AirPods Pro are now out and they’re honestly the best pair of wireless earphones you can
get in terms of the overall package and how well they work inside the Apple Ecosystem.
But what if you’re an Android user?
Will they still work and sound great if you’ve got something like this Galaxy Note 10+? The
answer is actually yes, but functionality is a bit limited.
More on that in a minute, but let’s first go through how to pair the AirPods Pro to
your Android smartphone, as well as which features work great for Android users.
First, make sure your AirPods Pro are in the case, then go into the bluetooth settings,
and press and hold the button on the back of the AirPods case to enter pairing mode,
keep holding the button, and then tap on the AirPods Pro when they show up in the available
devices menu. And you’re done!
One of the best things about the AirPods Pro, regardless of which phone you use it with,
is the fit, feel and comfort.
They fit great because they come with three different sizes of super soft silicone ear
tips, and the best part is that the speaker grille itself is actually flush with the Pod,
so only the soft eartips go into your ears, unlike basically all other in-ear earphones
that have a hard plastic tube that goes into your ear canal.
But it doesn’t stop there, the AirPods Pro have a venting feature that actually equalizes
the pressure inside your ears to match the outside world, so your ears will never feel
plugged, which is the worst thing about earphones that seal.
These two things make the AirPods Pro the most comfortable in-ear earphones since..
Basically ever, and it’s the best reason you should actually buy them if you’re an
Android user.
Most Android users will probably love the new short-stem design compared to the old
AirPods, so they’ll look and feel great.
And yes, the noise cancellation features work perfectly well, just like they do with iPhones,
and same with all of the force sensing controls, including pausing and playing, skipping tracks,
and cycling between Noise Cancellation and transparency modes. These controls work flawlessly
on the Note 10 Plus.
Noise cancellation is seriously amazing and it works well enough to make this feature
alone worth upgrading from AirPods 2. But the transparency mode is actually the most
impressive part, and it works great with Android phones as well.
It basically uses a microphone to record your surroundings and then the speakers play it
directly into your ears, so instead of everything sounding muted like you have earplugs in,
it sounds like you literally have nothing blocking your ears.
And one thing that people love about AirPods is the excellent microphone quality during
calls, and yes, it’s great on Android as well.
It’s also pretty awesome that Apple included a lightning to USB-C cable in the box, and
since most Android phones come with USB-C chargers, you’re pretty much set!
And of course, the AirPods Pro case also supports Qi wireless charging, so you can avoid using
the Lightning cable altogether.
The case is also pretty small and more portable than a lot of other earphones, which is one
of my favorite things about AirPods.
Getting into sound quality, these sound absolutely amazing. The best way to explain it is that
the AirPods Pro are more than loud enough, while producing some of the most accurate
sound quality out there.
There are some competing earphones like the Galaxy Buds, Echo Buds and Powerbeats Pro
that produce louder bass, but the AirPods Pro beat all of them hands-down in overall
sound quality and accuracy.
The AirPod Pros are also the best overall package out of all of those earphones, being
the best overall package, combining everything from IPX4 water resistance, active noise cancellation,
incredibly comfort, great battery life, awesome portability and more, while each of those
other options lack at least one or two things that the AirPods Pro have.
Even the Sony WF-1000XM3’s, that some would argue have better sound quality and active
noise cancellation, have a much larger, less portable case and they also completely lack
water resistance, so there’s yet another reason to choose the AirPods Pro.
Now let’s go through the features that you miss out on if you use AirPods Pro on an Android
smartphone.
The Hey Siri feature obviously won’t work to activate google assistant, so you’ll
have to do it using your phone, which honestly isn’t a big deal.
On iOS, you can customize controls so you can press and hold to access siri on one side
and use noise controls on the other. On Android, both sides will default to cycling between
noise controls, which in my opinion, is perfectly fine for most people.
Of course, you also don’t have access to the Apple ecosystem, which instantly sets
up AirPods on the rest of your Apple devices that are logged into the same iCloud account.
For Android users, that doesn’t even matter at all.
On iPhone, it’s very simple to check your battery life by simply opening your case next
to your iPhone. Now, there actually are some apps you can download on Android to check
battery life but they don’t work nearly as well as Apple’s implementation.
This might be a bit of a hassle, but you’ll have the same experience with many other earphones
anyway, so it’s not a big deal.
And finally, there’s automatic ear detection on iOS, which automatically pauses your music
when you take an AirPod out of your ear, and plays it again when you put it back in.
This is a pretty great feature that doesn’t work on Android, but now that you can easily
pause music with a single press on the stem, it’s actually quicker than taking your AirPod
out of your ear.
And even better, the new transparency mode makes it so that you can hear your surroundings
and actually have a conversation with someone while wearing the AirPods Pro, as long as
your volume isn’t set too high.
And a major plus is that you can take one AirPod out of your ear and put it into the
case to charge, and your music will continue to play in the other ear, and when you take
the AirPod back out of the case and put it into your ear, it’ll auto play a couple
of seconds later, which is honestly one of my favorite AirPod features.
So in my opinion, the AirPods on Android experience has never been as good as it is with the AirPods
Pro. The many positives easily outweigh the small list of negatives, so in reality, I
would greatly recommend the AirPods Pro to everyone, including Android users.
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