Google Pixel Buds 2 - Clearly White
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Google Pixel Buds 2 - Unused Samples
With Retail Box - Includes Original Box with Accessories !
Description and Features from Website:
The Pixel Buds 2 (or also rightly known as second-generation Pixel Buds) has undergone a complete redesign and resembles nothing like its first-generation sister. The squarish fabric-clad case has been replaced with an egg-shaped smooth, soft, matte plastic finish that feels fantastic to the touch. Overall construction is rock solid, with nary a creak or flex anywhere on its body.
This is the sort of finish I expect from gadgets of the future, not cheap plastics or glossy fingerprint magnets. I’m a big fan of its overall minimalistic profile, and the unique shape of the case should fit a lot better in most pockets. In fact, this is the most pocketable true wireless case I’ve tried.
The earbuds themselves are also very small and light, having finally embraced the full true wireless form factor and ditched the fabric loops. They sit almost entirely flush within my ear and doesn’t protrude all that much. This design also places the earbuds’ center of gravity closer to the inside of my ear, so no matter how hard I shook my head, they were never tempted to fly out.
As a result, they fit very snugly even without overly large ear or wing tips and felt almost non-existent in my ears. Combined with the venting design that eases pressure build-up, I would go as far as to say that this is the most comfortable pair of true wireless earbuds I’ve tested to date.
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Google did include two extra ear tips in consideration of those with larger ears, but the wing tips are non-swappable, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. In my experience, definitely experiment with the ear tips, as a good seal makes all the difference in sound quality, which we’ll touch on later in this review.
What’s more, the petite size of both the case and the earbuds do not seem to come at a significant cost of battery life. Google says the Pixel Buds 2 will last up to 5 hours of listening time and up to 2.5 hours of talk time before needing a recharge. The case itself holds up to an additional 3-4 charges, bringing your total listening time up to a potential 24 hours. These figures are on par with what the original Pixel Buds boasted, which goes to show a lot has advanced since the first edition despite the second-generation being more compact.
While this battery life is not groundbreaking by today’s standards – the Samsung Galaxy Buds+, for example, can last up to 11 hours on a single charge and Sennheiser’s Momentum True Wireless 2 boasts a combined charge of 28 hours with both earbuds and case – it is still very good.
When you run out of juice, the Pixel Buds 2 can be recharged via either the USB-C port on the case or through wireless charging. And while there’s no fast charging, Google promises that just 10 minutes of charging in the case can juice the earbuds up for another two hours of listening time.
The review unit that we received came in “Clearly White”. We asked Google whether the other colours will launch soon, but their answer beat around the bush so much that it was stripped of all its leaves, so we’re going to guess: not soon. Singapore is stuck with Clearly White for the foreseeable future.
The white plastic caps on both earbuds are embossed with Google’s unmistakable “G” logo and double up as touch-sensitive pads. My experience with touch-based controls on true wireless earbuds has not been fantastic, but they work surprisingly well on the Pixel Buds 2. I went into this review confident that the touch controls would be a let-down, but the Pixel Buds 2 registered almost no erroneous taps in my time of using it.
In addition to your usual single and double taps, you can also swipe your finger on either earbuds to increase or decrease the volume, which is way more intuitive than having to remember which side to touch and hold.
If you have a smartphone powered by Android 6.0 and above, Google has put in extra care and finishing touches on your user experience with the Pixel Buds 2.
Firstly, pairing was a cinch. Pull the earbuds out of the charging case, and a notification immediately popped up on my phone with a request to pair. There was no need to dig into Bluetooth settings at all.
If you ever need to pair the Pixel Buds 2 with more than one gadget, Google built a dedicated pairing button onto the battery case just above the charging port. Just hit the little button once and you’re in pairing mode – crazy simple and a great feature if you like to use your earbuds with multiple devices.
Once the pairing is done, a Pixel Buds 2 app completes the experience with short tutorials and several other options to toggle, including setting Google Assistant up for the first time with your voice print if you haven’t already done so before.
The app also offers a few extra features to fine tune your experience with the Pixel Buds 2, stuff that we’ve come to expect as standard by now. For example, you can toggle auto-pause if the earbuds are removed from your ear or update the firmware of the earbuds. You can also activate a “find earbuds” feature similar to the implementation on the Galaxy Buds+.
There’s also an interesting Adaptive Sound feature that seeks to make-up for the lack of noise cancellation in the earbuds. When turned on, Adaptive Sound will continuously scan the volume of noise around you, and automatically adjust the volume of your music to counter. Like all things automatic, however, I found its effectiveness to be inconsistent, and ended up disabling it just to keep things simple and straightforward.
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