Hey, what’s up? Sami here. Today let’s take a quick look at Xiaomi’s newest earbuds –
the Mi Buds 3 Pro, which was released along with Xiaomi Civi and Watch Color 2 several days ago.
I’ve got to say Xiaomi has a really weird way to name its products. See they have AirDots, Air, and even
FlipBuds, that’s a totally random one. Anyway, let’s get to the Mi Buds 3 Pro.
It adopts the same packaging as the FlipBuds Pro, one thing I notice is they have changed the Mi logo to
the new rounded one, guess Xiaomi watched my previous video and took action.
For the highlights of the Buds 3 Pro, we have 40dB dynamic noise cancelling, diamond-like dual-magnet drive unit,
don’t know what the hell is that. Head tracking spatial audio, probably another gimmick.
96KHz high definition audio, brand new Bluetooth 5.2, and multi-device smart connection.
Down that there are more information of the earbuds, the weight is 48grams, woo.
Open the box, we see the charging case, a type-c cable, three pairs of ear tips,
and of course the manual, but don’t know where we put it so I asked Xiaomi customer service sent me
the PDF manual, no worries I will walk you through all the gestures later.
Moving to the Buds 3 Pro, the material of the charging case does not use the FlipBuds Pro’s
glossy surface treatment process, but uses a similar frosted treatment process
similar to the Air 2 Pro. I like it because it’s not easy to gather fingerprints and smudges.
At the bottom of the case, it has a charging port and a function button. On the front we have the indicator,
that’s the case. If you have to ask what’s the major differences between the FlipBuds Pro and
Buds 3 Pro regarding the design of the earbuds, I guess one is on the 3 Pro they’ve added a
protruding part to let you know where is the pressure-sensitive area and second is the design
of the prolonged stripe, which now included the in-ear detecting sensor part, as you can see
from the video. Though from my point of view, that wouldn’t be easier to gather dust or gunk?
Anyway, moving to the gesture control. You short press once to answer or hang up calls,
short press twice to reject a phone call. When listening to music, short press once to play or pause,
short press twice to skip to the next tune, thrice to the last tune.
You hold down the touch area for 2s to switch between “ANC on”, “Transparent mode”, and “ANC off”.
That’s basically all the controls, still no gesture for volume controls.
Now let me talk about my short time user experience.
First about the noise cancelling ability. The official Xiaomi info says the maximum noise
reduction depth can reach 40dB. It is certified by the Chinese Institute of Metrology and is the only
authoritative certification in the industry. But very strange from my experience and also Cymye’s,
we are not very surprised by that, when we enabled the noise cancelling mode, still you can hear
people’s talking clearly, as time is tight we didn’t test more. But one thing we both love is
the audio quality, we found it sounds great, very well-balanced and full bodied, and it generates clear sound.
I know many of you may want to know how the “spatial audio” sounds like,
well currently it only supports Xiaomi Civi phone and only one Chinese video App called “iQiyi”,
as I checked with Xiaomi customer service, they say will support more in the future,
but who knows. I would say this is more of a gimmick feature than practical use.
In terms of wearing, as you can see from the ear tip, it has a different design
from the FlipBuds Pro and according to Xiaomi, should be more comfortable to wear, but again,
I still didn’t feel so, though the Buds 3 Pro looks like Airpods pro in the design, it just
doesn’t give you the same comfort.
So to conclude, I’m a bit disappointed with the Mi Buds 3 Pro,
everything claimed to be compelling turns out to be just another normal pair of earbuds.
I strongly suggest not buying it and wait for more upgrades on the Buds 3 Pro, and to be honest for
international users this pair of earbuds is not user friendly at the moment as we can tell.
If you have to get one, the Mi FlipBuds Pro by far is the best from Xiaomi, and that’s proved by many users.
I’m sami and I will see you in the next one, and please don’t forget to subscribe! Peace.