WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960 They finally done it. Someone from a big 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:11.920 company has made an earbud or at least a part of an earbud that is battery 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:16.840 replaceable. Not the buds themselves, but apparently the battery of the case 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:20.480 is replaceable. And that you That is a baby step worth applauding. And I'm 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 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.040 in this box. These are the 2A's, the 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:34.920 Pixel Buds 2A. And they come with some tips. They come with like a little 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:38.640 instruction graphic pictograph thing. Oh, look at these 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.200 tips. They're colored. They're like a lilac. Extra small, small, and large. 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 00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:52.520 tips correspond to like a colorway option. I looks like they do. It looks 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 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 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 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:07.920 cringe that they have that. Have you seen that? Cold and has all his cards. I 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:11.040 was like I almost had to tuck and roll out under the pavement. 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:15.880 I'm not looking at this yet. We're finishing this. 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:19.760 This looks like it's, if not recyclable, made from recycled material, uh which is 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.200 very good. And there's no Is there a cable? This is 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:27.600 just a little book. There's no Look at this thing. This is like a 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.800 little pocket Bible. It's like a 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:36.640 phone book for ants. That's insane, but there's no There's no 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:36.640 charging cable. That That's insane. 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:44.520 You You guys can sense I'm kind of unhinged right now. Speaking of hinges, 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:47.720 always like to test the sound, like the fidget ability of it. 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:51.160 You know, just in case you want to take public transit and just mess with 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.960 people. Don't take them out though. Play the music from the speaker on your phone. 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:59.760 It has that familiar like enemies from Portal kind of industrial design 00:01:58.160 --> 00:02:04.320 egg-shaped thing. The diffused LED light indicator and the 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:07.560 hardware pairing button right there you get to press. What I look for in a 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:11.200 earbud is a really tactile pairing button. 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:16.120 Oh, yeah. She's good for 50 million clicks. And of course, USB-C charging 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:19.600 on your bottom. Critically though, no discernible way to open this up and tear 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:23.520 it down. Uh so, I'll keep looking. If I If I look 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:27.160 in here I can and squint, I can see there are actually two tiny screws. I 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, 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.000 I think it's probably going to be in professional territory. Maybe I have to 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 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, 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:48.840 if I was really inebriated or something like that, can I still figure out which 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 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:56.640 like without looking? Oh, that was That did it. 00:02:54.760 --> 00:03:01.720 That's pretty easy. And if you mess it up, Jesus, I just can't. 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:05.920 And if you do, can you What? Wow, they did it. They're James-proof. 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:10.120 I can't even demo them going in stupidly. There's also a screw at the 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 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:19.440 unscrewing that to get at the battery. Magnetic tip versus magnetic case, I 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:23.520 Give me that. Give me that. Come here. 00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:26.520 Come here. If I break this, the video's over before you even get to 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:31.440 listen to them then. Should probably do this last, but you know what? I'm Oh, 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.480 doing it for you guys. Cool. This whole thing came off. Weird. I'm 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:38.160 just looking at It looks like a like a controller, like a GameCube controller 00:03:37.160 --> 00:03:41.920 or something, you know, with that like rubber pad on the backside of the of 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:45.560 that button, which is I guess should be expected. And then you can also see that 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:48.880 this this light that the plastic's thinner there to allow that light to go 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:53.440 through. Now that we got her in her birthday suit here, 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 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:02.160 this. Do you think anyone will just run it run it naked like this? 00:04:00.600 --> 00:04:06.240 Kind of cool. And then they have this little paper tab. 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.560 And if you give it a pull, oh, this whole thing slides out. And 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:14.040 there's like these little kind of pogo pins on the inside. And then this is 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:19.840 like the battery caddy that connects from that little pad right there 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:25.480 and holds the battery. Rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 1600 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:28.320 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. I I thought that was going to tell me the 00:04:26.440 --> 00:04:33.360 milliamp hours or something. No. Okay, this battery module, I have a feeling 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.960 you wouldn't actually get to replace that little little candy on the inside. 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:40.720 You'd probably replace the whole caddy and that. It's probably glued in there. 