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hey what is up guys I'm cabby HD here and I just want to give a shout out to my former self so I was at that Apple event a bunch of months ago when they were announcing the new iPhone and all that stuff and they also dropped air pods that they would be making these wireless earbuds for iPhones and then they announced the price and I tweeted this clearly I was not a believer but today in January 2017 air pods may be the most popular wireless headphones on planet Earth and if they're not yet they're certainly well on their way to being those I see these everywhere I see these out in New York City I see them at airports I see them at CES I'm just so used to seeing these in people's ears there's thousands of reviews and they're great reviews people are going out and getting these on purpose as gifts for themselves they're out of stock for the holidays they're definitely doing really well so in a way this falls right in line with the whole getting rid of the headphone jack thing as much as it sucks at first you have to do it eventually if you want to get wireless technology to improve really quickly so right around the time that Apple's getting rid of the headphone jack they also come out with what they feel is the best possible wireless headphones and that puts pressure on everyone else who wants to be competitive now marques wait are you are you changing your tone on this like you were hating on these but now suddenly these are the best possible wireless headphones yes I reviewed them I used them you can watch that video these are the best possible wireless earbuds obviously if you like over ear headphones those are a different category but nothing comes close to airpot as a recap here's what makes them so good three things number one the case it's super simple you just open it take the headphones out put them back in it charges them while they're in here and you can charge the case it's small it's really good number two the W one chip inside pairing this with an iPhone takes literally two seconds thanks to that chip as soon as you open the case it's working and as soon as you pair it you can start listening but not only that once you pair it to your iPhone for example it automatically is available to pair with any other Apple device you have signed in thanks to iCloud and that ship so that is legit and three is just use of use the whole experience you want to listen to music you open the case put the air pods in and you're listening to music it's already started playing if you're done you take them out of your ears it stopped playing you put them back in the case you close it it's disconnected it's off it's charging again it's ready to go the next time you need it simple the battery life is solid the sound is good enough for most people I mean if you're doing phone calls and just casually listening to music that's all people really want and for most people they stay in your ears pretty well when walking around or during a commute or normal activity I know some people that even work out in these it's definitely not for everyone but it's still true for most so the question is what if you're on Android like what's the best wireless earbuds for Android what's the what's gonna match the entire air pods for iPhone experience if you use an Android phone well after testing a bunch as you saw in the intro and I got to be honest my findings were not predictable or easy but I came to the conclusion that none of them do everything as well as air pods they all do different things better than others but it's sort of a mixed bag here is what you would think most likely would be that equivalent pixel buds made by Google for Android so those same prices air pods and their Bluetooth and they have instant pairing if you have a pixel but otherwise it's normal bluetooth pairing with any Android phone as soon as you take it out the case the sound is pretty good as far as audio quality nothing exactly mind-blowing here for the price the battery life is about the same and you can see they're not truly wireless earbuds so they do have this wire between them and they actually stay in your ears through that pretty clever wire method I know there aren't technically wireless headphones because of that but you can push the wire right up through the earbud to create this little modular custom sized wingtip to fit your ear and it works pretty well also the wire carries power between the earbuds so like don't ever cut this wire I think your ability to control everything is right around on par with air pods so you can move forward or backwards between songs but if you want to change the volume you have to ask Google assistant which you do by holding down on the side of your but on the right it responds to you pretty quickly and it's natural enough that I don't find it that weird it also reads your notifications as they come in so like a calendar event as it happens it'll just read it to you or a text message and a DoubleTap on the touchpad will just read off everything you have waiting for you there's also the live translation feature which I haven't gotten to work yet but has gotten some pretty interesting demos I'll link Linus's video below it's a beta it's a work in progress at best but at the end of the day pixel buds they're decent but they're just not quite airpot the fact that it's not truly wireless isn't a big deal for me but that is a difference but just the whole taking them out and putting them back in the case is a bit more of a chore thanks to that wire as great as this case is you know it's pretty it's soft it's the only one I've tried with USBC but I wish it was a little more robust and a little more elegant to use then just to look at and the pixel buzzes themselves are a little less comfortable in my ears just because of the main inside of your ear part being hard plastic usually with ear buds you know you get that flexible plastic or foam ear pods are sort of a hit-or-miss and so our pixel buds they're not flexible they don't try to be super in here but they just kind of hang on there I might sound like I'm being