- Everyone's talking about Apple stuff these days,
but what about their ugly cousin Beats?
This is the actual retail packaging.
Just joking, it's gonna be good.
We've got three different colors.
Oh, this one's gonna be the stone purple.
I've seen stones like that.
This one is a sage gray.
Sage gray makes it seem like this is a green type of gray,
but I would argue that this is a gray type of green.
What the hell is this, another green one?
- [Jono] Oh, really?
- I can't abide.
This dude cannot abide.
Oh, wait a second.
Oh, they just didn't wanna give me a boring black box.
Here's the real retail packaging.
There they are.
Well, first of all, purple's my favorite color.
I own it now.
And I'm starting to dig getting tech products
and other things that are just not black anymore.
I used to do black for everything.
All black all the time but now it's just kind of boring.
And as Jono from Horace said minutes ago,
I think aluminum is our generation's beige.
- [David] Yup!
- And it's like, yeah.
Now these side by side,
if I was on the store shelf,
it almost just looks like a difference
in printing quality of the ink, very subtle though.
We'll open them up and check it out.
What does this little paper say?
It's pretty damn satisfying when you find the perfect fit.
Whether your jeans or your person,
the search can be exhausting.
The search for your perfect fitting person.
Is that what that saying? - [David] Yeah.
- Okay. - [David] Search for love.
- Let's check it out.
Oh, that is so glued. Look at that.
Oh, look at it straight across the whole thing.
That can't be right.
No, no, no, it's not right.
Look at these little arrows.
They're screaming at you.
Don't be dumb.
It's just that easy.
All right, which one's which guys shell game?
Place your bets, David.
Purple where? - [David] Uuh, middle.
Dang it!
- Jono, purple where?
- [Jono] To your right.
(soft screaming)
- [David] That's not fair!
- Beat by Jono.
Okay, this gray and black are obviously different.
First impression from here,
they kind of don't look expensive.
They're $200 but, I don't know, something about the look
of this plastic especially the gray one.
It doesn't look great.
I wouldn't get the gray one.
The inside is cool it's got that more green on the inside.
Playful.
Boring black with the red.
Yeah, gray?
No.
It's in like, it's the worst of all worlds.
It's not like subtle like the black
and it's not outrageous like the purple.
So yeah, I would pass on that personally.
This lid kind of rattly.
Look at you can see it bounce on the open.
It's like bodongdong.
Like, it goes back and forth a bit.
Not a small case, but I think it's smaller
than the Powerbeats Pro case.
It has USBC charging and it looks like it's the type where
you pair it by hitting the button on the inside of the case,
which I prefer.
It's a lot easier than holding out a button on the ear bud
and not knowing what's going on.
And if you have an iPhone,
it's supposed to have that magic pairing process
which you can get in Android if you configure it in the app.
And I do have the companion app.
We'll check that out in a bit.
But let's do the unboxing.
Inside is just
a little USBC.
The C cable.
The very little.
It's a wee C to C.
Great sound starts with proper fit.
Different ear tips.
I guess the medium ones are on there.
They've got small and large.
And then there's some literature.
I guess they're advertising for Apple Music.
Got your structions.
You got a sticker.
Cool.
Wait a second.
What box did that stuff come out of, the gray one?
Do you get different ear tips for the different colors?
Yes!
Purple ear tips in the purple box.
These were for the gray box and
stands to reason
black.
You think if you mix and match that's cooler
if I put a black one on there?
- [David] I mean they are in your ear.
- Yeah, they should be completely occluded by your ear but
I don't know.
Well we won't see I'm not gonna bother trying it.
You're not gonna buy two or like share or something.
It's unlikely.
Let's see how they click back into the case.
Oops.
Not bad.
Will I ever get confused?
Probably not.
It's pretty obvious that because they have this big wing tip
that that's gonna go up into the area
where there's space for it so I think it'd be pretty clear
which one goes where.
The earbud itself it is a pretty clean look.
They've got this flexible wing tip here
which they're saying that they
surveyed all these different ears
and it's supposed to fit with everybody.
There's a button on here.
It has a nice feeling.
It's tactile, but it's not clicky.
You can hear it when it's in your ear.
(ear pods clicking)
Can you hear that? - [David] Yup.
- Cool.
But it's imperceptible from even here.
You could sit by someone on an airplane
and not even hear that.
It's got the detectors for skin so
it should pause when you take it out.
