Everywhere, even though there are examples that contradicts this Apple would not put different ports on new products for different markets.
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AirPods Pro 2 Said to Feature Upgraded H1 Chip, Find My, Heart Rate Detection, USB-C and More
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It will be 3 years in October. Maybe the challenge is in putting enough new features inside to justify an upgrade. It’s feels pretty complete, features wise.
why do we need a camera on iPad considering most people have an iPhone?
the only thing I would ask for is increased reliability. This is the worst Apple product I’ve purchased for reliability. I’ve had three earpieces die on me. Two replaced under warranty and the third outside warranty.
Most people don’t have an Apple Watch. Most Apple users don’t have an Apple Watch.
Yup that is what I am doing as well. Very weird. Wireless charging works well and the iPhone still shows their charge here as well.
Thank you for your response. Based on that info, the article should have said “The AirPods Pro 2 are expected to have improved Find My functionality, allowing them to be located with the Find My app, even when turned off.”
AirPods pro have a very basic findmy that is based off of bluetooth.
However, once you put them in the case, the best the phone can do is remember where you were when you put them in the case. if you move the case, it won't know.
This new feature sounds like it is using the new location chips that continue to respond to location checks even when in the case. and are more accurate than the bluetooth method.
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That's a big assumption. It also assumes that if you have a watch that you always want to wear it.
They are confusing ‘hearing aid functionality’ with a feature many hearing aids have: remote microphone. Phonation has the Roger mic and many other brands have remote microphones that let hearing impaired users place the mic on a table or at a lecture or let someone wear it. The remote mic then broadcasts the sound directly to the user’s hearing aid. That’s what the sensors/mic in the charging case would do.
This is not hearing aid functionality. HA functionality is the capture of sound and reprocessing it to match a user’s hearing needs. It goes way beyond simple amplification of the signal. It includes amplification of certain frequencies and sometimes moving the sound from one frequency that can’t be heard to another that can. It also includes sound processing to help distinguish consonants from one another. All this can make music sound horrible, so HAs will have a music mode to turn all that off so all you get is amplification and as much natural sounding music as the user can hear without the processing.
There’s already enough confusion and BS in the hearing aid market without tech writers further muddying the water calling a remote mic feature ‘hearing aid functionality’. Do your homework.
This is not hearing aid functionality. HA functionality is the capture of sound and reprocessing it to match a user’s hearing needs. It goes way beyond simple amplification of the signal. It includes amplification of certain frequencies and sometimes moving the sound from one frequency that can’t be heard to another that can. It also includes sound processing to help distinguish consonants from one another. All this can make music sound horrible, so HAs will have a music mode to turn all that off so all you get is amplification and as much natural sounding music as the user can hear without the processing.
There’s already enough confusion and BS in the hearing aid market without tech writers further muddying the water calling a remote mic feature ‘hearing aid functionality’. Do your homework.
Well, I wasn’t referring to wireless headphones, I was more making the point that wireless headphones are not yet up to the basic standards of even cheap wired headphones if they can’t transmit/recieve audio without relying on a lossy compression scheme that wired headphones were never subject to…We had wireless headphones 40 years ago that were capable of lossless audio?
But technically speaking, yes. There were wireless headphones back in the 80’s/90’s that relied on low power FM transmitters. I won’t say they were very good, at least not any of the pairs I’ve ever owned. But they still didn’t rely on lossy encoders. They may have been subject to interference but at least they did not suffer from compression artifacts.
Yeah. Right now it can tell you your AirPods are in a hotel in Phoenix, but the new findmy tech will let you find them under the bed with your crumpled empty Trojan package.
Time and a place, my friend! Which DAC did you end up choosing?
I’m satisfied (I suppose) with my AirPod Pro’s - they provide me with a reasonable enough audio experience whilst on the go. The most important features for me are microphone quality (of which they are extremely good) and usability (of which they are extremely annoying). I dislike when I’m on a meeting/call and they decide to connect to another device simply because I unlocked it. Surely a phone call takes precedence? (Yes, this is more of a software gripe, I appreciate that).
Also - feature request! Please let me have multiple audio connections from multiple devices. Maybe I want to listen to my sports team in the background whilst I _ahem_ attempt to be productive in a meeting.
Will they fix the defect which impacts every AirPods Pro, namely earwax getting stuck in the microphones, causing noise cancellation to fail
If this isn't already a feature baked into iOS (vs. third-party app), as Green242's post seems to suggest, then it's perfectly plausible that it's coming. Frequency-selective amplification and shifting is not a new or difficult task for modern audio processors.
Some of those features are very interesting. I doubt they would be on every model however.
What I'd like to see from Airpods is a different sort of surface- maybe something soft?
They are quite difficult to grip getting them out of the box and as you pinch them your fingers slide off and they have a habit of pinging away.
Then because they are hard and a really bizarre shape they bounce a long way and in a very unpredictable fashion which is why so many get lost. That could be avoided by making them a bit grippier and having them soft, at least in places, so they don't bounce so far.
What I'd like to see from Airpods is a different sort of surface- maybe something soft?
They are quite difficult to grip getting them out of the box and as you pinch them your fingers slide off and they have a habit of pinging away.
Then because they are hard and a really bizarre shape they bounce a long way and in a very unpredictable fashion which is why so many get lost. That could be avoided by making them a bit grippier and having them soft, at least in places, so they don't bounce so far.
I got the FiiO KA3. Very impressed with it so far. The headphones are a pair of DT 990 Pro.
Found this doctor off AUD on YouTube who explains the process. If you don't have an audiogram you can make your own with the Mimi app, it links for a download when you set them up with the health app.
Hope that helps!