- What a spoiler right on this box.
You know, I purposely went out of my way to not look
at this thing but the new color of the OnePlus Pro,
wait, OnePlus Buds Pro 2 is green and it's on the box,
and I'm really excited.
We got the Arbor Green ones and not the black ones
because they look fire and because there's no white.
But if I can't have the white, the green was my choice.
Let's see what it looks like IRL.
Ah. (box thumping)
An exploded view of the drivers.
This is a dual driver design
with the 11 millimeter and six millimeter drivers combined,
and looks like a quick start guide.
Again, it tells you the press area on the stem.
I've read somewhere that they were touch control
so I thought that maybe they had switched to being
just capacitive but it does look like
there's a stem area to squeeze again.
I'll set this guy aside for now.
I'm guessing this is the charging cable.
Exact same cable from last year.
It's this long.
It's USB-A to C.
And then you got your tips.
Mediums are on the buds already
and then that was satisfying.
I'm chasing the dragon,
but that was honestly, 80% is good.
Got us the smallest and large tips right here.
The main event, OnePlus.
Now, it says on the case Dynaudio.
It's a nice case.
Very small, compact,
kind of matte finish on it.
Not as creaky as before.
Remember last time it was like
(imitates case squeaking)
and for the sound of it, satisfying.
(case clicking)
They look so premium and guess what?
They did the opposite of inflation.
130 bucks for these.
They were 150 last time.
Wow, what a deal.
They look so dope for that price, the industrial design.
Oh what, who's this?
Pikachu?
And do I have a tactileness to the squeeze?
No.
Good thing they have those instructions in there
'cause like you can't hear,
in like a non-virtual terms, any kind of click.
I'm gonna put 'em on. (giggles)
There's no way I've, yeah,
there's no way there's any kind of active noise canceling
or anything happening right now, is there?
They work pretty well as just good old fashioned earplugs.
Now, I wanna see the pairing process
between a OnePlus device and a normal Android device.
In the past, they always had like a magic process
with the OnePlus device.
But now, we should get that across Android devices
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This is not a OnePlus phone, right?
This is a Samsung and this prompt came up immediately.
I haven't even pressed this button outside the case,
which is the pairing button.
This is a OnePlus phone.
Pretty different and cool looking.
Be sure to check out our coverage of it separately.
And it has the same prompt
so it looks like they're fairly equalized.
Uh-oh, I didn't hit it though.
Oh no, how do I get it back?
Jack, come back.
Device connected, done.
Wow, it is just that easy.
I guess I'll just do the Linus test.
You weirdos out there that actually do this.
It's too wide.
Oh, wait.
It does fit in there.
I hate that so much.
I would never do that.
Not only was it laborious to put in,
but then it's like right on your hip.
It's stupid.
Just put it in your pocket like a normal person, Linus.
They're in there.
I feel like I could be at the gym
and be doing the opposite of a sit up.
You do those right?
You guys are making fun of me but I can't hear you.
When you do get it engaged properly, it goes
(imitates beep).
And then there's like a one second and then it pauses.
By the way, I got this shirt from lttstore.com.
Isn't it cool?
Usually my wife wears it but not today, I took it.
I'm having a tendency to have my hand too outturned.
I need to go in like this.
That's okay.
Now, double.
(imitates beeping)
Next song.
Triple, did nothing but I heard a sound.
That's weird.
I'm gonna have to go into the app
and see what that does later.
I'm gonna hold this down now.
(fingers snapping)
It was like,
(imitates booming)
but I don't know what the hell that means.
Oh, I think now that I've paused the music,
it's more clear that I have transparency on now.
Can you speak to me again?
- [Bell] Hello, James.
- That sounds very clear.
(imitates digital sounds)
Speak. - [Bell] Hello, James.
- Yeah, this is ANC now.
Okay, it's very gentle.
What if I hold it for like 10, 10 James seconds?
One 1,000, two 1,000,
three 1,000, four (giggles).
Yes, it starts playing bird noises.
Really, you need that on the bud. (laughing)
You need to access that from the bud.
That's bizarre.
That's called Zen Mode.
The the bird noises was a Zen Mode noise
and those are stored locally on the buds themselves
so even if you don't have your phone, you can still zen out,
which actually is a good move because if you wanna zen,
you wanna unplug.
So, that's cool.
