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Beats Solo Buds, surprising iPad Pro specs, and iOS 18 rumors

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance assess the final iPad rumors ahead of next week’s ‘Let Loose’ event. Beats launches an incredibly compelling new addition to their headphones lineup, the Beats Solo Buds. At the same time, Apple fails to acknowledge what happened with people getting locked out of their Apple IDs over the weekend, in the same week as it releases a statement promising to fix an issue with iPhone alarms.

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Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

So may we have not one not two but three different pieces of beats news to talk about to get started this week

0:07.4

The beat goes on which I believe was a Apple event

0:10.5

Stratpine one time the beat goes on Let's get started with the beat solo four. So these

0:16.0

are the updates to the solo three which are first released in 2016 and remember the

0:21.0

solo threes were the first headphones to feature, what was it, the, was it called the W1?

0:26.7

Apple's first?

0:27.7

Yeah.

0:28.7

Because it was announced at the same time as AirPods, but obviously the Air air pods didn't ship until the December.

0:33.6

So they started bringing out some of the beats line first.

0:36.1

So yeah, the Solo Three is technically the first W-chip headphones.

0:40.3

So it's been eight years, and Beats said during the rollout of the Beat Solo 4 this week that the Beat Solo 3 have been basically their best selling product like every month

0:50.9

especially during the holiday season even though they haven't been

0:53.4

updated in eight years they just kind of been languishing there still with a micro USB

0:58.4

port for charging still with that W1 chip but now we have Beat Solo 4.

1:03.2

The design here, I've been using these for about the past week and a half or so.

1:06.4

The design here is basically unchanged.

1:08.9

Beat says it has a new ultra-plush ear cushion design. Feels about the same to me. The design though is if

1:16.8

of all the things they could have changed I really wish they would have focused on the

1:20.0

design more because it is still the same exact form factor made entirely of

1:24.5

plastic and really cheap plastic at that like if you bend them just a little bit they

1:29.2

like creak and sound like they're gonna snap in half you fold them up to put them in the carrying case and it

1:35.1

seems like they're going to snap in half. I mean the design does have some benefits to where they're

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