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Do they have active noise cancelling?

Also, 6 hours listening is a bad joke, that‘s not even a standard workday. With battery aging that‘s soon not even half a workday anymore.

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"a bad joke" is a silly overstatement - evidently you're in a very small minority there, or people wouldn't keep buying Airpods.

The pros have noise canceling. 6h non stop in your ears is to much if you ask me, take out em when your eating lunch and they'll be full again when you're done.

Or if you are in the office, they are in their case during meetings or when someone is talking to you at your desk. That's at least what I did when I was still in the office, and I used first gen Airpods which had worse battery life.

Yeah, I'm on my second year with my first gen and they're still great.

They charge super fast. You can get 1 hour of playback from 5 minutes of charging. You can also charge one at a time if you really need them continuously.

Ah now we're thinking with portals.. perhaps they can sell a set of 3 for this exact use?

If you're playing games or something that takes heavy focus, you want to stay ahead of charging, not wait for something to die l.

They are not built for your use case, that is all.

I have a pair of airpods pro I use during commuting every day and they are one of my favourite gadgets.

Gaming with BT headsets is a poor idea for so many reasons in general, so I have no idea why it was even considered.

If you are having prolonged gaming sessions, you are doing it at home, so use wired. If you are on the go and want to listen to music or watch videos, use wireless. If you want to have a short gaming session on your laptop in public, then yeah, sure, airpods will serve it just fine. Though in those 6 hours, you might want to take a 15min break or two. And in those 15 mins, it will charge for about an hour of battery charge on airpods.

It's like complaining that a Lambo is not good for carrying lots of cargo. Technically the truth, but that's not the use case at all.

when you get the 10% warning you pop the left ear out and charge it until the right ear dies. Then you put the left ear in and charge the right ear. 20 minutes later you put them both in again. Easy peasy.

Yeah, in three years with the Pros now (or whatever it is -- 2-3), I have basically never run out of batteries. You can always put one in the charger to charge while the other stays out.

Yeah I’ve had my pros for about 2 years now and I’ve clocked an obscene number of minutes of phone & zoom calls on them through the pandemic. Some days I was doing 12+ hours of calls on them.

The batteries last a bit over 3 hours and after all this time they’re still going strong. Except for handoff being janky, I’m delighted with them.

Im frankly confused with this announcement - it seems like they just rebranded AirPod pros as non-pro and called it a new device?

This lacks noise canceling. It has a new design and added MagSafe compatibility.

Mine have this rating approximately (AirPods Pros from ~1.5 years ago) and I worried about battery life.

It turns out a few minutes in the case will give you a lot of listening time. Have an in-person meeting? Any reason to put the AirPods away? Throw them in the case and they'll charge a significant amount in 15 or 30 minutes.

My problem ended up being defects which Apple said they would replace the AirPods for, but I need to take them to a certified Apple repair shop. When I did, the shop decided the defect wasn't present. So... I just live with it now.

It is entirely unnecessary to keep headphones on for 6 hours straight.

It doesn't look like these Airpods have noise cancelling. The compedition like the Samsung Buds2 have about 7.5 hours on a single charge with noise cancelling turned off and 5 hours when turned on.

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