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Updated AirPods Pro 3. They feature
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quote the best noise cancellation of any
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in-ear wireless headphones. According to
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Kate Burggeron, thanks to a quote custom
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multiport acoustic architecture,
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whatever that is. They had some cool
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animations of like things flowing in and
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out of the AirPods through like the
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ventricle ports and vents and things.
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Uh, and foam infused ear tips. So
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they're they they have foam on the
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inside of them, I guess, to for more
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sound absorption, like those fancy
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podcasting like foam panels that they
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have, but inside your ear.
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Yeah. A lot of people use those foam
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ones. I mean, that's one of the biggest
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upgrades of of AirPods anyway, isn't it?
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People buy foam ones, the kind of ones
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that you sort of um
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like those squish between your fingers
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before you stuff them in your ears.
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Comply ear tips.
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Yeah. They they've got foam on the
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inside so you don't have to deal with
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the squishiness or gunkiness, but you
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still have like the same nice rubber on
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the inside. And they they give you more
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of them in the box. They now have five
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different sets of ear tips. I think they
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have a new extra extra small size for
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people with smaller ears. I have the
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opposite problem. Apparently my ears are
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pretty big and and I guess my right ear
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is larger than my left ear. So, oh,
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like the old wired earbuds, they would
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constantly fall out of my ears because
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like the weight of them was the weight
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of the cord was too heavy and also like
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the earbuds weren't weren't filling the
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space and especially the right one. Like
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it was impossible for me to I'd have to
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stand still as a statue to keep those
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things in my ears. So, AirPods Pro are
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sadly what I need. As disgusting as my
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ear wax is. Um, but you know, no one's
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going to be sharing them luckily. They
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claim twice the noise cancelling power
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of the prior models u and also four
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times the noise cancelling power of the
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original ones and four times the power
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as the AirPods 4 with&c. So a lot of lot
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of strong noise reduction in these new
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ones.
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That I think is going to be pretty huge,
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isn't it? That if that's true because
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they're already pretty good.
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And I I was wondering how much of that
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is due to the new ear tips and how much
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of it is due to some, you know, software
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magic. They didn't necessarily break
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that out.
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These have the same chip inside them as
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the old ones, the still the H2 chip. So,
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I imagine a lot of it is down to the
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physical design. They've just figured
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out how to engineer more sound
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cancelling out of them. And that's great
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because my biggest use I I wear like
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generic Bluetooth earbuds all the time,
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but my biggest use case for noise
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cancellation is when I'm mowing my lawn.
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You know, I' I've got like a big loud
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gas push mower and, you know, it's I've
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got to turn on noise cancelling and
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still turn the volume up pretty high. I
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bet I could probably, you know, save my
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ears a lot more with these. So, I'm
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looking forward to that. Uh, we have
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more battery life thanks to their
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mysterious new battery technology. Eight
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hours of battery life with active noise
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cancellation, which I think is up from
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six hours, and 10 hours of battery life
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when you're using them as hearing aids,
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which I think is up from four. So,
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much longer battery life when they're in
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transparency mode there. Uh they're more
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dust and water resistant. They've got
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IP57
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rating on them, which is pretty neat.
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Good. Good enough for at gym workouts,
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right? For for sure. Easily. Easily.
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Yeah.
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Uh, of course, the headlining feature,
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built-in heart rate monitoring, sort of
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like the Power Beats Pro 2. Uh, my
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understanding is the Power Beats Pro 2
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aren't very accurate in terms of heart
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rate. So, I'm kind of curious
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if this is maybe like better in some
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way. I It does It does look like the the
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monitors. It might have been just
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because they, you know, blew up the
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AirPod big on the screen, but it kind of
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looks like the heart rate sensor is
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bigger on this than it is on the Power
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Beats Pro 2. And that might make it more
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accurate just by virtue. I think the um
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the foam tips will have a will will will
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will contribute to that to the accuracy
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because it'll keep them more in space.
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Like I think some of the criticism I saw
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was that if they're bouncing around
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inside your ear canal, it l it you know,
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it can't keep the sort of connection
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with your skin and they can't read it
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that the the heart rate properly. So,
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you know, you get better reading when
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it's kept more firmly in your ear. And I
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was wondering whether when as soon as I
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heard about the fun test, I was
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wondering, oh, I wonder if that has
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something to do with trying to improve
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heart rate accuracy as well as, you
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know, sound isolation.
