what's up guys my name is brandon and after over a year of leaks rumors and speculation, Apple has
finally released the third generation AirPods so in this video we're going to be unboxing them
we're going to set them up we're going to test out the audio and that spatial audio and we're also
going to compare them to the airpods to an airpods pro and as a bonus we will also be unboxing the 20
apple polishing cloth just for the memes all right so anyways let's talk about the pricing first so
the price of the airpods 3 are 179 dollars so that comes right between the airpods 2 at 129 and the
airpods pro at 249. and as far as color options we only have this white color we did not get black
airpods just yet but hopefully in the future but anyways let's just go ahead and unbox as you can
see here the box very typical apple of course we do have the pool tabs right here as well no more
plastic let's go ahead and peel these both off and take off the top of the air pods 3. of course we
do have the design by apple in california pamphlet right there and here are the third generation
airpods and also inside the box we do have the usbc to lightning cord so of course no block just
the cord and the good thing about the airpods 3 is that the charging case is now magsafe compatible
so you don't necessarily need to have a block you could just throw this on a magsafe puck and it
will charge so let's go ahead and take the plastic off very easy and here are the airpods three so of
course they have the design similar to the air pods pro so if i bring my air pods pro over here
they are a little bit you know they're not as wide as the air pods pro right here i do have
a case on my air pods pro because see the little size comparison right here so they are smaller and
of course one of the big differences as well with the airpods 3 compared to the airpods pro is that
we don't have the silicone ear tips so we don't have anything right there it's just all you know
the airpod material so that was a big con for a lot of people is that those ear tips just made
the airpods pro not fit in some people's ears so that's who these airpods 3 are really going to
be catered to and of course the price of 179 is also appealing so before we get into more of the
airpods 3 i did just want to unbox this polishing cloth real quick because i know a lot of people
have been talking about this online of course more of a meme but this is a 20 microfiber polishing
cloth from apple here is the packaging you can see it's very apple-like of course with the packaging
pretty big box as well for what you get but let's go ahead and see what this is all about so if you
open it up there is how the polishing cloth is presented we take it out like this we do have a
little piece of cardboard in between and here is the polishing cloth so it's like a gray color you
can see this is how it compares to the white air pods so it feels really good quality of course
it should be for twenty dollars but uh yeah i'm pretty sure this is going to be the polishing
cloth i use to try to get my money's worth with cleaning my apple products and i promise you i
will show you the cleaning cloth cleaning off one of my iphones before this video ends but let's go
ahead and get back to the main topic of this video the airpods 3. so another good thing about the
airpods 3 is that they are ipx4 sweat and water resistant so not only the air pods themselves but
the case is also water and sweat resistant so that is going to be big if you take these outdoors or
to the gym they're going to be you know performing just fine no matter what the conditions are now
one of my favorite features in the air pods 3 is the skin detection sensor so this is brand
new this year this was not even included with the airpods pro so skin detection sensors are going to
basically just know when they are touching skin like being in your ears otherwise they will not
accidentally play so for example if you have the air pods in your ear and you take one out
and you put it in your pocket sometimes like on the airpods pro this would happen a lot sometimes
it would start playing your music again because it detected something around the rim and it thought
it was your ear but now with these skin detection sensors it's not going to do that because it knows
it can detect skin i guess through heat or whatever the case may be however apple did it
but it's not going to accidentally start playing your music again when you put your air pods in
your pocket or whatever the case may be so that is an awesome new feature here with these new third
generation airpods and then as far as the sound quality goes we do have new drivers for deeper
bass and more clarity and the highs and we do also have spatial audio with head tracking so
i'm going to go ahead and put these in and do a first impressions of the sound of these because
i'm really not expecting them to sound as good as the airpods pro but i could be surprised let me go
ahead and try these out all right so if it's not connecting to your iphone just close the case and
open it back up and it should give you the prompts right here if not you may just want to lock your
phone and then unlock it and it should pop up so there we go it says now your airpods let's
connect these and then it asks us to hold the button on the back of the charging case right here
so let's go ahead and hold that button all right so there we go i had to put one airpod back in
here i don't know if you guys will have to do that but that was one way i got it to connect it was
kind of wonky but there we go we are connected to our airpods as you can see right here it shows our
battery percentage for the airpods go ahead and tap on done all right so once you're playing music
you can have to press on the volume right here and down at the bottom you will see spatialized stereo
if you tap on that you could change this from head tracked to fixed or you could turn it off if you
want to and you can see the difference you could hear the difference of course it will track your
head movement so that's a pretty cool feature i like spatial audio a lot and i'm really glad
these got added to the airpods 3 and not just for like the airpods pro and airpods max so that's
also a big value proposition for 180 all right so now i want to test out the sound quality of
these new airpods 3 and i couldn't think of a better way to do it than to have
one of each in my ear so you can see i have one airpod pro one airpod three in my ear and i have
it playing through both of them so i have the air pod pro and the left and i have the air pod
