Gadgetory

so I made that video recently about the Apple earpods they came back into my life I've been using the air pods and kind of enjoying it they're wildly successful you see them out in the world other manufacturers you know they're entering the space this is the latest incarnation of the fully wireless Samsung earbud product has a couple of features that haven't been seen before prime my favorite one is the fact that this entire setup can charge from any phone that supports wireless charge sharing because this is a Samsung product and this is a Samsung phone there's also some interplay there that's a bit smoother than it might otherwise be with a third-party pair of earbuds or puds but once you're into the app this is where I think they have a bit of an advantage over the air pods they're super configurable here we can see the battery life of each individual units you can use one independently of the other you can keep one of these guys charging in the case while listening to the other one there's some different equalizer settings here for a bass boost soft dynamic clear and so on you can manage how these things deal with notifications they do have touch pads on the side unlike the air pods these have interchangeable ear tips and ear hooks as well look at all those options the air pod you've seen it before doesn't fit that far into the ear canal for some people this fits really well others it won't stay in their ears these on the other hand are gonna be a bit more predictable because they sit further in the ear canal and they have that secondary rubber plasticky component they should just be a bit more secure in there considering the way that they're designed air pod is a bit taller but also slightly less chunky than the galaxy bud so people want to know hey which one should I get considering that you can use either on multiple platforms they do work as Bluetooth headsets you can use the air pods on Android you could use the Galaxy buds on iOS within the app there's also a find my earbuds button so that'll track these down these things could be pretty easy to lose I mean they are tiny also there's a pretty cool ambient sound option I can actually elevate the volume of ambient sound a sound around me so it'll be amplified into my ear so I can hear my surroundings while I'm listening to music podcast audiobook and so on now you can toggle that all the way down so that it's muted you know what's going on around me is muted you have ambient if you're on the bike you're cycling you need to hear if if a car honks its horn or something this can really amplify your surroundings of course it's not on the air pods there's also a voice focus feature in there so this looks for voices specifically and allows them to cut through that particular frequency range I find this to be useful from time to time now the way that the touchpad works you can tap to play or pause a track double tap to play the next track answer or end a phone call triple tap to play the previous track and touch and hold to use a user configurable users choice you could have that launched something specifically do something specifically and that's user configurable that's nice now that I have it for quick ambient sound I'm gonna touch and hold and see if I can lighten up the surroundings here we go oh wow that's cool it toggles ambient mode while you're holding your finger on the touch pad I'm in ambient right now I can totally hear my conversation hear my own voice now do I look a little strange doing this quite possibly but the question you all have is like how do they stack up against the air pods now as you guys know I'm an s10 user this is the device that's currently in my pocket so the effectiveness of either of these earbuds it has to be in correlation to this particular device we talked about some advantages within the app who knows I might be willing to give up those extra features in exchange for potentially better sound I'm not really sure we'll start with the galaxy buds I want to make sure I've got maximum volume okay so now I know I've got max volume a little sample mm-hmm okay now we're in soft right now dynamic clear bass hmm okay I'm wondering right now if the people that have tested these already had them in full volume or not cuz I read some of those things that you read and that was the experience I was having until I made sure the buds themselves were max volume and the phone was max volume now there's a lot more thump way more bass our people doing it wrong it's a headphone I'm hearing instruments I was gone for a minute did you trick sort of I've heard better kind of feel like I got to do this exact same track right now on the air pods like right now without further ado hurry up hurry up hurry up way less isolation I hear the the fan on the camera here we go beginning you know neither are blowing my brains out you know obviously I've tried some very expensive headphones in this spot in this seat right here we've done it together you and I Jack Kirk and whoever else happens to be behind me on any given day these are tiny dental floss situations look at them in terms of sound I think I can say based on that quick little test right there the buds there's a bit more thump to it maybe my expectations were too high either probably closer to this performance then they are to like a full-on pair of headphone performance that said the most striking difference for me between the two is the fit and the feel right in the sound seal when you put these on you feel isolated but there's a drawback to that I noticed they're in my ears a little bit more this I don't even feel it this is a kind of a tighter feel if I had to choose this is a bit more comfortable for my particular ear canal and that's part of the reason I think I keep reaching for the air pods in the first place not because they sound the best but because you just don't even notice you're wearing them that could be a good thing or a bad thing neither are going to be an amazing audio experience but really these products are about convenience so evaluating them on convenience you have to give certain points to the new Samsung product because of the fact that it can charge wirelessly and off of the phone itself also the app gives you more configurability also another thing worth noting the galaxy buds are a bit cheaper than the air pods though that's not much of a surprise that is a hard pick I really don't know I mean it might be so simple as if you're on on samsung or on Android you might go for these and if you're on iOS you'll probably go for these just for the easier pairing across devices oh it's a hard decision I'd say if I'm about to do some kind of physical activity if I'm going for a jog or something I don't jog but like let's say I did I will probably reach for these ones it's just a bit more confidence in the fit but if it's just if it's in an environment like around the house I she really liked the idea of not feeling the thing in your ear as stupid as that looks you forget that it's there I already have so many great sounding headphones if I want to get down to business with music I think I'll probably still reach for these more because of that factor and then also keep by Sony headphones the dedicated over ear headphones with the noise cancellation everything else keep those for the discerning listening but if I didn't have those other headphones and I needed something that could isolate better than the air pods and I can only have one pair I only had 130 bucks for one pair I probably go for these it's only a one pair of headphones I probably would choose these over these but in conjunction with a really nice pair that you use sometimes this is the I don't even notice I'm wearing them headset that's the bottom line