1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,560 Remember the Pixel Buds Pro? Well there's another one, the Pro 2's. And are these the de facto 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:13,840 AirPods for Android? Or did Samsung take that crown with their new buds that look a lot like 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:20,160 AirPods now? We got a completely cardboard case here and you know what that looks like a Google 4 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,560 Pixel Buds case. I don't think they've changed that basically at all except for this little 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:30,720 dookie down here which I think is where they find my Buds feature. Inside we find ear tips 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:37,280 for different sizes of ear holes. Wow a literal two-page Ikea style guide how to put them in 7 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,840 your ears and then the whole like warning this is illegal in California your head will explode 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:48,240 we're all gonna die. No charging cable whatsoever not even a little you know inchworm piece of 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:54,240 crap C to A like nothing just nothing although I guess maybe they're making the argument that they 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,160 like support wireless charging so you know you have a charger that's your phone you just 11 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,720 pop this thing on top of there I don't know how do they sleep at night look at last year's model 12 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,800 very similar different little bottom thing and another thing you might notice at first glance 13 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:15,120 these just look like pixel buds don't they but actually they're tiny now look at that they used 14 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,880 to be about 25% bigger and heavier they made these so small now they almost look miniature it's kind 15 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:27,680 of weird that's pretty shoot that sucks it right in there if I put it backwards it's 16 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,320 that's that's not gonna happen what if I go the wrong way come on no they're basically keyed 17 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:38,400 and of course you got the indicator light this isn't the only color though there's four in total 18 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:44,720 including hazel peony which is pink and porcelain normal white I'm gonna get these things in my 19 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,600 head here and listen to them on the old this old coffee bean design from last year is just 20 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:55,200 completely smooth but the new one has this little sports fin on it and they actually say this is a 21 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,960 feature you can choose to put it in your ear with it not in contact with your pinna or you can 22 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,960 rotate it so that that fin is like you think on the back you just put them in and turn until 23 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,080 is in contact with your ear and it's like super in place if you want to do wind sprints or hit 24 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,720 training or something so let's see what is up with these if I even feel like I can put them 25 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,840 multiple orientations so let's say right off the bat when I don't have them rotated in like they 26 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:27,680 are now which does feel very secure if I rotate them this way it feels like they're kind of downward 27 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:33,040 and especially on this wacky ear that I have they feel like they could maybe come out I think the 28 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:39,920 idea is that you're sacrificing fit for long-term comfort if I wear it like this for eight hours 29 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,240 it'll be more comfortable than if I if I'm locked in I feel like I'm getting a pretty good seal with 30 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,920 the medium tip so I'm gonna keep those on let's get these back in the case so I can pair them to my 31 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:51,680 device here we have a pixel line so this will actually support all the features that these 32 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:57,600 earphones have I mentioned the question are these the AirPods of Android and I think an argument for 33 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:03,120 no is whether there's features on here that are only supported by certain phones and the 34 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:08,640 Samsung's have that too this feature you have to have the new galaxy or the new pixel in this case 35 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:14,640 there's no bluetooth over ultra wideband if you don't have a pixel six or newer nope there it is 36 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:20,240 and that's even green a cool thing about the way google does this is there's no secondary app it's 37 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,800 all in the settings page which is does it really matter I don't know definitely gonna have limited 38 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,360 functionality that way but something cool about it you know on the other hand if you are for some 39 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,920 reason getting these to go with your iphone you're just just not gonna have an app all right before 40 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:38,960 we dive into this though I'm just going to listen to music let's listen to how they sound lately me 41 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:47,600 and my children are obsessed with this song called the metal by tenacious d the song rules that's so 42 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:56,400 funny okay I didn't even get to the loudest notch there that was very loud although it didn't sound 43 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,720 awful like I remember the samsung started to get a little like sibilant and harsh sounding up there 44 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,720 that was just that was just wincing because it was so loud I do want to try them with noise 45 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,760 canceling off though because as we'll see in the graphs in a minute they actually sound different 46 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,240 if you look at the frequency response curve that we have provided us graciously by headphones.com 47 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:20,560 thank you in the base and up into the mids it's a little too loud above the target curve I should say 48 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,240 whereas in the treble there's a little bit where it's actually a bit depressed but now look at 49 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,320 the frequency response curve for a and c on where it's way more natural the reading really 50 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,040 closely follows that target curve through the base and through the mid range until you get to 51 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,640 this big wonky lump here around six to seven hundred and then it's like kind of a little bit 52 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:46,400 all over the place in the treble overall I would say they do sound pretty dang good like I was rocking 53 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:51,040 out in these things I think you will too they took an opposite approach to samsung who with their 54 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,480 default listening mode I would I would call ain't on default personally um they wanted it to be a 55 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,560 little more bassy and as I said in that video I think that was kind of the right move because like 56 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,680 most people like to have the bass turned up a little bit Google here went kind of the natural route 57 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,800 but of course with both these devices you can change that with eq in the app or non-app as it were 58 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,640 let's check that out now checking our settings menu here we have fine device which is new and 59 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,040 we'll actually put the location on a map which is very cool once you get close