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No ear caps is instant no buy for me - I literally cannot keep the previous AirPods in my ear and if I do it causes aching, while I can use the pro’s without issue. Or is it just a refresh of the original AirPods?
This is a refresh of the original AirPods. The Pros are the ones with the in ear caps.
As much as I liked my AirPods gen 1 and the features seem tempting, my personal experience with battery longevity on Apple headphones are not great. I’ve so far had the BeatsX, Beats Studio3 and AirPods. Almost all of them completely died within a year of purchase. The AirPods still work but using them is pointless since the battery life dropped to less than an hour so I just haven’t bothered. Mind you, this is not b…
I am quite astonished as I have the opposite experience. My Airpods only go flat during long phone calls of more than two hours and I had them for at least a year before the Covid lockdown. You have a larger n than I do, but still I am surprised that they would wipe out after a year.
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Honestly until you try wireless, you won't understand just how much better the user experience is to not have a wire.
Honestly until you have to suffer battery problems, you won't understand just how much better the user experience is to have a wire. ;)
They have wireless charging, so whenever I put them down on my desk they are charging. I have a separate high quality mic on my desk so I don't have a dangly thing in my face.
I only use the headphones in the study or wandering around the house so it's the perfect solution for me. (I did need to tweak PulseAudio to lower the latency).
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Playstation 4 (maybe also the 5? I can't get ahold of one, so I dunno) controllers have a headphone jack on them that can be used this way, I think. Route the audio through the (bluetooth) controller, to whatever you've plugged in to it. I think some higher-end Rokus can route audio through their remote control, to plugged-in headphones.
All Roku devices (and Roku TVs) should be able to route audio through the app to attached or wireless headphones as well. This might work with Share Audio on iPhones so you can have two people listening at once, but I've never tried.
I like my wired, ordinary earphones. They are low tech, cheap and reliable. When I pick them up from my pocket, I may have to spend a few moments to untangle then, but it is usually just a few seconds. After some months the wires start to go bad. Then I use a new pair. But such a pair costs very little. I don't know what I am missing, but I think I would be frustrated if expensive wireless earphones run out of batter…
Honestly until you try wireless, you won't understand just how much better the user experience is to not have a wire.
Sound is worse, reliability is worse, power consumption is worse (and phone’s becomes worse as well) - I know a certain kind of users/fans have ready answer for this “duh! use a pocket nuclear reactor”, cost is worse, repairability is worse, usually looks worse. There you go.
As much as I liked my AirPods gen 1 and the features seem tempting, my personal experience with battery longevity on Apple headphones are not great. I’ve so far had the BeatsX, Beats Studio3 and AirPods. Almost all of them completely died within a year of purchase. The AirPods still work but using them is pointless since the battery life dropped to less than an hour so I just haven’t bothered. Mind you, this is not b…
I am quite astonished as I have the opposite experience. My Airpods only go flat during long phone calls of more than two hours and I had them for at least a year before the Covid lockdown. You have a larger n than I do, but still I am surprised that they would wipe out after a year.
I have a pair of airpods I got with my new job. Within a year they lasted less than 2h and never even at the start lasted longer than 3h. When playing D&D with friends I had to use one at a time and rotate them out to last the whole session.
Are they small? Yes. I don't expect INCREDIBLE battery out of them. But my wife has a pair of Bose equivalent and they last like 6h a day on a single charge and continue to do so 3 years later. They are slightly larger which accounts for longer initial charge but the degredation on my airpods was stunningly bad. I ended up having to replace them this year (1.5y later) for a new set because they were no longer capable of supporting my work meeting schedule.
I like my wired, ordinary earphones. They are low tech, cheap and reliable. When I pick them up from my pocket, I may have to spend a few moments to untangle then, but it is usually just a few seconds. After some months the wires start to go bad. Then I use a new pair. But such a pair costs very little. I don't know what I am missing, but I think I would be frustrated if expensive wireless earphones run out of batter…
That makes two of us then.
Why isn't there a way to mute? I'd love to be able to configure one of the buttons to mute me when clicked. Fingers crossed for the next gen I guess.
You can just take them out or pause your music?
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You can just take them out or pause your music?
I think they meant mute their mic. I could be wrong. It would be cool if you could mute yourself while on calls - it would be possible within the apple ecosystem at least. Pause during media, mute during calls. Something. Or maybe if it could be customizable, I'd like that. Different actions for different modes.
I've certainly never run into that issue myself, or if I know I need to mute a lot, I just have my phone out and press the screen.
I just discovered last week that on the Apple TV I can connect 2 apple audio devices at the same time. Currently staying with the in laws, daughter is sleeping in the same room with us so we couldn’t watch TV. I connected my wife’s AirPods to the Apple TV to watch tv and noticed I could connect another one, so I borrowed my sister in laws AirPods and connected them and both work at the same time. So now we can watch…