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Next-Gen AirPods With 'Health Monitoring' Features Said to be Coming in First Half of 2019
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Until Apple offers a battery swap for AirPods (never going to happen), a lot of us early 1st gen adopters are in the market for new AirPods so we wait for the 2nd gen.
Yeah, they aren’t going to nearly double in price, but keep posting for those likes.
Major hat-tip to Mr. Cook for creating products that people are willing to open their wallets to purchase...and, ultimately enjoy!
They go bad that quickly? Battery service is 50$ per earphone / case BTW. I've had mine for a year now, but I don't use them that much as I have another pair of wireless earphones.
Same here. Love mine, but extremely disappointed in the poor battery life. $160 isn't in a disposable price territory. My 5yo Powerbeats outlast my AirPods. Unless this is fixed, I don't see myself upgrading to the new ones.
It will include health monitoring features? Does that mean it will include a warning when you're about to blow your top off? I thought it would only feature wireless charging.
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Excellent Tom and jerry gif. +5
Hopefully the battery life is better. Mine are horrendous and I don’t even use them that much. Within a thirty minute phone call I’d have one at 40% and the other at 11%! I could previously use them for the same duration on a phone call and still have 9x%!
I can't take credit for this as I found it on the website but I wish I had the talent to make these.
If you are consistently using these (and you probably will because they are great), the buds won't get close to 2 hours on one charge after you have owned them for two or three years. Now the case will still charge it back up and charge it pretty fast (and the case holds many hours of charge). I found myself using these for conference calls when working from home. In the course of a busy day with calls, I would find myself taking one bud out and putting it into charge, while keeping the call going with the other bud. Then switching.
The buds are small and the charge they hold is small. I don't consider them a fail at all with this limitation. The scenarios in which I use them for more than two hours without returning them to their case for a chunk of time was very limited. But it would happen from time to time.
The most obvious health data that can be gathered from the ears is body temperature. This also happens to be a measurement that can be obtained with very little battery use. An infrared sensor is very low energy but can accurately measure temperature in the inner ear.
Second is heart rate. Being in the ear, it doesn’t need to use the energy intense sensor used on the back of the AppleWatch. A sensitive accelerometer or microphone could pick up the heart beat with no lights needed to shine through the skin which is what uses up a lot of energy on the Watch.
Second is heart rate. Being in the ear, it doesn’t need to use the energy intense sensor used on the back of the AppleWatch. A sensitive accelerometer or microphone could pick up the heart beat with no lights needed to shine through the skin which is what uses up a lot of energy on the Watch.
O, the innovation!