I respect that but just go outside man. (laughing)
There's birds.
This music sounds pretty good too.
I would say it's probably a bit pumped up bass,
although I do have a good seal so that's contributing.
But yeah, these are very rich sounding
and I'm just grooving here
but it might be 'cause of Hootie & the Blowfish.
All right, I'm gonna add my device to the HeyMelody app.
There they are.
You can choose which media you actually use the earbuds for.
In this case, they're pretty much all turned on
except for contact sharing.
We've got media, phone calls.
Use them as an input device.
I guess using 'em for the assistant counts for that.
Earbud functions, check that out.
Okay, this is like its own kind of full on pseudo app.
That's so weird.
What am I, I wanna go to the app switcher
to see what app I'm actually in.
I'm still in wireless settings
and it has the visual representation
of the earbuds and the case.
It's got the battery levels, which is typical.
Noise cancellation, we can turn that off from here.
Transparency. (chuckles)
Personalized noise cancellation, what is that?
Noise cancellation effects are personalized
to your auditory canal,
your own personal hole to give you clearer sound.
Turn it on.
We gotta do the test guys.
I didn't study.
Oh, my God.
It said it failed 'cause my surroundings are too quiet.
Can you guys just start making noise and clapping,
and hollering, and dancing?
- [Crew] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
(crew clapping)
- [Crew] James, yeah.
James, James, James, James, James, yeah.
- It worked guys.
Thank you.
Now, I have a whole new menu.
Smart, max,
moderate, mild,
and smart's gonna adapt it
depending on with your surroundings.
So, they had that in the last model too.
You're walking around, it's at a certain level,
something noisy happens around you, it cranks it up,
goes back down after.
Smart Master EQ, so there's a couple EQs on here.
One of them is actually made by Dynaudio.
I believe that would be the default one.
Then you got bold, serenade and bass.
Bass is descriptive enough, but these bold and serenade,
I have no idea what that means.
And there's no visual equalizer
so I can't see the shape of the response curve or anything.
What happens when I hit add?
See, that's what I wanna see.
Here I have, yeah,
six different knobs.
That's okay and I get plus or minus 6 dB.
Oh, that's nice to see.
Not gonna do that now though.
Hi-Res Mode, play audio in high resolution.
This is going to reduce your battery life
and it could increase latency.
I am gonna play some music and then come back to that,
see if I can hear a difference.
Oh no, did I turn off the screen record?
These are playing some pretty low notes.
Now, let's see what it's like when I switch modes.
I find when I'm trying to assess the resolution
of a earphone or headset, headphone,
one useful aspect to listen to is the percussion.
If you can kind of hear the mallet,
the brush, the drumstick on the canvas of the drum,
that's a good place to look for resolution
and in this track, I can kind of hear a little bit of that.
I'm hearing the mallet hit the kit
and I can just imagine what it's made of.
So, let's see if when I turn HD off,
I can still detect that.
Kind of annoying, every time I switch back
to the settings app, I have to connect again
and it gives me this damn prompt every time.
There's no like, don't show this again checkbox.
Very annoying.
I will say that sounds very nearly the same.
Could be slightly worse now.
It's a real feature.
What else they got in here?
Golden sound, get studio quality sound customized
to your ear canal structure and hearing characteristics.
I heard the sound of rushing water
and like then bird squawking and stuff,
but at first, it sounded like pee.
That freaked me out.
I'm hearing a bunch of little beeps
at different frequencies.
This is like a full on hearing test like when I've worked
in jobs that required hearing tests for safety,
the exact same thing except I had to sit in a van
and hold a little, a beeper.
Generating an audio enhancement solution.
Well, my left and right are very equal,
which is cool.
Oh, they give you a before and after.
That is actually sick.
Okay, before.
Music is playing now.
Sounds pretty good.
Weird when you switch to between them,
the sound's like same except for the after
just kind of sounds louder.
I guess they just brought up certain frequencies.
Spatial Audio, now this is kind of a big one.
This is an Android feature now and this is the first set
of earbuds to support this, I think.
It should be similar to what Apple has
for their spatial audio where there's the head tracking.
Basically, the sound is from a fixed point in space.
So, if you turn your head,
the sound does not follow you like normal.
There's also an upmixer,
so you can take stereo mixed files and upmix them
as if they've been recorded for multiple speakers
and still take advantage of your spatial audio.
