Thanks for that information, I guess the Apple sales staff then needs better training because I could not figure out how to adjust the volume, each time I pressed anywhere it would either pause the music or start playing again or it would activate SIRI. The sales person I dealt with even ran off to talk to his supervisor and then came back and said they indeed did not have volume controls. Anyhow, here in Canada the Beats Solo are $329 and while they sounded good I don’t think they sounded better than a $200 Plantronics Backbeat Sense I once owned and currently this is just not a priority for me. I rather save my money until hopefully the next generation of Airpods is released with volume controls and hopefully more advanced features.
Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jaan ali Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Airpod question. Hi, i used Beats Solo3 by myself and it has the volume controls as well and the play pause buttons to, that are on the left side of the headphones you have to feel them, it's look like that there are no buttons but there are the buttons Thanks Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 12:33:54 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Airpod question. Hi Eric, Good choice, I think the current Airpods are quite a rip-off and in fact I was at an Apple Store today to buy a headset for my wife as an anniversary present and I was looking forward to checking out the Beats Solo and walked away deeply disappointed. I am in Canada so the Beats Solo here is $329.95 + taxes and while they sounded OK I could simply not believe such a large and, according to Apple, advanced headset has no volume control. First the Airpods have no volume control and now the Beats Solo also has no volume control, if this is the wireless future Apple invisions they need glasses. I ended up getting her a pair of the new BeatsX since she prefers earbud style headsets anyways over big clunky ones. As for the Solo I can only say that in addition to the lack of a volume control the sound is also just OK, I mean it's good but not special for the price. I have listened to many a headset that costs between $150 and $200 Canadian and think they sounded just as good. Another thing I noticed is that the canadian price for the BeatsX is a lot more favourible than that of the Airpods. If I am not mistaken the BeatsX in the States are $149 and the Airpods are $159, a $10 difference. Here in Canada the BeatsX are $179 and the Airpods are $219, a $40 difference in our currency. If I use the current exchange rate and convert $149 for the BeatsX to canadian it works out to about $195 Canadian, but Apple Canada only charges $179 so compared to the US price it's actually a good deal. If I convert the $159 US for the Airpods to Canadian it is $208 or $209 so at $219 Apple put a 5% upcharge on it at least based on the current exchange rate. How a $10 US difference works out to be a $40 Canadian difference when $10 US is about $13.2 or $13.5 I don't know. All in all I think that currently you can get a much better bang for your buck if you look at third-party headsets and the Apple W1 chip to me seems very much overrated. In fact, apart from the admitedly simple pairing process and maybe the fact that any other Apple device that is connected to the same Apple Id is supposed to pair I don't see a big advantage. If you think of it the initial pairing process of a regular bluetooth headset is also easy and in my view just as simple. With the BeatsX you still have to push and hold the on/off button and the only difference is that a message pops up on the screen asking if you want to connect to them so you save yourself a few taps by not having to go into bluetooth settings and to double tap on a newly paired device. With the BeatsX I had to double tap on "Connect" and then on "Done" with a normal bluetooth headset I have to double tap on Settings, then Bluetooth and then on the newly found device so it's one double tap more. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of myrna Votta Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Airpod question. Hi, Below is the link to the page which contains information and a link to David Woodbridge's podcast on the Air Pods. I received my Air Pods yesterday and I decided to listen to his podcast before I set mine up. It is excellent. http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/apple-airpods-unboxing-description-and-reviewto his podcast Myrna -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:01 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Airpod question. You can't turn them on or off and while I don't have a set of them I did try a pair at an Apple Store and I am pretty sure I remember that the battery status was displayed in the status line on the iPhone where this is usually showing for supported devices. I don't think you see how much battery is left in the case, though. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:40 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Airpod question. Jennifer, David Woodbridge recently posted a fabulous podcast tutorial on setting up Airpods on AppleVis. I do not have the URL but I'm certain that a quick Google search will find it. Give it a listen. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jenifer Barr Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 11:00 AM To: iPhone List Subject: Airpod question. 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