remember the pixel buds Pro well there's another one the pro twos and are these
the de facto airpods for Android or did
Samsung take that crown with their new buds that look a lot like airpods now we
got a completely cardboard case here and
you know what that looks like a Google pixelbuds case I don't think they've
changed that basically at all except for this little doohickey down here which I
think is for the new find by buds feature inside we find ear ear tips for
different sizes of ear holes wow a lural
two-page IKEA style guide how to put
them in your ears and then the whole like warning this is illegal in
California your head will explode we're all going to die no charging cable
whatsoever not even a little you know inchworm piece of crap C to a like
nothing just nothing although I guess
maybe they're making the argument that they like support wireless charging so
you know you have a charger it's your phone you just pop this thing on top of there I don't know how do they sleep at
night look at last year's model very similar different little bottom thing
and another thing you might notice at first glance these just look like pixel
buds don't they but actually they're tiny now look at that they used to be
about 25% bigger and heavier they made these so small now they almost look
miniature it's kind of weird that's pretty kind of sucks it
right in there if I put it backwards it's that's that's not going to happen
happen what if I go the wrong way come on no they're basically keyed and of
course you got the indicator light this isn't the only color though there's four
in total including Hazel py which is pink and Porcelain normal white I'm
going to get these things in my head here and listen to them on the old this
old coffee bean design from last year is just completely smooth but the new one
has this little Sports fin on it and they actually say this as a feature you
can choose to put it in your ear with it not in contact with your PIN
or you can rotate it so that that fin is
I think on the back you just put them in and turn until it's in contact with your
ear and it's like super in place if you want to do wind Sprints or hit training
or something so let's see what is up with these if I even feel like I can put
them in multiple orientations cuz I'll say right off the bat when I don't have
them rotated in like they are now which does feel very secure if I rotate them
this way it feels like they're kind of downward and especially on this wacky
ear that I have they feel like they could maybe come out I think the idea is
that you're sacrificing fit for
long-term Comfort if I wear it like this for 8 hours it'll be more comfortable
than if I if I'm locked in I feel like I'm getting a pretty good seal with the
medium tips so I'm going to keep those on let's get these back in the case so I can pair them to my device here we have
a pixel 9 so this will actually support all the features that these earphones
have I mentioned the question are these the airpods of Android and I think an
argument for no is whether there's features on here that are only supported
by certain phones and the Samsungs have that too this feature you have to have
the new Galaxy or the new pixel in this case there's no Bluetooth over Ultra
wide band if you don't have a pixel 6 or newer oh there it is and it's even green
a cool thing about the way Google does this is there's no secondary app it's
all in the settings page which is does it really matter I don't know definitely
going to have a limited functionality that way but something cool about it you
know on the other hand if you are for some reason getting these to go with your iPhone you're just just not going
to have an app all right before we dive into this though I'm just going to
listen to music let's listen to how they sound right after this message from our
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children are obsessed with this song called the metal by Tenacious
D that song rules it's so
funny okay I didn't even get to the loudest Notch there that was very loud
although they didn't sound awful like I remember the Samsung started to get a
little like cilent and harsh sounding up there that was just I was just winsing
cuz it was so loud I do want to try them with noise counseling off though because
as we'll see in the graphs in a minute they actually sound different if you
look at the frequency response curve that we have provided to us graciously
by headphones.com thank you in the base and up into the mids it's a little too
loud about the target curve I should say uh whereas in the treble there's a
little bit where it's actually a bit depressed but now look at the frequency respon curve for A&C on where it's way
more natural the reading really closely follows that Target curve through the
base and through the mid-range until you get to this big wonky lump here around
600 to 700 and then it's kind of a little bit all over the place in the
trouble overall I would say they do sound pretty dang good like I was
rocking out in these things I think you will too they took an opposite approach
to Samsung who with their default listening mode I would I would call ay
on default personally um they wanted it to be a little more Bassy and as I said
in that video I think that was kind of the right move because I think most people like to have the bass turned up a
little bit Google here went kind of the natural route but of course with both
these devices you can change that with EQ in the app or non-app as it were uh
let's check that out now checking our settings menu here we have fine device
which is new and we'll actually put the location on a map which is very cool
