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Re: AirPods

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Post by mcculley »

pushpop wrote: post #35
mcculley wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been running with mine for a couple of years and I have never had one of them fall out.

Not everyone's ear is shaped the same. Which is why most other upper end earphones will come with a variety of attachable foam and/or rubber pieces so you can fit the ear bud to your ear. edit: Why am I getting downvoted for pointing out a fact that peoples ears are shaped differently? Is this some kind of fanboyism in effect because it wasn't meant as a critisim against Apple. I happen to have an iPhone but opted fo…

I realize my experience is anecdotal. I'm just amused that so many people are concerned about them falling out and yet I have never seen that happen. Maybe the designers at Apple thought about that.

Re: AirPods

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Post by chrisseaton »

lowercased wrote: post #43
DJBunnies wrote: post #6

All it takes is one odd jostle on your morning commute, and suddenly your $150 headphones fly down a storm drain. Why can't we have high quality wired headsets?

what would you plug them in to? but seriously... wow up to 5 hours of listen time? My wired QC20 headset gives me ... 160 hours of listen time, and then it keeps going even more. But even the 'functionality' - the noise cancelling aspect - gives me > 8 hours of noise cancelling on a short charge. And when it's out of power, the music still comes through. When the airpods can be used on airplane flights... maybe I'll…

> My wired QC20 headset gives me ... 160 hours of listen time

Well that's because it's got a massive battery hanging off it isn't it? Not sure they're really equivalent products.

Re: AirPods

#53

Post by SCdF »

mcculley wrote: post #11

I love my AirPods but I am close to taking mine to the store again to be replaced for a second time. I wear them every day to listen to podcasts as I run for 30 minutes. The accumulated sweat has corroded the charging contacts in the case. I am currently working around this by charging them in my girlfriend's case. Amusingly, the instructions for AirPods say to not get them wet. I don't know how one could exercise ri…

OK I'm really impressed that they stay in while running. Do normal apple earbuds fit your ears really well as well (for me they are the worst earbuds shape-wise of all time), or is it just the design of the airpods that is helping here?

Re: AirPods

#54

Post by dkonieczek »

I love the concept and features of AirPods but unfortunately they aren't for my ears. I'm still waiting for the day they make a true in ear with rubber tips so that people like myself can finally buy into this experience. You'd think they took some notes from acquiring beats. Pretty sure this would open a whole new market of people that aren't currently able to wear, let alone the massive improvement in sound quality to an already great product.

Re: AirPods

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Post by arethuza »

nwhatt wrote: post #27
DJBunnies wrote: post #6

All it takes is one odd jostle on your morning commute, and suddenly your $150 headphones fly down a storm drain. Why can't we have high quality wired headsets?

I embraced airpods early because I had the opposite problem: my corded headphones would get caught by a dog leash and pull my $1000 phone out of my pocket.

I decided to go with Bluetooth headphones after the second time I managed to cut the cord while pruning bushes in our garden :-)

Re: AirPods

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Post by gk1 »

Disappointing. No improvements to audio quality (that they mention), no new color options. The wireless case was already available before.

I guess it’s good if you’re a frequent user of Siri, talk/listen for exceptionally long periods, or really hate the pairing lag (3-5 seconds).

Re: AirPods

#58

Post by jscheel »

I know this is a tired trope, but can we please stop with the “everything is magical” rhetoric? There is literally nothing groundbreaking about this release. Also, this page feels quite disingenuous when it claims 24 hour life. Maybe I’m just salty, but having to recharge my headphones every 3 hours, regardless of how short a recharge time, does not equal 24 hours of battery life.

Re: AirPods

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Post by pushpop »

DJBunnies wrote: post #6

All it takes is one odd jostle on your morning commute, and suddenly your $150 headphones fly down a storm drain. Why can't we have high quality wired headsets?

There is a happy middle ground. You can have wireless earphones which are wired together. So you have the safety of having a wire round the back of your head but with the convenience of not having your phone wired into your head.

I have Bose earphones designed like that and they cost around the same price as these Airpods. I'm very happy with them.

Re: AirPods

#60

Post by gumby »

dkersten wrote: post #29

Apple's insistence that I should use wireless for my ear/headphone needs is a large reason why I'm giving up on Apple products. I love my 2016 iPad Pro and would love to replace it with the 11" 2018 model, but I also love my Sony MDR 7506 headphones and I'm unwilling to trash them for wireless earpods that cost a good bit more than I paid for my Sony headphones. No thanks. Similar deal for iPhone (and the shit keyboa…

They hardly insist -- you can just get an adaptor to lightning if you'd prefer, which isn't much compared to the price of the iPad.
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