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They claim that a 15-minute charge from the case gives 3 hours of battery life. That seems fairly usable -- perfect for a charge-up during bathroom breaks.
A perfect solution, because there's no way in hell you'll ever want to take these into the bathroom. Tilt your head to the right and plop , you just dropped $75 in the toilet.
Looking at the last slide "Automatic setup. Seamless switching." What exactly is the W1? Can it work with an older MacBook, or would you need a not-yet-announced MacBook?
The footnote says that it requires an iCloud account. Are these even Bluetooth? Maybe they always remain connected to your iPhone, and the other devices stream to the iPhone first.
Connections AirPods: Bluetooth
And then further down Compatibility: iPhone 5 and up
iPhone 5 has Bluetooth 4.0 So I'm guessing the pairing information is shared via iCloud
Three things I really hope they do: 1) Come out with a phone case that can hold the AirPods, and ideally charge them (Maybe enhance the battery case they already have?). I don't want yet another thing in my pocket, especially one I also have to remember to charge. Let me charge my phone, which can then charge my airpods. Let me always have my airpods on me by attaching them to my phone. 2) Make a "Find my Airpods" fe…
>... thanks to a charging case that holds multiple additional charges for more than 24 hours of listening time.5 Need a quick charge? Just 15 minutes in the case gives you 3 hours of listening time.
Your wish #1 has come true!
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They claim that a 15-minute charge from the case gives 3 hours of battery life. That seems fairly usable -- perfect for a charge-up during bathroom breaks.
A perfect solution, because there's no way in hell you'll ever want to take these into the bathroom. Tilt your head to the right and plop , you just dropped $75 in the toilet.
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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.
I believe you're firmly in the camp of first world problems. As far as I can tell they are the first wireless earphones to even address this problem with not one (external battery) but two (rapid charging) solutions at once.
So they just deprecated hundreds of perfectly viable audio accessories which have better sound quality than their proprietary premium product just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product? Maximum vendor lock-in. And please don't say "everyone can make a Bluetooth speaker". They will probably come up with some artificial license which makes it "iPhone certified" so that even there they can squeeze some cold…
> just so you are dependent on yet another Apple product The hardware requirements of a headphone jack put some very real limitations on phone design (waterproofing, interior space taken up by the digital -> analog hardware, etc). Whether that was the driving cause or not is in the air, but "getting people to buy Lightning stuff" isn't the only reason to do it.
It is a fad they are pushing.