third generation and the right ear so let's turn these up to the exact same volume or about the
same volume and see which one i think sounds better alright so i have to say there's really
not a huge difference in the sound quality i mean the airpods pro do have a bit deeper bass and they
have the noise cancellation and transparency mode of course but aside from that and just
pure sound quality they sound very similar to the airpods pro so they sound excellent the you know
bass is really good the highs are really high and there's a lot of clarity the sound separation is
great i mean i'm surprised i really don't have any complaints about the sound quality of the
airpods 3 right here i think they're right on par pretty much with the airpods pro again aside from
i would say the base is the main thing i noticed that was slightly better on the airpods pro but
really not a huge difference and then i did also test out the microphone quality and i have to say
that the microphone quality is also excellent and it is much better than the airpods 2 and i think
it's even better than the airpods pro so that could just be placebo and i will test this in
a future review i will be doing a full comparison to the airpods pro where i'll test them a little
bit more extensively but on my first impressions i think the microphone quality is better on the
airpods 3 than the airpods 2 and even the airpods pro which is very impressive now another feature
that we get with the airpods 3 are the enhanced find my features like the notify when left behind
feature where you can get a notification on your phone when you leave your airpods behind
and also you have the proximity searching if you want to find your airpods and you want to do the
proximity you know view where you can find the airpods really easily like you can with an air tag
you can now do that with these third generation airpods as well now i did also want to mention
the battery life of the airpods 3 because this is also impressive so we get up to 6 hours of
listening time on a single charge or up to 5 hours if you use spatial audio and up to 30 hours
of listening time with a fully charged charging case and then also like i mentioned earlier in the
video the charging case is now magsafe compatible so if you have anything with magsafe you will see
that it sticks there are some magnets in the back of this that make that possible which is also
great so that you don't have to have an additional block to charge your airpods if you don't want to
and i find myself actually using magsafe more so for my airpods i do it on my airpods pro but
they're not even magsafe compatible like if i put these on the back of this magsafe you can see they
don't stick because they're not magsafe compatible they charge wirelessly but they're not you know
magsafe as you can see the airpods three stick which i like a lot better of course so overall
i have to say i'm very impressed with the airpods 3 i mean just look at the difference from gen 2 to
gen 3 right here i mean huge difference even just in the case and the look of the tips like if we
pull out the right ear tip here from the airpods 2 and compare it to the air pods 3 you will see a
big difference i mean the stem is so much shorter so if you have the first or second generation air
pods i think an upgrade to the airpods 3 is a no-brainer it's going to be a huge upgrade
in the sound department and the battery department the sweat and water resistance department you're
gonna have you know spatial audio you're gonna have the find my features you really get a lot
for that 180 dollar price tag not to mention the microphone quality is also a massive difference
from the second generation it is way better because i always had issues with the microphone
on the second generation airpods but the airpods 3 like i mentioned earlier are on par if not better
than the airpods pro now if you have the air pods pro and you're wondering if you should get the
air pods 3 that's really going to come down to a couple of different things i mean number one
the ear tips if you don't like these silicone ear tips and they hurt your ears and it's just kind of
a pain to put these in then yeah go ahead for the airpods 3 because they don't have those and then
also one of the biggest differences of the airpods pro compared to the airpods 3 is the active noise
cancellation and transparency mode so if you don't use those a lot or you don't need those if they're
not a necessity to you then yeah you should maybe sell your airpods pro and get the airpods 3.
because the airpods 3 are going to be cheaper and they're not going to have those features
and if you don't need them then you don't need the airpods pro now you do also get conversation boost
on the airpods pro so if you are hard of hearing you may miss out on that because the airpods
3 are not gonna have transparency mode so they can't have features like conversation boost and
because the airpods three don't have quite as many features as the airpods pro they are going to get
better battery life so about one and a half hours of longer battery life out of one charge compared
to the airpods pro and then not to mention the airpods 3 are 70 cheaper than the airpods pro
which i think is a pretty dang good value i mean it's only 20 more than what the airpods 2
started out at they started out at 160 and they start at 180 which i think is a pretty good price
but anyways guys there you have it those are the airpods three and before we go i did just want to
wipe down my phone real quick and test out this apple polishing cloth to see what the hype is
about and wow look at that job that this did this iphone is spotless thanks to this apple polishing
cloth no other microfiber could even come close to doing that well worth twenty dollars it should
really be like fifty dollars what bro what are you talking about man obviously i'm joking for
those that didn't get it but anyways guys those are the airpods three i hope you guys did enjoy
this video if you did i would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also let me know if you are
going to be getting the airpods 3 or if you're sticking to your airpods 2 or airpods pro let me
know down in a comment below and of course make sure you guys are subscribed for more reviews on
the polishing cloth now i'm just kidding more reviews on the airpods 3 i will be comparing
them again more in depth to the airpods pro and giving more tips and tricks on these airpods
3 and future videos as well but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon
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