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I just want good speaker quality and better microphone quality than AirPods Pro 1st gen. Oftentimes I have to switch to the iPhone Mic because people don’t understand me.
 
I bought a airpods 2 for my partner , then sold it for airpods pro 1 because of anc (first time using anc), i never owned a airpods myself, excited for the airpods pro 3, def buy
 
it does like a you problem. Sorry to tell you. This is not a normal experience by any means.
Oh, I know. It has to be. I go crazy- every time a new iPhone pro comes out I get it (on the iPhone upgrade program) and all of these weird little bugs come up/persist for me. I try wiping it clean and starting over, restore from backup- everything. I wonder if my Apple account is funked up somehow?

And yet, I remain an iPhone/apple user…
 
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To give people options? To not use it? Really? Maybe Apple should also add a modem to every product just to give options, whatever the cost!
At this point, I’d rather have an SpO₂ or temperature sensor — since they’re not on every Apple Watch — even a GPS chip would make more sense.
I think you missed my entire point. Oh well. Can’t win them all.
 
So why would I buy a device with two useless sensors? The price isn’t going to drop just because I don’t use them, right?

(And I’m not talking about a feature I don’t want to use, I’m really talking about the sensors being disabled without me being able to do anything about it because I already have a smartwatch.)

But alright, let's see, maybe Apple has a plan?
I assume that the heart rate monitoring comes with improvements to the optical skin-detect sensors already on the AirPods Pro. I doubt it adds much to the cost of the device since the Powerbeats Pro 2 have the same feature and MSRP.
 
Remember when Steve said for every YES there were maybe 100 hundred NOs? I think they lost this concept. My fridge doesn't need a television and my earphones don't need to measure my heart.
 
When it comes to new AirPods I would appreciate:
- Better Noise Cancelling
- Better Battery Life
- Better Sound Quality
- Better Transparency Mode
- Better Microphone Quality (so that you can actually take a phone call with these things)

That’s it. The rest will just make it unnecessarily more expensive.
 
Hoping to see some audio quality improvements. Not waiting for a heart rate monitor. Expecting Apple to keep the price same with the new ones.
 
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