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the pixel buds come with a charging case features exclusive to pixel phones and

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they're priced at 159 making them pretty much the Android

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equivalent to apple's airpods but are these even close to as good and

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can they deliver on their promise of offering magical

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real-time translation just like they did

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in the scripted onstage demo i think kinda blue would suit you

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all right we will see

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mass drops best-selling sennheiser hd 6xx headphones are available again for

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only 200 us dollars so check them out at

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the link in the video description first things first the pixel buds are

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not truly wireless but unlike some other

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neck buds like the jaybird freedoms there's no battery bump or inline

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control everything is contained within the earbuds themselves

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so why then does this cable exist at all

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well it's actually integral to the buds design starting with the fit the loop

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formed at the cable's end actually goes inside-ish

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your ear and then can be adjusted for a nice snug fit and to keep them in

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in practice it causes a little bit more faffing about to put them in if the

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cable slips but it works surprisingly well to hold them in place and being

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able to hang them around your neck it could be argued is a convenient way

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to keep track of them and besides if you prefer

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truly wireless pixel buds you can just diy it anyway by cutting the

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ah just kidding not only would cutting off the cable

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void your warranty you'd also be totally screwed because the cable does conduct

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audio signals not to mention power

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the buds hour 120 milliamp hour battery is

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completely contained within the left bud

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and is not split between the two earphones like with apple's air pods

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to charge the battery you will need the included charging case it is not as

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small or convenient

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or premium feeling as the airpods case i have some doubts about its long-term

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durability and the lip around the edge is

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pretty stupid okay i actually you know what i don't

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like it very much but the process of putting the buds in is about as good as

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it could be considering that there's a cable to deal with and it includes a

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magic pairing mechanism similar to apples provided that you're

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running Android nougat and that you have a little bit of luck

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but let's just take them back out and use them compared to the airpods which

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only have one gesture which can be remapped depending on your preference

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per bud to pause skip track or some in siri

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google's offers less flexibility at this time but it does support more gestures

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thanks to a capacitive surface that is built into the right bud

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so you can actually tap to play and pause you can double tap to have

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notifications read to you you can swipe to adjust volume and you can hold it to

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summon the google assistant which by the way is

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awesome on the pixel buds the instant you touch

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the bud no latency or even an acknowledgement tone you can just start

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talking what's the price of bitcoin ordering it to play songs get directions

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or even send text messages something that isn't supported on the google home

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yet sorry i can't send texts yet oh and one

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more thing how about that real-time translation

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now two months ago dennis and i tried out a different product with that same

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promise and the results were how do we put this

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tactfully totally broke dick okay so now i'm actually not very

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certain if it's working properly

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so let's see if google can do any better today you're not dennis

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can you get dennis yeah okay so you ready to try again

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yes

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oh my god you kill me hello it is very nice to meet you

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wow it went through a lot of different iterations there

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how anna woman is

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why is it that whenever we try to do one of these scenarios we end up dating

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foreign

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okay so

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all right thanks dennis

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there are some good things here um i don't speak english yeah okay

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this is based on google translate rather than whatever that broken thing we were

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using before was so the translations are actually pretty good

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but a couple of issues first of all this

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functionality with the pixel buds only works with the pixel or pixel 2 series

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of phones and

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what was the point of that

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what was the difference between using pixel buds and just

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using google translate

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so okay let's move on to the one more

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fairly important thing that we have to discuss here how do the pixel buds sound

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actually not bad compared to the airpods they have a wider sound stage and are

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more full-bodied definitely less tinny

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meaning i would say they sound better than the airpods overall

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with that said despite all of our comparisons between

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the two here the buds aren't

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really competing with the airpods anyway even though they can totally work with

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an iphone including siri integration

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what they're competing with is all the other bluetooth headphones that an

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Android user might buy in the post headphone jack era

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and as long as your device supports the features that you want to use with them

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and you don't mind the relatively cumbersome

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in our experience pairing and

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in-ear insertion process i think they are a pretty good choice

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