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remember the pixel buds Pro well there's another one the pro twos and are these

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the de facto airpods for Android or did

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Samsung take that crown with their new buds that look a lot like airpods now we

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got a completely cardboard case here and

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you know what that looks like a Google pixelbuds case I don't think they've

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changed that basically at all except for this little doohickey down here which I

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think is for the new find by buds feature inside we find ear ear tips for

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different sizes of ear holes wow a lural

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two-page IKEA style guide how to put

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them in your ears and then the whole like warning this is illegal in

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California your head will explode we're all going to die no charging cable

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whatsoever not even a little you know inchworm piece of crap C to a like

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nothing just nothing although I guess

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maybe they're making the argument that they like support wireless charging so

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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

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night look at last year's model very similar different little bottom thing

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and another thing you might notice at first glance these just look like pixel

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buds don't they but actually they're tiny now look at that they used to be

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about 25% bigger and heavier they made these so small now they almost look

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miniature it's kind of weird that's pretty kind of sucks it

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right in there if I put it backwards it's that's that's not going to happen

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happen what if I go the wrong way come on no they're basically keyed and of

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course you got the indicator light this isn't the only color though there's four

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in total including Hazel py which is pink and Porcelain normal white I'm

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going to get these things in my head here and listen to them on the old this

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old coffee bean design from last year is just completely smooth but the new one

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has this little Sports fin on it and they actually say this as a feature you

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can choose to put it in your ear with it not in contact with your PIN

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or you can rotate it so that that fin is

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I think on the back you just put them in and turn until it's in contact with your

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ear and it's like super in place if you want to do wind Sprints or hit training

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or something so let's see what is up with these if I even feel like I can put

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them in multiple orientations cuz I'll say right off the bat when I don't have

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them rotated in like they are now which does feel very secure if I rotate them

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this way it feels like they're kind of downward and especially on this wacky

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ear that I have they feel like they could maybe come out I think the idea is

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that you're sacrificing fit for

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long-term Comfort if I wear it like this for 8 hours it'll be more comfortable

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than if I if I'm locked in I feel like I'm getting a pretty good seal with the

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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

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a pixel 9 so this will actually support all the features that these earphones

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have I mentioned the question are these the airpods of Android and I think an

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argument for no is whether there's features on here that are only supported

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by certain phones and the Samsungs have that too this feature you have to have

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the new Galaxy or the new pixel in this case there's no Bluetooth over Ultra

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wide band if you don't have a pixel 6 or newer oh there it is and it's even green

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a cool thing about the way Google does this is there's no secondary app it's

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all in the settings page which is does it really matter I don't know definitely

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going to have a limited functionality that way but something cool about it you

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know on the other hand if you are for some reason getting these to go with your iPhone you're just just not going

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to have an app all right before we dive into this though I'm just going to

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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

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D that song rules it's so

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funny okay I didn't even get to the loudest Notch there that was very loud

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although they didn't sound awful like I remember the Samsung started to get a

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little like cilent and harsh sounding up there that was just I was just winsing

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cuz it was so loud I do want to try them with noise counseling off though because

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as we'll see in the graphs in a minute they actually sound different if you

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look at the frequency response curve that we have provided to us graciously

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by headphones.com thank you in the base and up into the mids it's a little too

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loud about the target curve I should say uh whereas in the treble there's a

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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

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more natural the reading really closely follows that Target curve through the

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base and through the mid-range until you get to this big wonky lump here around

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600 to 700 and then it's kind of a little bit all over the place in the

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trouble overall I would say they do sound pretty dang good like I was

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rocking out in these things I think you will too they took an opposite approach

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to Samsung who with their default listening mode I would I would call ay

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on default personally um they wanted it to be a little more Bassy and as I said

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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

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little bit Google here went kind of the natural route but of course with both

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these devices you can change that with EQ in the app or non-app as it were uh

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let's check that out now checking our settings menu here we have fine device

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which is new and we'll actually put the location on a map which is very cool

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once you get close you can make it ring here is the EQ oh do they not even give

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you little knobbies they have presets sets like heavy base light base balanced

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vocal boost Clarity and last save here

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we go custom equalizer you get five little knobbies and do I get to name my

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Custom Creation I guess last saved you

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does that mean you can't have multiple that you save that's kind of weak