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Okay. I mean, the thing is like the the
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heart rate monitoring is only useful
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really if you don't have an Apple Watch
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and you have like or or especially if
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you have like an Android phone or
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something like that and it's your only
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way of getting your heart rate, you
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know, if you're not like on gym
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equipment. I wonder how it'll if if I'll
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be able to directly compare that heart
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rate monitor to like my Apple Watch. I
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wonder if I can run both simultaneously
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and see.
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Well, you could if you if you connected
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to different devices. For sure.
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Oh, yeah. That's true. I might do that.
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I'll see what I can do.
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Yeah,
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because I really I really am curious how
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how accurate they are
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because the Apple Watch has got just
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like a much better read on your wrist.
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We'll see.
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Well, they say Apple itself says if if
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you're wearing Apple Watch and these
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earbuds, it'll it'll um preference the
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watch,
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which isn't a good sign. That makes it
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sound like uh you know that it the watch
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is going to be more accurate. Um, but
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yeah, we'll see.
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Yeah. Uh, we've got live translation.
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They've got a new gesture for this. You
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touch and hold. I They didn't explain
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it, but they did show it in the video
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where they show somebody like touching
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both of the AirPods simultaneously to
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activate it.
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It's my god, this is crazy stuff. This
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is like science fiction madness. I mean,
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you know, could you ever believe a few
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years ago that you would get this? You
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know, you stick a babbleish in your ear
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and it would give you like translate on
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the fly what someone is saying to you in
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a foreign language.
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Yeah. Pretty insane. Um, and it it's
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really clever how it works in tandem
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with the active noise cancellation so
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that it tones down what the person is
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saying in a foreign language that you
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hear the translation better.
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It's a it's it's pretty insane. I I'm
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really curious to to test test this out
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as well because I know of a I have a few
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friends who speak French and so I want
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to try it out with them. Um
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is going to
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be super exciting. Because the one weird
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thing is that if that if your the
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internet the person you're talking to
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doesn't have AirPods Pro, they have no
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way to translate what you're saying. So,
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it'll transcribe it and put it on your
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phone so you can show them.
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Yeah. Hi. Here's what I just said. It's
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kind of wild. I mean, I I could see this
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going horribly wrong, though. I mean,
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like, what if a translation isn't quite
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right? It's It's kind of weird, you
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know, uh taking that person's voice and
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muting it down and just having this
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weird robot voice in your head telling
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you what they said. Uh I mean, that
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looked great in the video. I I'll be
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very curious to see how it works in real
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life.
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It's insane. It It only works with a
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small number of languages. I think
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French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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No, no, Spanish wasn't one of them.
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Spanish is coming.
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It didn't.
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Yeah. Oh, that I was surprised by that,
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too.
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But Spanish is not one of the the the
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initial ones.
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I wanted to do like, you know, Tagalague
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or, you know, Japanese, you know, some
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language that's like you you don't have
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even a single clue what the person is
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saying.
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I mean,
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or Vietnamese that even if you know the
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language, it takes like years of
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learning how to annunciate and pronounce
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everything exactly right.
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Yeah. I mean, that would if they can get
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this to work in all these languages
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eventually. Although even the translate
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app is fairly limited still at this
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point. I I can't remember exactly how
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many languages.
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Google translate. How many? They they
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offer quite a lot of languages.
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Yeah, they have a ton. They have a ton.
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It's it's much much much broader than
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than Apple translate currently.
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Apple translate I think is only like 20
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or 30 languages, but
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I thought it was even lower like 14 or
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20 or something. But uh yeah, it's again
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that looked great on the screen. I I'll
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be very curious to see how it works. I
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mean, especially the thing like what
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you're saying like if if you both have
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AirPods, Pro
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you just like talking to each other
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through your earbuds somehow. I mean,
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robots talking to each other. That's
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super uncanny and weird.
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But if it works, I mean, hey, you know,
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especially if you
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like don't have any idea what the
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language is. It could be fantastic.
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Although, the the interactions in the
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video were kind of corny, too. you know,
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like, oh, everybody's like, so it's so
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natural to just be talking to somebody
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uh on their phone. I don't know. It's
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kind of weird.
