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pixel buds doesn't say pixel buds too

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maybe because google knows that this is basically what everyone expected the

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first time around these are truly wireless earbuds made by

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google they go great with your pixel phone or other Android device they're

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basically like air pods for Android

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let's check it out now i will admit that the pixel buzz

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is bigger it's a little fatter

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it's a little taller basically every dimension it's a little bigger but it's

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still really small um this really has a portal vibe to it is anyone else getting it

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yes pretty satisfying

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also has a bit of a rattle there's integrated lights on here to tell you if

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they're charged or charging and it's nice and soft inside and

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outside and usbc charging that is wicked they advertise

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five hours of playback on the headphones and then all together

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with a fully charged charge case 24 hours looks like they give you an

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additional two sizes this is smaller and larger sizes of silicone

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ear tips no wall wart but they do give you a cable

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a little instruction book and this is just telling me how to pair

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so there's two different sections here there's how to how to pair with

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a pixel phone that's running Android 6.0

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or higher and any other device it's the

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pixel phone pairing which we're going to see today on my device and that is the magic type

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if you look at the other devices section it pairs just like any bluetooth

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headphones on a lot of headphones you have to hold down a button on the earphones

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and you'll hear in your ear it'll say pairing but

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on this one the pairing button is not on the headphones it's

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it's here on the case oh it's on the

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back there it is here it is on the case and i actually

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like the pairing button being on the case because having it on the headphones just adds complexity

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usually hold down the button on the headphones to get into pairing mode but

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you also usually hold to hail a virtual assistant

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and one hold is just longer than another hold it's way simpler just to have that

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on the case i like that okay so i am just

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going to open the case i already paired this so i

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don't know if it's going to do the magic thing anymore tap to pair with this device it's right

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at the top of my bluetooth devices screen

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james's pixel butts just named them for me based on my device's name i guess

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that's pretty sweet it's almost like an integrated app right in the settings

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i get the battery level for left and right and the case

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all the settings the app are right here i don't have to download a separate

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companion app that's cool although that is going to limit the functionality of the app a bit

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there's no eq setting or

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actually these aren't that fully featured to begin with so it doesn't really matter for example these are not

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active noise cancelling headphones that's why i'm comparing them to the airpods and not

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the airpods pro so therefore because they're not active noise cancelling you

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don't need additional um settings for things like how

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aggressive do you want the noise cancelling to be how transparent do you want it to be for

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ambient noises there are some things you can fiddle with in here

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like check this out find device let's say

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i left this one over there i can't find it i can ring the left or the right one

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ding ding ding ding i don't know why they don't just start at the highest

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volume but maybe if you're like looking for it and it's already in your ear they don't want

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to blast you this is an amazing feature i love this and you can see that they're smaller

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than they used to be the original pixel buds i think were like kind of a bigger

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disc than this and they were so weird to fit in your ears you can check out the touch

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controls in here but you can't change anything and i don't actually fault it for that

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because the way they set it up makes sense it follows all the normal

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conventions and as i alluded to earlier there's not so many features on

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here that i have to choose anyway so you can raise the volume by swiping

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forward and backward to lower it and that's nice because not all bluetooth headphones actually have

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volume controls on the earphones but because this is fully capacitive

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they can do things like swipes instead of just having to click triple click double click sick

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there's also the assistant which you can interact with two ways you

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can hold down burden or you can say the hot word

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verbally which i actually prefer although in lots of situations you're

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not going to want to talk at all the reason i prefer just saying the hot

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word is that when you hold it down to hail the assistant

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it doesn't just go badunk and listen to you it actually gives you like this

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little report it'll say the time it's 10 47 am

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no new notifications or one notification from Jake tybee so it gives you this

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little report before you're allowed to talk which is a kind of a bit annoying

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adaptive sound is kind of like that feature in your car if you have a nice

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car where if you drive faster the stereo turns up basically uses the mics of the

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headphone to see what's around you and raise the volume if you suddenly walk

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into a loud subway or something like that in ear detection of course you pull out

