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I’ve been thinking a lot about the AirPods lately. They’re a great product at a fairly reasonable price and over a year after release, they can still be a pain to get your hands on. I thought it’d be interesting to check out some AirPod clones that are $14. But are they any good?
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What's up guys, Stephen Colt of Mac here, and recently I've been doing a lot of thinking about the AirPods
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They're a great product at a fairly reasonable price, and even a year after release, they can still be difficult to get your hands on
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Now, I personally went with the Beats X, which I love wholeheartedly, so much so I made not one but two videos on them, but they're currently having some battery problems
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So whilst I wait for my Apple appointment to roll around, I thought it'd be interesting to take a look at a pair of AirPods clones from Amazon for just $14
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But are they any good? So these are the Zantec mini wireless earphones
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They're already rattling around. That does sound like heartburn relief over in the States, but I picked up these earbuds
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for £9.94s are just shy of £10, which works out to around $14
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And whilst I can't find these exact ones on the US Amazon store, there are a lot of very
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similar looking ones and nine times out of ten they're all made in the same factory, then they
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slap a different logo on them. Although to be fair, I can't see any Zantec branding on here
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So on the front of the box there's a picture of the earphones themselves. Then it's got some icons of some of the things it will do, such as phone calls, it's got a microphone
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built in, the wireless. Then we can get them in five different colours including black, red, gold and pink
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I'm sure a lot of people would like to buy their AirPods in different colours. On the back it tells us that the microphone sensitivity is 42 decibels, frequency 2.4 gigahertz
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Then it tells us the battery capacity of both the earphones and the case. So the earphones have a 65 mill amp hour battery and then the case has a 950 mill amp hour battery Which you know isn bad It says it will give you a charging time of 1 to 2 hours
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Then they will play for around 5 to 6. Bit dubious on that, but I won't be trying these out all that much
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I literally pick these up because of how cheap they are. So if we open the box
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So first we've got a manual on top. TWS true wireless stereo earphones
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So we've got it in English and Chinese. So you can pair one or two earbuds at a time
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For a Chinese translation, these are actually pretty good. Anyway, let's throw it on one side
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Then in the box themselves, which isn't packed or too great, there's the giant charging
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box, and then just a micro USB cable to charge that with
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Not quite the same satisfaction of opening room as the AirPods. And then in here we've got two giant earbuds
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I mean, they are ridiculously big. So obviously you're not gonna get the magnets
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for the earbuds to stay in. It kind of clicks in. Oh, and the box has come precharged, which is nice
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Let me just grab a pair of AirPods so you can see the size difference, because I don't think it'll come across on camera
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just how big these things are. Where are my AirPods? So here are my AirPods
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Show you a size comparison of the cases. I mean, obviously I wasn't expecting the Chinese copy
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to be anywhere near the quality of the AirPods but the size is so different and then the earbuds themselves as you can see I mean in terms of how they look they got them pretty darn close
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But the scale is ridiculous. So let's try pairing these up. So they will come up as TWSI-7
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So they're both in pairing mode now and they've got a blue and red kind of flash going on
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In terms of connecting to them, that has worked really well. Now let's try playing some music into them
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So already they don't fit very well. They do block out a lot of sound so if I am shouting I apologize
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So initially the sound is very flat, very tinny. No, they don't stop when I take them out unfortunately
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Yeah, they sound very flat, they start distorting a lot without sounding very loud
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Then pressing the button on the side will pause them, which is a nice little extra
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Press it once again to play. Then we do a double tap. Oh, so I double tapped it and I got a last number redial
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and it is ringing my mum and dad. Sounds only coming through the left one
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Hello, can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me
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No, so phone calls on these are useless. Not that I like doing them too much on the
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the AirPods anyway but that was ridiculous She couldn hear a word I was saying In terms of range I not sure how good they are Oh this one cutting out My phone is here Oh we back No Just going to try walking away and see how far I can get
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So the range is actually really surprising. I'm going to make it all the way to my front door
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It cut out a few times and actually sped up the song, which is not something I've come across before
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The base is very lacking, well, it's non-existent to be honest. So is it any good
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Or are they any good? Uh, no. Well, it's impressive that you can get functional wireless earbuds that do look like AirPods from afar
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with a charging case for the price of three six-inch subs. Frankly, you get what you pay for
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They're uncomfortable, sound pretty darn awful, and they even lose connection with my iPhone when it couldn't be any closer
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For the same price, you can pick up a pair of sen-hapes, wired earbuds, which will be much more comfortable with decent audio
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Yes, you will need to use a lightning to headphone jack adapter, but I'd much rather have earbuds that fit and sound great
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Well, that's it for this video. Whilst I wouldn't recommend picking these up, if you do want to, for some reason, unbeknown to me
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I'll make sure to leave some links of similar products in the description down below, and I'll leave a link to the UK Amazon where I bought these from just in case
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If you enjoyed this video though, go ahead and hit that like button. that like button, subscribe if you haven't already, and I'll catch you in the next one
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