I think the bill quality of the earbud
is better than the case.
All right, I'm gonna pair these to my app now,
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All right, cool.
Screen recording going.
App's going.
Let's get started.
(presenter groaning) Send data.
Don't send.
Need location access.
Only this one time.
Beats Fit Pro detected.
I guess I kinda click that.
Oh, what is going on?
- [Jono] Is it because you have all three open?
- Oh my God.
(all laughing)
Now I've got to hold the button down.
- [Jono] Is the light blinking?
- Yeah, there's a light on the front of this blinking now.
Can you see this?
Here we go.
There we go.
Now it's telling me how to do it.
For our comfortable and secure fit,
rotate the wing tip into the upper part of your ear.
But I already knew that because I've worn headphones.
How does it look?
- [Jono] It looks actually pretty good.
- Oh, there's like some kind of
transparency mode on right now.
You got kind of amplify it.
- [Jono] Nice.
- Twist the bud. Okay I got that.
Whoa, cool.
It's like it knows that they're purple
and it's given me like a purple UI.
That's pretty.
That's a nice touch.
- [Jono] It does protrude out of your ears though.
- These protrude a bit? - [Jono] Yeah.
- They look a little dumb straight on?
- [Jono] Yeah.
- [David] I wouldn't say it looks dumb,
but it looks like they could fall out at any second.
- They look insecure? - [David] Yeah.
- Well, we're gonna test that in a bit
because they say that these are gonna be secure enough
because of this wing tip for the most vigorous workouts,
burpees,
other stuff.
ANC off.
Can you speak to me again?
- [Jono] Intimate encounters.
- Intimate encounters.
Transparency.
Oh, now transparency is on.
Before it was just ANC.
That sounds kind of wacky.
- [Jono] I saw Dune again last night.
- I've seen Dune twice also. - [Jono] Yeah, it's great.
- Nice work
And now noise canceling is on.
Okay, cool.
I'm gonna just turn it off.
You can rename your Beats. That's good.
Beats Fit Pro.
Beats Fit, bro.
How about that?
Oh, a generated a name?
Mars.
Poupon.
I'm keeping these as Poupon.
This is a pretty nice app.
Product features, automatic ear detection is on
so it'll pause.
Adjust the controls as you prefer.
So right now press and hold is doing what?
Press and hold on both left and right Beats
to adjust volume up and down.
What the heck?
I've never seen that interaction on earphones before.
Press and hold on both to adjust volume up and down.
What does that mean?
You press and hold them both and then what?
This isn't gonna tell me anything.
Okay, I think what this means is press and hold
on either the left or right.
Like I think it means on the left,
you hold that and it goes volume down.
Yeah, look at it.
There's my phone adjusting.
On the right, you hold that and it's volume up.
It actually does not mean press and hold on both.
That's, oh look at the volume!
(presenter giggling)
That's amazing.
That, okay it's a gesture I've never seen before
and it still doesn't exist.
Microphone.
The active Beats Fits Pro microphone
can automatically change from left to right.
That's sick.
So it's saying that the mic,
the mic is using during a call
could either be on this bud or on this bud,
because there's lots of mics on each bud
because the mics are used for active noise canceling.
But I suppose it's saying that there is a preferred
microphone to use in any given situation
depending on the noise around you
so it'll actually switch during our call
which mic it's using.
I don't know how it's determining which
earphone mic it should use
but I would leave it on automatic.
Try it at least.
Noise canceling with one ear bud.
Allow earbuds to be put in noise cancellation mode
when only one is in your ear.
That is an interesting option.
I'm not inclined to put that on,
but it's interesting that they give you the choice.
I think that's cool.
I'm gonna just play some music.
Dune soundtracks, subscribe to They're Just Movies.
That was like a two hour podcast.
Okay, so I'm not even gonna assess the sound right now
I just wanna know one press for pause,
double tap for next,
triple tap restarts,
and long press is gonna giving me volume.
Now I'm gonna go back to the app and see
if I turn off the volume control
if I get transparency mode through that.
Oh, Poupon, welcome back.
Bienvenido.
Okay, press and hold.
Let's try turning off volume control.
Now what happens when I hold?
I heard badang and now I'm in transparency mode.
Now, if I go again,
now I'm in nothing mode.
Now I'm in.
I'm trying to figure out
if holding one or the other matters.
What is this? What is this?
Hello?
