Hi Jennifer, Hopefully I won't burst your bubble, but while I love gadgets I decided to stay away from the Airpods at this point because of two main reasons:
1. I have an Apple Watch and apparently while you can pair them with an iPhone and an Apple Watch, they do not switch seamlessly between these devices. My Plantronics Voyager Edge when it's paried to both my phone and my Apple Watch will do this. I can be listening to an audio book on my phone and if a notification on my watch comes in the book pauses, the notification sound is heard and then the book restarts. 2. Lack of control. All you can do it bring up SIRI by tapping the Airpods. If you want to change volume you either have to tap and tell SIRI to increase or decrease volume which interrupts what's playing, volume is adjusted, then the stream restarts and depending if you wan to increase/decrease the volume more you have to repeat several times or you still have to pull out your phone to adjust it on the phone. This is hardly the handsfree future Apple has announced when they "had the courage" to get rid of the 3.5mm headphone jack. Maybe somebody who already has them can confirm or not whether while a call is coming in you can tap to answer and whether during a call you can tap to hang up. I really hope that at least that functionality is there, but for the high price I think they are not yet worth it. I am pretty sure that this fall there will be the Airpod series 2 and it wouldn't surprise me if it had all sorts of touch controls on it. Oh well, at least I assume you have Apple's 30-day satisfaction guaranty. I'm actually almost tempted to order them and return them just to have a chance to try them out and to let Apple know that this is a product which is not worthy of my satisfaction yet. By the way, how do they do this in the store with respect to trying them? You said you were able to try them at an Apple Store, do they have some sort of disposable cover or do you get to try them after a couple of hundred people before you have stuck them in their ears and left their earwax on them? Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jenifer Barr Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ordered my airpods! Hi all. So I went to the apple store last sunday and ordered my new airpods after listening to them in the store. The only thing I don't like is that I have to wait 6 weeks to get them! Lol. My only question is... how do you answer or hang up a call? If you double tap on the headphone won't that tell seri you want to talk to her? Also... am I correct in saying that the pods have to be in the case to pair them? I'm trying to patiently wait for them! Jen Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
