My AirPods Pro, that I got one year ago, work great, no concerns about VoiceOver and cost around $250.
S Dan ent from my iPhone > On Dec 28, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Pairing is supposed to be easy, you just open the case and it will pop up on > your phone; then again most Bluetooth headsets or earpieces are easy to pair. > As for cost, remember to add that you are in Canada since it doesn't do you > much good if people tell you they are $179 which is what they cost in the > United States. > Here in Canada they are $239 and you can buy them of course from Apple, Best > Buy also sells them, but you have to fork out an extra 99 Cents as they are > $239.99 there. > In my opinion too expensive considering that you are basically buying into a > subscription, they are rechargeavble so they have a limited life span and I > never heard about Apple offering a battery replacement for a set of Airpods. > Battery life is supposed to be 6 hours so assume they do reasonably well with > 500 charge cycles and you have to charge them every 2 days; this would give > you a thousand days so roughly 3 years. I think since the first Airpods were > only released 4 years ago we haven't heard that much about when the battery > life declines to the point when it is a pain in the ar so to speak to use > them because maybe they only last 3 hours. There might be people on the list > who have bought some of the original Airpods 4 years ago and who can comment > on this if of course they still have them and haven't upgraded to one of the > newer models. This of course is Apple's intend, you used to buy a good > headset and had it for years, now Apple is making the products obsolete after > a few years because they come out with new models with better features and > people then want them. Anyways, even if you kept and used them for 4 or 5 > years, it basically works out to around $54 per year if you kept them for 5 > years and $68 a month if you kept them for 4 years. > Everybody's choice of course, but these are definitely more of an "I want > them item" then an "I need them" item and for me personally there is very > little which makes me want them. > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of mich > verrier > Sent: December 28, 2021 5:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: My Neffew got Air pods for christmass and I looked it them. > > Hi my neffew got Air pods I think it was the third jen they are the ones with > the magnetic case and I had a chance to look at them. I am wondering what are > the cost of air pods? Of korce my neffew beaing sighted he doesn’t use > voiceover but for those who are blind and vi on this list who have air pods > how easy are they to pair and use with vo? Since after seeing them it makes > me kind of want a pair lol. 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