WIRED Super comfortable design. Great sound, especially bass. Wireless charging case. Seven hours of playtime with noise canceling on. Cheaper than AirPods Pro. TIRED They work with iPhones, but features are limited. Mid tones are overlooked.
The best part about the Pixel Buds Pro is how comfortably they fit in your ears. The medium-sized buds have a form-fitting peanut shape that sticks right in my medium-sized ear canals with ease, but never loses grip. I’ve tried to headbang these buggers out of my ears. I’ve taken them on 7-mile runs in the woods. I’ve showered with them in after said runs.
The exterior of each bud comes in a few colors. My favorite is the tangerine orange , but my review unit was a discreet gray, which looks handsome but isn’t as fun. Frankly, a part of the reason to get these instead of AirPods is the aesthetic difference between Apple's monolithic white and Google's playful pastels.Using them is just as easy as using AirPods. The outside of each bud is touch-sensitive, with intuitive controls.
These buds are also plugged into Google Assistant, so you can shout “Hey Google” and demand it set timers or play a certain song. It's useful for the few times I didn't want to touch my phone, but it's still a novelty in public, where you might not want to look like you're yelling at yourself. To each their own, I guess.
Like the controls, the case the buds come in is smartly designed. It's harder to put an earbud into the wrong slot, and I like how flat it lays on my wireless charging pad between listening sessions. It's also just nice to hold. Like a little tic tac.A single 11-mm dynamic driver inside each Pixel Buds Pro delivers a surprisingly robust soundstage, made possible in large part by Google’s excellent digital signal processing and noise canceling.
Music comes through with presence and personality, especially in the bass, which tends to have more punch and separation than what I’ve heard from prior Pixel Buds. While listening to my testing playlist, the midrange is the only place where the buds lose some definition. That’s to be expected when a single driver has to handle perfect bass response and shimmery highs —you tend to lose something, somewhere. Still, I’m glad Google’s engineers focused on the areas most people care about.
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