Apple unveils AirPods Pro

[Commodus]

Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30

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Apple today announced AirPods Pro, an exciting addition to the AirPods family that features Active Noise Cancellation and superior, immersive sound in an all-new lightweight, in-ear design. AirPods Pro are available to order on apple.com and the Apple Store app starting today and in stores beginning Wednesday, October 30.

 

 

 

This is basically the all-wireless equivalent to the higher-end Apple in-ears, if you remember those.  Not sure how much better they'll sound than the regular AirPods, but it's safe to say there'll be a meaningful improvement.  The five-hour battery life is okay, but good considering that these look smaller in some ways than the base model.  I'm most intrigued by Apple using tech to determine the best ear tips -- that's a common problem with in-ears that a lot of companies don't bother to solve.  I just wish these cost less than $250, though you at least get a wireless charging case in the bargain.

[suicidalfranco]

out of this announcement: silicon tips are now acceptable and the best thing to ever happen ever since apple introduced them

[Bacon soup]

my first car cost less and lasted four years of my terrible driving.

[Guest]

I wonder how much better they will sound than the beats bro I bought a couple of weeks ago......

[Curufinwe_wins]

Looks nice. Expensive but almost all wireless ANC things are.

 

Silicon tips should help a lot of people who have trouble with the airpod shape, though a lot of people will complain about the comfort as well. (Personally, it's almost never possible for me to get tips small enough to fit comfortably. Before I returned them, peak comfort with the galaxy buds was actually without any tips at all, and they still sealed well. But that seemed unsafe.

 

 

Overall, **shrugs** looks fine and par for the course given the cost of the OG pair.

[Murasaki]

Hey thats great! I'm not buying them.

[MrFixitBlankFace]

You forgot that they have a matte black model

[Guest]

I’ve bought two 

[dizmo]

He thinks the original air pods have "Incredible sound"? *shudders*

If that's what he thinks incredible sound is, hard pass.

[TechyBen]

5 hours ago, Commodus said:

Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30

 

 

 

This is basically the all-wireless equivalent to the higher-end Apple in-ears, if you remember those.  Not sure how much better they'll sound than the regular AirPods, but it's safe to say there'll be a meaningful improvement.  The five-hour battery life is okay, but good considering that these look smaller in some ways than the base model.  I'm most intrigued by Apple using tech to determine the best ear tips -- that's a common problem with in-ears that a lot of companies don't bother to solve.  I just wish these cost less than $250, though you at least get a wireless charging case in the bargain.

Those. Those look nice. So the AirPods 1 were the iPhone 1/iPod 1 of the family... most Apple firsts look horrid/dated with the second revision (which then tends to keep it's look/feel/iconic time throughout and never get "old").

[Guest]

To note: No USB-C, they use lightning. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

5 hours ago, Commodus said:

just wish these cost less than $250

I mean at least in the UK, they are "only" £50 more expensive than the standard airpods with wireless charging case so compared to the rest of the line, the price isn't bad, especially once you fact in how it does have ANC, where even if the sound quality remained the same, that's still not the worst deal ever. 

[realpetertdm]

Can we stop labeling everything pro

[Founders]

$250 for something you can get on Amazon for less than $50, no thanks. Earbuds are so disposable and easily lost you'd have to be a complete knuckle dragger to buy these. 

[Fnige]

36 minutes ago, realpetertdm said:

Can we stop labeling everything pro

no

[AlTech]

Spooky.

 

 

But seriously, I dislike the naming and the PRO suffix for a consumer level product and the pricing as with anything with ANC is wayyy too overpriced and may require prospective buyers to sell their kidneys to afford one.

[yolosnail]

What would make these 'pro' would be if they had something connecting them together so the aren't so easy to lose, and maybe an 'offline' mode so they can be used without using the battery, and if they could physically connect to the device as well using, say, a small cylindrical connector.

 

Also, Airpods Pro is just an awful name, I could tolerate Airpod Pro, but that 's' just makes it sound awkward

[Commodus]

49 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

$250 for something you can get on Amazon for less than $50, no thanks. Earbuds are so disposable and easily lost you'd have to be a complete knuckle dragger to buy these. 

Something tells me you'll be replacing the $50 pair often enough due to breaks that you'll wish you'd bought the AirPods instead...

[Founders]

20 minutes ago, Commodus said:

Something tells me you'll be replacing the $50 pair often enough due to breaks that you'll wish you'd bought the AirPods instead...

People either lose them or break them beyond repair. Apple charges $70 if you lose a bud or the charging case which is half the total value of the original purchase price of the 1st gen AirPods. That's $220 for the original purchase price plus replacement, again no thanks, I'm still better off buying another $50 pair assuming the ones I bought originally are out of warranty. 

[Blademaster91]

I agree, why pay $250 for these airpods pro, the anker wireless earbuds are like $50 and apparently last 5 hours on a charge. And if I wanted to spend over $200 on earbuds the Sony WF-1000XM3's likely sound a lot better and are priced a bit less than this product Apple slapped the "pro" naming scheme onto.

[williamcll]

30 minutes ago, Blademaster91 said:

I agree, why pay $250 for these airpods pro, the anker wireless earbuds are like $50 and apparently last 5 hours on a charge. And if I wanted to spend over $200 on earbuds the Sony WF-1000XM3's likely sound a lot better and are priced a bit less than this product Apple slapped the "pro" naming scheme onto.

And the Sony earbuds get put on sale more often than the earpods.

[ryao]

Everyone who upgraded from the first generation AirPods to the second generation AirPods must be kicking themselves.

[avg123]

12 hours ago, realpetertdm said:

Can we stop labeling everything pro

Why   do   you   care? Its just a name. 

[avg123]

 

11 hours ago, Ehmc130 said:

$250 for something you can get on Amazon for less than $50, no thanks. Earbuds are so disposable and easily lost you'd have to be a complete knuckle dragger to buy these. 

Nobody is forcing you to buy it.

[realpetertdm]

18 minutes ago, avg123 said:

Why   do   you   care? Its just a name. 

Why do I care that a company is putting dumb names on products to make it look like something it's not? Because I can.

 

Why do you care about me caring about the AirPod Pro?