pixel buds doesn't say pixel buds too
maybe because google knows that this is basically what everyone expected the
first time around these are truly wireless earbuds made by
google they go great with your pixel phone or other Android device they're
basically like air pods for Android
let's check it out now i will admit that the pixel buzz
is bigger it's a little fatter
it's a little taller basically every dimension it's a little bigger but it's
still really small um this really has a portal vibe to it is anyone else getting it
yes pretty satisfying
also has a bit of a rattle there's integrated lights on here to tell you if
they're charged or charging and it's nice and soft inside and
outside and usbc charging that is wicked they advertise
five hours of playback on the headphones and then all together
with a fully charged charge case 24 hours looks like they give you an
additional two sizes this is smaller and larger sizes of silicone
ear tips no wall wart but they do give you a cable
a little instruction book and this is just telling me how to pair
so there's two different sections here there's how to how to pair with
a pixel phone that's running Android 6.0
or higher and any other device it's the
pixel phone pairing which we're going to see today on my device and that is the magic type
if you look at the other devices section it pairs just like any bluetooth
headphones on a lot of headphones you have to hold down a button on the earphones
and you'll hear in your ear it'll say pairing but
on this one the pairing button is not on the headphones it's
it's here on the case oh it's on the
back there it is here it is on the case and i actually
like the pairing button being on the case because having it on the headphones just adds complexity
usually hold down the button on the headphones to get into pairing mode but
you also usually hold to hail a virtual assistant
and one hold is just longer than another hold it's way simpler just to have that
on the case i like that okay so i am just
going to open the case i already paired this so i
don't know if it's going to do the magic thing anymore tap to pair with this device it's right
at the top of my bluetooth devices screen
james's pixel butts just named them for me based on my device's name i guess
that's pretty sweet it's almost like an integrated app right in the settings
i get the battery level for left and right and the case
all the settings the app are right here i don't have to download a separate
companion app that's cool although that is going to limit the functionality of the app a bit
there's no eq setting or
actually these aren't that fully featured to begin with so it doesn't really matter for example these are not
active noise cancelling headphones that's why i'm comparing them to the airpods and not
the airpods pro so therefore because they're not active noise cancelling you
don't need additional um settings for things like how
aggressive do you want the noise cancelling to be how transparent do you want it to be for
ambient noises there are some things you can fiddle with in here
like check this out find device let's say
i left this one over there i can't find it i can ring the left or the right one
ding ding ding ding i don't know why they don't just start at the highest
volume but maybe if you're like looking for it and it's already in your ear they don't want
to blast you this is an amazing feature i love this and you can see that they're smaller
than they used to be the original pixel buds i think were like kind of a bigger
disc than this and they were so weird to fit in your ears you can check out the touch
controls in here but you can't change anything and i don't actually fault it for that
because the way they set it up makes sense it follows all the normal
conventions and as i alluded to earlier there's not so many features on
here that i have to choose anyway so you can raise the volume by swiping
forward and backward to lower it and that's nice because not all bluetooth headphones actually have
volume controls on the earphones but because this is fully capacitive
they can do things like swipes instead of just having to click triple click double click sick
there's also the assistant which you can interact with two ways you
can hold down burden or you can say the hot word
verbally which i actually prefer although in lots of situations you're
not going to want to talk at all the reason i prefer just saying the hot
word is that when you hold it down to hail the assistant
it doesn't just go badunk and listen to you it actually gives you like this
little report it'll say the time it's 10 47 am
no new notifications or one notification from Jake tybee so it gives you this
little report before you're allowed to talk which is a kind of a bit annoying
adaptive sound is kind of like that feature in your car if you have a nice
car where if you drive faster the stereo turns up basically uses the mics of the
headphone to see what's around you and raise the volume if you suddenly walk
into a loud subway or something like that in ear detection of course you pull out
one earphone and the playback pauses very nice airpods have had that since
the beginning the thing that kind of sucks though is there's quite a
bit more delay than i would like i'm listening to music this is great
excuse me oh damn that was instant
huh prove me wrong maybe it's because i actually have the app open let me try
not being in this settings app and just being my music app music's on
on on on off
on off that's that's a pretty big delay
and of course because it's google they really are pushing the assistant on
these and it's actually great integration uh you can use your
voice match settings of course so that it knows who you are and what's cool is
when someone messages you you can just respond to them without having to pull
your phone out of your pocket so i was messaging Jake earlier and i'll
just hear borudunk and then he'll say message from Jake tybee and he'll just read it out it
doesn't ask me do you want me to read it i don't have to do any kind of high friction flow
it just has meshes from Jake tybee penis penis penis
for 2069 or you know the kind of stuff that we talk about now if it is a really
long message or an email or a message from an app
that's weirder like microsoft teams in those cases it will just say message
from so and so do you want me to read it or i think
i've also heard a message from so and so and they'll even
give you a little tutorial like uh when you get a message like this just hold
down and i'll read it or you can reply okay let's talk about how they sound right
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because i'm getting a pretty good seal with those and this little fin that they
have on it you can't remove those and they don't have different sizes of those
which they do on other like jaybirds for example but i'm not mad at it i find it
comfortable and it makes me orient this the correct way and keeps in mind it's pretty good
now when i had listened to the previous generation of these earphones
my impression with those original pixel buds was that they were
kind of distant sounding but uh quite
bassy with these ones i feel the bass is less pronounced especially the high bass
but there is actually more low bass and you can see this if you look at the
frequency response curve they're way more forward um
they're more like playful and immediate they're kind of right there they're very
clear and articulate which means i can hear all the different sounds in a track all
the little all the little chimes and bells that are kind of lower in the mix i can still
hear those there's good separation between all the instruments so they're pretty pleasant
to listen to they're pretty good there is a bit again looking at that frequency response curve there's a bit
of a dip in the highs where you can hear the
really high trebles but um kind of the mid treble you
there's a dip there the one result of that is that when you hear
symbols they sound a little more
than don't get me wrong like these sound fine i'm
kind of like nitpicking but if you compare this response curve to
uh what you got on airpods like these have way more bass and they're
closer to neutral a loss across the
spectrum than they were compared to airpods or than they were with the original
pixel blood so i'm really impressed with these they sound great let's see how
loud these things go yeah okay okay
they definitely go louder than i would ever want to listen to actually kind of
damaging but maybe you're more deaf than i am or in a louder environment so
that's fine they have quite a bit of isolation it almost feels weird to talk
with them in it's like wearing earplugs my voice sounds different with them in
and i just like how small and discreet they are they look awesome and there's also a version
in black this is kind of like the pando white and black version but i think you
can get all black as well more executive feel so the airpods
without the wireless charging case because there are two variants of airpods
charging cases the most basic one is 160 bucks
these are 180 however this case does
wireless charging you can put on a wireless charger and charge your earphones
to get that on the airpods is 200 bucks so
combined with the fact that you know it's cheaper than
the comparable airpod and in my opinion sounds quite a bit better
i think these actually are pretty good value i'm not going to say they're like
the best Android headphones to get until we do a deeper
dive on LTT where we compare them to like the samsung buds sennheiser's and
airpods side by side and just see what you're really getting for the
price but my initial impression and unboxing is these are actually pretty
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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and of course i just checked out those weird grado hemp headphones which are over
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