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 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:48.880 this little bit almost looks like a rivet a rivet that's like gone through 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:53.640 there and bent over. Now on here it says g.co/pixelrepair, 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:57.960 which brings you to a generic site. So, you got to type in 00:04:56.040 --> 00:05:02.880 your What number is this? A serial number? And they put it in such a 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:07.120 convenient spot. It's actually written in the well in 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, 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 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:19.920 to read this thing that is blocked by this thing. It's the worst. And 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:22.080 it's so tiny. Guys, we paused for a second. We had like three different 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:25.800 people try to read this. We had like our phone flashlights on it. It's insanely 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:30.400 tiny. So, okay. Thank you, but like make this easy 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:34.840 on me. Going through the website, it doesn't really look like they have it 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:38.880 set up yet where like there's definitely not a product page where you can just 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 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 00:05:44.840 --> 00:05:51.880 know, some opportunity or room for it to possibly work at some point. We'll see. 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:56.200 There is a little QR code on this thing though. I'm going to try that. 00:05:54.320 --> 00:06:00.320 If your own phone can't scan the QR code, 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:03.920 you got problems. It says move back to improve focus, Reese. 00:06:02.760 --> 00:06:07.920 That means the people who work there don't run Pixels. All right, enough with 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 00:06:09.880 --> 00:06:15.920 than last ones cuz they don't have these like big little dangly wings anymore. 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:18.840 They do have these little nubbings on them. 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:23.000 Um but overall, they're kind of smaller and lighter. They're stemless, which 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:30.280 means you're going to be relying on the touch capacitive swipy dealy. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.760 Oh, yeah. All right. Noise canceling is on. 00:06:35.520 --> 00:06:41.120 They feel pretty connected to my body, 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:45.640 you know. They're one with my cranium. 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 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:56.320 on repeated tests with this, he was able to get a very consistent seal 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:59.480 in our dummy head. He even got it to seal with two different sizes of ear 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:03.200 tips, which wasn't true of last year's. I probably need two different sizes. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:08.480 You guys ever do that? One medium, one large? It feels wrong. 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:13.360 That's actually not statistically uncommon. Oh, this is cool. I like to plug this 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.360 back in now. 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:20.800 Damn, that's satisfying. If you're talking to me, I can barely hear you. 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:23.920 You're canceled. You know, let me try to let me try the ambient noise. 00:07:22.520 --> 00:07:27.440 Is it going to I haven't even paired them. 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 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:36.120 and look at graphs right after this message from our sponsor. Thanks to 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:39.800 DeleteMe for sponsoring this video. In a world where you need an email or phone 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:45.400 number to sign up for just about everything, DeleteMe's data removal service can help 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:49.800 you keep that information secure. They'll comb through exhaustive lists of 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:54.160 data brokers looking to profit off of your personal identifiers and send 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:58.600 regular removal requests on your behalf. 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Don't just slip this into a stranger's 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:39.039 back pocket and use it to find out where they live. This noise canceling is 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:41.880 better than the Nothing Pro 3s that I tried last time. 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:48.760 Okay, these I would say are for bass heads, but they're not like 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:52.440 comically wrong. Um ooh, my ears. 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 00:08:57.160 --> 00:09:04.280 onto them, which helped it a lot. Um those were like My music is obviously 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:08.040 playing incorrectly. And those were similar to AirPods Pro 3s honestly in 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:12.520 the amount of bass. These Pull up the graph. These do have a lot 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 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:19.840 I would say like these are kind of bassier than I would want, at least for 00:09:18.280 --> 00:09:24.080 metal. I was just listening to rock music, right? The problem though with 00:09:21.520 --> 00:09:28.400 these is this scooped-out trough in like the upper mids low treble over here. 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:31.640 They have this warm sound, um but it just feels like something's 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:36.680 missing. It feels like the whole thing is kind of too bassy, but then with like 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:39.440 sparkly kind of overcooked highs on top. 