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there's no option to name them or whatever so it's just one one custom one

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and then Volume EQ enhances base and trouble frequencies at lower volume

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levels this actually is an option unlike on the Samsung buds 3 Pro they didn't

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even have an option for volume dependent EQ which means you turn the music down

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and it all just goes down with this option on when you turn the music down

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some parts of the frequency notably the Basse and some parts of the treble will

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actually get boosted in volume because our ear is not as sensitive to those

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frequencies at lower volumes so it's nice to have the option there's an ear

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tip seal check that's useful to make sure that you're using the right size

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tips on your earbuds getting a good seal will give you better Basse response oh

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conversation detection this is not a new fature but it's a fature I've never

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tried whereby you can automatically switch from noise cancellation to

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transparency mode when someone starts talking to you I'm going to try it out

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noise cancellation is on and now I'm talking oh look at that it automatically

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changed it's when you talk it's not when someone talks to you so interesting and

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I can actually dismiss it by tapping there it goes it works oh

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no you can't stop it once it's starts I do wonder if it'll switch to

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transparency mode just from me singing along to music but I I won't make you

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suffer through watching that demonstration so and here's what the

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three onboard microphones in each earbud sound like when you do a voice recording

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or a call uh you know that the voice recording is going through the earbuds

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because the phone has been taken away by my lovely assistant I will say this

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conversation detection is actually quite annoying and I am turning it off and I

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probably wouldn't actually use that but I'm a talkative guy apparently with the

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new fancy Google tensor chip on here I have the ability to use a new special

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wake word for I guess not the Google Assistant exactly but for more like

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talking to Gemini they llm so I can

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interrupt it when it's speaking I can have conversations with it but I can't

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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

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Google let's

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talk well we couldn't get that working

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um every time I said Hey Google let's talk the Google Assistant would just go

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clunk sure I love talking and then it

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would be end of interaction it wasn't any kind of continuous conversation mode

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I really don't think that um I entered the mode I was trying to enter

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ever and we can't figure out why it's a shame cuz I really would like to check

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that out I I wish I could you know tell it to read me my new email maybe if I'm

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driving or I could um send a text message in a way that's more liable and

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easy easier than the crappy Google I can I can never get it to send an SMS on my

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phone or my watch I'd like to try that stuff I'd like to ask it what's on my

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calendar for this week coming up and stuff like that and maybe you know just

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have a companion but not today forever alone for battery life claims they are

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saying 12 hours of listening on these guys and total 48 Hours altogether with

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the charging case if you have active noise cancelling off which I don't um so

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having it on you're going to get that cut down to 8 hours on the buds and 30

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hours altogether with this if you have active noise cancelling off and you

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charge it in the case for 5 minutes you

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get an hour and a half of music playback and kind of Rapid Fire time here they

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support Bluetooth 5.4 and Bluetooth LE

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they also have ingress protection of ip54 which is kind of standard to okay

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but I will say Samsung raised the bar with having a water protection of seven

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meaning you could actually submerge them for 30 minutes under a meter of water

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these do not this this has a ink protection water rating of four which

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means just splashes don't go swimming don't even wear them in the shower just

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you can wear them in the rain and you can sweat them at the gym and that is pretty standard but you know there

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competition is tight now um it's nice that they do have a a dust protection

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rating of five six is the highest many earbuds just don't even have a rating

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there so cool that they have five for codex they don't have any high quality

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high resolution codex they just have AAC

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and SBC which is on like every Bluetooth um device so no like app deck um or

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anything like that overall I really like these it's cool that they shrank the

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buds I guess it would have been cool if they also shrank the case a little bit

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but it's small enough yeah I like these

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things I would buy them I'm currently rocking some Sony's but these are

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smaller I mean they're newer too there's definitely more affordable buds on the

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market but in this kind of tier where you've got airpods and Samsung's Galaxy

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buds they are a little cheaper coming out at 2 $30 so you can save 20 or 30

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bucks compared to those other ones if you if you like them that's just that's

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just bonus then it's just like why not icy on the cake thanks for watching guys

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if you like this video watch our coverage of other buds from nothing cmf

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if you really want to save money or Samsung cyber truck looking buds um

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which element are pretty cool and I probably would say are the direct

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competitors to these