Wow. Just wow. My trusty pair of Beats Fit Pros continue to work well, and I use a MyZone chest strap monitor for accurate HR. Another example of an upgrade being a downgrade in actuality.
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Powerbeats Pro 2 Can't Play Music While Tracking Heart Rate on Gym Equipment
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Because you paid for it and this was a highlighted feature.
Doesn't bother me as I don't care about the heart rate tracking on these. I just wanted a pair of headphones to replace my PBP 1 and these do it perfectly.
Noise cancellation is pretty good, I find the sound quality a bit better on these over the originals, and the biggest annoyance that's been fixed at last is the charging case. No more delicately placing the buds on the contacts and hoping both charge. The new case has very strong magnets that really pull the buds into the perfect position to charge every time.
That charging issue is worth upgrading alone. Have had these since day one and so far both buds have never failed to charge.
Noise cancellation is pretty good, I find the sound quality a bit better on these over the originals, and the biggest annoyance that's been fixed at last is the charging case. No more delicately placing the buds on the contacts and hoping both charge. The new case has very strong magnets that really pull the buds into the perfect position to charge every time.
That charging issue is worth upgrading alone. Have had these since day one and so far both buds have never failed to charge.
That's a big yikes. I wouldn't trust them to be accurate, I'll continue to use my Garmin dual HRM chest strap
Maybe you want to see your heartrate on the machine
Powerbeats are earphones. If they can't play audio, they don't work fine by definition.
That ship sailed with frodo aboard
Predictable. Cook’s Apple has become the epitome of “gotta pay to play” corporate greed.
Sentences like this are how you know you live in the Capitol and not one of the Districts.
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This is a failure on a fundamental level. How did this escape testing within Apple? How did they test, I'd love to know. Multipoint connections should be table stakes...
Apple releases workout centric headphones that don't let you listen to music and share heart rate. Bokay 🥴
Apple releases workout centric headphones that don't let you listen to music and share heart rate. Bokay 🥴
Given how these are marketed, it's amazing to me anyone is finding it within themselves to dismiss this as "meh..no big deal ...didn't want that feature anyways!"
That doesn't really answer my question. Plus. the heart rate monitor works just fine.
Assuming you are in the Apple ecosystem and you own an Apple Watch or any other fitness watch for that matter, two heart rate monitors seem kind of redundant, no?
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It reminds me of the iPhone antenna debacle years ago. Remember when Steve Jobs doing interviews saying I get perfect reception everywhere without a case, no problem, nothing to see here.
Well, if this if the defense, then why add HR tracking to the PBP2 at all?
That's what I am asking
Most people who buy these sport headphones most likely wear a fitness watch and a lot of them if not most of them have HR tracking.What is more, I doubt anyone would just stop wearing a fitness watch now that they have HR tracking PBP2. I don't really see the selling point.
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Just further proof that having a heartbeat at Apple is not a pre-requisite for working there.
When I run on a treadmill, I wear my Apple Watch and a run timer on that. But I don't want to be forced to look at the watch for an update on time/distance. The highlighted feature was that you could connect the HEADPHONES to equipment to display heart rate. Same story... I'd rather glance at the treadmill panel. But now I can't unless I decide to wear headphones that I can't use as headphones... WTF?!
that's the biggest lie. "to work in apple you have to be the best".
that just a phrase to lure people.
