- Okay, so Apple just announced the release
of the AirPods 3,
so I'm here to bring you my reaction to that event
and to that announcement.
So let's jump into it.
- When it comes to listening to music on the go,
AirPods deliver a magical wireless experience.
- My man, Tim Apple.
- And they've become the most popular headphones
in the world.
We've got some exciting news about AirPods,
and here's Susmita to tell you more.
- He's not kidding.
Most popular headphones in the world. He is not kidding.
And that's not just because of quality.
It's because of the sheer numbers that they've sold.
It is crazy how an entire industry
of true wireless ear buds has popped up
just based on this one invention.
It's pretty wild, right?
- Our users love listening to music with AirPods
and with spatial audio featuring Dolby Atmos in Apple Music,
AirPods have never sounded better.
- Now, I'm not gonna lie, I do like my spatial audio.
It is excellent
both on the AirPods Pro and on the AirPods Max,
especially if you're gonna be using it to watch movies
and things of that nature.
With music, it can actually be pretty good
when you listen to like bands or live recordings.
With the Dolby Atmos on Apple Music,
it's actually really, really good as well.
Not perfect for every situation or every type of music,
but overall, it's been a really good experience
for me personally.
- By moving music beyond the simple left and right
of traditional stereo sound,
and into three dimensional immersive listening,
spatial audio embeds you deeper into the mix
than ever before.
And if you've never experienced it,
the best way that I could describe it to you
would be if you're in a theater
with a full surround sound system,
or maybe if you go to one of those like demo places
where they demo like home theater,
Adobe Atmos type surround stuff,
that's where you can sort of experience it.
It's not just having the music around you,
but where sounds come in
are coming in from above and behind,
or diagonally on this side,
or from what feels like below or above you up in front.
So it kind of places sound all around you
in a 360 sphere, which is pretty awesome if you ask me.
- It's a whole new way to experience your favorite music.
We want to bring the full spatial audio experience
to even more of our customers,
so today we are excited to announce
the third generation of our most popular AirPods.
Let's take a look.
(mellow catchy music)
- Now, just my initial impression of seeing them,
now, one, they are just standard AirPods,
so obviously they're not an AirPods Pro successor.
So there's no silicone ear tips there.
We're not gonna get a seal inside the ear.
So that's just the first things first.
But it almost looks like regular AirPods
going into the case for the AirPods Pro.
So obviously, we're getting a different case design,
which is pretty interesting.
- [Susmita] These are the new AirPods with spatial audio,
featuring an all new design inside and out
with a force sensor for more control
of your music and phone calls.
- Now the force sensor here
is similar to what they did on the AirPods Pro,
which is almost like a squeeze control, which I do like.
It's tactile. It actually feels well.
Hopefully, they add further controls
'cause one of the things that really irritated me
was the fact that we still didn't get
volume control with them.
So hopefully this is something that they fixed.
I doubt it, but hopefully it's something that they fixed.
- [Susmita] To deliver the best sound quality,
we designed a brand new low distortion driver
created just for the new AirPods
to provide powerful bass and crisp clean high frequencies.
- So just to be clear,
it's really difficult to get like excellent bass response
from a semi-open design earbud like an AirPod like this
where there's no silicone tip to seal inside your ear.
So I'm looking forward to trying these out
to see how they can actually make this happen
or even make this claim.
The best open design earbud that I've heard so far
has been the Galaxy Buds Live.
They did a very good job of doing that.
The original previous AirPods didn't do that for me at all
so I'm excited to see kind of how these stack up.
All right, so I actually had to cut out
this section of their keynote
because they were playing the Lizzo song
while explaining the Adaptive EQ.
So here's just my quick reaction
to what they were talking about.
Now, one thing I will say about the AirPods Pro
and the way that the Adaptive EQ sounds
is it's actually really good.
The whole sound signature of the AirPods Pro
was more on that kind of warm neutral type of sound,
more mid forward.
Nothing crazy on the bass side,
not a ton of trouble extension to it,
but overall it was actually quite pleasing.
I did like it,
and one of the things that I will say about the AirPods Pro
is that they also offered you a very immersive
and sort of wide soundstage for a set
of true wireless ear buds.
It's actually pretty surprising,
and they've only gotten better with the firmware updates.
