Samsung Galaxy Buds - Better AND Cheaper? #Helpful Post

Samsung Galaxy Buds - Better AND Cheaper? #Helpful Post

s a kid whether you had a Walkman an

iPod or an Android smartphone if you had

a pair of headphones and a

three-and-a-half millimeter jack you

could always count on things to just

work you know like it's good jack and

nothing has ever made me appreciate it

more than reviewing Bluetooth earbuds

now it's not that the galaxy buds are

bad they're actually pretty good

they feature excellent audio quality a

great fit and near zero latency with

Samsung devices but there are some other

things about the buds that sour the

experience and when we've had this other

almost perfect audio standard for nearly

80 years is pretty good good enough you

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now the galaxy buds are not Samsung's

first foray into the world of true

wireless earbuds their gear icon X

launched back in 2016 and was refreshed

again in 2018 they had features like

fitness tracking for active users along

with swipe support for volume control

and four gigs of on-board storage

unfortunately battery life is not so

good and the originals only worked with

Samsung devices for the Galaxy buds

Samsung took what they learned from the

icon X and made a more refined product

with more universal appeal in short they

dropped the internal storage added a

wireless charging case improved battery

life added support for Bluetooth 5.0 and

drop the price to undercut competitors

like Apple's air pods and Google's pixel

buds but that would all be for naught if

they kept that pesky Samsung only

limitation fortunately they didn't the

Galaxy buds should work with any Android

or iOS device even though they do still

work best with Samsung ones more on that

later first let's take a look at them

Samsung seems to have taken a lot of

design cues from the icon X down to the

rounded triangular touchpad and like all

decent earbuds they include three sizes

of rubber ear tips and three sizes of

wingtips to make sure that they will

stay in your ears

this made Riley who wrote this review

and his freakishly asymmetrical ears

very happy moving on to the inside we

find the charging contacts and this

curious little black dot which is a

sensor that helps the buds detect

whether or not they're in your ears and

allow them to automatically power on or

go to sleep accordingly battery life is

a strong point with six hours of music

listening time and five hours of

talktime but curiously the case only

gives you about a third of the extended

battery life compared to Apple's case in

spite of its similar size on that

subject if Samsung would have had to

increase the size to get more battery

life into it I'd probably have left it

the way that it is to as it is it slips

easily in and out of even very

small pockets with an exterior LED

indicating the battery level for the

case itself and an interior LED which

indicates the earbuds level of charge

now it comes in white black or yellow

just like the earbuds and if you've got

a Galaxy S 10 it's kinda awesome being

able to plug in your phone turn on

wireless power share and then charge

your earbuds wirelessly it's just it's

just one of those things that makes you

go nice something else that's nice is

the audio quality Samsung is clearly

getting their mileage out of their 2016

acquisition of harman compared to the

airport which to be clear are fine for

most people the galaxy buds can put out

a delightful amount of bass along with

full-bodied mids and balanced treble of

note however is that part of this

superior performance is just the fact

that you can customise your Galaxy buds

to seal correctly in your ear canal by

comparison the air pods don't really fit

snug and therefore let in a lot of

ambient sound now with that said there's

a clear safety advantage to being able

to hear the world around you

fortunately if you're into that the buds

have an ambient sound mode but similar

to the one that we first saw on the here

one from Doppler labs basically they

used their two external microphones to

record the noise around you and pass it

through the speakers that are right in

your ear holes overall we found that it

didn't interfere too much with music

quality and it was helpful especially in

an office environment to know if

someone's yelling your name from across

the room now let's move on to the app

it's not available for iOS which blows

but other than that it's pretty cool

it's actually got some great features so

you can adjust your EQ we liked the

dynamic and clear presets best you can

update your firmware without any voodoo

magic you just press a button called

update firmware like every other tech

product Thank You Samsung I didn't think

this needed to be a good thing but there

you go and this is a really cool one you

can actually both see your buds battery

level and locate them by playing a

high-pitched chirping noise it's almost

like Samsung gives a crap if you

them and wants to help you cool also

from in there you can customize some of

the buds touch gestures you cannot

change the single tap to pause or play

and that's on both sides the double tap

to skip a track or the triple tap to go

to the previous track but you can assign

the long-press action to activate your

voice assistant of choice it even works

with Alexa turn volume up or down or

Tran ambient sound on or off

now each earbuds long press action is

independent of the other so you can set

them to do different things that is

unless you want to use them for volume

control in which case the right earbud

has to be volume up while the left one

is volume down as with the air pods you

can turn the volume up down or to a

specific percentage with your voice just

watch out though because the buds

themselves still don't have voice

activation so if your phone's mic can't

hear you then you'll have to summon

Cortana manually with a long press I'm

just kidding Cortana sucks now overall

our experience with the galaxy buds has

been pretty freakin sweet but there are

a few flies in this mostly happy women

just like the air pods and Apple devices

the galaxy buds work best with Samsung

devices and while that kind of a phrase

can often be taken as just marketing I

mean of course Samsung wants you to buy

all the Samsung products it's really

true here the galaxy wearable app is

pre-installed on Samsung phones allowing

you to instantly pair by opening the

case while other users of Android phones

will need to install the app and as we

mentioned before iPhone users can't get

it at all so they can't customize their

gestures even and while latency is near

zero with a Galaxy S 10 it's very

noticeable on the pixel free and even

more so on the iPhone 10 are that we

used and the thing is while we didn't

experience any glitchyness while

listening on the iPhone or on the S 10

our music tended to glitch out much more

frequently on the pixel 3 especially

when walking around with the earbuds in

ears and then the pixel 3 in a front

pocket another big negative and this was

actually true on all devices was the

call quality now it's

in a quiet environment I was trying to

talk to you guys in our studio here that

would be just fine but if you're outside

or in a busy room

pretty much good luck having a coherent

conversation so no matter how advanced

Bluetooth earbuds get with their gesture

controls and advanced features it's the

little issues like this that always make

me kind of long for the simplicity of a

headphone jack I mean don't get me wrong

I know that by the time this zipper

finally really wears out I'm gonna have

to replace these I guess I just wish

that the technology had matured a little

more before we started you know yanking

the three-and-a-half millimeter ports

out of our phones so the community over

at drop comm asked for a closed back

headphone with excellent price to

performance and they're about to get it

with the Fox Tech's TR XO o ebony

headphones they're based on a model

first developed in the late 80s with a

lightweight magnesium alloy frame evany

wood ear cups and breathable material on

the ear pads so you can listen for hours

in comfort they also feature higher flux

density audio drivers crisp and detailed

sound signature and a rich base that

doesn't become bloated so check it out

at the link below so thanks for watching

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really comfortable by the way totally

forgot I had them in while I was just

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