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[Android] Thread v. 2018: Pixel 6 is out. Google might be bad at phones.
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Has anyone else had that happen?
I just checked my call log and it looks like maybe the Google Assistant did answer as there's a short transcript of what apparently Google said to the caller and then the call was marked as spam. Very odd.
I'm a little worried about the phone auto screening calls, but I'm more concerned about my phone automatically connecting calls without my knowledge.
The charger port was getting finnicky, and the battery life was getting worse. I didn't want to deal with either of those problems this summer, so I ended up upgrading to an s22 for free (actually $110 with upgrade fee & sales tax). I'm a bit worried about not having a headphone jack, since I use jacked headphones to listen to things in bed quite a bit... I'll try ordering some corded bluetooth headphones and see if that works.
usb-c to headphone jack dongles exist, and on the higher end there's bluetooth dac/amps that will pair with your phone and let you plug in your existing corded headphones to it (I wasn't sure if that's what you were referring to by corded bluetooth)
Yeah, I saw the usb-c to headphone jacks. Are there any that let you charge (via usb-c) while using headphones?
https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Rockstar-Adapter-Compatible-OnePlus-dp-B09F8M9PDG/dp/B09F8M9PDG/ref=dp_ob_title_wld
I've not tried them but they exist
I will admit that the very idea of having to worry about battery life for headphones is kind of goofy, but in this brave new world there are people who have to worry about the battery life of their books as well as the battery life of their cigarettes, so I guess everything is relative.
I could imagine it for long trips on a train or plane, but then you could always take wired USB-C headphones for that.
We got a peloton bike and i think it would be cool to be able to monitor my heart rate when I'm using it. I've also been taking the dog for runs that I have been tracking using the Samsung Health app on my phone.
I was trying to figure out a heart rate monitor I could connect to both our bike and my smartphone and I was seeing the Polar H10 recommended in general but I looked at the 2 Polar apps (Beat and Flow) and it doesn't feel like either app is great for giving me notifications. The Samsung app gives me status updates every 0.5 km which is great.
The other option I was looking at is the Samsung Watch4 though it sounds like it requires a workaround to connect it to a peloton bike but it for sure works with the Samsung Health app.
Anyone have any opinions/experience with either of these scenarios?
SteamID: edgruberman GOG Galaxy: EdGruberman
I almost exclusively use wireless headphones now. Full stop. Yes, will a set of $400 wired cans sound better than my bluetooth over ear headphones? Probably. But 75% of my listening is to podcasts now anyway so it really doesn't make a difference. the convenience is real.
Wireless earbuds are my favorite, but with a couple caveats. I think fit and comfort is even more important here than it is on any wired earbuds. The shape of my ears means that certain kinds of wired earbuds are not comfortable for me. (part of the reason I have a number of pairs, trying to find the best style/fit). I absolutely love the Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro but I can't wear them for more than an hour without my ears hurting, and I have never been able to get a good fit in my left ear, so the earbud will fall out if I tilt my left side down.
I would absolutely drop the money on the high end sony noise cancelling earbuds (WF1000XM4) but I'm 80% sure they won't fit me properly, because most of the weight is abofe the ear tip, and I think that's where my issue is. with that style of earbud if it doesn't fit in my ear perfectly, it just doesn't work super well, which is where I have problems. As much as I don't like the look of them nearly as much, I have found that the pencil style earbuds (think Airpods style) are a more universal fit, and work better for more ear types.
My current go to wireless earbuds are actually the Nothing Ear(1)'s. Pencil style, comfortable for me, good enough battery life in the earbuds.
But fit is super important. Even the, with wireless earbuds, I do find that regardless as to how comfortable they are, after 4-5 hours my ears need a break form them, as there's just ear fatigue. So for me, battery life of 5 or so hours in earbuds is fine, since I'll never wear them longer than that anyway.
Personally, if I'm going to be wearing headphones for more than 3-4 hours I'm wearing over ear headphones. I can wear those basically forever, and those will all have battery life of at least 15 hours, and a lot of them will be 25+. I use the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones and when I need maximum comfort, or a long period of time, or the best noise cancelling, that's the choice.
Also my noise cancelling over the ear sony headset has saved me real life agony in the past being able to block out all kinds of noise.
SteamID: edgruberman GOG Galaxy: EdGruberman
I've tried multiple earbuds from Anker, Jabber, and no-names all with no luck - they all fall out of my ears. I'm tempered to buy iBuds, but don't really want to spend the money.
I got my wife the wireless Pixel Buds for her birthday this year but I haven't tried to steal hers and see how I like them.
I highly recommend just buying them from best buy and returning them within the two weeks to try out a few pairs until you're satisfied.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Bluetooth delay is mostly a thing of the past on newer/modern earbuds. I haven't encountered it in years. You really shouldn't see it anymore on headphones released in the last few years, especially with a newer phone. If both are at least on Bluetooth 5.0, there should not be an issue. (the 75t's are pretty old at this point).
