- These have gotta be one of the most blatant rip-offs
of the AirPods Pro that I have ever seen.
There is nothing on here to indicate
any kind of branding, whatsoever.
Wow, Bluetooth 5.0, 30-meter connecting distance,
30-minute charging time,
somewhere between five and six charges from the case
and three hours per charge.
All right, fair enough.
Oh, that's weird.
The manual has what looks
kind of like iOS screen grabs,
but the font's not right.
It apparently features touch control,
just like regular AirPods Pros.
Man, if these sound good,
I could probably be convinced to swap them out.
They even charge via lightning connector, that is. (yells)
If this lightning cable is anything to go by though,
I am not expecting the build quality to be exceptional.
That is some cheap molding
and some cheap plastic.
Even the USB housing is not quite flat.
It's a little bit bowed.
Other accessories include a couple of
well, I was gonna say different sized ear tips
but these actually all look like kind of the same size ish.
Oh no, it's subtle.
It's subtle, these are smaller and these are bigger.
Both of these kind of look too big for me.
So hopefully, the smalls are what are pre-installed.
Now we don't look at a lot of rip-off products,
fake iPhones, fake iPods, things like that
over on the main channel.
That's just not really our jam.
So I'm not the most experienced when it comes
to spotting the problems with these kinds of things
but I do have a fair bit of experience
just with electronics in general.
And I gotta say,
if someone told me these are black AirPods
and these are Apple authentic ones
until I flipped up the top of the case anyway,
I would have said, "Yeah, that's pretty convincing."
I just found a problem,
a real Apple product wouldn't have had this grill
just peel up right out of the box.
My fake ones, hey, this case looks and feels
a little cheaper actually.
Now that I play with it, hold on.
(plastic case flaps)
Yeah, that's a different sound.
(plastic case flaps)
See that?
But also look at this.
Is this grill just a sticker?
I think that grill is just a sticker. (laughs)
Definitely not a sticker on the real AirPod Pros.
What that means for the active noise canceling
capabilities of these if they have any at all,
remains to be seen, but that is a sticker.
There are no markings on the case whatsoever.
Now you'd be forgiven for thinking Apple
doesn't really have any markings on the AirPods Pros,
even ignoring that I have the dbrand skin on them
but yet you can see in here all the like FCC logos
and crap that they need to have on here,
not so on these black ones here.
Gotta say the matte black soft touch case
actually feels pretty pleasing.
Pretty pleasing to the finger.
My finger is pleased, fit and finish.
Not up to the original standard.
With my fingernail,
I can get in there and kind of create a separation.
It's already loose down there at the bottom, you see that?
Wait a second.
Wow, these aren't even that cheap.
So I just finally went on the manufacturer website
for these, these are BatPods Pros
and they are matched down
from $250 to $100
and apparently have 172 reviews averaging five stars
on the manufacturer website.
Yeah, I'm sure that that's entirely honest.
BatPods!
I should have done the whole video like this.
They're still great movies, but wow,
why did he have to talk like that?
Quality clear sound with noise cancellation.
They claim to have noise cancellation.
They also claim to have wireless charging.
Can I get a wireless charging pad?
Just wanna figure out if this other grill
on the back here is also a sticker real quick here.
What do you think Brandon, sticker?
- [Brandon] Looks stickery to me.
- Oh, interesting.
The ear tips are more of a conventional mount.
So you've got like a little flanged tip here
and then it's just like a silicon thing that slips over it.
Those who are familiar with Apple's AirPods Pros
will know that they use
like an interlocking plastic system here.
So you gotta kind of clip it on there
and then it flops over like that.
I'll just use a standard anchor wireless charging pad here
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Well, the light definitely turned on.
That was pretty pain-free, all right.
It's charging apparently.
It's not as bright as the Apple LED.
Of course, I think it's fair to say
that for most people, it's gonna come down to sound quality.
Are you in pairing mode?
Now hold on just a minute here.
Does someone else have their AirPods Pros in pairing mode
or does this thing actually show up as AirPod Pro?
Oh weird, so it made a noise.
I think I just powered it on
but there's no haptic feedback.
The squeezable buttons are definitely working though.
So I pressed and held this one on the right.
And you can see,
I was just prompted for which voice service I'd like to use.
Google, obviously.
Bixby, really?
This is a quick and easy way
for us to check out the microphone.
Hey Google, I just wanna have a little chat
about that time that I had a secret
and I was talking about it in front of you
and then fast forward way down into the future
and you were all like, "Hey, so we'd been storing
"all that secret information about you
"and we're just gonna keep it on our servers forever.
"Does that sound all right?"
Well, if my dictation accuracy
is anything to go by, that's actually
not too shabby, hey.
I'm pressing and holding the left stem
and there's a little noise like a. (clicks)
But I can't tell what it's doing.
No, there's actually nothing in here
about toggling noise cancellation on and off,
which indicates to me that when they say noise canceling,
they mean noise isolating, not noise canceling.
So there is no ANC.
Time to listen to some music
that I am authorized to play.
That's weird, the left one's not working.
Okay, I'm gonna unpair these
and I'm gonna try repairing them.
If repairing them doesn't fix it,
what chance do you have?
(yelling)
(upbeat music)
So theoretically, you should grab onto these.
I heard both.
Okay, we're good.
But now we're back to one.
I heard one and then both and then one and then both
for a while, we're back to one.
Weird, taking this one out
seems to improve the situation over here.
So I wonder if it's the
in-ear sensor,
which where even is it on this one?
I know where it is on the AirPods Pros
but I can't tell where it is.
Wait, they're both going.
Okay, hold on.
I'm listening, I'm listening.
Yeah, they're really muddy.
These are very mediocre drivers in a low quality casing
that happens to look a lot like AirPods Pros.
Let me just fire up my AirPods Pros, confirmed.
There are a lot better.
The base has some actual texture to it.
You can clearly discern
anything that isn't base
from the base.
Of course, they don't cost the same amount.
There's no way these ever actually go on sale for $250.
So let's evaluate them as what they are,
$100 wireless earphones.
Let's see if we can pair to this iPhone instead.
Wow, look at that.
We've got battery indicators and everything
just like you would on an original Apple product.
Oh, I heard it for a second.
These are terrible, like abominable.
Okay, here's what I really wanna know
at this point now though,
could I use a cool black case
for my real Air?
You know what?
I'm not doing it.
I don't know what voltage this thing is,
just peeling out dbrand if you want different color AirPods.
Thanks for watching, guys.
I'm sorry that was so disappointing.
I really hoped I had good news for your $100 black AirPods.
They're not even heavy.
Listen to them.
(earphones clattering)
They sound cheap.
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