I Don't Hate Them Anymore - OnePlus Buds Pro
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,385 words · ~11 min read
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- All right OnePlus, they're back with their buds. This time their Buds Pro.
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Famously, I was kind of a hater of the original OnePlus Buds.
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I thought the interface totally made them unbuyable. Let's give these a fair shake,
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I read the reviewer's guide. I'm intrigued- (paper rips)
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Especially for $150.
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I like the box, It's very gropey. This is not an ASMR channel.
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Do I just need to shake a bunch? Ugh.
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How embarrassing. This is what they want you to see okay. That's the presentation that OnePlus is about.
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They always have good pay packaging. (melodious music)
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Just joking. I don't want that there. One Plus. Never settle.
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Unless you're the founder, and in which case you just leave and make another headphone company.
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They wanted to sell. He didn't want it. Or he did sell. I don't know what happened.
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You get a paper thing. Oh, look a hidden box beneath.
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Whoop. And there's more. This is just getting insane.
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It's showing me where on the bud I actually need
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to make contact. I guess it wasn't intuitive.
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But at least from the picture, that seems like an ergonomic way to adjust them.
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So we will investigate that. Yeah, come on don't embarrass me.
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This is the same cable that came with the other OnePlus buds
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except that one had a red inner wrapper
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on the inside of their cable, which is something they typically do for their one plus branding which I like.
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The inside of both of these is just white which doesn't matter.
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You're not buying a cable. You're buying earphones.
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Oh, I'm sorry. That's not perfect anymore.
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(tosses box) It looks like you know maybe you got medium on the buds
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and then you've got the small and large here. Pretty typical white tips
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because we got the white glossy white variant of the headphones.
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There are two variants. The other one is matte black. Warranty and safety.
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I like to live dangerously. I don't wash my rice.
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(laughs)
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Jono just threw up in his mouth a little bit. It's a glossy white box.
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I, yeah, it's got a shiny OnePlus text
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on the top not the logo. It has a USBC charging port on the back of it
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beside its glossy chrome hinge.
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It's a little creaky even now.
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(clicks earphone package) And here's the sound of the open and close.
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(open and closing sound) Pretty good closing sound.
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All right let's open it up. And there they are. What a sweet presentation.
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These have a very premium look. These look awesome honestly.
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Here's some AirPods pros for comparison. So you can see that the OnePlus ones here
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compared to the apple AirPods pro here, the OnePlus ones are more matte.
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They kind of more tactile texturey, less glossy,
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even though they are called glossy.
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They don't have this big black thing on the end so they look a little simpler and cleaner.
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Both of these have these meshes. AirPods pros actually have a filter in their ear tip
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that goes in front of the buds mesh. That goes on very easily.
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These ones that's just a hole baby. All right let's pair these starting with a OnePlus device,
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which I don't own, but Brandon does. So can I borrow that thing?
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And the reason is there's usually a kind of a magic apple like pairing process with one plus devices.
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- [Brandon] It already gave me a notification. Whoa. His phone is already detecting them.
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What does it say? I just hit connect.
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Connecting. I don't even have to press the button on the case really?
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Connected. And now it's going right into a tutorial telling me
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to pinch the stems for playing pause and oh,
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it's telling me the battery level. Oh it's gone. Just like that. It was gone.
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Wow. That's cool. I don't want to look at that now though. I now I'm going to unpair them
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and see what it's like on a normal Android phone.
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Open. One plus buds pro they're sitting at the bottom of the list there.
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You can choose if you're gonna use AAC as your codec.
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You gonna use this for phone calls or not, media audio or not.
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However, there is an app which I already downloaded called HeyMelody.
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Your phone is trying to connect to these things again. (laughs)
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Earbuds controls. Now this is it guys. Because the thing I hated about the last ones
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is they only had one interface function- double-tap.
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And only if you had a OnePlus device, I think it would one of the newer ones.
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Only then could you customize the interface. And you could only customize the double tap.
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You can change double tap to do different functions. You could not say I want you to single tap or triple tap.
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And said there was no swipe, there was no hole, the long press- nothing.
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So I really am interested to see if they've remedied that on this device.
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Quick squeeze earbud stem. Double squeeze earbud stem.
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Triple squeeze earbud stem. Squeeze and hold.
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Long touch and hold. You cannot change the quick squeeze
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from being play and pause. That is set. Okay, well let's get them out of the case and into my ears
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All right I actually can't wait to put these in.
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They have a kind of a chalky feel. Okay there's already some kind of whoa.
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I'm listening to a podcast suddenly. Ah, Kevin, O'Leary shut up.
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What is this? This is just what's playing. Smooth kind of reggae beats.
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It sounds really spacious. I think these have better bass than the Non Pros,
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which I remember being kind of, they had kind of a sizzling highs and not a lot of bass.
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Now let's the interface here. Quick squeeze.
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First try paused it. Not too bad. There's a little feedback sound.
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It is very subtle and quiet. I like that. It has like, almost like a, like a wooden quality to it.
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Like it's a little twig getting stressed or flex or something.
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I don't know. It just works. The latency is not too bad. This is squeeze paused, squeezed playing.
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Ah, let's see if they pause when you pull it out and I'm going to try not to squeeze.
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Yeah, it paused. I am just a ruiner of new tips.
