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At 06:00 AM 9/9/2016, you wrote:
I don’t see how this works though.
The iPhone has a specific W1 chip included. I
don’t know if bluetooth is the underlying
wireless protocol but none of the other devices
have this W1 chip. So how will my EarPods talk
to my iPad air2 for example with no W1
processor? Must be some sort of bluetooth
support under the hood for compatibility across
the product line like that. It wasn’t
mentioned though so wondering how it works. I
was under the impression that the wireless
connection itself was over a proprietary
protocol and not bluetooth. Would love to be wrong on that.
On Sep 9, 2016, at 3:58 AM, Simon Fogarty
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
hang On,
so if I pair these pods to my iPhone 6s+ which is running IOS 10,
and if my watch is running OS3 and my iPad and
iPods are all running IOS 10 as well, these
pods will automatically be picked up by those other devices?
Simply because I’m using my itunes account on all the devices.
Awesome,shame about the NZ price of the pods
though, <http://apple.co.nz/>apple.co.nz shows
them as being around 250 dollars when they are released.
Bloody cool though.
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Subject: AirPods hands-on: They stayed in my ears and sounded awesome
Here is some more on the air pods. They will
work with your Mac or your iPad or other
iPhones that are logged in to the same iCloud
as your new iPhone AirPods hands-on: They
stayed in my ears and sounded awesome
Macworld / Susie Ochs
I didn’t want to like the
<http://www.apple.com/airpods/>AirPods, I
really didn’t. But in the hands-on area after
Apple’s iPhone 7 event on Wednesday, I found
myself dancing along in spite of myself—and the
AirPods stayed put, feeling surprisingly
secure. With convvenient features on both the
hardware and software sides, I have to admit
that Apple’s totally-wireless AirPods kind of rocked my world.
When they’re in your ears, the AirPods kind
of look like the old wired EarPods that someone
snipped the wires off of. The earbud part fills
your ear just as before, and a plastic stem
hangs down a bit below your earlobe. They’re
the same general shape as the EarPods and made
from the same hard white plastic.
Now, that plastic has been a deal-breaker for
me for years—I hate how normal EarPods feel iin
my ears. They don’t seem like they’re going
to stay put, and they simply fall out if I move
my head too much. Even if they do stay in,
after about a half hour, my ears just start to
ache, although I don’t experience the same
pain when using earbuds with silicone or foam
tips. Since the AirPods look so similar, I
expected them to feel the same too—and I’m
surprised and happy to report that I was dead wroong.
Not only did I dance, I headbanged. I shook my
head side to side, I tossed my hair, I jogged
in place, and I looked silly doing all of it.
The AirPods stayed put, and they stayed loud.
The music (more Sia, naturally) sounded full
and lush and I couldn’t hear a single word
anyone around me was saying, as if I was
completely sealed off in a bubble of rock and roll. Pretty impressive.
For Apple devices only
The AirPods’ special features are pretty
impressive too, even though that specialness
means they only work with Apple devices. You
don’t need a brand-new iPhone or Apple Watch
to use them, but they only support Apple
devices running the latest operating systems:
iOS 10, macOS Sierra, and watchOS 3. The
AirPods use Bluetooth, so you would think maybe
there’d be a way to pair them to an Android
phone or an iOS 8 device since those have
Bluetooth too, but there’s no button on the
AirPods to put them into pairing mode. We’ll
test to confirm when we get review units, but
it seems like the AirPods will only be “seen†by Apple devices.
<image001.jpg>Susie Ochs
When the AirPods are in your ears, your paired
iPhone will play to them automatically. See the little AirPods icon?
When you first flip open the glossy white
carrying box—which looks like the most
hhigh-tech pack of TicTacs ever—you’ll see a
screen on your nnearby iPhone offering to pair.
(That’s just the first time; you won’t have
to do this every time you want to use the
AirPods.) Once you’ve paired them to your
iPhone, you can also use them the Apple Watch
that’s paired to your iPhone, as well as with
any iPad and Mac that’s signed in to the same
iCloud account. I didn’t get to test how
seamless it is to switch between devices, but
the idea is, you can pause music on your
iPhone, start playing songs stored on your
Apple Watch, and the AirPods will just switch.
Each AirPod has infrared sensors, so they know
when they’re in your ears or not, and an
accelerometer so you can double-tap either
AirPod to invoke Siri. They don’t have any
traditional buttons, unlike some Bluetooth
headphones: No on/off switch, no pairing
button, no play/pause or call-answering
buttons, and no volume controls. Instead, you
can double-tap to get Siri—this pauses your
music, bbut you can at least say “turn up the
volume†without fishing out your iPhone to
turn it up on that device. It’s a lot more
awkward than just having volume controls built in.
Removing one AirPod from your ear while music
is playing will automatically pause it, perfect
for interacting with a cashier, barista, or
nosy passerby who has questions about your
AirPods. The auto-pausing effect is incredibly
cool—I wish all my headpphones did this. Just
don’t remove both AirPods, or the audio
playback will automatically switch back to your
iPhone’s speakers, leaving you scrambling to pause it.
Power to go
The charging case is pretty neat on its own,
too. It’s got a Lightning port in the back,
and you can charge just the case on its own or
the AirPods inside the case. That’s
right—while the AirPods themselves get about 5
hours of playback per charge, according to
Apple, the case has a battery, so you can top
off on the go. The case has enough juice for
about 24 hours of playback, Apple says, which
means you could recharge the AirPods nearly
five times before you have to plug the case
into a power adapter or USB port to recharge.
Apple says that popping the AirPods into the
charging case for 15 minutes will get you
another 3 hours of music—a tiny green LED
inside tthe case lets you know the AirPods are
charging. Keeping wireless headphones charged
can be a major pain point—running out of
battery mid-workoout or mid-commute is the
worst, so this could be a good solution.
<image001.jpg>Susie Ochs
Even though they look like the old EarPods with
the wires removed, I found the AirPods much more comfortable.
The AirPods have a W1 chip inside to enable all
this intelligence, and Apple built the same
chip into a new lineup of Beats headphones too.
The Beats Solo3 Wireless are over-the-ear
headphones that have a more complete set of
on-ear controls and 40 hours of battery life,
<http://aos.prf.hn/click/camref:1100laKZ/Pubref:MW/destination:http:/www.apple.com/shop/product/MNEN2LL/A/beats-solo3-wireless-on-ear-headphones-gloss-black>available
now for $300. The fitness-focused Powerbeats3
($200) and everyday BeatsX ($150) launch later this year.
As for the AirPods themselves, sadly, they
won’t launch with the iPhone 7. They’re due
later in October, sold separately for $159.
That’s steep compared to other Apple-branded
earbuds—the company’s most high-ennd wired
earbuds topped out at $99—but much more
reasonable comparedd to wireless Beats or other
high-end wireless models. iPhone 7 early
adopters can use any Bluetooth headphones, of
course, and Apple is also including two more
solutions in the box: a wired pair of EarPods
that connect to the iPhone’s Lightning port,
and a Lightning-to–3.5mm adapter that lets you
plug any standard wired headphones into the Lightning port.
We’ll have a full review of AirPods as soon
as we can, and we’ll compare them to Beats
and other wireless options in the same price
range. Until then, any questions we can answer? Let us know in the comments.
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