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[EviLore]

AirPods Pro 3

AirPods Pro 3 — The world’s best in-ear Active Noise Cancellation, heart rate sensing during workouts, and an improved hearing health experience.

www.apple.com

-2x unwanted noise cancellation compared to Pro 2
-8 hour battery life (vs 6 on Pro 2)
-Better sound quality
-IP57
-When having a conversation with someone in person, isolates background noise and boosts your convo partner
-Heart rate sensor
-Live translation - "you can listen to people speaking in different languages and hear translations through your AirPods Pro 3. To respond, just speak naturally, and your words will appear in the other person's language on your iPhone screen. To make the experience even more magical, if you both have AirPods Pro 3, you can each speak in your own language and hear translations through your AirPods"

 

[Vyse]

That's pretty cool.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Dumb question, why would Air Pods have heart rate sensor? Did older ones have that?

 

[EviLore]

Dumb question, why would Air Pods have heart rate sensor? Did older ones have that?

They're trying to capture more of the fitness market by pushing the IP57 sealing + heart rate sensor. Good for workouts.

 

[bender]

I'll be getting these and upgrading my 12 Pro Max to a 17 Pro Max. I got some Poly earbuds from work and they sound like absolute pants for music. Hopefully these are better in that regard.

 

[DeVeAn]

Mother in law is basically deaf. The feature for hearing legit works. Very cool.

 

[EviLore]

I'll be getting these and upgrading my 12 Pro Max to a 17 Pro Max. I got some Poly earbuds from work and they sound like absolute pants for music. Hopefully these are better in that regard.

Pro 2s are great for music. Better than many full size headphones.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

This is going to destroy all the translation head phones on the market, but I suppose it was inevitable.

 

[John Bilbo]

Heart rate sensor and live translation are very cool.

 

[DeVeAn]

This is going to destroy all the translation head phones on the market, but I suppose it was inevitable.

It needs to use Facetime and one on one only? I think that's in the fine print on Apple's website.

 

[bender]

Pro 2s are great for music. Better than many full size headphones.

I've got some really high end IEMs (Shure) and Headphones (Dan Clark Audio), so I'm not expecting that. I've got a short in either my dongle or SE215s that is causing inputs to my phone which causes pausing, skipping, fast forwarding, etc. I remembered I had these Poly's from work and have been worn them the last few days on my daily walks. The drop in quality from even the modest SE 215s was jarring.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

-Live translation - "you can listen to people speaking in different languages and hear translations through your AirPods Pro 3. To respond, just speak naturally, and your words will appear in the other person's language on your iPhone screen. To make the experience even more magical, if you both have AirPods Pro 3, you can each speak in your own language and hear translations through your AirPods"

Wow!!!

 

[Burning Blade]

They're trying to capture more of the fitness market by pushing the IP57 sealing + heart rate sensor. Good for workouts.

Or so they can sell your biodata to Palantir.

 

[Hookshot]

If the live translation actually works then it's a absolute must have for any travel to a non English speaking country.

 

[Lord Panda]

This is great news.

I pretty much have an airpod (Pro 2) in at least one ear for most of the day.

I wish they came in different colours such as black.

 

[Ishma3L]

Throw that MSRP up top - $249.00 USD. Pretty solid price point.

 

[Rentahamster]

Those features are badass!

 

[The_hunter]

Live translation is science fiction territory.

 

[near]

I'm pre-ordering these on Friday along with the phone. I'm still using the first gen AirPods Pro, they're quite worn and run down now. Feature on these new ones are worth the upgrade for me.

 

[Quasicat]

I really don't need to upgrade, but I do love the translation options in these. I can see that being a huge benefit as more and more people buy into these.

 

[Rockondevil]

Pro features are always great on the AirPods. I wish I didn't hate having the plugs in my ears. I love standard AirPods though.

 

[MacReady13]

Looking like I'll grab the Iphone 17 256gb model with these pro airpods. Never owned any airpods so should be a fun experience!

 

[EverydayBeast]

Biggest scams ever unless I'm filthy rich I just like audio through my phones speaker, people get too proud wearing white ear buds in their ears, and credit to apple for selling those things

 

[MidGenRefresh]

A real innovation would be a replaceable battery. This is basically an e-waste product in a few years.

 

[AJUMP23]

I want the live translation. But maybe there are better earbuds that do that I don't know.

 

[p_xavier]

Only product that got me interested at the event. I love my Airpods Pro 2 and with even better noise cancelling that will be amazing. I will get them when I lose my current ones, which unfortunately happens quite often.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I have pro 2s and love them. These might be worth the upgrade to though… wow.

I don't usually upgrade unless I feel the need as everything is just iterative imo but these are mighty impressive.

Apple really did good this go around.

 

[AJUMP23]

Looks like you also need the newest OS and at-least an Iphone 15 pro.

 

[Toons]

Translation feature is cool but ill never use one of these. Too small and unwieldy.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Looks like you also need the newest OS and at-least an Iphone 15 pro.

So you need more stuff?

Umta....


I'd better wait for Huawei or Samsung to release a different model.

 

[dave_d]

Can't wait to see people try to find ways to use them in college language class. (The younger me would have loved that. )

 

[ReBurn]

Good timing. I'm ready for some new AirPods. I have really enjoyed the Pro 2 so I welcome the upgrade.

 

[Axelon]

Looks like these are still limited to 320kbps? So odd Apple pushes for higher quality audio yet you can't take advantage of it easily.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Biggest scams ever unless I'm filthy rich I just like audio through my phones speaker, people get too proud wearing white ear buds in their ears, and credit to apple for selling those things

People who play audio through their phone speakers in public deserve to be put down

 

[Dacvak]

AirPods Pro 3

AirPods Pro 3 — The world’s best in-ear Active Noise Cancellation, heart rate sensing during workouts, and an improved hearing health experience.

www.apple.com

-2x unwanted noise cancellation compared to Pro 2
-8 hour battery life (vs 6 on Pro 2)
-Better sound quality
-IP57
-When having a conversation with someone in person, isolates background noise and boosts your convo partner
-Heart rate sensor
-Live translation - "you can listen to people speaking in different languages and hear translations through your AirPods Pro 3. To respond, just speak naturally, and your words will appear in the other person's language on your iPhone screen. To make the experience even more magical, if you both have AirPods Pro 3, you can each speak in your own language and hear translations through your AirPods"

One feature you missed that I'm extremely excited for (and might be coming to older AirPod Pros as well) is sleep detection.

I tend to fall asleep wearing my airpods, listening to a podcast or something. It'll be so nice to have it pause when it detects I've fallen asleep.

 

[EviLore]

One feature you missed that I'm extremely excited for (and might be coming to older AirPod Pros as well) is sleep detection.

I tend to fall asleep wearing my airpods, listening to a podcast or something. It'll be so nice to have it pause when it detects I've fallen asleep.

Oh, cool, didn't catch that one. Great advantage of the heart rate sensor.

 

[Aurelius]

I'm more hyped for these than the new iPhones. Especially the Live translation.

 

[Little Mac]

Intriguing. Will it also translate womanese or is the technology not there yet?

 

[Aurelius]

Intriguing. Will it also translate womanese or is the technology not there yet?

They did improve the noise canceling.

 

[RCX]

Do airpods still suck for android users?

Might be interested in these if they can achieve something close to the same performance as iphone users get