1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,960 They finally done it. Someone from a big 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:11,920 company has made an earbud or at least a part of an earbud that is battery 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:16,840 replaceable. Not the buds themselves, but apparently the battery of the case 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:20,480 is replaceable. And that you That is a baby step worth applauding. And I'm 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:27,240 going to try to do it. I'm going to try to open up this case in this video. But first, let's look at the rest of what's 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,040 in this box. These are the 2A's, the 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:34,920 Pixel Buds 2A. And they come with some tips. They come with like a little 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:38,640 instruction graphic pictograph thing. Oh, look at these 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,200 tips. They're colored. They're like a lilac. Extra small, small, and large. 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:47,400 That means medium is on the buds already. There they are. I don't know if these 11 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:52,520 tips correspond to like a colorway option. I looks like they do. It looks 12 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:57,160 like they do. Also looks like this has Is that an RGB strip or is it just a 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:01,040 solid I think it's just a plastic strip. It kind of looks like a diffuser like 14 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,840 what I don't like on the Tesla Model 3s now, the new ones. I think it's kind of 15 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:07,920 cringe that they have that. Have you seen that? Cold and has all his cards. I 16 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,040 was like I almost had to tuck and roll out under the pavement. 17 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,880 I'm not looking at this yet. We're finishing this. 18 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:19,760 This looks like it's, if not recyclable, made from recycled material, uh which is 19 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:24,200 very good. And there's no Is there a cable? This is 20 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:27,600 just a little book. There's no Look at this thing. This is like a 21 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:30,800 little pocket Bible. It's like a 22 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:36,640 phone book for ants. That's insane, but there's no There's no 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,640 charging cable. That That's insane. 24 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:44,520 You You guys can sense I'm kind of unhinged right now. Speaking of hinges, 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:47,720 always like to test the sound, like the fidget ability of it. 26 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,160 You know, just in case you want to take public transit and just mess with 27 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:55,960 people. Don't take them out though. Play the music from the speaker on your phone. 28 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:59,760 It has that familiar like enemies from Portal kind of industrial design 29 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:04,320 egg-shaped thing. The diffused LED light indicator and the 30 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,560 hardware pairing button right there you get to press. What I look for in a 31 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:11,200 earbud is a really tactile pairing button. 32 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:16,120 Oh, yeah. She's good for 50 million clicks. And of course, USB-C charging 33 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,600 on your bottom. Critically though, no discernible way to open this up and tear 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,520 it down. Uh so, I'll keep looking. If I If I look 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:27,160 in here I can and squint, I can see there are actually two tiny screws. I 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,840 don't know if you're going to be able to see this, Peter. If that's how you what you have to do to replace it, 37 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,000 I think it's probably going to be in professional territory. Maybe I have to 38 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:40,800 open this up and like pull out the innards. Uh but before we do that, let's take a look at the buds. Really glossy 39 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,800 on the inside. I like to do a little test where I try to see like, you know, 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,840 if I was really inebriated or something like that, can I still figure out which 41 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:53,120 one goes where? Like do they go in easily? Can I put them back in the case 42 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:56,640 like without looking? Oh, that was That did it. 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:03:01,720 That's pretty easy. And if you mess it up, Jesus, I just can't. 44 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:05,920 And if you do, can you What? Wow, they did it. They're James-proof. 45 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,120 I can't even demo them going in stupidly. There's also a screw at the 46 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:14,440 bottom of each one of these earbud wells that's a star pattern. I'm going to try 47 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:19,440 unscrewing that to get at the battery. Magnetic tip versus magnetic case, I 48 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:23,520 Give me that. Give me that. Come here. 49 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:26,520 Come here. If I break this, the video's over before you even get to 50 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:31,440 listen to them then. Should probably do this last, but you know what? I'm Oh, 51 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:35,480 doing it for you guys. Cool. This whole thing came off. Weird. I'm 52 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:38,160 just looking at It looks like a like a controller, like a GameCube controller 53 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,920 or something, you know, with that like rubber pad on the backside of the of 54 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:45,560 that button, which is I guess should be expected. And then you can also see that 55 