the pixel buds come with a charging case features exclusive to pixel phones and
they're priced at 159 making them pretty much the Android
equivalent to apple's airpods but are these even close to as good and
can they deliver on their promise of offering magical
real-time translation just like they did
in the scripted onstage demo i think kinda blue would suit you
all right we will see
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the link in the video description first things first the pixel buds are
not truly wireless but unlike some other
neck buds like the jaybird freedoms there's no battery bump or inline
control everything is contained within the earbuds themselves
so why then does this cable exist at all
well it's actually integral to the buds design starting with the fit the loop
formed at the cable's end actually goes inside-ish
your ear and then can be adjusted for a nice snug fit and to keep them in
in practice it causes a little bit more faffing about to put them in if the
cable slips but it works surprisingly well to hold them in place and being
able to hang them around your neck it could be argued is a convenient way
to keep track of them and besides if you prefer
truly wireless pixel buds you can just diy it anyway by cutting the
ah just kidding not only would cutting off the cable
void your warranty you'd also be totally screwed because the cable does conduct
audio signals not to mention power
the buds hour 120 milliamp hour battery is
completely contained within the left bud
and is not split between the two earphones like with apple's air pods
to charge the battery you will need the included charging case it is not as
small or convenient
or premium feeling as the airpods case i have some doubts about its long-term
durability and the lip around the edge is
pretty stupid okay i actually you know what i don't
like it very much but the process of putting the buds in is about as good as
it could be considering that there's a cable to deal with and it includes a
magic pairing mechanism similar to apples provided that you're
running Android nougat and that you have a little bit of luck
but let's just take them back out and use them compared to the airpods which
only have one gesture which can be remapped depending on your preference
per bud to pause skip track or some in siri
google's offers less flexibility at this time but it does support more gestures
thanks to a capacitive surface that is built into the right bud
so you can actually tap to play and pause you can double tap to have
notifications read to you you can swipe to adjust volume and you can hold it to
summon the google assistant which by the way is
awesome on the pixel buds the instant you touch
the bud no latency or even an acknowledgement tone you can just start
talking what's the price of bitcoin ordering it to play songs get directions
or even send text messages something that isn't supported on the google home
yet sorry i can't send texts yet oh and one
more thing how about that real-time translation
now two months ago dennis and i tried out a different product with that same
promise and the results were how do we put this
tactfully totally broke dick okay so now i'm actually not very
certain if it's working properly
so let's see if google can do any better today you're not dennis
can you get dennis yeah okay so you ready to try again
yes
oh my god you kill me hello it is very nice to meet you
wow it went through a lot of different iterations there
how anna woman is
why is it that whenever we try to do one of these scenarios we end up dating
foreign
okay so
all right thanks dennis
there are some good things here um i don't speak english yeah okay
this is based on google translate rather than whatever that broken thing we were
using before was so the translations are actually pretty good
but a couple of issues first of all this
functionality with the pixel buds only works with the pixel or pixel 2 series
of phones and
what was the point of that
what was the difference between using pixel buds and just
using google translate
so okay let's move on to the one more
fairly important thing that we have to discuss here how do the pixel buds sound
actually not bad compared to the airpods they have a wider sound stage and are
more full-bodied definitely less tinny
meaning i would say they sound better than the airpods overall
with that said despite all of our comparisons between
the two here the buds aren't
really competing with the airpods anyway even though they can totally work with
an iphone including siri integration
what they're competing with is all the other bluetooth headphones that an
Android user might buy in the post headphone jack era
and as long as your device supports the features that you want to use with them
and you don't mind the relatively cumbersome
in our experience pairing and
in-ear insertion process i think they are a pretty good choice
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