RE: RE: Airpod question.
The BeatsX does not offer noise cancellation, just noise isolation. This means it plugs up your ear quite well and you don’t have much outside noise coming in, noise cancellation usually means the headset generates white noise to counteract outside noise. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of michaelmasl...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 2:40 PM To: Viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: RE: Airpod question. X I am considering the beats ex or another set. I'm looking for noise cancellation On Feb 24, 2017 at 15:11, mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>> wrote: Hello Everyone, As with many things in life, it's all a matter of opinion. I can tell you that of all the 20+ Bluetooth headsets I've owned throughout the years, Apple Airpods are my absolute, without a doubt, favorite. I am amazed with how seamlessly they interface with iPhone. I absolutely love the fact that I can effortlessly switch from a single-ear to two-ear and back to a single-ear configuration, on the fly. The auto-ear detection is as close to magic as I've yet experienced on a Smartphone. If I am playing a song or listening to a book/podcast with Airpods, all I need do is to remove the Airpod from my ear and playback will pause and not resume until I place the Airpod back in my ear. Amazing! My favorite feature of Airpods, however, is how beautifully VoiceOver switches between Airpods and iPhone. With iPhone in my breast pocket, for example, and an alert comes in, that I want to explore privately, I simply place an Airpod in my ear and sound automatically transfers from the phone to my ear; when I'm done, I simply drop the Airpod back into either its case or a pocket, and sound automatically reverts back to iPhone. This may be difficult to believe but last night, I panicked when I could not find one of my Airpods only to have a sighted friend inform me that it was in my left ear. I know, I couldn't believe it either. Talk about being embarrassed; but they really are that comfortable. smile) Mind you, I am using Airpods with iPhone 6 Plus, only, so I can only imagine how much better they perform with newer iPhone models. I think Airpods are well worth their price and that Apple, once again, has ushered in a new era of technology with this most innovative accessory. Mark -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 9:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: Airpod question. Hi Eric, Good choice, I think the current Airpods are quite a rip-off and in fact I was at an Apple Store today to buy a headset for my wife as an anniversary present and I was looking forward to checking out the Beats Solo and walked away deeply disappointed. I am in Canada so the Beats Solo here is $329.95 + taxes and while they sounded OK I could simply not believe such a large and, according to Apple, advanced headset has no volume control. First the Airpods have no volume control and now the Beats Solo also has no volume control, if this is the wireless future Apple invisions they need glasses. I ended up getting her a pair of the new BeatsX since she prefers earbud style headsets anyways over big clunky ones. As for the Solo I can only say that in addition to the lack of a volume control the sound is also just OK, I mean it's good but not special for the price. I have listened to many a headset that costs between $150 and $200 Canadian and think they sounded just as good. Another thing I noticed is that the canadian price for the BeatsX is a lot more favourible than that of the Airpods. If I am not mistaken the BeatsX in the States are $149 and the Airpods are $159, a $10 difference. Here in Canada the BeatsX are $179 and the Airpods are $219, a $40 difference in our currency. If I use the current exchange rate and convert $149 for the BeatsX to canadian it works out to about $195 Canadian, but Apple Canada only charges $179 so compared to the US price it's actually a good deal. If I convert the $159 US for the Airpods to Canadian it is $208 or $209 so at $219 Apple put a 5% upcharge on it at least based on the current exchange rate. How a $10 US difference works out to be a $40 Canadian difference when $10 US is about $13.2 or $13.5 I don't know. All in all I think that currently you can get a much better bang for your buck if you look at third-party headsets and the Apple W1 chip to me seems very much overrated. In fact, apart from the admitedly simple pairing process and maybe the fact that any other Apple device that is connected to the same Apple Id is supposed to pair I don't see a big advantage. If you think of it the initial pairing process of a regular bluetooth headset is also easy and i
Re: RE: Airpod question.