I don't feel like I'm transitioning
or cycling between three different modes.
I feel like I'm going between
like ANC on and transparency.
Also, I don't know about the comfort of these man.
Not loving it.
I feel like it's kind of hurting my upper ear,
the conch part where that thing fits in.
Actually I wanna see if they really do fit in really well.
They're pretty secure.
Can I do burpees though?
They're in there.
They're IPX4 rated which they thought was cool enough
to put on their marketing but honestly that's like
pretty bog standard, especially for $200.
Let's play some songs that I'm familiar with.
Bass is pretty low.
Oh I love this snare sound in this song
is such a good snare sound.
Yeah, they have their beats signature tuning,
which is pretty much V-shaped.
I think that they also say in their marketing
that it's like a,
it's a balanced listening experience but I think that the
bass is a bit overcooked but
most people are gonna like that honestly.
The metal test.
If there's ever like double kicks and all you hear is like,
(presenter blubbering)
because the bass isn't fast enough to
differentiate the two strikes.
The test I like to do with metal though
is I turn it up loud and I see how harsh the guitar sound.
These are plenty loud enough
I don't wanna go higher than this even.
It doesn't sound great loud not because of the harshness,
but just because of like, it's just really,
everything's kind of blurred together
I'm getting less differentiation between the instruments.
Now, if I'm onto hip hop then
these are way better suited for that.
"California Love" sounds great.
Yeah, I think that the performance of them is commensurate
with other products in this category.
$200 is pretty much the sound you get.
I think everybody knows this point what the
signature Beat sound is
and that's what you're getting here.
No surprises.
Now let's talk about the competitive landscape.
These are 200 bucks.
The Powerbeats Pro which
this product is supposed to be positioned between
the Powerbeats Pro which is $250 MSRP and the,
where are they?
I got the little ones here.
The earlier studio beats.
These guys Beats Studio Buds,
which were 150.
Slightly smaller case.
These are obviously not as targeted toward fitness people.
Although I will say that this doesn't feel like
it's as in my ear either.
Does that look like it chats out of my ear?
- [David] No. - [Jono] No.
That actually looks good.
- You like that one more? - [Jono] Yeah.
- You can get Powerbeats Pro for 200 bucks right now.
People like those earphones a lot.
So they're the same price as these new ones
so I don't know how to what extent these are gonna to like
be, you know, filling out there.
They align with like options at every price point.
Now I haven't used the Powerbeats Pro myself.
I know that Riley and Lance would really be like them.
So I don't know if the extra 50 bucks
gets you better sound quality or
better battery life or what.
Or if it's just like time has passed
and you might as well just buy these
because they're like new and improved.
- [Jono] What about the AirPods Pro?
- The AirPods Pro are 250 bucks also, right?
Yeah.
- [David] It's in a chip.
- Yeah, this also does have the H1 chip in it
that gives you all like the Apple Magic.
$30 more than the new AirPods Gen three
which don't have ANC.
Oh, these also have spatial audio
because they have that H1 chip.
Spacial audio I think is dumb.
First thing I would never use it.
If you don't know what it is,
it basically instead of surround sound,
it makes it so like your source device is a fixed location.
So like when we watch TV and we don't have earphones in,
when we turn our heads,
that sound of the TV is over there
and then when I turn my head this way
I can hear it differently.
That's what it does.
I don't really know why you want that.
I've tried it it's like okay.
It's not on all content and I think it might be iOS only.
It's definitely iOS only.
So not a selling feature for me.
Would I get these above AirPods for $30 cheaper?
If I want ANC, yeah.
Would I get them instead of AirPods Pro and save 50 bucks?
I don't know.
You'd have to wait for a review for that personally,
but I probably would lean towards spending the 50 bucks.
Battery life on these things.
If you have ANC or transparency mode on
you get six hours per listen
and then an additional 21 out of the charge case.
So three more charges for a total of 27.
If you don't have ANC on you get seven hours
plus an additional like 30.
So you got 37 in total.
And in five minutes of USBC fast charging
you get an hour of playback.
One thing I will say is that other earphones
in this price here do give you more options in terms of EQs.
Some of them have apps where you can just adjust
the frequency response as you want.
And I prefer that over an earphone
that has a signature sound that tells you what you want.
I mean, I think you can get apps for that
but I'd like to have it out of the box.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Isn't that cute?
I think it actually would look better
like this though maybe.
Whatever.
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