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hi Dave Taylor here again and one of the
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most interesting things about apples
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introduction of the iPhone 7 was that
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they also introduced something called
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the Apple earpods now these are little
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earbuds that are going to fit in your
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ears and there's no wires between them
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there's no wires to your device they're
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pure Bluetooth devices and they have a
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little charging base that makes it
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really easy to make sure that they're
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always powered up but they're not the
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only company doing this so company
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called Rokan has these these are the
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Rokan bit charge wireless headphones
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with portable charger and as you can see
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on the top little teeny tiny status
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lights but where this gets real
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interesting is when I pull one out
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that's it it's the earbud so pull them
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both out turn them on put them in my
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ears and now I have a Bluetooth
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connection with my phone and I'm
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listening to actually surprisingly high
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quality music so let me take about
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weird to talk while you have earbuds in
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but the music actually is really quite
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high quality more much really I was
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surprised when I heard it now there's a
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lot of neat things they've done here one
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of which is that there's a magnet so I
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don't know if you can see this but they
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sort of pop right in there and
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you can use them individually paired to
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different things in mono format so you
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could have one hooked up to your phone
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while another one's hooked up to maybe
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your computer I haven't really tried
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that because I'm sort of a stereo person
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I think it'd be really disconcerting to
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have different things in different ears
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but it does give you that option they
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also have believe it or not a built-in
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microphone and noise reduction system so
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even though it looks like you have
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nothing in your ears at all you can
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actually use these for phone calls so
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use these for a Skype call which really
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is super close to you just having this
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invisible connection with your phone so
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that's pretty fun the engineering here
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is nice too if I push this all down now
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you can see on the base that it's
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actually the charging station so what
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they say is that if it's fully charged
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it'll actually give these let me see if
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15 times there so you can actually
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charge these earbuds 15 times which
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leads to the obvious question how long
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do they last on a charge and the answer
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is about three hours of music and or
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talking so that's not bad but it's
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definitely not a full day of you know
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being on that plane from Los Angeles to
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Tokyo or something but hey with this
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charging base it's actually super easy
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for you to just drop them in give them a
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few minutes to charge up and pop them
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back in your ears so that works out
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really nicely now since the base also
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has a USB connection you can use it to
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charge other things too like your phone
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as the case may be and let's see what
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else can I tell you about this stereo or
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separate mono buds you can actually
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figure out how you want to do that it
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does come with both of them so that's
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bluetooth 4.1 so it's the very latest
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bluetooth spec which is nice and here's
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something that's really fun is it makes
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it really easy for you to use Siri
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because literally all you do is you tap
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your ear and then you're talking to Siri
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and I tried this out and it's very very
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clear so it's really easy to work with
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any voice system so Cortana if you
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prefer that it's all good Google ok
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Google all that sort of stuff it's all
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all will work great there's sweat proof
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and they have an IP X 5 rating
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waterproof so I don't know that I'd wear
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them swimming but if you wear them and
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it starts raining you're not going to be
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not gonna happen so seriously it's all
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will say that I did have a little issue
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with one ear disconnecting and I don't
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know what the deal was but I basically
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just switched which ones were in which
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years and the next couple hours of
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listening to music was great without any
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interruptions at all but other people
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have said that they also have
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encountered sporadic disconnects on the
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Bluetooth so that might be something to
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other people have complained about range
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but I tried these 2530 feet away from
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the blue to source and they weren't
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great I had no static no disconnects no
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issues whatsoever so in I don't know
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about six or seven hours of using this
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the only issue I had like I said was one
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time my left ear dropped out for a
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couple of seconds and then came back and
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dropped down and came back and I simply
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switched which ones I used in which
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years and that seemed to fix the problem
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I don't know whether I have like a metal
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plate stuck in my head I didn't realize
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but that seemed to solve it and they're
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really neat I mean it's a really nice
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piece of engineering I wouldn't have
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thought that I would have liked wireless
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earbuds that were so tiny but not only
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are they really well engineered and
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really well designed but they sound way
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better than I think you're going to
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expect they actually have a very nice
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sound to them very full now these are
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129 bucks at Amazon or you can learn
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more at Rokan comm as I said these are
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the Rokan bit charge bluetooth
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completely wireless earbuds headphones
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with separate and actually with its own
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charger so pretty cool stuff and I think
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you might want to check this out
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especially if you're waiting for the
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Apple earpods because there's still this
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question of how elegantly they're going
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to work with other Bluetooth devices
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that aren't actually from Apple I'm sure
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they'll work but these these are
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designed to work with everything so
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that's something to keep in mind this is
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Dave Taylor and catch you in my next
