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“Ugh. Okay, okay, just a second. I have to get my earphones to connect. Damn it.” This has never happened to me - using either wired headphones or AirPods whic

“Ugh. Okay, okay, just a second. I have to get my earphones to connect. Damn it.” This has never happened to me - using either wired headphones or AirPods which connect rather seamlessly to the phone even mid-call. Just get headphones that work well with your phone’s model. The whole article sounds very “millennials discover telephony” to me - either that or the author is in way over their head and don’t really know how to use the smorgasbord of devices they appear to have maneuvered themselves into.

benjaminwootton 4y ago
AirPods aren’t that seamless for me. The switching between phone and MacBook is pretty good, but there is still an element of randomness if the phone will connect to the AirPods or not. Add in a few more switches such as in the car or a Bluetooth speaker and the article rings true for me.
- Tomte 4y ago
  My right AirPod bud regularly (as in 2 out of 3) needs to be put back into the case and taken out again, in order to connect. The left one just works. I won't buy them again.
  - TexanFeller 4y ago
    I used to have such problems with older Airpods. Since I got the 2nd gen Airpods Pro pretty muvh every issue is gone, they work perfectly every time.
bmitc 4y ago
That's (a) hard to believe and (b) in the minority if true. I think this stuff works so poorly all the time that some get accustomed to it or some are just lucky. I had it happen on my desktop computer and the monitor's audio today because the audio device got confused after a Remote Desktop session. There wasn't even a wireless connection involved. I had to run to get wired headphones. If anything, in my experience, it is service providers' cell coverage and cell reception on phones barely designed to be phones that are all so abysmal that it doesn't even matter if everything else works well. They alone make cellphones terrible as phones when on cellular. And in general, BlueTooth sucks. I need to do an incantation to keep my PS4 controllers connected, a problem reported by many in various forums.

benjaminwootton 4y ago

AirPods aren’t that seamless for me. The switching between phone and MacBook is pretty good, but there is still an element of randomness if the phone will connect to the AirPods or not. Add in a few more switches such as in the car or a Bluetooth speaker and the article rings true for me.

Tomte 4y ago
My right AirPod bud regularly (as in 2 out of 3) needs to be put back into the case and taken out again, in order to connect. The left one just works. I won't buy them again.
- TexanFeller 4y ago
  I used to have such problems with older Airpods. Since I got the 2nd gen Airpods Pro pretty muvh every issue is gone, they work perfectly every time.

bmitc 4y ago

That's (a) hard to believe and (b) in the minority if true. I think this stuff works so poorly all the time that some get accustomed to it or some are just lucky. I had it happen on my desktop computer and the monitor's audio today because the audio device got confused after a Remote Desktop session. There wasn't even a wireless connection involved. I had to run to get wired headphones. If anything, in my experience, it is service providers' cell coverage and cell reception on phones barely designed to be phones that are all so abysmal that it doesn't even matter if everything else works well. They alone make cellphones terrible as phones when on cellular. And in general, BlueTooth sucks. I need to do an incantation to keep my PS4 controllers connected, a problem reported by many in various forums.