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one earphone and the playback pauses very nice airpods have had that since

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the beginning the thing that kind of sucks though is there's quite a

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bit more delay than i would like i'm listening to music this is great

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excuse me oh damn that was instant

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huh prove me wrong maybe it's because i actually have the app open let me try

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not being in this settings app and just being my music app music's on

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on on on off

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on off that's that's a pretty big delay

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and of course because it's google they really are pushing the assistant on

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these and it's actually great integration uh you can use your

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voice match settings of course so that it knows who you are and what's cool is

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when someone messages you you can just respond to them without having to pull

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your phone out of your pocket so i was messaging Jake earlier and i'll

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just hear borudunk and then he'll say message from Jake tybee and he'll just read it out it

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doesn't ask me do you want me to read it i don't have to do any kind of high friction flow

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it just has meshes from Jake tybee penis penis penis

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for 2069 or you know the kind of stuff that we talk about now if it is a really

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long message or an email or a message from an app

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that's weirder like microsoft teams in those cases it will just say message

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from so and so do you want me to read it or i think

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i've also heard a message from so and so and they'll even

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give you a little tutorial like uh when you get a message like this just hold

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down and i'll read it or you can reply okay let's talk about how they sound right

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so you check them out at the link below i am keeping the media mirror tips in

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because i'm getting a pretty good seal with those and this little fin that they

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have on it you can't remove those and they don't have different sizes of those

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which they do on other like jaybirds for example but i'm not mad at it i find it

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comfortable and it makes me orient this the correct way and keeps in mind it's pretty good

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now when i had listened to the previous generation of these earphones

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my impression with those original pixel buds was that they were

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kind of distant sounding but uh quite

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bassy with these ones i feel the bass is less pronounced especially the high bass

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but there is actually more low bass and you can see this if you look at the

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frequency response curve they're way more forward um

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they're more like playful and immediate they're kind of right there they're very

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clear and articulate which means i can hear all the different sounds in a track all

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the little all the little chimes and bells that are kind of lower in the mix i can still

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hear those there's good separation between all the instruments so they're pretty pleasant

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to listen to they're pretty good there is a bit again looking at that frequency response curve there's a bit

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of a dip in the highs where you can hear the

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really high trebles but um kind of the mid treble you

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there's a dip there the one result of that is that when you hear

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symbols they sound a little more

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than don't get me wrong like these sound fine i'm

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kind of like nitpicking but if you compare this response curve to

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uh what you got on airpods like these have way more bass and they're

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closer to neutral a loss across the

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spectrum than they were compared to airpods or than they were with the original

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pixel blood so i'm really impressed with these they sound great let's see how

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loud these things go yeah okay okay

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they definitely go louder than i would ever want to listen to actually kind of

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damaging but maybe you're more deaf than i am or in a louder environment so

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that's fine they have quite a bit of isolation it almost feels weird to talk

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with them in it's like wearing earplugs my voice sounds different with them in

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and i just like how small and discreet they are they look awesome and there's also a version

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in black this is kind of like the pando white and black version but i think you

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can get all black as well more executive feel so the airpods

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without the wireless charging case because there are two variants of airpods

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charging cases the most basic one is 160 bucks

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these are 180 however this case does

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wireless charging you can put on a wireless charger and charge your earphones

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to get that on the airpods is 200 bucks so

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combined with the fact that you know it's cheaper than

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the comparable airpod and in my opinion sounds quite a bit better

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i think these actually are pretty good value i'm not going to say they're like

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the best Android headphones to get until we do a deeper

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dive on LTT where we compare them to like the samsung buds sennheiser's and

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airpods side by side and just see what you're really getting for the

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price but my initial impression and unboxing is these are actually pretty

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sweet and i wish google had made these two years ago um but they're here now so i'm happy

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about that if you like this video guys get subscribed and stay tuned we've got

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lots of other headphone reviews coming up i know Linus is checking out some i think lg ones or something like that

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and of course i just checked out those weird grado hemp headphones which are over

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years lots of good stuff check it out