Samsung galaxy beans. Full specifications and Features
Samsung galaxy beans. Full specifications and Features
So let's start the topic.
SPECIFICATIONS
So I told a few buds that I was reviewing the beans, they were really excited for me because if you know me, you know that I love the word bean and I love the word buds and well buds, these are beans. - Roll that beautiful bean footage.- Nice pot of Pinto beans in the crock pot. Could everybody please leave so I can eat my beans? (upbeat music continues) - It's rare in tech to get such a fresh form factor these days. Most phones are skinny rectangles, earbuds are stemmed or they're circles and laptops are well laptops.
So when I opened up the poorly named Galaxy Buds Live, it was a total breath of fresh air. And with any first gen form factor, I was excited for the new experience, but I was definitely expecting some compromises. Like maybe the audio quality was going to be a bit off or the build quality would be weird or the mic would be scratchy. But these beat, buds, these buds, they managed to be something completely new without compromises. Let's get into it. Buds come in mystic bronze,mystic white, or mystic black, but Samsung gave methe bronze to test out. And to be honest, Idon't think this bronze is doing these buds any favors in that these are not beans,these are buds department.
This is almost the exact color of a kidney bean. Oka, besides my love of this hardware, there was one feature. I was shocked to hear the sound and that was active noise cancellation or ANC. So I knew one place I was definitely going to test them out. So we're on our way to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade because it is a beautiful location film, especially at sunset.Oh, here she is. But it also has one fatal flaw that makes it perfect for testing this active noise cancellation. The promenade is located directly above a double-decker highway. So although beautiful, it is not quiet. (highway noise) The Buds Live have what Samsung is calling open type active noise cancellation and open it definitely is. The Buds Live were able to cancel the lowest level hum out of the city but I'm sad to report that they did very little in canceling pretty much any other background noise, especially the saxophone that was being played a few benches down.
The Galaxy Buds Plus domore in canceling out background noise simply by their in-ear design. And then the AirPod Prostate that a step further with their in-ear design and true active noise cancellation. So if you're looking to really block out the world around you in a bud, well, don't look to the Buds Live.The Buds themselves are glossy on the outside and matte on the partthat sits inside your ear. They sit in a clamshell case and when I saw the renderings of the case, I thought for sure it would be huge much like the clamshell case of the Power beats Pro.
But,now this is surprisingly small and it's easily pocket-able. It's about one and a half times wider than the AirPodscase and it's a little bit lighter than the Pixel Buds case. Now the hinge on the case is stiff and that's probably a goodthing because the buds, while they do have a bit ofa cradle, it's not very deep. And yes, there aremagnets that hold them in, but they're not the strongestmagnets in the world. Dropping buds is a very scary experience. Case charges wirelessly orvia USB-C port round back and it holds 21 hours of music playback while each bud can lastfor around six hours with ANC audio turned on. For context, the AirPodPros with ANC turned on last about 4.5 hours. A five minute quick charge in the case, will get you an hour oflistening time back though. In case you missed the SamsungUnpacked event last week, which was so beautiful in its own way, there was this moment. (dramatic sound) - Wow. There it is. The Galaxy Note 20. - Okay, that has nothingto do with this video, but I just love that so much. But then there was also this moment. - We compared Buds Live withthe pair of wireless earphones from another company. - Can you hear me? Can you hear me? - Wait, did Samsung just do a mic test? You love to see it. But also you hate to see that they don't tell you whothe competitors were. So let's get to the kitchen. So going head to head today arethe AirPods, the Pixel Buds, the Galaxy Buds Plus,and the Galaxy Buds Live. So the Pixel Buds, I lovehaving the Google assistant always listening andready because in my home I use it all the time. But I must admit the dropouts are real. And moving on, we havethe Galaxy Buds Plus and in the secondgeneration of these buds, the microphone got so much better.
And here are the AirPodswith that nice long stem and typically very good mic quality. Here are the Galaxy Bud Liveand I'm going to run the water, but I'm going to save the water this time because I'm actually inthe most Brooklyn way, watching all of my friends'plants at the moment. Water time! Oh man, I'm going to fill up so many pitchers of water I just realized. I'm going to the top of this pitcher. I only have so manypitchers in this house. All right. So the Galaxy Bud Live.How does these sound? Is it all right? Okay, that was actually super interesting because although theGalaxy Buds Live sound a little bit more mechanic or robotic, when there wasn't background noise. When there was background noise, it like completely canceled it out. Like that last clip, the water was running and you couldn't hear it at all. Whereas in the AirPod soundmaybe a little bit more natural and they kept a littlebit of the water sound in. It didn't, it didn't meanthat you couldn't hear me, but you could hear the water running, but that might just be ourclosest competition yet. Please sound off down below. Which one do you think was the best? So audio quality on thesebuds, it's really good dudes. I most closely comparedthem to the AirPods 'cause they have that same open ear design and it was hard to tell a difference. The buds themselves have12 millimeter drivers and overall it's just a really full sound.
Now the bass isn't bumping,but in the wearable apps, I always go in there andI turn on bass boost, which actually helps a lot. Past Bec is going totell you about hardware while I go dance a little bit more. The shape is weird and it's definitely the mostexciting part about them. In my ears it fits really wellwith the small wingtip on, and there's also a largesize tip included in the box. The lack of an AirPod-like stem allows me to wear these budswithout them getting caught on like my bike helmet strap, or while taking off a sweatshirt. And you almost can't evensee them sitting in my ears when you look at me head on. The Bluetooth connection on these buds is also really strong. I almost always leave my S10up here on a wireless charger and I could move freelythroughout my house without losing connection. And within my week of testing and using it mostly withmy S10 and my MacBook Pro, I only lost connectiononce while I was on a call. I also tested it with aniPhone 11 Pro and a Pixel 4A and it worked well with those two. There's no noticeablelag when playing games And there's one more featurethat's new to these buds, which is a hand-free Bixby option. It works. Yeah, it listens.It hears me. It responds. How well it responds, well. Bixby is Bixby. So it responds as wellas Bixby can respond. (upbeat music) So the Galaxy Buds Live.
They're beans with greataudio quality, a solid mic, all packed into a surprisingly functional small form factor. But I love when tech gets new and fresh and like exciting again and low key weird. Like I'll never forget beingin Barcelona for MWC 2019 and filming this shot of Huawei's Mate X. We were in the basementof some random hotel and they brought out theMate X and they unfolded it. And, oh my gosh, theexcitement in that room. And sadly in tech, we just don't get that experience much anymore. So when this crazy beanlooking earbud was released, it felt like that breathof fresh air to me. It felt like I was finallygoing to test out something new. And as new as these may look, what's actually exciting about them, is that it didn't losesight of the fundamentals, like audio quality, a solidmic, Bluetooth connection. And that, that makesthem a pretty good bean. You ever just like, forget to roll audio? Has that ever happened to you? For that I would say likeonce a year it happens and every time it does, it'sincredibly disappointing.