So I guess we'll have to wait and see
to see how these sound
or sort of how they implemented this
with an open ear design.
- The magical experience of AirPods
makes it effortless to enjoy your music throughout the day.
It begins the moment you open the case
with the one touch setup that automatically pairs
to all of your Apple devices,
making AirPods always ready when you are.
- So the magical quote-unquote magical pairing stuff,
a lot of that is now available on the Android side as well
from other manufacturers.
You will get a pop-up prompt.
Google Fast Pair, things of that nature.
Samsung is also doing something similar.
And if you're on your Samsung account,
you can move across devices if you have a Samsung phone,
a Samsung tablet, or a Samsung laptop.
So that's just something to keep in mind.
But Apple, they were one of the first ones to do this.
It's still very seamless for the most part,
but sometimes when you have your AirPods Pro,
sometimes there'll be, or AirPods Max,
sometimes they'll get confused
between which device you're looking at
and they'll keep switching back and forth.
So just something to keep in mind,
but the pairing process is surprisingly easy.
- And to extend your experience,
we increased the battery life
for up to six hours of listening time.
Or if you're in a hurry,
five minutes of charge time gets you around an hour of use.
And of course, the convenience of the charging case
giving you an additional four full charges
for up to 30 hours of total listening time.
- Okay, so when it comes to battery life,
Apple's actually been pretty good about giving us
realistic numbers when it comes to their playback time.
In the case of the AirPods Pro,
it actually exceeded what they were saying,
'cause they were telling us when those first came out,
they were giving us like four and a half hours
to like five hours.
I was easily getting five and a half to six hours
with my AirPods Pro.
Same thing with AirPods Max,
the battery life exceeded what they were claiming.
So I fully expect them to be able
to hit these numbers quite easily.
- [Susmita] To make charging your AirPods
even more convenient, we added Mac Safe
and wireless charging to the case.
- Nice, I'm glad that they decided to go
with this route as well.
The AirPods Pro already had wireless charging,
but it's nice to see that
they're gonna also offer Mac Safe,
so I'm totally cool with that.
- These are the new AirPods,
featuring spatial audio with dynamic head tracking,
an all new design,
our custom-design driver with Adaptive EQ,
and the magical experience that our customers love.
We took the best selling headphones in the world
and made them even better.
All of this for $179.
- So $179 for the new third generation AirPods.
Now obviously, one thing that I do
wanna make sure that we make clear
is that's still kind of on the steep side.
The Apple taxes definitely applies here.
Now, they are putting a lot of tech into these,
this is their latest version of it,
but one thing, I'm gonna give you just my opinion,
my interpretation,
the AirPods Pro can be had for very close to this price.
Even brand new, I've seen them drop to 180
during the holidays last year when sales happen to pop up,
or if you decide you wanna get them renewed or refurbished,
you can get them for less than this.
So this is something to keep in mind.
These are gonna have a really hard time for me,
and my personal opinion just based on what I'm seeing here,
beating the AirPods Pro.
So we're gonna have to wait and see.
I do have the AirPods third-generation coming in.
I will be comparing them to both
the second gen and to the AirPods Pro
to see kind of where they stack up.
But yeah, at $179, this is gonna be kind of a tough sell.
And this is just talking about keeping them
in the Apple camp, right?
If we get outta that vacuum and start talking
about other options that are available to you on the market
from say Sennheiser or Soundcore or Bose,
there's a lot of different options out there for you
that come in around the same price
that will most likely easily destroy these
when it comes to sound quality,
to noise isolation, to battery life.
So that's something else to keep in mind,
but we'll have that conversation at a different time.
But overall, I'm actually, you know,
I'm cautiously optimistic for the AirPods third generation.
They seem to have some pretty cool tech.
Hopefully, they've improved the audio quality
because I did not like the audio quality
of the AirPods second gen.
But we'll see kind of where they stack up.
Can they meet or exceed the AirPods Pro?
I doubt it, but I'm kind of looking forward
to testing that out and finding out.
But let me know, are you gonna be picking up
a set of the AirPods third generation?
Let me know in the comment section down below.
If you're interested in seeing another option
for a set of headphones that comes in at almost this price
but is absolutely sweeping the market,
check out this video that I'm gonna leave for you
right up here.
With that said, I'm out. Peace.