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I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Ap
by baz00 3y ago
I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare.
Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire between them. Seem to work ok and for that money, meh!
- latchkey 3y agoIt sounds like what you have found out is that not all Apple hardware is worth the hype. Personally, I have the beats fit pro. While still owned by apple and benefiting from the same chip integrations, these have held up just fine for me for a few years now of daily use.
- baz00 3y agoYes I could write several pages of diatribe about my shitty Apple experiences recently.
- someotherperson 3y agoYou can get high quality fake AirPods that sound just as good. They pair with Apple products like the real thing and the batteries are solid. The problem they usually have is with the microphone. That's usually the case with a lot of this stuff. I've had super cheap (i.e $10) wireless off-brand headphones that sound even better than AirPods but the microphone is almost always poop.
- somehnguy 3y agoAirPods or AirPods pro? My current set of AirPods Pro have long outlasted my original set of AirPods in terms of battery longevity. Both very heavily used. It seems the switch from pouch cell (in regular AirPods) to button (in Pro) made a huge difference.
- baz00 3y agoI killed two sets of plain Airpods. The Pros I bought crapped out after 14 months of ownership. They do get used heavily but no excuse at that price.
- ska 3y agoFWIW I have a pair of pros that crapped out around the same time, 14ish months and the mics weren't working - apple replaced them free (but not the charger) and they've gone another year or so now without issue. Obviously YMMV.
- somehnguy 3y agoMy Pros are over 2 years old with an hour minimum per day use, usually a few hours. Still working flawlessly.
- kube-system 3y agoMaybe I don't use mine as hard, but I've had 3 pair and never a single failure. What you can always do is upgrade when the new versions come out and sell your old ones before they die. They have a good resale value.
- nfriedly 3y agoI'm on my second pair of Sony LinkBuds, and these are starting to go also. The warranty covered the second pair because they lasted less than a year. I'm not sure if it'll cover the third pair, but I'll probably buy another if not, because I really like the hear-through design, and no one else makes anything like it.
- acomjean 3y agoWired earbuds are back (Acording to some… and I’ve seen a few more lately out and about). I’m still using full over the ear headphones I bought 15 years ago. I had to get new pads but other than that they still sound great. https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-airpods-out-why-cool-kids-are-wearing-wired-headphones-11636753407 https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-airpods-out-why-cool-kids-a... https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/wired-earbuds-are-so-hot-right-now/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/wired-earbuds-are-so...
- baz00 3y agoI do use wired ones when I'm at the PC. I have some Sennheiser HD25's my ex wife bought me over 20 years ago.
- fyloraspit 3y agoGreat longevity as they tend to be for club / dj environments but I find they have way too much pressure on the ear to be comfortable as regular headphones for use at a computer.
- baz00 3y agoThey do a "lite" version known as the "SP" ones which doesn't clamp your head. I've got those
- threeseed 3y agoThose articles from 2 years ago. And in that time I can't think of a single manufacturer who has brought back 3.5mm headphone jacks. Meanwhile Qualcomm recently announced WiFi-Audio which brings lossless audio.
- autoexec 3y agoA quick search shows that the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and the Sony Xperia 1 V both have headphone jacks. They've got expandable storage too! If I had to get a cell phone today, the Sony one is probably what I'd be looking at.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoWow that's crazy, what are you doing with them? I have my second pair (upgraded to pro) and I had them under water so many times. I even jumped into a pool once and did a few laps before noticing I have them in my pocket (without the case). They fall down every 2 days. Both going strong for 2 years or more.
- Lio 3y agoThey seem to be offering replacement batteries for £49. That's either the Airpods or the charging case of all models. That's obviously more that wired earbuds but I'm OK with that to have noise cancelling headphones I can always keep in little pocket of my jeans wherever I go.