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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance share their hands-on reviews with Apple’s latest products, from the impressive noise cancellation in AirPods 4 to the useful — if fiddly — Camera Control on the iPhone 16 Pro, and the redesigned Apple Watch Series 10. The latest iOS 18.1 beta also includes some useful enhancements to Control Center and iPhone Mirroring.
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0:00.0 | So we're recording on Thursday Mayo which means we've had six days with our new Apple |
0:05.2 | products. You have AirPots 4 and I have iPhone 16 ProMax and Apple Watch Series 10. You did your hands-on review on the site this week and it seems |
0:17.3 | like you are ultimately pretty happy with AirPods 4. |
0:20.5 | Oh yeah. With active noise cancellation. They fulfilled your dream. They 100% met |
0:27.3 | expectations and probably beat them like... Really? Wow. Okay. It is... so obviously so I think even the non noise |
0:37.1 | cancellation model is really good this year like the baseline like the part of the |
0:41.7 | conclusion of the kind of review pieces, the actual lineups |
0:45.2 | insanely good at the moment, because they brought the modern earbuds with the best sound, |
0:51.9 | you know, the H2 chip, the smaller case, that's now 129, |
0:56.3 | whereas previously 129 got you the second gen Airpods, not even the third gents, right? |
1:00.7 | So price to value, even the base for the lineup is really strong and then you obviously you had the $50 on to get the noise cancellation model |
1:08.0 | Which I would 100% recommend to people even if you know and you're going use it occasionally, it's more than worth it. |
1:14.4 | Like, I've seen a few people say that they were disappointed with the ANC on the Air Force |
1:20.3 | and maybe some of that comes down to personal perception or fit, right? |
1:25.0 | Because the Airpods for fit pretty well, |
1:27.0 | and for me, maybe if you have lesser fit, |
1:30.0 | there's just more opportunity for sound |
1:31.0 | to like get around the microphones |
1:32.0 | and just get in your ear and so the noise |
1:34.4 | cancellation effect is reduced. |
1:36.2 | But in my experience, the noise cancellation is really solid. |
1:39.6 | In most cases, you still hear the outside world, so it's not silence, but it's like dramatically lower |
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