once you get close you can make it ring here is the EQ oh do they not even give
you little knobbies they have presets sets like heavy base light base balanced
vocal boost Clarity and last save here
we go custom equalizer you get five little knobbies and do I get to name my
Custom Creation I guess last saved you
does that mean you can't have multiple that you save that's kind of weak
there's no option to name them or whatever so it's just one one custom one
and then Volume EQ enhances base and trouble frequencies at lower volume
levels this actually is an option unlike on the Samsung buds 3 Pro they didn't
even have an option for volume dependent EQ which means you turn the music down
and it all just goes down with this option on when you turn the music down
some parts of the frequency notably the Basse and some parts of the treble will
actually get boosted in volume because our ear is not as sensitive to those
frequencies at lower volumes so it's nice to have the option there's an ear
tip seal check that's useful to make sure that you're using the right size
tips on your earbuds getting a good seal will give you better Basse response oh
conversation detection this is not a new fature but it's a fature I've never
tried whereby you can automatically switch from noise cancellation to
transparency mode when someone starts talking to you I'm going to try it out
noise cancellation is on and now I'm talking oh look at that it automatically
changed it's when you talk it's not when someone talks to you so interesting and
I can actually dismiss it by tapping there it goes it works oh
no you can't stop it once it's starts I do wonder if it'll switch to
transparency mode just from me singing along to music but I I won't make you
suffer through watching that demonstration so and here's what the
three onboard microphones in each earbud sound like when you do a voice recording
or a call uh you know that the voice recording is going through the earbuds
because the phone has been taken away by my lovely assistant I will say this
conversation detection is actually quite annoying and I am turning it off and I
probably wouldn't actually use that but I'm a talkative guy apparently with the
new fancy Google tensor chip on here I have the ability to use a new special
wake word for I guess not the Google Assistant exactly but for more like
talking to Gemini they llm so I can
interrupt it when it's speaking I can have conversations with it but I can't
do other tasks like I would with Google assistance so let's just give it a spin with the new wake word which is hey
Google let's
talk well we couldn't get that working
um every time I said Hey Google let's talk the Google Assistant would just go
clunk sure I love talking and then it
would be end of interaction it wasn't any kind of continuous conversation mode
I really don't think that um I entered the mode I was trying to enter
ever and we can't figure out why it's a shame cuz I really would like to check
that out I I wish I could you know tell it to read me my new email maybe if I'm
driving or I could um send a text message in a way that's more liable and
easy easier than the crappy Google I can I can never get it to send an SMS on my
phone or my watch I'd like to try that stuff I'd like to ask it what's on my
calendar for this week coming up and stuff like that and maybe you know just
have a companion but not today forever alone for battery life claims they are
saying 12 hours of listening on these guys and total 48 Hours altogether with
the charging case if you have active noise cancelling off which I don't um so
having it on you're going to get that cut down to 8 hours on the buds and 30
hours altogether with this if you have active noise cancelling off and you
charge it in the case for 5 minutes you
get an hour and a half of music playback and kind of Rapid Fire time here they
support Bluetooth 5.4 and Bluetooth LE
they also have ingress protection of ip54 which is kind of standard to okay
but I will say Samsung raised the bar with having a water protection of seven
meaning you could actually submerge them for 30 minutes under a meter of water
these do not this this has a ink protection water rating of four which
means just splashes don't go swimming don't even wear them in the shower just
you can wear them in the rain and you can sweat them at the gym and that is pretty standard but you know there
competition is tight now um it's nice that they do have a a dust protection
rating of five six is the highest many earbuds just don't even have a rating
there so cool that they have five for codex they don't have any high quality
high resolution codex they just have AAC
and SBC which is on like every Bluetooth um device so no like app deck um or
anything like that overall I really like these it's cool that they shrank the
buds I guess it would have been cool if they also shrank the case a little bit
but it's small enough yeah I like these
things I would buy them I'm currently rocking some Sony's but these are
smaller I mean they're newer too there's definitely more affordable buds on the
market but in this kind of tier where you've got airpods and Samsung's Galaxy
buds they are a little cheaper coming out at 2 $30 so you can save 20 or 30
bucks compared to those other ones if you if you like them that's just that's
just bonus then it's just like why not icy on the cake thanks for watching guys
if you like this video watch our coverage of other buds from nothing cmf
if you really want to save money or Samsung cyber truck looking buds um
which element are pretty cool and I probably would say are the direct
competitors to these