WEBVTT 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.800 very similar different little bottom thing and another thing you might notice at first glance 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:29.360 seal will give you better bass response oh conversation detection this is not a new feature 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:10:46.800 --> 00:10:48.880 this