Samsung’s latest true wireless earbuds: the Galaxy Buds Live.
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They have a peculiar “bean”-shaped design that doesn’t protrude from the ear.
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As you can see here.
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They come in a trio of colors.
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Samsung rates them as getting 6-8 hours of battery life, depending on how heavily you use their active noise cancellation and voice wake-up features.
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The charging case is said to add an additional 15 hours of battery life.
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Samsung has equipped the earbuds with active noise cancellation tech but mainly aims it at low-end frequencies, not muting the entire world around you.
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They cost $170, which is a good ways below competitors like the AirPods Pro and Sony WF-1000XM3, and will be available starting Thursday.
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Samsung on Tuesday announced its latest pair of true wireless earbuds, the Samsung Galaxy Buds Live. The earbuds, whose bean-shaped design caused a stir in tech circles after leaking last month, will be available starting Thursday and cost $169.99. They’ll be available in black, bronze, and white finishes.
The Galaxy Buds Live are designed to sit entirely in your ear; there’s no outward protruding “stem,” but there are small, flat tips on each earbud to keep them securely in place. Samsung says it will include two sizes of these “wingtips” in the box.
In terms of features, Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Buds Live with active noise cancellation, bringing them in competition with other true wireless pairs like Apple’s AirPods Pro and Sony’s WF-1000XM3. Samsung is going about this a little differently, however. Because the Galaxy Buds Live’s flattened design naturally lets in more ambient noise than more tightly sealed in-ear headphones like Apple’s or Sony’s pairs, Samsung wants its ANC to focus on muting low-end frequencies—an airplane cabin, a loud laundry machine, and so on—while still letting higher-pitch noises through.
Earphones like the AirPods Pro often use software for the latter with a dedicated “transparency” mode; here, Samsung wants the Galaxy Buds Live to let you hold quick conversations and hear your surroundings without removing or adjusting the earbuds in the first place. You’re likely to hear outside noise while listening to audio with the Galaxy Buds Live as a result, but Samsung sells another pair of totally wireless earbuds in the $150 Galaxy Buds Plus for those who prefer a tighter in-ear seal.
Samsung rates the Galaxy Buds Live at a relatively standard 6 to 8 hours of battery life, depending on how often you use the active noise cancellation and its hands-free voice controls, which are managed by the company’s Bixby voice assistant. It says you’ll get an additional 15 hours through its included charging case and that five minutes of charging will return an hour of battery life. There are no physical playback buttons here, so you’re reliant instead on touch and voice controls.
We haven’t tested the earbuds, so it’s too soon to say how well they perform, but Samsung says they use larger 12mm drivers than the ones found in the Galaxy Buds Plus, as well as three built-in mics for call quality. The whole thing connects over Bluetooth 5. The diminutive design may fit well for workouts, but Samsung says the earbuds only have an IPX2 water resistance rating, which is on the lower end of the IP scale. Regardless, the peculiar design and noise cancellation should make the Galaxy Buds Live nothing if not unique in an increasingly crowded wireless earbuds market.
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