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:42.720 Um fortunately, you can tune these a little bit. You can EQ them a little bit 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 00:09:44.760 --> 00:09:49.520 warmer version. Last gen, it was cooler. But the more interesting comparison is 00:09:48.280 --> 00:09:55.560 actually the Pro 2s, which look fairly close, but 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 00:09:57.680 --> 00:10:03.240 and you can see that they're just way more consistently in band compared to 00:10:01.560 --> 00:10:07.240 the blue. Whilst they still having kind of the 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:11.360 same weakness that again that trough in the in the low treble. And then 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:14.960 comparing to the AirPods 4, not the Pros, 00:10:12.760 --> 00:10:19.880 just the regular 4s that which do have active noise cancelling. Uh and we had 00:10:17.880 --> 00:10:23.240 active noise cancelling on on these Google Pixel Buds uh throughout all 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:26.720 these tests by the way. On this graph, you can see that where 00:10:25.280 --> 00:10:31.320 you're really going to gain here is consistency because this graph doesn't 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 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:39.760 AirPods in. It sealed differently and then particularly in the bass, 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:44.120 sometimes it looked like it just really fell off, and then sometimes it it did a 00:10:41.800 --> 00:10:49.040 better job. In the in this average, you can see the average is still quite a 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:51.960 steep roll off compared to the lower notes that you can get out of these more 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 00:10:55.640 --> 00:11:01.560 around 1.5K, the AirPods still have that little peak 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:05.360 there, so that's going to make them probably a little more shouty or honky, 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 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 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 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 00:11:24.680 --> 00:11:29.360 kind of details page, and you can see there's just some extra things. You can 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 00:11:31.880 --> 00:11:36.960 switching between noise cancellation, transparency, and off. You can just 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:40.440 manually do it there. You can choose the notifications and preferences for your 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:44.760 digital assistant which which can actually be Gemini on these. 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:48.400 And you can turn on or off the the ability to have like the multi-connect 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:53.120 thing where like I'm listening on my laptop, now I'm listening on my phone. 00:11:50.680 --> 00:11:55.800 You can also launch even more settings. And now that we're in here, we can 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:59.200 finally see the EQ and also the touch controls which let's just take a little 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:04.280 side quest there. Use touch controls is just on or off, 00:12:01.880 --> 00:12:07.280 that's kind of cool just in case sometimes you do get those like false 00:12:05.640 --> 00:12:11.880 positives, so it's it's nice to have that. They really 00:12:09.640 --> 00:12:15.000 give you like no ability to change the controls. 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:19.440 The only thing you can change is what the long press does, and that 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:22.600 can either be the noise cancelling or it can be the digital assistant. You got a 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 00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:31.280 can't change any of that, and critically, you can't adjust the volume. 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 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:41.440 even do that. You can on the Pros, so I guess are they like paywalling that? 00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:44.760 Personally, I I think that's just like bonkers. That's 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 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:51.960 don't have it, that stinks. Um I really don't like having to take my 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, 00:12:53.680 --> 00:13:01.920 so You got your ear tip seal check. Here's 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:05.320 the oh balance, what? Is this like if 00:13:01.920 --> 00:13:07.040 one of my ears is better than the other? 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:11.920 It is. It's just like your in your s- car stereo. 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:14.360 I can like share earbuds with my like 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:17.360 aged father-in-law. I could turn him up and keep me low. 00:13:15.839 --> 00:13:20.720 That's kind of interesting, but I'll probably never use that personally, 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.960 might be great for you though. And what we have been looking for, the equalizer. 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:28.720 It's a lot more Mickey Mouse than some of the equalizers I've seen. 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 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:38.440 doesn't really say decibels, minus 16 plus 60, whatever that 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:43.120 means. Uh they have what? Do they have Yeah, some presets. Heavy bass, light 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 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:52.040 can save it? It's just called last saved. Can I save multiple? You can't 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:56.080 have like profile 1 2 and 3. That stinks. And then there's an option to 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 00:13:57.839 --> 00:14:03.040 frequencies get boosted up because your ear isn't isn't as sensitive to all 00:14:01.520 --> 00:14:07.400 frequencies equally. Does that make sense? The battery life kind of mid, 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.680 honestly. Not very impressive. 7 hours from the buds themselves is nice, but 00:14:08.839 --> 00:14:13.640 you're only getting 20 total listening time 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:18.520 with the case. That's with active noise cancelling on. It's a pretty slim case, 00:14:15.880 --> 00:14:22.240 but it's not smaller than an AirPods case, and that battery life is 00:14:19.959 --> 00:14:25.560 definitely worse. You do get 1 hour of listening 00:14:23.400 --> 00:14:28.160 from just 5 minutes of charge, so that's cool. 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 00:14:29.839 --> 00:14:36.400 put it on your bedside, you charge everything every day, you'll be fine. 00:14:33.079 --> 00:14:37.520 They're IP54 rated, so splashes and like 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 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:47.760 basic rating even on on budget earbuds. So, what do I think of these guys? I 00:14:45.160 --> 00:14:51.440 think they're okay. They're okay. I think the out-of-the-box sound profile 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 00:14:53.040 --> 00:15:00.160 ability to upload your own custom EQ like we could on the Nothings which it 00:14:57.640 --> 00:15:04.760 was dope. Um so I'm that's kind of sorely missed here, but you know, 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 00:15:06.920 --> 00:15:12.959 which ones you're going to get, maybe vote with your wallet and get these ones 00:15:11.400 --> 00:15:18.079 that have the repairable battery thing just as a you know, a signal that you 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:20.600 think that is important to have, and you want other people to do it. Thanks for 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:24.640 watching ShortCircuit guys. If you like this video, go check out my unboxing of 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 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:33.720 Pro 3s. That's what they're called, right? There's so many combinations of 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:36.520 numbers and Pros and non-Pros and Gleven.