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When my wireless earphones reach 20 minutes of charge it starts warning me about this every minute. So this essentially cuts 20 minutes off it's battery life ca
by Revisional_Sin 1y ago
When my wireless earphones reach 20 minutes of charge it starts warning me about this every minute. So this essentially cuts 20 minutes off it's battery life cause it's too annoying to use from then.
- bsghirt 1y agoI know it's annoying to suggest that consumer preferences will fix stuff like this when clearly it comes from some corporate design culture that completely ignores consumer preference. But in this case (a $50 device rather than a washing machine or something) why wouldn't you just get a different pair made by a different company?
- igouy 1y agoDo you mean returning the wireless earphones, and then getting different?
- bsghirt 1y agoNo I mean just consider the money spent on the annoying ones lost and buy another pair. No one wants to do that but for a relatively low ticket item which one uses for hours every day it seems masochistic not to do so.
- dbetteridge 1y agoMost decent noise cancelling headphones cost hundreds of dollars, so not exactly low ticket items.
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- igouy 1y agoIn that case, "consumer preferences [wont] fix stuff like this" because no signal is sent back to "corporate design".
- mort96 1y ago1) A huge amount of wireless devices have these annoying low battery warnings which make the last 20 minutes a terrible user experience, you'd probably go through a whole lot of headphones/earbuds before you'd find one which doesn't. (And good wireless headphones and earbuds are typically significantly more expensive than $50) 2) There are many factors which go into how good earbuds/headphones are. While incredibly annoying and unnecessary, the quality of the "low battery" warning's implementation is realistically gonna be very low on the list of priorities for pretty much anyone. It's likely that the overall best product (when considering audio quality, Bluetooth implementation quality, battery life, price, comfort, weight, extra features like water/sweat/dust proofing, etc etc) is gonna have an annoying "low battery" warning.
- porridgeraisin 1y agoOh yeah. My headphones scream "battery low" every few minutes when they go to 20 mins of charge too. It's fucking annoying.
- ziml77 1y agoFor me that's good because it annoys me into getting them plugged in before they go completely flat. If it only happened once, I'd tell myself I'll take care of it in a moment... and then completely forget to until the audio is gone.
- marcosdumay 1y agoAlso, for some reason, every announcement headphones make must be on full volume.
- driverdan 1y agoThis is probably a good thing. Continuing to use them when the battery is that low reduces the battery's lifetime.
- jaza 1y agoThis is why I've never used wireless earphones (I just use the stock wired earphones that come with the phone). Sure, the wires are tangled every time I pull them out of my pocket. But they never need charging! That, plus a loathing of Bluetooth.