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Re: AirPods Pro

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I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

I am sooo going to buy them the moment they are available; convenience is totally worth it for me, even if they have to be replaced every year

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#12
post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

You can get the batteries of your AirPods replaced, it seems:

https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service

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#13

The price is $250, which is what everyone expected (note: the Wireless Charging case is mandatory; for comparison, the AirPods with Wireless Charging SKU is $200). Will have to wait and see how the reviews are, although it sounds like we'll hear sooner than later (pun intended).

Says $249 here too

https://www.apple.com/airpods/

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#15

I started getting severe ear issues with my normal AirPods. Due to a lack of cushioning, my ear canals started getting damaged. It got very painful eventually (swimmers ear levels of pain). I stopped using them and went back to my Bose in ear headphones (that never gave me problems). These new AirPods seem to have cushioning. I might consider them.

Have you tried EarBuddyz?

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post #7
post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

Anecdote: my OG AirPods still have great battery. How often do you use them during the day? Also how do you know the devices need new batteries?

I use them for about 4 hours a day, about 1 conference call every other day.

I know they need new batteries because from full charge, they won't get through a single hour-long conference call anymore without blasting the low battery warning.

I used to be able to eek out about 2 1-hour conference calls before getting the warning.

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#17
The lack of sound isolation is my biggest gripe with my AirPods, so it is nice to see that it has been improved with the Pro version. In the past I have had nausea when using active noise cancelling headphone (especially when used without music), so I am curious to see if any of the reviews hints at this.

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#18

I just end up immediately closing these sites that don't work at all reasonably with a scroll wheel.

I'm using a Macboook touchpad and still couldn't get past the first few slides. Scrolling felt horribly unnatural with all the jumping images.

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post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

I am sooo going to buy them the moment they are available; convenience is totally worth it for me, even if they have to be replaced every year

Your comment makes me think of this image: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTipZ...

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post #3

I will personally love to see someone justify spending $250 on wireless earphones whose batteries cannot be replaced. I'm a year and a half into my normal airpods and they already need new batteries.

I've had the OG Airpods since release, and haven't had to replace battery. Not sure how often you use yours, but I'm on maybe 1-2 hrs a day and still can go almost a week between needing to charge.
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