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Oh, it started playing again. I wonder why. Can I do any volume on these things?
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It doesn't look like it. I'm gonna try squeezing and holding.
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It went bring, but I don't know what happened.
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Transparency mode? Now it went bring.
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And this sounds more like noise canceling,
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but it's very gentle. So on these ear buds. Oh my God the tip came off in my ear.
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That's so scary. Was this even the one that I messed with.
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Ah, oh my God.
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Help! I need some tweezers here. I just cut my fingernails so.
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- [Jono] That's like everyone's nightmare right there. I know once when I was a kid, a bug flew in my ear
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and then it just died in there when I was trying to get it out. I think it's like a mosquito.
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Oh, oh hold on. No wait I might've had it. Another time there was like a small little piece of plastic,
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like shaped like a heart that I just found in my ear in bed once when I was like eight.
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It just like came out. I was like yeah anyways, didn't need the tweezers.
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Thank you. Scariest thing imaginable.
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Ah, let's see if I can get these on properly now. Okay.
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Hope confidence. Confidence. So the claim to fame for these is that
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not only are they active noise-canceling, but they have different levels of active noise canceling.
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It will adjust automatically depending on the ambient noise around you.
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So again, there are three microphones in here. And so let's say you're walking
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and it's a quiet nice day in a meadow. You don't need a lot of noise canceling,
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but then suddenly a large truck drives by you and it'll up it.
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And then you arrive at your destination which is an airplane. It'll up it again.
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So you never have to touch these,
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the sensitivity of the ANC. It just scales automatically.
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That is the claim. I'm not here to test that. This is just an unboxing,
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but I do want to see where in the app. I can just the sensitivity of the ANC.
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Right there front and center. Noise cancellation settings. Noise cancellation off right now.
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Let's put these back in. Oh, I put them in it automatically went to transparency
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for a second before automatically going to noise cancellation. It might've done that cause I touched it.
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Now you can see I've got smart which is on now. This is gentle.
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It went (makes phone noise). This is max.
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I feel at max noise cancellation only a very slight amount
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of extra pressure on the drums. It's really, it doesn't really feel any different
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from minimum. Transparency is on. It barely feels like it's on.
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Can you talk to me? - [Brandon] Hey James, how's it going?
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These are still isolating. Honestly, it doesn't feel like there's transparency
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on at all right now. What if I turn that off? - [Brandon] One, two, three, four, five, six.
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No, that didn't help. My voice sounds a little different,
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but that didn't help you at all. So yeah.
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Transparency could be a little stronger and I'd like to have an option. Lots of headphones give you an option of how strong that is.
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Okay what else do they have in here? Zen mode air. This song is silly. What is?
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♪ He's the greatest dancer ♪ (laughs)
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It's hilarious. Okay Zen mode air, squeeze and hold the earbuds.
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then for three seconds to play white noise. (makes earbud noise)
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It actually just sounds like transparency mode is on. So squeeze and hold versus long touch and hold.
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But then down here it says squeeze and hold.
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Hello. I'm gonna check...
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At least two items need to be selected. Why do they do this?
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Like just let me do whatever I want. Why is this one locked?
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Like just let me do whatever I want. Okay what else you got in here? Zen mode just didn't work.
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So that's about everything in the app. I think I want to listen a little bit more.
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And I just want to listen to Papa Roach now. (laughs)
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I want to, I want to do. ♪ Doodoop doodoop doodoop. ♪
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Oh, don't go loud guys. Ah this hurts!
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Yeah they go louder than I want. And they don't sound their best when they're that loud.
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Unsurprisingly it's kinda how it goes. Pretty bassy. This song right now.
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There's like a Tom drum breakdown. (makes drum noise)
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And it's pretty bassy, but it doesn't sound necessarily wrong.
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I haven't heard this song a long time. It's possible that this band tuned their drums
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like that low and spaciously, but it might not be flat.
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It might be a little bassy.
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These are sweet. I like them. I like these 150 bucks is a good deal
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for headphones of this quality. I think the industrial design is cool.
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The interface feels pretty good. It sucks that there's no volume control, but that's fine.
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I'm excited to explore the ANC- the smart ANC.
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That's a cool feature. I hope it works well. These are playing again.
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These are really they're kind of sensitive,
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but get them back in the box. I like the size of the box and the battery life.
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I haven't even talked about. But they are at claiming 38 hours
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with the charge case with ANC off.
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38 hours is a lot and it's 28 hours with ANC.
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That's still a lot. And then it has fast charging. So they're claiming that battery life
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is just not gonna be a thing for you because you can charge it so fast and it lasts so long.
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So that's cool. As far as ingress protection goes, typically you see IPX4, which is what the case has.
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But the buds themselves actually have IP55,
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which is low pressure jets streams on them.
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So you could maybe wear these in the shower.
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Probably definitely wear them in hard rain. Yeah I think these are gonna be very popular
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because of the price and the brand recognition and just an overall it's a pretty good product.
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I don't like that squeakiness, but the belts themselves look cool.
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They look really cool in black and they are cheaper than the competition.
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You know it's $280 for the Sony truly wireless ANCs.
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And that's comparable to the AirPods pro.
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So I think these are a great budget option.
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Yeah these are gonna be great. I like them a lot more than the non pros.
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