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Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#101

Post by dawnerd »

willio58 wrote: post #97
Daniel_sk wrote: post #5

The issue is that you have tiny chemical batteries inside and they deteriorate with use and time, so it will hardly hold any charge after 3 years (some report much faster deterioration). Does Apple replace those batteries? How much does it cost? And can it be done outside of US? (e.g. in EU countries with no official Apple Store presence). Otherwise it's pretty expensive to pay $200 for a pair headphones and throw th…

I’ve had mine since they were released and have experienced very little deterioration. I even left them outside and out of their case for A MONTH! During summer I was house sitting, left them outside at my house for a month by complete accident, came back home and found them. Once I charged them up they worked like a charm. During this month it rained a few times too.

That’s not really the deterioration people are talking about. Using them every day multiple times will destroy them quite quickly. Seems to be around the year and a half mark.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#103

Post by mitchell_h »

cygned wrote: post #102

My colleagues keep telling me my voice audio is awful when using the AirPods. Not sure if mine are flawed or if that’s just the way they are. Any experience?

Preface: I am far from an apple person. Android phone(pixel), chromebook, linux desktop. But your airpods are flawed. I use airpods daily and I've never had complaints. A bunch of co-workers use them and there's never issues.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#104

Post by ericsoderstrom »

Phlarp wrote: post #72
aczerepinski wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple removed headphone jacks from their phones, so some AirPod owners probably would have been happy to not own them and continue with traditional headphones.

If you are a fan of this earbud design they package a pair with a lightning connector in every iphone. Apple has successfully turned the airpods into a fashion/status symbol, which was their goal. "only smelly android users have headphones with a CORD"

To be fair, airpods ended up being a lot more convenient than I imagined before trying them. I still carry around my tin audio t2s for when I'll be listening to music for an extended period of time. But in most cases, the convenience of not dealing with a cord and being able to pause/skip with a tap outweighs the loss in sound quality.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#105

Post by Phlarp »

lambda_lover wrote: post #92
Phlarp wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely agree with everything in this post, but the newest model of QC35s has like 15 hours of battery life. Even if it degrades 50% over 3 years they will be perfectly usable. Airpods don't have enough physical size to overprovision battery that much. Unserviceable laptop and cellphone batteries are terrible and apple is by far the biggest offender. disclaimer: typed from a macbook :(

The QC35s also only need the battery for wireless use/active noise cancelling, so even if your battery dies on you you can still use them with a wire and a standard 3.5 mm jack. That is, assuming you still have a 3.5mm port to plug that jack into :)

It's also a lot harder to crucify the QC35s on their cost when comparing to airpods, which don't seem to have comparable noise cancelling. If you are going to shell out for a premium product at least make sure you get a premium product.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#106

Post by jmull »

cygned wrote: post #102

My colleagues keep telling me my voice audio is awful when using the AirPods. Not sure if mine are flawed or if that’s just the way they are. Any experience?

I think there may be something wrong with them.

As far as I can tell, my AirPods are the best sounding voice conference headset I have. Well, a few things work well when I'm in my office with the door closed... but the AirPods are the only thing I use anywhere else. I work remotely and it comes up often.

If possible, I'd try to get them replaced. If the next pair has the same issues, then I guess it's something about your situation after all, but I think it's worth a try.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#107

Post by jmull »

Kpourdeilami wrote: post #9
nwhatt wrote: post #3

$80 for the standalone case. $200 for a new set.

I lost my air pods case again last night so almost perfect timing. Last time I lost it, the replacement case was $70 so it has only gotten $10 more expensive

Hm... I might "lose" my AirPods case too. :)

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#108

Post by dymk »

snaky wrote: post #95
dymk wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AirPods are so convenient compared to wired earbuds for me, I’d say they’re in my top 3 electronics purchases of last year. They’re not simply a “lifestyle brand” as you’re dismissing them as.

Apple products are lifestyle-brand, that's why you compared AirPods to wired earbuds despite the fact there were many AirPods-like products from other brands and Chinese no-brands before AirPods - you just didn't care until Apple announce their own version.

No. Other brands have weird Bluetooth bugs, sketchy reliability (compared to generally rock solid Apple products), or don’t integrate nearly as tightly with my iPhone.

I didn’t buy them because they’re a “lifestyle”, I bought them because they’re the best on the market.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#109

Post by dwighttk »

ken wrote: post #99
lskopwol wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the price doens’t really scale but if you consider your time worthwhile, then add up the total amount of time it has saved you from having to untwist a jumbled mess of earphones / roll up earphones into some easily tangled roll.

Keeping cables nicely coiled is a solved problem. Humanity has used string and rope for millennia. There's been plenty of time to figure this out. To this old fart, this sounds like the thousand other cases of "why learn a simple and generally useful skill, when we can use modern technology to avoid this one specific case?" Learning a basic transferable skill is the scalable solution to this problem. You're not using…

Keeping cables nicely coiled takes time. Perhaps not as much as untangling cables, but time.

Also there's a lot of time spent fiddling with the cables in use that I didn't realize I was doing until I used wireless and went back for a week.

Re: AirPods with Wireless Charging Case

#110

Post by [deleted] »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #5

The issue is that you have tiny chemical batteries inside and they deteriorate with use and time, so it will hardly hold any charge after 3 years (some report much faster deterioration). Does Apple replace those batteries? How much does it cost? And can it be done outside of US? (e.g. in EU countries with no official Apple Store presence). Otherwise it's pretty expensive to pay $200 for a pair headphones and throw th…

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