Unfortunately, this Chinese regulatory body finding does not confirm any hardware details about the WF-1000XM6. Nonetheless, its certification date potentially provides an insight into Sony‘s release plans. As The Walkman Blog notes, Sony introduced the WF-1000XM5 and WH-1000XM6 roughly six and four months after certifying them in China.
These timescales would indicate Sony will not be ready to launch the WF-1000XM6 before the end of the year. Consequently, The Walkman Blog has inferred that Sony could be lining up a CES 2026 showcase for the WF-1000XM6, just a it did with the original WF-1000X nine years earlier during CES 2017. Either way, one would expect to see the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) publish initial WF-1000XM6 documentation within the next month or so based on past performance.