{"id":24863,"date":"2019-04-03T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24863"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:16:00","slug":"powerbeats-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/powerbeats-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerbeats Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/3\/18292853\/beats-powerbeats-pro-true-wireless-earbuds-announced-airpods\">Chris Welch<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/04\/03\/powerbeats-pro-billboard-ad\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/3\/18292853\/beats-powerbeats-pro-true-wireless-earbuds-announced-airpods\">\n<p>A couple of weeks after Apple shipped its second-generation AirPods, the company&rsquo;s Beats division is finally making its own entrance into the true wireless earbuds market. The new $249.95 Powerbeats Pro ship in May and are Beats&rsquo; most significant product in years. I get the feeling that, for many people, these are going to prove even more compelling than AirPods. They offer longer battery life, they seal fully in your ears without letting in outside noise, they include the same Apple H1 chip as the latest AirPods for hands-free &ldquo;Hey Siri&rdquo; voice commands, and yes, to my ears, the Powerbeats Pro sounded better during my brief introduction to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds great. They&rsquo;re also water-resistant and have physical volume controls. Downsides: the case is too large for a pocket, no Qi charging. I wonder whether the isolation is good enough for airplane use.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/airpower-canceled\/\">AirPower Canceled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/airpods-2019\/\">AirPods 2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"powerbeats-pro-update-2019-04-08\">Update (2019-04-08): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/powerbeats-pro-preview\">Rene Ritchie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.imore.com\/powerbeats-pro-preview\">\n<p>Play pause can happen when you put Powerbeats Pro in or take them out, just like AirPods, but where AirPods are all stealth and you can tap invisible quote-unquote buttons to do one thing of your choosing, Powerbeats Pro have legit physical hardware controls. There's volume up and down, right on the top, and the big B button on the outside, which you can even long-press to pass on a call.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbirchler\/status\/1114961124590608384\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattbirchler\/status\/1114961124590608384\">\n<p>How much bigger could the PowerBeats charging case be than AirPods?<\/p>\n<p>*checks it out*<\/p>\n<p>Mother of god&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Welch (MacRumors): A couple of weeks after Apple shipped its second-generation AirPods, the company&rsquo;s Beats division is finally making its own entrance into the true wireless earbuds market. The new $249.95 Powerbeats Pro ship in May and are Beats&rsquo; most significant product in years. I get the feeling that, for many people, these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-03T18:31:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"709d099b-b923-49ae-b594-467c2810ee28","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-08T19:16:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcJ0Jm7kjSa61lEZ8KBDuKA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1198,95,1700,422,108,31,30,1791,1578,247],"class_list":["post-24863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airplane","tag-audio","tag-beats","tag-bluetooth","tag-earbuds","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-powerbeats","tag-qi-charging","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24901,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24863\/revisions\/24901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}