you can make it ring 60 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,480 here is the eq oh do they not even give you little knobbies they have presets like heavy bass 61 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:35,600 light bass balanced vocal boost clarity and last save here we go custom equalizer you get five 62 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:42,240 little knobbies and do I get to name my custom creation I guess last saved you is that mean 63 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,520 you can't have multiple that you save that's kind of weak there's no option to name them or whatever 64 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,880 so it's just one one custom one and then volume eq enhances bass and treble frequencies at lower 65 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:59,440 volume levels this actually is an option unlike on the Samsung buds 3 pro they didn't even have an 66 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:05,520 option for volume dependent eq which means you turn the music down and it all just goes down 67 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:11,680 with this option on when you turn the music down some parts of the frequency notably the bass and 68 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:16,000 some parts of the treble will actually get boosted in volume because our ear is not as sensitive to 69 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,640 those frequencies at lower volumes so it's nice to have the option there's an ear tip seal check 70 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,880 that's useful to make sure that you're using the right size tips on your earbuds and getting a good 71 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:29,360 seal will give you better bass response oh conversation detection this is not a new feature 72 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,760 but it's a feature I've never tried whereby you can automatically switch from noise cancellation 73 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,880 to transparency mode when someone starts talking to you I'm gonna try it out noise cancellation 74 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,200 is on and now I'm talking oh look at that it automatically changed it's when you talk it's 75 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:50,240 not when someone talks to you so interesting and I can actually dismiss it by tapping there it goes 76 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:58,160 it works oh no you can't stop it once it starts I do wonder if it'll switch to transparency mode 77 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:05,200 just from me singing along to music but I I won't make you suffer through watching that demonstration 78 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,320 and here's what the three onboard microphones in each earbud sound like when you do a voice 79 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,640 recording or a call you know that the voice recording is going through the earbuds because the 80 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:20,000 phone has been taken away by my lovely assistant I will say this conversation detection is actually 81 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 quite annoying and I am turning it off and I probably wouldn't actually use that but I would 82 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,600 talk to the guy now apparently with the new fancy google tensor chip on here I have the ability to 83 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:35,520 use a new special wake word for I guess not the google assistant exactly but for more like talking 84 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:41,040 to Gemini their LLM so I can interrupt it when it's speaking I can have conversations with it but 85 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,560 I can't do other tasks like I would with google assistant so let's just give it a spin with the 86 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:56,880 new wake word which is hey google let's talk well we couldn't get that working um every time I said 87 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:02,960 hey google let's talk the google assistant would just go clunk sure I love talking and then it 88 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,520 would be end of interaction it wasn't any kind of continuous conversation mode I really don't 89 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:14,640 think that um I entered the mode I was trying to enter ever and we can't figure out why it's a shame 90 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,360 because I really would like to check that out I wish I could you know tell it to read me my new 91 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,960 email maybe if I'm driving or I could send a text message in a way that's more reliable and easier 92 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:30,720 than the crappy google assistant I can I can never get it to send an sms on my phone or my watch I'd 93 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,720 like to try that stuff I'd like to ask it what's on my calendar for this week coming up and stuff 94 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:41,120 like that and maybe you know just have a companion but not today forever alone for battery life claims 95 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,960 they are saying 12 hours of listening on these guys and a total 48 hours altogether with the 96 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:53,360 charging case if you have active noise canceling off which I don't um so having it on you're gonna 97 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,960 get that cut down to eight hours on the buds and 30 hours altogether with this if you have active 98 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:05,040 noise canceling off and you charge it in the case for five minutes you get an hour and a half of 99 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:12,160 music playback and kind of rapid fire time here they support bluetooth 5.4 and bluetooth le they 100 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:18,000 also have ingress protection of ip 5 4 which is kind of standard to ok but I will say samsung 101 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,560 raised the bar with having a water protection of seven meaning you could actually submerge them for 102 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,280 30 minutes under a meter of water these do not this this has a ingress protection of water 103 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,000 rating of four which means just splashes don't go swimming don't even wear them in the shower just 104 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,480 you can wear them in the rain and you can sweat in the gym that is pretty standard but you know 105 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:42,000 there's competition is tight now um it's nice that they do have a a dust protection rating of five 106 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,120 six is the highest many earbuds just don't even have a rating there so cool that they have five 107 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:53,440 for codecs they don't have any high quality high resolution codecs they just have aac and sbc which 108 00:09:53,440 --> 00:10:00,880 is on like every bluetooth um device so no like apt x um or anything like that overall I really 109 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,960 like these it's cool that they shrank the buds I guess it would have been cool if they also 110 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:10,240 shrank the case a little bit but it's small enough yeah I like these things I would buy them 111 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,440 I'm currently rocking some sonys but these are smaller I mean they're newer too there's definitely 112 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:20,160 more affordable buds on the market but in this kind of tier where you've got air pods and 113 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:27,200 samsung's galaxy buds they are a little cheaper coming at 230 us dollars so you can save 20 or 114 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:32,080 30 bucks compared to those other ones if you if you like them that's just that's just bonus then 115 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,840 it's just like why not icy on the cake thanks for watching guys if you like this video watch our 116 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,880 coverage of other buds from nothing cmf if you really want to save money or samsung cybertruck 117 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:46,800 looking buds um which element are pretty cool and I probably would say are the direct competitors to 118 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,880 this