacturing. 2) We really want to make sure the product arrives promptly and in its best condition. Thus the shipping cost covers quality packaging materials while we work with reliable shipping companies to do this.

We are currently working with these music providers, including Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, and others to provide this feature, which is already enabled with the SoundCloud service on the device.

Yes, users will be able to find local carriers in most countries that support either configuration of the bands below:

Config I: Supports Band 2 and Band 5 (1900MHz and 850MHz, North America)
Config II: Supports Band 1 and Band 8 (2100MHz and 900MHz, Asia, Europe, Australia)

We will send out surveys at the end of the campaign for you to choose your desired configuration.

Yes, additional language options is something we are definitely working on and will be available through future OTA updates.

Yes, you can press the power button to turn off the screen while music continues to play. This will preserve your battery, allowing it to last up to 14 hours.

Yes, we are definitely considering additional colors. Please stay tuned for updates.

Playback via bluetooth will allow up to 50 hours battery life and via local storage will allow up to 12-14 hours.

We care not only about users' music experience, but also most definitely their safety. So far, the device has been through rigorous tests related to cellular radiation, WiFi and Bluetooth. The device has passed the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) certification. We also optimized all WiFi and 3G signal to ensure smooth streaming while maintaining minimum power consumption.

At the moment, to listen to Apple music, you can use bluetooth.

Voice-assistance helps users save time by allowing the user to simply say any song title, artist name, or genre. Dictation actually can save people up to 3x the amount of time as typing. We believe voice-assistance will aid the current music listening experience: turning on your phone, logging in with a password, opening a music streaming app, manually searching or typing to find songs. With voice assistance, you can simply talk to choose songs. If you are vacuuming, lifting weights, shopping, or doing any other activities which may occupy your hands, voice assistance will help you be able to control your music without affecting your other activities.

We currently support MP3, AAC, AMR, FLAC, WAV, AIFF formats.

We are planning to provide SDK to our developers community to create exciting and innovative third party apps on our headphones. The third party apps will be available via our in headphone app stores. Stay tuned for more updates.

So far, we have been testing mostly with standard American English, but we are planning to enable other accents (British English, Austrailian, etc.) very soon!