picky but I really am I'm just trying to find something that does everything for Android as well as air pods do for iPhone so we tested a bunch of the other top options here that worked for Android we tested the Bose sound sport freeze we got the new j-bird run we also did the j-bird x3 we got the braggy - headphones the Jabra elite sport the Arado Apollo 7 the Evo 1 and the air pods which actually also do work on Android technically turns out the best comparison to what I got from air pods on iPhone was what I got from j-bird run on Android so I've talked about jaybird stuff in the past and this is obviously their newest completely wireless earbuds set and it comes really close in a lot of areas and does some things better than air pods so as far as the big three the case the instant pairing and the ease of use the case itself is a little bigger it's more thick like bulbous still pocketable if you want but you could also just toss it in a bag not a huge deal and the headphones come in and out of it pretty quickly just gotta line up the pins and drop it on the magnets and it starts charging not quite the same level as air pods but you get the idea pairing is your normal Android pairing the first time and then every time you take them out the case after that you just open it up and it connects so again almost as good and then ease-of-use is great you just listen to it like normal or you can hop in the j-bird and my sound app and mess with audio profiles and changes the way they sound that's something they've done recently the seal in your ear with the flexible custom tip is great so they sound better than air pods for sure and they fit in your ear better than air pods or pixel buds especially for workouts if you move around a lot these are gonna sound great it is still microUSB on the back I wish it was USB see I've said that about other things but pretty much everything else about these as far as user experience goes this is the air pods for Android as far as what I've tried but of course for those curious about all the other stuff we tried here's a quick breakdown of the rest so Bose sound support free 250 bucks they are a complete package with good battery life sweat resistance microphones nice build but they're big the case is big the earbuds are big and they have this this whole left-right pairing priority so the right bud is the master and the left one follows in a way that gives a solid delay between your audio and the stuff on your screen so not so great for watching movies the Arado Apollo 7 250 bucks again these are a weird design and they sometimes fall out your ears even with different sized tips they're just kind of strange and when they do stay in they look the most like ear plugs not a whole lot of crazy or extra features here just straight-up ear plugs in a case no MIDI controls not that great the braggy - 160 bucks another big case and the earbuds themselves are a lot more exposed to pins lots of combinations of taps and holds on the side touch pads for media controls and just about everything you could possibly want to do with these so there's a learning curve to them but there's also four gigs of internal storage so that's cool the evo 1 or yellow one 250 bucks a sleek case even if it is micro USB the buds are not sweat resistant so that's to note and it's really easy to accidentally press the media controls on the side when you're trying to push them in your ears because it's just a touch pad so that was a bit frustrating they also sound like hot garbage like truly impressive are you sure it's not broken terrible audio Jabra elite sport 220 bucks best battery life of a bunch I'd say and you can see why they're pretty chunky stealthy all matte black sweat resistant they connect pretty easy and the raise indicators on the buds are nice but there's two on each bud so you kind of feel like you're shoving them in your ears when you try to adjust them tons of options for fit with the wingtips though plus it has a heart rate monitor and then j-bert x3 115 bucks these again are also not wireless obviously but just to note they still are really convenient they sound great customizable fit with the wingtips and ear buds again they stay in your ears super well and there's a clip to keep the flat wire behind your head with a minimal slack so it doesn't get caught in long hair also there's the only one with media controls on the cable not on the butt and then air pods 160 bucks so yes you can use air pods for Android you might not want to but it's decent they pair like normal Bluetooth earbuds and their sound is middle-of-the-road obviously and you lose a couple of the extra features like tapping for Siri and the play pause when you go in and out of your ears but otherwise pretty standard so all that being said here's how I would rank these as far as experience for Android from best to worst number one is j-bird run number two is j-bird x3 number three pixel buds then braggy - then I throw air pods in there then Jabra elite sport bose sound sport urato Apollo 7 hoping your favorite song plays on the radio Yivo one so alright what have we learned from all of this number one that air pods are actually really good I'm almost curious what a 2nd gen ear pods would look like maybe a shorter stem but that could be pretty interesting number 2 that pixel buds are pretty good wireless earbuds for Android but not quite as good as air pods are for iPhone although that almost doesn't matter to anyone because most people don't have both iPhones and Android phones and number three that jaybird run turns out to be pretty much the best possible experience for wireless earbuds for Android hopefully that covers everything I think the ranking tells all so that's pretty much it thank you for watching and let me know what you think of this general format I'm playing around the idea of having trying to get together everything from one category to surface what really is the best maybe there will be a name for it but let me know if you think and also I'll try to link everything I talked about in the description below again thanks for watching talk to you the next one peace