Remember the Pixel Buds Pro? Well there's another one, the Pro 2's. 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
Pixel Buds case. I don't think they've changed that basically at all except for this little
dookie down here which I think is where they find my Buds feature. Inside we find ear tips
for different sizes of ear holes. Wow a literal 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 gonna 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 that'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 shoot that sucks it right in there if I put it backwards it's
that's that's not gonna 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 peony which is pink and porcelain normal white I'm gonna 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 is a
feature you can choose to put it in your ear with it not in contact with your pinna or you can
rotate it so that that fin is like you think on the back you just put them in and turn until
is 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
multiple orientations so let's 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 eight 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 tip so I'm gonna keep those on let's get these back in the case so I can pair them to my
device here we have a pixel line 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
Samsung's 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 wideband if you don't have a pixel six or newer nope there it is
and that'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 gonna have 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 gonna 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 lately me
and my children are obsessed with this song called the metal by tenacious d the song rules that's so
funny okay I didn't even get to the loudest notch there that was very loud although it didn't sound
awful like I remember the samsung started to get a little like sibilant and harsh sounding up there
that was just that was just wincing because it was so loud I do want to try them with noise
canceling 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 us graciously by headphones.com
thank you in the base and up into the mids it's a little too loud above the target curve I should say
whereas in the treble there's a little bit where it's actually a bit depressed but now look at
the frequency response curve for a and 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 six to seven hundred and then it's like kind of a little bit
all over the place in the treble 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 ain't 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 like
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
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 like heavy bass
light bass 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 is 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 bass and treble 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 bass 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 and getting a good
seal will give you better bass response oh conversation detection this is not a new feature
but it's a feature I've never tried whereby you can automatically switch from noise cancellation
to transparency mode when someone starts talking to you I'm gonna 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 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
and here's what the three onboard microphones in each earbud sound like when you do a voice
recording or a call 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 would
talk to the guy now 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 their 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 assistant 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
because I really would like to check that out I wish I could you know tell it to read me my new
email maybe if I'm driving or I could send a text message in a way that's more reliable and easier
than the crappy google assistant 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 a total 48 hours altogether with the
charging case if you have active noise canceling off which I don't um so having it on you're gonna
get that cut down to eight hours on the buds and 30 hours altogether with this if you have active
noise canceling off and you charge it in the case for five 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 ip 5 4 which is kind of standard to ok 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 ingress protection of 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 in the gym that is pretty standard but you know
there's 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 codecs they don't have any high quality high resolution codecs they just have aac and sbc which
is on like every bluetooth um device so no like apt x 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 sonys 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 air pods and
samsung's galaxy buds they are a little cheaper coming at 230 us dollars 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 cybertruck
looking buds um which element are pretty cool and I probably would say are the direct competitors to
this