Apple's new AirPods Pro hands-on: sticking close to a winning formula - The Verge

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Apple conscionable announced its second-generation AirPods Pro. There’s nary large redesign overhaul here: these look a batch similar their predecessors, with the astir important upgrades coming connected the wrong and with caller bundle features. The caller AirPods Pro inactive person Apple’s signature stem and (again) lone travel successful white. There’s present an extra-small receptor extremity size successful the container astatine least.

The caller Pros see Apple’s H2 chip, which the institution promises improved sound cancellation implicit the archetypal AirPods Pro — doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic before. They travel with a refreshed case, which is besides precise akin to what came earlier but with a fewer convenient additions.

They inactive person stems and lone travel successful white.

There’s a talker connected the bottommost to marque the lawsuit easier to find with Apple’s Find My app, and the institution besides included a loop you tin usage to bent the lawsuit from a lanyard.

The AirPods Pro lawsuit present has a built-in loop for attaching a lanyard.
Speakers connected the case’s bottommost marque it casual to find with Find My.

Some rumors successful caller months indicated Apple mightiness enactment higher-resolution audio connected the AirPods Pro, but that didn’t cookware retired with today’s announcement. Still, Apple says the second-gen AirPods Pro should outshine the archetypal brace successful dependable prime — adjacent if they’re inactive playing AAC implicit Bluetooth. The institution claims they’ll present richer bass and much dynamic audio crossed the frequence range.

The caller AirPods Pro spell up for preorder connected September 9th for $249,99, and they’ll beryllium released September 23rd. They’ll beryllium pitted against amended contention than ever before, including Google’s Pixel Buds Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro, and Sony’s WH-1000XM4, among countless others.

Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge


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