And on the rare case where there is an issue, most high end buds have a low latency mode that should solve it, at the expense of range and battery life.
get yanked out of my ears. There were still annoyances (the wire between the earbuds would still end up getting caught on something occasionally and be an inconvenience), but it was way better.
In the tail end of 2019, I finally felt brave enough to try true wireless earbuds, which I did by getting a relatively-cheap-but-relatively-well-reviewed $50 Anker set; I figured it seemed good enough that I'd get a decent sound experience, and cheap enough that I wouldn't be overly upset if they turned out to be terrible. It was, right off the bat, another revolution in quality-of-life. I was surprised at how much better it was not to have that wire between the earbuds. They were still not perfect - they didn't hold in my ear super-well, and pressing the physical button on them pushed them painfully into my ear - but it was obvious to me this was my future path.
I bought the Jabra 75t as soon as they came out, and I've loved them. They sit in my ears perfectly, sounds great, very comfortable to use, etc. I can't say anything meaningful about the audio lag, I've mostly used them for podcasts and music. I did use them a whole bunch with the Switch (connected via Genki Audio), and found it to be largely fine. There was one specific boss in Hollow Knight that was giving me a very hard time, and that I was able to manage after turning the audio off; at the time, I thought I was just getting distracted by the audio, but now I wonder if there was a slight delay in the audio that was subconsciously throwing me off.
The 75t broke recently, and I've been considering what to get as a replacement. I don't commute anymore, so I don't even get to use them that often, but they'd still be nice to have for the occasional walk/shopping trip. It seems like the Jabra 85t aren't miles and miles better, so I wonder if it would be more cost-effective to just get another set of 75ts.
Anyway, the point is, true wireless earbuds 4 life.
If you want to stay in the jabra ecosystem but dont want to spend a ton of money the Jabra Elite 3's might be a good bet. The earbuds are a bit of a different shape, so there is risk of a differetn fit, but might be a good option.
There are models with ear hooks and fins designed to mitigate that. The powerbeats pro are perhaps the most well known version of that but those are apple centric. My partner has them and she loves them. Actually on her second pair after the first pair stopped holding a charge. There are similar style models from other vendors, I thin JBL sells a bunch.
Are they really? I bought them last year (elite active 75t) and they sound great. But if I could actually get rid of the delay for real that's tempting.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
what protocols the buds support, what protocols the device supports, and if the two will even decide to use the lower latency ones correctly or not (sometimes you can manually choose which one to use, sometimes you can't)
yeah they were originally released in February 2020.
Edit: Also want to say I like the S22 so far, but haven't noticed much of a difference between by S10. I haven't taken any pictures yet or really done any processing intensive tasks. I forgot how much of a pain it is to get a new phone. The data transfer took about 2 hrs and a seemingly random assortment of apps weren't transferred. It's also annoying to have to relogin to every app and setup my preferences again. I'd thought they'd figured all this out by now, so maybe I did something wrong.
its because otherwise each bud needs its own bluetooth receiver and connect independently to the device, and while some bluetooth buds do this (like airpods, but apple uses specifically designed hardware/software to help with those issues for their devices), it can lead to other issues (av synchronization, one bud connecting while both saying they are connected, etc).
I don't think that's true. Flagship level buds? Sure, but lower end stuff absolutely still does daisy chain.
I have 4 pairs of earbuds within arms reach that I paid < $40 each for and all of them work with either earbud independently. One pair does it kind of junky in that each earbud is paired to the device independely, but that pair is about 3 years old at this point. every other pair works with either bud with no issue.
Honestly it's been some of the high end stuff that has inexplicably had the issue. Sennheiser and Bose have been the worst at it. Sennheiser was right earbud only until the CX last year, and the new Momentum 3 are the first high end earbuds from them that allow either to be used independently. Bose also is right earbud only, but their true wireless earbuds are honestly some of the worst on the market right now and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. They also haven't updated their wireless earbuds in over 2 years, so they desperately need an update that will hopefully resolve that.
So yes, most earbuds you buy today *should* support using either earbud independently.
The biggest change was the removal of the aforementioned headphone jack and the biggest inconvenience is that something didn't work with my data transfer in that like half my apps didn't make it over, so I keep realizing I'm missing something and have to redownload it.
Same thing happened with the LTE rollout. early LTE wasn't any faster than 3G in most cases, but now we have LTE with 150mbit+ down speeds.
Another thing to remember is that in all reality, most people won't notice the speed increases in day to day use. the difference between LTE where you might get 50mbit down and 5G speeds where you get 300 down don't really matter when you're looking at Instagram.
I was kind of hoping it would last another year at least. Pixel 6a looks like a fine phone but the lack of headphone jack on it is killing me.
my Pixel 4a is also falling the fuck apart including the USB-c jack no longer working except at very specific angles and pressures, even after cleaning it
I am probably moving over to Samsung again after this phone gives up the ghost, the Pixels are supposedly up-market relative to the old Nexuses but I have had more issues with them in practice