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Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by Projectiboga »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #67
latchkey wrote: post #2

My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…

>Got the same amount we paid for them. I don't understand this world sometimes. Someone wants ear buds, they want to signal wealth so choose expensive brand, but they want knockoffs because they're actually poor[er]. The main risk with knock-offs is they arrive broken, or just don't arrive, or... basically it's a scam of some sort. So, you took on the risk of buying, assessed the earphones as working, the earphones a…

The main risk is fire with the batteries.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by fest »

lostlogin wrote: post #24
syntaxing wrote: post #20

That updated viewer is a absolutely awesome, I like how you can go through the part layer by layer.

Medical images are much like this - if you have any interest, it’s quite easy to get a DICOM viewer and get a few patient scans. I recommend Horos and Osirix, though I’m a Mac user. And MRI of course, not CT!

You can also convert the DICOM images to 3D model and print it.

I did it with MRI scan of my head (isolated the brain specifically) and kept it on my desk at work, ready to be handed to whoever came by wanting to pick my brain.

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Post by Lio »

baz00 wrote: post #4

I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare. Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire bet…

They seem to be offering replacement batteries for £49. That's either the Airpods or the charging case of all models.

That's obviously more that wired earbuds but I'm OK with that to have noise cancelling headphones I can always keep in little pocket of my jeans wherever I go.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by thebigman433 »

thomasqbrady wrote: post #60
JCharante wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. I heard that there are fake airpods that will connect and behave just like a normal airpod to iphones, as if they have a fake H1 chip or something. Can anyone confirm?

Yes. I have a set that appear to my iPhone to be legit, including auto-connect/disconnect, noise-canceling modes and all, though the functionality isn’t actually reliable. My iPhone doesn’t seem to know any difference between my real AirPods Pro 2 and these fakes.

Feels like this could maybe be a pair from a fake/third shift or something?

Seems like that level of functionality with (fake) Apple products is super rare.

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Post by delecti »

autoexec wrote: post #80
threeseed wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those articles from 2 years ago. And in that time I can't think of a single manufacturer who has brought back 3.5mm headphone jacks. Meanwhile Qualcomm recently announced WiFi-Audio which brings lossless audio.

A quick search shows that the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and the Sony Xperia 1 V both have headphone jacks. They've got expandable storage too! If I had to get a cell phone today, the Sony one is probably what I'd be looking at.

The Galaxy "A" series is their budget line, and so the A14 didn't bring back headphones; the A line never lost them to begin with. Because wireless headphones are a signal of wealth, headphone jacks are often still present on budget phones.

Sony's models are too inconsistent for me to figure out what it's the successor to, so I can't say whether it's a good example of bringing back headphone jacks.

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Post by latchkey »

heisenbit wrote: post #86
latchkey wrote: post #2

My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…

Same here. My wife washed the old airpods so she got me some new and "better" AirPod Pros. They looked perfect and since I did not really care about getting other ones I did not much research. In any case they looked genuine and worked for a while until their flakiness got on my nerves and I went to a slightly embarrassing Apple appointment where I was told there were scores of service requests for this particular se…

Oh right, yea... the sn# gives it away immediately, you can google it and see that it is fake.

Another pro tip for buying used stuff online... request a photo of the sn#. Even a partial will get you a match in google.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by astrange »

adamm255 wrote: post #69

I got some AirPods Pro 2 knock offs from Temu for £16. Paired exactly like AirPods, was super shocked. Work great with an Apple TV. They don’t have multi connect though. But are actually more comfortable than the real deal. I find the originals hurt after about 45 mins.

If it's AirPods Pro, you probably have the wrong size tips on if they hurt. There's also some third party tips; I use them because they sound a little different but they're also different sizes.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by astrange »

user_7832 wrote: post #11
plugin-baby wrote: post #6

> significant differences that have implications for performance and safety This seems to refer to charging safety, but the thing that makes me fork out for genuine headphones is ear safety - I _assume_ Apple tries to protect from damaging sound levels and frequencies, and could be held to account in a way that counterfeiters could not.

> Apple tries to protect from damaging sound levels and frequencies, and could be held to account in a way that counterfeiters could not. I doubt Apple tries this too much, or that they could be held accountable. There is the volume alert thing, but that (partially) works with 3rd party headphones too (though it's likely much more inaccurate). Android phones too give a warning if you set the volume very high for head…

Some amount of volume limits are required by EU regulation I think.

Re: Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

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Post by karaterobot »

> Lastly, the contrast in overall build quality is dramatic between the genuine AirPods and their counterfeit counterparts.

That's undoubtedly true, but my anecdotal experience was that a pair of $250(?) AirPods Pro broke after a couple of months, and the $40 Chinese knockoff pair is still going after almost a year. I'm sure that, on average, the Apple ones last longer, but it's so hard for me to shell out another $250 on something that broke so quickly just because it's from a company with a headquarters that looks like a Lifesaver. And at about 1/5th the price, it's a pretty easy decision to replace the ersatz airpods if (when) they should break. Unless Apple comes out with something new and exciting, I'll stick with the fakes.

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