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,880 this this light that the plastic's thinner there to allow that light to go 56 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,440 through. Now that we got her in her birthday suit here, 57 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:57,080 uh yeah, you can see it still functions. This is like It's so cool to see it like 58 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:02,160 this. Do you think anyone will just run it run it naked like this? 59 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,240 Kind of cool. And then they have this little paper tab. 60 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:09,560 And if you give it a pull, oh, this whole thing slides out. And 61 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:14,040 there's like these little kind of pogo pins on the inside. And then this is 62 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:19,840 like the battery caddy that connects from that little pad right there 63 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:25,480 and holds the battery. Rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 1600 64 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. I I thought that was going to tell me the 65 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:33,360 milliamp hours or something. No. Okay, this battery module, I have a feeling 66 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:37,960 you wouldn't actually get to replace that little little candy on the inside. 67 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,720 You'd probably replace the whole caddy and that. It's probably glued in there. 68 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,480 It doesn't seem to want to come out. And it's also I don't want to say keyed, but 69 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,880 this little bit almost looks like a rivet a rivet that's like gone through 70 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:53,640 there and bent over. Now on here it says g.co/pixelrepair, 71 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:57,960 which brings you to a generic site. So, you got to type in 72 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:02,880 your What number is this? A serial number? And they put it in such a 73 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:07,120 convenient spot. It's actually written in the well in 74 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,840 here, but it's not written straight down. It's written on the lip of it. So, 75 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,680 in order to read that, you have to hold it like this and shoot your eye to try 76 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:19,920 to read this thing that is blocked by this thing. It's the worst. And 77 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:22,080 it's so tiny. Guys, we paused for a second. We had like three different 78 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,800 people try to read this. We had like our phone flashlights on it. It's insanely 79 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:30,400 tiny. So, okay. Thank you, but like make this easy 80 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:34,840 on me. Going through the website, it doesn't really look like they have it 81 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:38,880 set up yet where like there's definitely not a product page where you can just 82 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,640 buy these right now. I don't know if that'll ever be a thing. Maybe you have 83 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:46,960 to contact them and they'll send you one. I don't know how it's going to work, but I'm glad that there's, you 84 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:51,880 know, some opportunity or room for it to possibly work at some point. We'll see. 85 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:56,200 There is a little QR code on this thing though. I'm going to try that. 86 00:05:54,320 --> 00:06:00,320 If your own phone can't scan the QR code, 87 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:03,920 you got problems. It says move back to improve focus, Reese. 88 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,920 That means the people who work there don't run Pixels. All right, enough with 89 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,680 the case. Let's get these in the ears and see how they fit. They are different 90 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:15,920 than last ones cuz they don't have these like big little dangly wings anymore. 91 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:18,840 They do have these little nubbings on them. 92 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:23,000 Um but overall, they're kind of smaller and lighter. They're stemless, which 93 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:30,280 means you're going to be relying on the touch capacitive swipy dealy. 94 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:33,760 Oh, yeah. All right. Noise canceling is on. 95 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:41,120 They feel pretty connected to my body, 96 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,640 you know. They're one with my cranium. 97 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:51,920 I just don't want to headbang too hard right now. I'm very I'm very I was on a plane today. I'm stiff. DMS did say that 98 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:56,320 on repeated tests with this, he was able to get a very consistent seal 99 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,480 in our dummy head. He even got it to seal with two different sizes of ear 100 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,200 tips, which wasn't true of last year's. I probably need two different sizes. 101 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:08,480 You guys ever do that? One medium, one large? It feels wrong. 102 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:13,360 That's actually not statistically uncommon. Oh, this is cool. I like to plug this 103 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,360 back in now. 104 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,800 Damn, that's satisfying. If you're talking to me, I can barely hear you. 105 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,920 You're canceled. You know, let me try to let me try the ambient noise. 106 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:27,440 Is it going to I haven't even paired them. 107 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:32,000 That's why I can't change modes. Let's get these turned on and listen to music 108 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:36,120 and look at graphs right after this message from our sponsor. Thanks to 109 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:39,800 DeleteMe for sponsoring this video. In a world where you need an email or phone 110 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:45,400 number to sign up for just about everything, DeleteMe's data removal service can help 111 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:49,800 you keep that information secure. 