$60 BlackPods 2 vs. $200 AirPods 2

Today I've got something called Black Pods, but it's not the first version of Black Pods

There's a couple of videos on YouTube of things that are called Black Pods, which are knockoff

black versions. I got this little note here, and the website is blacknoir.com, but the A is flipped

to a V. It's very hard to keep it all together. It's interesting to me nonetheless, obviously

because the AirPods are wildly successful. My very own Black AirPods, which are actual AirPods

These are custom painted from colorware so they're very expensive and air pods themselves are already very expensive

These are around 59 bucks USD so it's a substantial discount We designed these headphones we wanted to make something super similar to air pods

Yeah, we get it this version here apparently has wireless charging. They say it's a bold claim

They're gonna try to live up to it So it's black noir.com flip the a into a V if you can keep that together

Of course all that matters is do they work? Are they a valid substitute

How good do they need to be? Crack this open and find out for ourselves

Pull tab over here. It's not Apple caliber, but it'll do. The case is a matte black finish

It's very similar to AirPods. You have the button on the back over here. The click is not quite as nice

Hinge up top. Boom! Your black pods. They look a lot like Apple AirPods

LED light on the front as well as you saw green right there There is a USB cable connector that looks a lot like lightning but something tells me it some sort of micro USB variant You get a little quality control pass from the factory in China

so there you have that as well. They connect to the phone just like the real AirPods. If I crack

this open like this and look at that connect hold the button as far as the phone's concerned

these are air pods and they named black pods that's a uh that's a very unusual experience as

far as bluetooth headphones are concerned so in this case you start to wonder how did they make

that happen what kind of factory did they get that chip from because that pairing experience

is seamless and great one of the major advantages to getting apple headphones to go with your apple

device it looks almost identical i'll get the official ones out to do a size comparison here

official one is in glossy black black pod obviously isn't what happens if i take the black

pods and try to fit them into the official charge case oh they were it works this is like a legit

one to one copy by the looks of it. Let me throw these in real quick

But I'm still curious, do they sound like garbage? Are they half decent

Let's find out. Lil Nas X Panini? Oh my goodness gracious. These sound sort of like AirPods I mean mean i gotta be honest like i kind of expected them to sound

worse than they do what about longevity what about durability what about battery life how does it

hold up i mean for 59 bucks with the case and all that and the pairing oh oh they're still 100

100%. Look at that. I'm going to switch over here. Yep. All right. Official AirPod time. And the fit is essentially the same

These sound better. They sound better. It's significant. It's mostly in the bass

When you throw these on right after, you're like, yeah, okay, these definitely have more bass

That song, by the way, has a lot going on sonically. okay one more time i'll switch back to the black pods not as loud but i know

look they they work they're not gonna blow your head off you're not gonna be like uh zoning out

first of all you're not looking at it like i have 200 to spend on headphones you're trying to say

to yourself i need i need something in this particular budget i think this product the

AirPods, that is, are so successful, not because of the way they sound, even though, like I said, they sound better than this knockoff version

They don't sound terrible as far as headphones are concerned. But I think it more the package deal convenient for people and there less friction to carry it with you so all of a sudden you using headphones in places that you maybe previously wouldn have it just the whole

thing together that i think is so compelling for individuals prior to this product coming out there

was a rumor that apple might make black airpods officially from the company no color where

necessary it's unfortunate apple didn't do that kind of puts you in a weird spot if you really

want to have black airpods you go with some knockoff version for a fraction of the cost

which has a fraction of the sound or you go with some stupid expensive setup like this where you're

getting this custom paint job which seems a little extreme this product is i don't have enough

exposure to it or the brand to know whether or not it's worth recommending long term i can say

it works it functions it connects in a seamless fashion it's lacking in volume and bass all of a

sudden now you're like I really want this convenient package experience pairing and so forth and I just

don't want to spend the 200 bucks so now I understand why there's a demand for something like this now I believe this one also has wireless charging on it and it does even if it is a knock

off it's a pretty good knockoff somebody went back to the drawing board to put something together

in this form factor that could be more affordable and even if it's a knockoff it's kind of surprising

that they were able to do so. This company, who knows? But for now, I think this is actually

a pretty interesting package for the price. Just don't expect it to sound exactly like AirPods for 59 bucks