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Oh, here. Hello. Here's my flower shop.
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These flowers are 50% off,
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right? How much are the geraniums? How
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much are the geraniums?
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It says Google Translate offers 249
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languages while Apple translate supports
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19.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god.
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It's really It's deficient.
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Yeah. And I actually don't know if they
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specify like it supports those languages
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but does it support all of them between
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each other or just those to English and
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back.
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That's another question because the
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thing is like the more languages you add
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you then have it becomes more work to
8:45
add each individual language because
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then you have to make sure it's
8:48
language to all the other languages. So
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I I think it well I no actually I don't
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know because I've only ever tried to go
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uh English to other languages. So
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the buds are a little smaller. They're
9:02
the AirPods Pro 2 were a little more
9:04
like bigger and angular. These ones are
9:05
a little more rounded, kind of closer in
9:07
shape to the AirPods 4. Um, so it's
9:10
interesting how they're tweaking that
9:11
still. Uh, the buds are a little
9:13
smaller. The case is ever so slightly
9:16
larger.
9:16
What the
9:18
Yeah,
9:18
that's weird as can be.
9:20
A few like fractions of a millimeter in
9:22
like each dimension. I've heard a lot of
9:23
people like complain about the
9:24
relatively large size of the case.
9:27
Is it solid state now? because there was
9:28
a lot of talk about they were going to
9:29
lose the button and make it a solid
9:31
state button and if you wanted the
9:32
pairing you're going to have to tap on
9:33
it but I didn't see any mention of that.
9:36
So
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it probably is because that's how the
9:38
AirPods 4 work
9:39
the same button then the same the same
9:41
design rather on the the Pro case.
9:43
I think so but I haven't confirmed that.
9:46
I I'll take a look.
9:47
This one was an instant buy for me. I
9:48
mean, no, no question about it. Partly
9:50
because, uh, my other ones had really
9:52
fallen to pieces. But, um, yeah, there's
9:54
no question these these things are
9:55
great. And, and I I was testing them out
9:57
trying to, you know, figure out whether
9:58
they sound which sounded better, the
10:00
Power Beats Pro or the mild AirPods Pro
10:02
2. And it's definitely AirPods Pro 2.
10:05
And they say that the AirPods Pro 3, I
10:07
guess we didn't mention, I didn't put it
10:08
in the notes here, but they supposedly
10:09
sound even better. They say it has like
10:11
a wider sound stage, which is, you know,
10:13
how big this the stereo sounds when
10:15
you're when you're listening to music.
10:17
Uh, broad broader broader range, more
10:20
bass. So,
10:22
yeah, better bass. Better bass. Yeah.
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And again, same $249 price. So, heck of
10:27
an upgrade.
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Yeah. I I mean, this is a tempting one
10:32
for me. And I am perfectly happy with my
10:34
uh AirPods Pro 2. I, you know, I I don't
10:38
want the batteries to go bad on them. I
10:40
don't want to lose one down a drain. I
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don't want anything like that to happen.
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But, uh, it it's a little hard to to
10:45
like get rid of them, you know, cuz
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they're just fine. But, uh, I don't
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know.
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I mean, the thing is the new ones I I
10:52
guess we should mention this, the new
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ones have the same H2 chip in them. So,
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I can't imagine these having like like
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the AirPods Pro 2 were like had such
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staying power. Apple kept adding more
11:02
features to them over the years. I don't
11:04
see the AirPods Pro 3 being like that
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long lasting or you know continuous
11:09
improvement after the product is out
11:11
because it has the same chip in it. Like
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for example, the the the live
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translation feature is also coming to
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the old AirPods Pro 2 as well, right?
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That's not exclusive to these.
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Yeah,
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that was another thing that uh it's like
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h well maybe I'll just wait.
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You know, it's appealing that they're
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slightly smaller and the ear tips it
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sounds like they're might be more
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comfortable. Honestly, I'd say if you
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have Pro two, if and they still work,
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don't bother upgrading to the Pro 3.
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Wait for them to break first.
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It's It's hard to It's hard to do.
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Yeah. Funny. Uh AirPods Max, not one
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peep.
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No update to that.