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Add Pixel Buds 2A to Find 121 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,280 Hub so you can locate the device when it's even when it's disconnected. Use it 122 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:33,960 in a legal way. Don't just slip this into a stranger's 123 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:39,039 back pocket and use it to find out where they live. This noise canceling is 124 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,880 better than the Nothing Pro 3s that I tried last time. 125 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:48,760 Okay, these I would say are for bass heads, but they're not like 126 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,440 comically wrong. Um ooh, my ears. 127 00:08:51,440 --> 00:09:00,120 Like the Nothings were out of the box before I put that special EQ that Labs made 128 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:04,280 onto them, which helped it a lot. Um those were like My music is obviously 129 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:08,040 playing incorrectly. And those were similar to AirPods Pro 3s honestly in 130 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:12,520 the amount of bass. These Pull up the graph. These do have a lot 131 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,360 of bass. Within that range of what most people like, it's on the upper end. And 132 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,840 I would say like these are kind of bassier than I would want, at least for 133 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:24,080 metal. I was just listening to rock music, right? The problem though with 134 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:28,400 these is this scooped-out trough in like the upper mids low treble over here. 135 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:31,640 They have this warm sound, um but it just feels like something's 136 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:36,680 missing. It feels like the whole thing is kind of too bassy, but then with like 137 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:39,440 sparkly kind of overcooked highs on top. 138 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:42,720 Um fortunately, you can tune these a little bit. You can EQ them a little bit 139 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:47,080 in the app. Comparing to last gen, you can see that this one is just like a 140 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,520 warmer version. Last gen, it was cooler. But the more interesting comparison is 141 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:55,560 actually the Pro 2s, which look fairly close, but 142 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:59,160 this is kind of just a better version. So, the these new buds are the red line 143 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:03,240 and you can see that they're just way more consistently in band compared to 144 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:07,240 the blue. Whilst they still having kind of the 145 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,360 same weakness that again that trough in the in the low treble. And then 146 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:14,960 comparing to the AirPods 4, not the Pros, 147 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:19,880 just the regular 4s that which do have active noise cancelling. Uh and we had 148 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:23,240 active noise cancelling on on these Google Pixel Buds uh throughout all 149 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:26,720 these tests by the way. On this graph, you can see that where 150 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:31,320 you're really going to gain here is consistency because this graph doesn't 151 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:34,080 show it, but we had we were just all over the place every time we put those 152 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:39,760 AirPods in. It sealed differently and then particularly in the bass, 153 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:44,120 sometimes it looked like it just really fell off, and then sometimes it it did a 154 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:49,040 better job. In the in this average, you can see the average is still quite a 155 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:51,960 steep roll off compared to the lower notes that you can get out of these more 156 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:57,720 consistently. And one other big difference you can see here is where the buds really drop off 157 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:01,560 around 1.5K, the AirPods still have that little peak 158 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,360 there, so that's going to make them probably a little more shouty or honky, 159 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:12,800 But if you're not happy, you can go into the app the app air quotes app and do 160 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,760 some EQing. Let's check it out. The reason I'm doing air quotes for the app 161 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:21,839 is because you actually don't need to download an app. All of it is in the settings of your 162 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:26,040 Android device. No guarantees for iPhone, I don't know what that looks like. So, here we are in the Bluetooth 163 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:29,360 kind of details page, and you can see there's just some extra things. You can 164 00:11:27,839 --> 00:11:33,400 see we have a couple of quick controls for you know some of the things that are actually on the buds themselves like 165 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,960 switching between noise cancellation, transparency, and off. You can just 166 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:40,440 manually do it there. You can choose the notifications and preferences for your 167 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:44,760 digital assistant which which can actually be Gemini on these. 168 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:48,400 And you can turn on or off the the ability to have like the multi-connect 169 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:53,120 thing where like I'm listening on my laptop, now I'm listening on my phone. 