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Intrigued by the Apple AirPods, tiny wireless bluetooth headphones (earbuds, really) that let you have complete freedom of motion while enjoying music and chatting on the phone? But find that the Apple $159.99 price tag is way too high? Or, heck, perhaps you have an Android phone like the Samsung Galaxy and want tiny wireless earbuds too.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the SmartOmi ACE wireless bluetooth earbuds and finds them to be a mixed bag, but at a great entry-level price. What's good and what's not so good? Watch the video to find out!
Learn more at http://www.smartomi.com/
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wireless earbuds for under fifty bucks
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let's check them out
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Dave tail here and I'm looking at more
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audio gear this time I'm looking at the
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smart Tomy ace
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that's this well that's the charging
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container let's open it up and it's
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these little tiny ear buds and so these
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are really slick little devices there as
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you can see completely wireless
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bluetooth 4.2 ear buds and in fact by
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taking them out they've already
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reconnected with my iPhone and so they
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are ready to roll
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same thing with Android as soon as you
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take them out of the charging case they
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actually go right back into ready to
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listen mode which is great so now I can
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put them in my ears and they fit in
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surprisingly comfortably and then on my
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phone at all I have to do is obviously
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just choose play want a button later
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let's try that a second time one button
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later I am listening to music so it's
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very nice and easy let me take these out
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however so I can talk about them so it's
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a pretty interesting little design as
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you can see so each time you charge it
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it gives you 3 hours of playback and
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you're thinking well that's not very
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good and it takes 2 hours for a 0 to
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100% charge but here's the thing that's
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really cool is just like the Apple air
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pods which obviously is you know where
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they got their inspiration then this
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charging box actually holds four full
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charges and even better like the Apple
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earpods there's actually a magnet that
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helps you make sure that when you put
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your earbuds into the charging case they
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snap into place and as you can see from
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the flashing blue light they are
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charging they are ready to roll so super
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easy and convenient you put them in here
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they're charging when this thing needs
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to be fully charged there's just a micro
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USB on the back so you plug it in maybe
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let it charge overnight and then four
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charges three hours of charge
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that gives you what the three times for
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it's alright it's video I'm live and in
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fact a my fantastic math so it's about
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twelve hours
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so twelve hours of playback on your
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little wireless earbuds by using this
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pretty cool and so this is actually a
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500 milliamp hour charging unit and it's
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fun the little earbuds themselves they
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are 55 milliamp hours so there's a teeny
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tiny little battery in them so just
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enough for it to work for a couple hours
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and one thing that I find a little funky
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is that it does have a built-in
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microphone but they designed this so
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that the left earbud is the one that
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actually works with phone calls where if
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you have both of them in then you're
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getting the stereo for music so I called
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someone to try it out and they actually
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said much to my surprise that I sounded
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excellent so that was a really good
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thing but it was very strange because
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I'm talking on the phone and only my
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left ear is working now why that's
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peculiar is because I'm right-handed so
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I'm naturally you doing this to be on a
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phone call so I'm used to my right ear
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being the phone ear far as I could tell
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there's no way to change that short of
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putting your left ear but in the right
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ear right ear but in the left ear which
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then means your I suppose all your music
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is backwards I'm not sure I'd ever
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notice that was the case but I will say
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when you turn them on when you power
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them up when they connect all of that
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there's a nice little voice that says
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left ear connected right ear connected
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so it's pretty easy to figure it all out
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which is good that it says that because
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there is an L and an R on these but boy
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is it's super subtle you really have to
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look at it so your hope is that you put
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them in correctly and let's see I think
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you could put them in incorrectly yeah
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so there's no specific orientation for
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which one goes in which hole which is
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too bad because like on the Apple
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earpods the charging unit only lets you
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put them in in the correct orientation
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so if you try to switch the two they
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literally won't fit into the charger so
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that means every time you pull the right
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one out and put it in your right ear
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you're good to go there's no hassles so
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that was smart thinking on Apple's part
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now before I talk to you about the audio
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quality and I talked to you about the
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price let me ask you to click on that
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that now the price is actually pretty
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nice it's $49.99 and you can pick up a
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pair at smart home EECOM these are the
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smart Tomy ace but let's talk about the
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sound so smart Tomy is understands the
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deal here and they ship with three
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different sizes of earbud tips and I
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immediately did what I always do which
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is put in the largest ones because it
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makes a surprising amount of difference
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having the right size tips and the
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largest ones that come with this still
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aren't large enough for my ears which is
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really disappointing so what happens is
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there's like no low range at all for me
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so these were great for things like an
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audiobook or for a podcast if you're
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listening to that but when you're
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listening to music that has a full range
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and a full audio you're just not getting
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the low end it's like someone put the
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treble up and the bass down and it's
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just like where's the bass where's that
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bass guitar where's the cello in that
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Orchestra and so that's really kind of
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disappointing from working with smart
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Tommy on other products I expected
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better audio and again I suspect if I
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just have larger earbud tips that it
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would actually give me better sound so
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that's something that you should be
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aware of is that in my experience at
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least the sound is pretty mediocre it
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could definitely be better but
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everything about these are really cool
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and I love the low entry price I mean
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the Apple earpods are $159 and these are
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49.99 this is a much nicer way to try
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these out and try out the technology of
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there's no wires there's no connections
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there's nothing that could keep them
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connected you know and all that's really
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pretty cool but if you really want great
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audio well frankly if you really want
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great audio earbuds for the most part
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aren't the way
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to go anyway so you know even within
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that though is that these were pretty
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lackluster so not super huge fan of them
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but if they have bigger earbud tips
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who knows maybe I'd switch it out put
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them in and say holy cow these are
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beautiful so I know they know how to do
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this I just think that maybe they're not
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a perfect match with my bigger ear
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canals anyway this is Dave Taylor I hope
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this was useful and interesting and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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