X I am considering the beats ex or another set. I'm looking for noise cancellation > > On Feb 24, 2017 at 15:11, mailto:mk...@ucla.edu)> wrote: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > As with many things in life, it's all a matter of opinion. > > I can tell you that of all the 20+ Bluetooth headsets I've owned throughout > the years, Apple Airpods are my absolute, without a doubt, favorite. > > I am amazed with how seamlessly they interface with iPhone. I absolutely love > the fact that I can effortlessly switch from a single-ear to two-ear and back > to a single-ear configuration, on the fly. > > The auto-ear detection is as close to magic as I've yet experienced on a > Smartphone. > > If I am playing a song or listening to a book/podcast with Airpods, all I > need do is to remove the Airpod from my ear and playback will pause and not > resume until I place the Airpod back in my ear. Amazing! > > My favorite feature of Airpods, however, is how beautifully VoiceOver > switches between Airpods and iPhone. > > With iPhone in my breast pocket, for example, and an alert comes in, that I > want to explore privately, I simply place an Airpod in my ear and sound > automatically transfers from the phone to my ear; when I'm done, I simply > drop the Airpod back into either its case or a pocket, and sound > automatically reverts back to iPhone. > > This may be difficult to believe but last night, I panicked when I could not > find one of my Airpods only to have a sighted friend inform me that it was in > my left ear. I know, I couldn't believe it either. Talk about being > embarrassed; but they really are that comfortable. smile) > > Mind you, I am using Airpods with iPhone 6 Plus, only, so I can only imagine > how much better they perform with newer iPhone models. > > I think Airpods are well worth their price and that Apple, once again, has > ushered in a new era of technology with this most innovative accessory. > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 9:34 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Airpod question. > > Hi Eric, > > Good choice, I think the current Airpods are quite a rip-off and in fact I > was at an Apple Store today to buy a headset for my wife as an anniversary > present and I was looking forward to checking out the Beats Solo and walked > away deeply disappointed. I am in Canada so the Beats Solo here is $329.95 + > taxes and while they sounded OK I could simply not believe such a large and, > according to Apple, advanced headset has no volume control. First the Airpods > have no volume control and now the Beats Solo also has no volume control, if > this is the wireless future Apple invisions they need glasses. I ended up > getting her a pair of the new BeatsX since she prefers earbud style headsets > anyways over big clunky ones. As for the Solo I can only say that in addition > to the lack of a volume control the sound is also just OK, I mean it's good > but not special for the price. I have listened to many a headset that costs > between $150 and $200 Canadian and think they sounded just as good. > Another thing I noticed is that the canadian price for the BeatsX is a lot > more favourible than that of the Airpods. If I am not mistaken the BeatsX in > the States are $149 and the Airpods are $159, a $10 difference. Here in > Canada the BeatsX are $179 and the Airpods are $219, a $40 difference in our > currency. If I use the current exchange rate and convert $149 for the BeatsX > to canadian it works out to about $195 Canadian, but Apple Canada only > charges $179 so compared to the US price it's actually a good deal. If I > convert the $159 US for the Airpods to Canadian it is $208 or $209 so at $219 > Apple put a 5% upcharge on it at least based on the current exchange rate. > How a $10 US difference works out to be a $40 Canadian difference when $10 US > is about $13.2 or $13.5 I don't know. > All in all I think that currently you can get a much better bang for your > buck if you look at third-party headsets and the Apple W1 chip to me seems > very much overrated. In fact, apart from the admitedly simple pairing process > and maybe the fact that any other Apple device that is connected to the same > Apple Id is supposed to pair I don't see a big advantage. > If you think of it the initial pairing process of a regular bluetooth headset > is also easy and in my view just as simple. With the BeatsX you still have to > push and hold the on/off button and the only difference is that a message > pops up on the screen asking if you want to connect to them so you save > yourself a few taps by not having to go into bluetooth settings and to double > tap on a newly paired device. With the BeatsX I had to double tap on > "Connect" and then on "Done" with a normal bluetooth