170 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:55,800 You can also launch even more settings. And now that we're in here, we can 171 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,200 finally see the EQ and also the touch controls which let's just take a little 172 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:04,280 side quest there. Use touch controls is just on or off, 173 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:07,280 that's kind of cool just in case sometimes you do get those like false 174 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:11,880 positives, so it's it's nice to have that. They really 175 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:15,000 give you like no ability to change the controls. 176 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:19,440 The only thing you can change is what the long press does, and that 177 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,600 can either be the noise cancelling or it can be the digital assistant. You got a 178 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:27,160 single tap for pressing play like normal, the double for next, the triple for back. That's all normal, but you 179 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:31,280 can't change any of that, and critically, you can't adjust the volume. 180 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:37,440 Even like like I don't like adjusting volume with swipes, that sucks, but you can't 181 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:41,440 even do that. You can on the Pros, so I guess are they like paywalling that? 182 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,760 Personally, I I think that's just like bonkers. That's 183 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,360 not something that you should like have to pay extra for. It's just bad if you 184 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,960 don't have it, that stinks. Um I really don't like having to take my 185 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,880 phone out of my pocket or reach down and and touch it just to adjust the volume, 186 00:12:53,680 --> 00:13:01,920 so You got your ear tip seal check. Here's 187 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:05,320 the oh balance, what? Is this like if 188 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:07,040 one of my ears is better than the other? 189 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:11,920 It is. It's just like your in your s- car stereo. 190 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,360 I can like share earbuds with my like 191 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:17,360 aged father-in-law. I could turn him up and keep me low. 192 00:13:15,839 --> 00:13:20,720 That's kind of interesting, but I'll probably never use that personally, 193 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,960 might be great for you though. And what we have been looking for, the equalizer. 194 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,720 It's a lot more Mickey Mouse than some of the equalizers I've seen. 195 00:13:26,839 --> 00:13:33,839 Uh as you can see, you only get five knobs, and they go up and down. Uh it 196 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:38,440 doesn't really say decibels, minus 16 plus 60, whatever that 197 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:43,120 means. Uh they have what? Do they have Yeah, some presets. Heavy bass, light 198 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:47,400 bass, balanced. You can see them move around, and then if I tweak one, can I I 199 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:52,040 can save it? It's just called last saved. Can I save multiple? You can't 200 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:56,080 have like profile 1 2 and 3. That stinks. And then there's an option to 201 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:59,240 turn the volume EQ off. That's that's like it. When you turn it down, certain 202 00:13:57,839 --> 00:14:03,040 frequencies get boosted up because your ear isn't isn't as sensitive to all 203 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:07,400 frequencies equally. Does that make sense? The battery life kind of mid, 204 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,680 honestly. Not very impressive. 7 hours from the buds themselves is nice, but 205 00:14:08,839 --> 00:14:13,640 you're only getting 20 total listening time 206 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:18,520 with the case. That's with active noise cancelling on. It's a pretty slim case, 207 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:22,240 but it's not smaller than an AirPods case, and that battery life is 208 00:14:19,959 --> 00:14:25,560 definitely worse. You do get 1 hour of listening 209 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:28,160 from just 5 minutes of charge, so that's cool. 210 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,000 But I mean maybe this matters to you or not. Like maybe you got your watch, you 211 00:14:29,839 --> 00:14:36,400 put it on your bedside, you charge everything every day, you'll be fine. 212 00:14:33,079 --> 00:14:37,520 They're IP54 rated, so splashes and like 213 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:43,280 wearing them in the gym, sweat's not going to mess with them. This is not an exceptional rating, it's very it's a 214 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:47,760 basic rating even on on budget earbuds. So, what do I think of these guys? I 215 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:51,440 think they're okay. They're okay. I think the out-of-the-box sound profile 216 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:55,560 is better than some, and you have some ability to EQ though I don't see any 217 00:14:53,040 --> 00:15:00,160 ability to upload your own custom EQ like we could on the Nothings which it 218 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:04,760 was dope. Um so I'm that's kind of sorely missed here, but you know, 219 00:15:02,839 --> 00:15:08,720 they're pretty fine, and if you are just kind of on the fence or ambivalent about 220 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:12,959 which ones you're going to get, maybe vote with your wallet and get these ones 221 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:18,079 that have the repairable battery thing just as a you know, a signal that you 222 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:20,600 think that is important to have, and you want other people to do it. Thanks for 223 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,640 watching ShortCircuit guys. If you like this video, go check out my unboxing of 224 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:29,560 the Nothing 3s that I did a couple weeks ago, or Linus' look at the new AirPods 225 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:33,720 Pro 3s. That's what they're called, right? There's so many combinations of 226 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:36,520 numbers and Pros and non-Pros and Gleven.