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Apple consistently demonstrates smarter, more thoughtful engineering and it's no surprise that the Apple AirPods are beautifully designed. Elegant and sleek, it's hard not to fall in love with the functionality and ease of use. But there are dark clouds in the AirPods world too, as tech reviewer and audiophile Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explores in this candid and detailed review of the Apple AirPods.
Before you buy these $159 wireless bluetooth earpods, you'll want to watch the video, whether you're an iOS and iPhone fan or an Android user.
Apple.com: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
BestBuy.com: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-airpods-white/5577872.p
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are these the best wireless earbuds you
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can buy let's find out Dave Taylor here
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and this time I'm not looking at dental
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floss so it looks deceptively like it
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I'm looking at the Apple earpods and
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they come in this really cool little
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charging container you open it up you
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pull out the air pods one goes in each
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ear let's put this down and this one
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goes in my right ear this one goes in my
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left ear and as soon as I put them in
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there on all these sensors so I've
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already heard this chime and it's
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already paired with my phone not only
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that as you can see on the phone it
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shows me the charge level both for the
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charging unit and for the air pods
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themselves now let me tell you the
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charging and all the interface and
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interaction is really where this gets
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really slick because it's really well
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designed even initially pair it all you
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have to do is literally put this near a
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phone and open it up and then the phone
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will automatically see these recognize
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that they're air pods and give you a one
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tap pairing now when I say the phone I
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mean the iPhone these are an Apple
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product and they're very much designed
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to work in the Apple ecosystem for
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example if you lose one of these you can
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actually use Find My iPhone or I think
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that's what they call it now and it
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actually tracks the location of your
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earbuds so that's pretty slick of course
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that also suggests that people have
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complained that they've lost individual
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units but so it goes you put one in and
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you can have mono you put both in and
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you have stereo so if you want to use it
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as a for phone call and each of it each
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of the two earbuds actually has its own
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microphone very slick design if you want
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to use it for a phone call and you want
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to just use one you can do that and they
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have this really fancy microphone
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technology so in fact they sound great
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on the other end I've been making phone
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calls with these and there's some issues
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with the air pods that I'll get to in a
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minute or two
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but for making phone calls these are
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fantastic and again it's as easy if you
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get a call coming in it's as easy as
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doing this and you're ready to roll and
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you can double tap and that actually
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brings up Siri you can see here on my
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phone it's now in Siri mode and so
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that's a little funky because you don't
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have the ability to like tap to get to
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the next track or tap to pause or
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anything there's a little bit of
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configuration you can do not much but
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the apple's expectation is you do
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everything through siri now i find that
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a little awkward because i'm often in an
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environment where i don't really want to
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be talking to my air pods or earbuds i
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want to just have things happen silently
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now
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rumor has it in iOS 11 that there's a
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lot more configuration and customization
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you can do with your air pods in terms
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of behaviors and you can have different
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left and right taps and everything we'll
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see for now
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it's kind of a one-trick pony and what
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i've read from a lot of people is that
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this is really sort of like the siri
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gateway drug and so they're really fun
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ear pods they're really easy the whole
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way that they interact with the iPhone
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and the Mac and with any iOS devices is
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remarkably elegant it even works with
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your Apple watch how cool is that
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but here's the reality the reality is is
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that for all of that they're not really
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great sounding in fact they don't sound
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much better than the regular wired
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earbuds that you get with your phone or
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with any other iOS device so I think the
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issue there is that they don't have ear
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tips so you don't have any way to adjust
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how much of your ear canal is being
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covered so what I've found is that in a
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really quiet environment they sound
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really nice though not a lot of bass but
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as soon as I get into a loud environment
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then I'm really missing my active noise
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cancellation and I'm really missing my
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proper headphones that cover my ears and
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so it's a mixed bag you know and the way
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it's designed with the charging base
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they've cunningly made sure you can't
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possibly use any third-party anything
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even if you were to put a little cover
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over the ear tip as some
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people sell on Amazon every single time
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you go to put it in the charging unit
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you have to take that off that's a pain
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in the booty now to be fair there are
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some things that are really cool about
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it so each time I pull these out I've
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got five hours of charge approximately
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and this little unit actually can charge
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it up to six times which means you can
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run for 24 hours without ever needing
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any additional power when you do need
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more power there's a lightning connector
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on the bottom now Apple says that 15
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minutes and this gives you three hours
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on these so there's a lot about this to
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really like and it's really easy if you
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know you're on the train and you realize
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you have to go through the station and
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you don't want to blow your eardrums out
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you just put them back in here to store
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them and by the time you pull them out
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again they're fully charged again how
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does how is that not something to like
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all super elegant I just I really enjoy
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the way that Apple thinks through all
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the engineering of everything it uses
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AAC not the more common aptX and that's
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because AAC is an Apple protocol and the
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idea is that instead of just being
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generic Bluetooth device it actually
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gives you more expanded dynamic range so
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the music should sound better but again
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my experience with the audio quality on
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this is I don't know maybe a B not great
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if you're in a really quiet environment
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maybe a work environment or you're
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studying then these can work really well
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and of course the interaction with Siri
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and the phone calls are terrific but if
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you're in any sort of noisy environment
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with any sort of background these might
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not be the product for you now all I
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also have to tell you is the price but
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before I do that let me ask you please
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go ahead and click that subscribe button
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so we can stay in touch cool now Apple
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earpods
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with five hour charge per pair and
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everything how much would you pay for
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these well they're kind of spendy there
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are a hundred and $59 and they're a
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little hard to get a hold of so here's
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what I found is that if you go onto
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Apple comm 159 bucks there's about a
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four week waiting period so
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what I did is I went to bestbuy.com and
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I ordered them there and with regular
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shipping they were at my doorstep four
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days later so not sure why people still
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complain about availability Best Buy
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seems to have plenty of these in their
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warehouse so you can choose where you
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like to purchase them but these are the
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Apple earpods I am Dave Taylor and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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