I've had these earbuds for a month now, not sure why they haven't gotten more love so far: http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-iconx/
They are pretty much perfect, if only their battery life wasn't so horrendous.
AirPods
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Re: AirPods
#22Five hours battery life is a killer. I can't even get through a flight without having to charge my headphones -- a no go for me.
They take 15 minutes to recharge for another 3 hours of listening. Minor inconvenience.
What I'm wondering is if you can charge just one earbud at a time while using the other.
For a lot of uses (for example: podcasts, casual movie watching on a long flight, getting driving directions on a road trip), it'd be entirely practical to use one earbud at a time and so have effectively 24+ hours battery life.
Re: AirPods
#23Five hours battery life is a killer. I can't even get through a flight without having to charge my headphones -- a no go for me.
They take 15 minutes to recharge for another 3 hours of listening. Minor inconvenience.
No, it's a V1 product issue, not a "minor inconvenience."
It's a shame, as if it were 10 or 12 hours, I'd have bought them seconds after the announcement.
Oh well. Here's hoping for 2017!
Re: AirPods
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
They take 15 minutes to recharge for another 3 hours of listening. Minor inconvenience.
Minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of life doesn't mean it can't be a major inconvenience in the moment. And when I'm out, or indisposed to charge my headphones, in that moment it's a major inconvenience. Especially for a solution that went in search of a problem that didn't exist.
Thankfully a pair of wired headphones is included free with every phone, just for you.
Re: AirPods
#25I think these look amazing. I've always wanted a pair of tiny bluetooth headphones + mic that don't suck. I am sure that Apple will live up to its quality expectation... if they do, I won't be sad that the stereo-minijack is gone.
I don't know... I'm not feeling the "white stuff drooping out of my ear" look.
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#26If Apple has somehow made Bluetooth non-awful, I'll be interested. But I'm not holding my breath.
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#27I hate wires with a passion and love the concept of wireless headphones. But these look like they are shaped just like the wired apple earpods, which fall out of my ears with the slightest movement or breeze. So now I'll also immediately lose them as they fall out on the street.
Re: AirPods
#28I've had these earbuds for a month now, not sure why they haven't gotten more love so far: http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-iconx/ They are pretty much perfect, if only their battery life wasn't so horrendous.
Sounds like you answered your own question.
Re: AirPods
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
They take 15 minutes to recharge for another 3 hours of listening. Minor inconvenience.
No, it's a V1 product issue, not a "minor inconvenience." It's a shame, as if it were 10 or 12 hours, I'd have bought them seconds after the announcement. Oh well. Here's hoping for 2017!
Yeah I think Apple dropped the ball on this one. Hoping the EOZ One headphones I bought on Kickstarter last the full 9 hours they claim.
Re: AirPods
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
They take 15 minutes to recharge for another 3 hours of listening. Minor inconvenience.
What I'm wondering is if you can charge just one earbud at a time while using the other. For a lot of uses (for example: podcasts, casual movie watching on a long flight, getting driving directions on a road trip), it'd be entirely practical to use one earbud at a time and so have effectively 24+ hours battery life.
That's a great idea. Would be neat to have one earbud in for inevitable siri api integrations too, so I can have my emails and texts and slack messages read to me.