So, right now it's off and you can see in the animation
when the character turns his head,
that the audio follows the ears.
Fixed, there's no head tracking really happening
but at least it's multi speaker
and it's enveloping the character here.
And then head tracking,
the sources stay in place and the head moves around.
Again, this is actually a great interface.
You can test it out.
Normal.
Oh, I would say this is more immersive with this on.
There's this sound that I'm kind of keying
into this one particular sound.
When I start, it's over here and then as I move my head,
it just kind of stays over there.
So, I don't know.
I'm still not convinced with the whole spatial audio thing.
I don't care who makes it.
All right, now we're into the Zen Modes.
I guess I'll turn it on.
I got the birds going.
Oh, Iceland.
You gotta download that one.
So, warm sunrise is the only one it comes with
and they've got several other ones here.
Summer seashore.
I thought that's it an, a hole for some reason.
My brain.
Earbud controls, finally we're here.
This is what I wanted. (laughing)
I was looking for this like 25 minutes ago.
Okay, so it's divided by left and right.
That's cool.
Wow, you can actually turn off the single squeeze now.
On the previous ones,
that was one gesture that you could not customize.
Now, the options are play/pause or none.
Still not as robust as being able to change it
to whatever you want but better than last year.
The double, you can make any of these things,
including game mode, which just takes the latency down to,
I believe they're advertising 54 milliseconds.
Triple, you get all the same as double.
I read that there is a way to do the volume
on these things by touch.
Looks like there still isn't but this is pre-release,
so maybe they'll add that later.
I really think there should be.
You should be able to map something on the bud to doing.
Volume, especially if I'm listening
to those birds without my phone,
how the heck am I gonna turn it up and down?
Oh, they got the find my feature.
That's cool.
I'm gonna chuck these in the couch and see how loud it is.
Yeah.
I can barely hear this.
They know I just did a hearing test.
(earbuds beeping)
That is not obnoxious enough.
Oh, camera related settings.
Take photos with the earbuds.
When using the camera,
double tap either earbud to take a photo.
Kind of cool but like
as long as you wanna be like this in your photo.
Okay, so if I double tap it,
three, two, one.
Cool.
Thank you.
Can you imagine though, yeah? (laughing)
Just be like, "Hey". (chuckles)
You can see here that it says LHDC.
That's the codec these use.
It's comparable or it's a competitor like aptX and LDAC,
which is a Sony proprietary one.
Dual connections, the last thing I want to try out.
So, this means you can connect these simultaneously
to two devices including two Android devices.
So, two phones and I am just expecting this to not work.
Like I'm expecting this to be able to,
I'm playing music on this phone and I'm hearing it.
I press pause, I play music on this phone,
it just switches right over.
That would be how I expect it work.
I'm giving this like a 2% chance of working.
There's just no way.
I'm getting nothing from this now.
My original device.
Yeah, so it didn't work like I said it wouldn't.
It's paired but not connected.
Now, it's connected.
I can hear the music, pause.
Go back to this one, play.
No, that's just coming out of the device.
We tried everything.
It doesn't work.
I knew it wouldn't work.
Stupid feature.
Don't buy it for that feature.
What else can it do?
Still has a really good battery life.
Since last year, it's pretty much the same.
It's like 37 hours including the case, obviously.
That's with ANC off.
I've seen sources that said 25 hours ANC on,
which is actually less than last year by three hours.
So, it's a pretty strong container with a battery life.
Overall, I think they sound pretty good.
I think the industrial design is excellent.
Interface is okay.
App is okay.
Price point's great and they're IP55,
and standard is IPX4,
meaning no certification for dust protection.
And four is like big drops and splashes,
which is sufficient for going to the gym and stuff.
But this, it does five so it can do some sprays.
You might even get away with wearing 'em in the shower,
but I wouldn't recommend it.
So, I think these are really great value earphone.
Get 'em.
Like the case.
They get a recommendation from me.
Yes, these are pretty dope.
They're not like sick.
They're not like the headphones I'm gonna pick
if I have a million dollars,
but if I have $200 or less, these are great.
I can't believe they got cheaper.
Thanks for watching "ShortCircuit".
If you liked this video,
watch another earphone video from yours truly.
Maybe the previous OnePlus Buds.
Please don't stop the music.