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Hey guys, here's one of your first looks at the new AirPods Pro 3
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Now you know I've been using the AirPods Pro 2 for a while, and while they were great
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Apple has made some meaningful improvements this time around, so let's get into it
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So what's new? First, battery life jumps to 8 hours with active noise cancellation that's up from 6
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You get up to 24 hours total with the MagSafe charging case, and just 5 minutes in this case gives you up to an hour of playback
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Although these do look very similar to the AirPods Pro 2 at a glance
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that the AirPods Pro 3 buds are in fact smaller. They also come with a new extra, extra small ear tip
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giving you five sizes total for a perfect fit. Plus, Apple has added IP57 dust
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sweat and water resistance for the first time. We're also getting the built-in heart rate sensor
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for workouts without an Apple Watch. This is a pretty neat addition. You just open the workout app on your phone with iOS 26
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start a workout, there are 50 workouts supported and your AirPods will track your heart rate
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No Apple Watch needed. They even sync with Apple Music to automatically start a playlist for your session
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Of course, I also need to mention live translation for real-time conversations between supported languages
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That's powered through an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. So actually AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Pro 4 with ANC
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will also support live translation. And as long as two people are having a conversation
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with any of these three buds, you won't need a phone to play the middle man
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or have that other half of the conversation. Now for audio quality I got to listen to a couple of tracks and the active noise cancellation does feel stronger I can actually say twice as strong as Apple advertised but in the demo area it was like
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the room disappeared. I wish I had the noise canceling on the whole time. It would give me less of a headache from being in here
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Of course, the results depend on having the right ear tips, but needless to say, I think
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it's impressive. I'm impressed. Apple also apparently updated the microphone architecture for better voice isolation on
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calls, which I will absolutely be testing more over the next few weeks. AirPods Pro 2, the microphone
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quality has probably been my biggest complaint, so curious to see how much better it is
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Quickly to recap, AirPods Pro 3 build on the Pro 2 with longer battery life, stronger ANC
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a more comfortable design, heart rate tracking, live translation, and IP57 durability. And all of
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this comes in at the same $249 price as the AirPods Pro 2. If you travel a lot, work out
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or just want Apple's best earbuds, I have a feeling these are going to be hard to beat
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and I already know Apple is going to be selling quite a lot of these things right here
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So that's my first hands-on with the AirPods Pro 3. I will be testing them more over the next few
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weeks, but from what I've seen so far, Apple has hit the mark. If you do want me to dive deeper
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into features like heart rate tracking or live translation, drop a comment below. And don't
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forget to subscribe for more hands-on reviews like this one. I'm thinking we'll do an episode
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of Setup Essentials, but again, let me know what you'd like to see. Thanks for watching, guys. I
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know this was a quick one, but appreciate you making it to the end. I will catch you next time
