The Anti-AirPods? Samsung Galaxy Buds
Starting from the Galaxy S6, each generation of Samsung S flagship has become a powerful opponent of the iPhone. And to the generation of S10, it has completely exploded the existence of iPhone XS in my heart, and foreign media also praised this is the strongest “Anti-iPhone”, which is why S10 has become the first in my six years. The first time to buy a mobile phone — of course, largely because of the 1000 pre-order Galaxy Buds in the UK. I said in the S10 review that if I count the discount on ebay and subtract the money from the Galaxy Buds, my S10 is almost a price with the domestic S10e, which is still very high in the UK where the electronics are generally high. Cost-effective.
In addition, I actually want to do a comparative evaluation of Galaxy Buds and AirPods 2, but I have no money. And the iPhone has been used as my backup machine. It takes two years of AirPods to be used. There is no need to have three pairs of real wireless headphones.
However, here we must first spit out the efficiency of the British. I received S10 on March 10th, and immediately submitted the email of claim headset. On the 14th, I succeeded in validate, saying that it was delivered within 30 days. I was fully convinced that I could receive it before I went to Europe in April. The result was three. Zhou passed, there was no update, and I was anxious to go to the Reddit forum. Many British users have already received the application in mid-March. Finally, when I was traveling in Madrid, I couldn’t help it. I called a Samsung customer service with a multinational phone call, and I was told that I would receive it the day after tomorrow. In short, from application to arrival, it took one month and two days.
The first impression of getting the courier is: too small. I thought it would be packed in a small square paper box. I didn’t expect the box to be stuffed into the ordinary British plastic envelope. The size of the box is similar to my wallet, very mini.
After disassembling, I saw the real body. If the AirPods are like rounded squares, the Galaxy Buds are elliptical in shape, narrower but slender. The weight is almost the same, although AirPods is even better in terms of data.
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(Galaxy Buds)
Unlike the apple-based products that are out of the box, the Galaxy Buds have an unpleasant plastic smell after opening the box. In other words, it is still a little less refined.
Galaxy Buds’s box hinge design is a bit strange. AirPods is steplessly adjusted, open to the end, touch it will close. Galaxy Buds magically arranged a half-closed angle, making people feel that the shaft is very loose. However, the strength of the closing and the “click” is still very comfortable.
The place I like most about Airpods is actually the little one, which is easy to wear and take off. In contrast, I have always been flustered by the earphone-like true wireless headphones like the Galaxy Buds (except for free delivery), because it’s hard to get them out of the earphone box, and then put them in The ear, taken out of the ear, the whole process will be very smooth because there is no small hand that AirPods can catch. It may take up to two seconds to get AirPods out of the box and wear it, and the Galaxy Buds may take more than four seconds. After all, you have to find the ear holes and put the small bean earplugs pinched with your fingers. In terms of the smoothness of wearing/removing, AirPods is still invincible. However, there is one thing to say, Galaxy Buds is indeed the highest value of the current bean-type true wireless headphones.
Similarly, the wearing comfort of a true wireless headset is also one of the most important indicators for me. Galaxy Buds will have the urge to lick your ears when you first wear it. After wearing it for more than an hour, you will adapt to it without any pain or itching. However, it is still a big difference with the “no feeling” that AirPods has forgotten to wear. However, the wearing stability of both is very strong, Galaxy Buds I have tried crazy gimmicks and there is no problem, and AirPods will not be transferred from my ears, I have been used for skateboarding, cycling and It is used in sports such as the gym. This is still based on the shape of the cochlea of each person, depending on the person.
(This picture is transferred from Ai Faner)
Operationally, because there is a triangular light surface of about one square centimeter, this small touch area can do a lot of things, single machine, double click, triple hit and long squat, which is much richer than AirPods operation. . But once you feel itchy ears or want to take it off, it’s easy to miss the pause. However, Galaxy Buds has done a good job compared to Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless, the operational logic that requires meticulous practice.
Since the end of the battery life, I did not measure the complete life cycle, but we can see that the left and right earphones have the main and auxiliary points, and sometimes the power gap will be around 5%. A single full flight is definitely stronger than the previous generation AirPods. The book data is also stronger than the new generation AirPods. According to the official one-hour battery life of 6 hours + battery box for 7 hours, plus the S10 series mobile phone reverse charging Power Sharing (Although the function that Huawei Mate 20 Pro first released) can be emergency, this battery life is indeed strong.
Bluetooth true wireless headphones will definitely be delayed, so it is good to listen to the songs and listen to the phone. Watching the video doesn’t have the delay that the ear can hear, but if you type quickly on your phone, you can have a centralized delay of about half a second.
At the same time, I think the sound quality is not the selling point of Bluetooth true wireless headphones. Of course, if the sound quality is too bad, it will not work. For example, the online evaluation of the universally overturned Sony can dive the swimming but the poor quality SP-900N. In terms of sound quality, I am really a fungus. I can only say that “Galaxy Buds can listen, the vocal reproduction is good, the low frequency is relatively shallow, the sound is a bit thin, and the overall sound quality is not bad. It seems that the AirPods seems to be better than the plain water.” The sound quality is metaphysics, but the sound-in-the-ear type is definitely better than the flat-headed AirPods to block the outside sound, but some KOL evaluations are like “noise-like sound insulation” I can’t agree.
Today’s Bluetooth true wireless headset market is a blue ocean, and every traditional headset manufacturer is launching related products. Expensive can be as high as 2,000 yuan on B&OE8 2.0, low can be as crazy as MiDot of Xiaomi to 99 yuan, and the pioneer of AirPods, which has a prominent experience in the middle price, is always the topic of wireless headphones.
Compared with the older generation AirPods, Galaxy Buds is leading in interaction, wireless charging, colorful color, sound quality and battery life, but compared with the new AirPods just released more than half a month ago, this answer may not be so clear, change In other words, Samsung Apple’s momentum in the wireless headset is almost equal to the two products, and in the choice of non-iPhone camp Bluetooth wireless headset, Galaxy Buds comprehensive strength is indeed the same as Samsung mobile phone Anti-AirPods Position, the difference between the price and AirPods’s 500 yuan may be more famous as the breakthrough point of this product.
Finally, the purchase proposal. If I recommend a true Bluetooth wireless headset with 1000 or so, if it is an Apple user, I still do not hesitate to recommend the benchmark product AirPods, as for buying new and old, it is based on the thickness of the wallet. If it is an Android user, especially a Samsung user, then Galaxy Buds is indeed the best choice. It can also be seen that Samsung is also working hard to build a three-piece eco-based foundation for mobile phones + earphones + watches. Now I am far from the Samsung ecosystem and it is a distance from a Galaxy Watch.
