- Alongside the Gear Sport
Samsung launched another fitness-minded accessory.
The sequel to their original wireless earbuds,
the Gear Icon X 2018 edition.
The new earbuds look very much like the old ones
and come in pink, black, and gray.
And they come with a matching case.
The case itself is how you charge the earbuds
and is also a portable battery pack
capable of giving the headphones an extra one full charge.
But the earbuds are actually also now rated
to give a much more improved five hours of playback
over Bluetooth versus the three from last year's model.
In addition to that they now support a fast charging
ability that'll get you an hour of playback with just
10 minutes of charge time reportedly.
To get started we simply need to download the Gear
manager app on the phone.
iOS isn't supported unfortunately by the way.
Push the Bluetooth button on the case
while the earbuds are inside and then connect them
in the Gear app when they pop up.
Once connected they work like any other Bluetooth audio
device and and audio coming from the phone
will automatically stream to them if they are selected.
They do also have 3.4 gigs of internal storage
available for music which is about a thousand MP3s
and allow you to transfer any songs to them
that are on your phone through the Gear app
or from your computer via their desktop app.
In case you want to run with them and leave
the phone behind.
This also will supposedly give you another hour of
battery life if they're not connected to the phone.
The buds themselves are touch sensitive
for their controls which are fairly simple.
One tap to play and pause.
Swiping up and down to turn the volume up or down.
Tapping twice quickly will go to the next song or
answer a call or hang up on a call.
Tapping three times will go to the previous song.
Double tap and hold will go to the next playlist
but only when you're playing music from the Gears' storage
and tapping and holding will decline a call or bring up
Bigsby on your Samsung phone if you have one paired.
Or Google Assistant if you're using another Android device.
If you keep holding it down
it'll cycle through four options starting with the
voice command option then work out details,
start finish a workout,
and turn off and on ambient sound.
These can be removed from this menu or
the order rearranged if you want from the Gear manager app.
Also in the Gear manager app you can see the battery level
of each earbud and decide which earbud to track
for workouts.
Not too sure why it'd be different results
by different earbuds but maybe?
You can also tell which notifications to ping you about
and with this on it essentially will quickly interrupt
the music and tell you what app gave you the notification
I.e, it'll say inbox, messages, et cetera.
And by default it won't do that if you're actually
using the phone with them in and you get a notification
which makes a lot of sense.
But you can override this feature.
Here in the Gear manager if you wanted to.
Next you can adjust the exercise options including
the built-in running coach that encourages you
to stay on pace while running.
Depending on what pace you select.
And you can turn on audio guidance and determine
what info it gives you and at what intervals
during your workout.
If you misplace them, you can tap the find my Gear option
in the app to have them start beeping and gradually
get louder and louder over time to help you find them.
Caveat though this only works if they are connected
via Bluetooth still.
Now since they are larger they cover your
entire ear canal and they do muffle sound quite a bit.
They also have an ambient sound feature that allows
them to let sound in if you want or not
and finally they support nine different languages
for the voice guide including Mandarin, English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
There you go guys.
A what I like to think is a detailed walkthrough
of all of the features on the new Gear Icon X 2018 edition.
I used to do these kinds of complete walkthrough videos
and you guys seemed to like them a long time ago
but I just haven't done one in a long time.
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