hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and
these are the air pods - or the air pods
second-generation as Apple is calling
them the only way to differentiate them
on the box is to look at the side here
and it says wireless charging case also
on the back it says air pods with
wireless charging case and then on the
bottom here you'll see it says it will
work with air power so if you can see
that there air power and Qi certified
charging mats now to compare that with
the original box it looks exactly the
same it just doesn't have that charging
part here and then also on the back it
says with charging case and wireless
charging case now this comes in at 199
dollars with the charging case the
wireless charging case if you get the
regular charging case it's 159 or if you
just buy the case itself it's $79 so
let's go ahead and unbox it so let's
take the wrapper off here and there is
another way to tell the difference
between the two I believe so we'll take
this off here this is designed by Apple
in California those air pods
see what we've gotten here just talks
about it a little bit and then there is
some more documentation and then also
your 1-year limited warranty now I
believe they mentioned the air power
charging mat and here somewhere or at
least some people were saying they do
now I've looked all through the manuals
I don't see anything about the wireless
charging but let's take a look at the
air pods themselves now these have the
new h1 chipset in them which also gives
them a voice-activated Siri it's got an
h1 chip that is the headphone chip so
faster and more stable wireless
connections 30% lower latency and
supposedly higher quality sound now
let's go ahead and unwrap this
and this is the wireless charging case
so you can see it looks pretty much the
same so here is the old one here's the
new one and they're about the same size
but you can tell the new one by the
little dot on the front for wireless
charging on the back there's nothing
really any different we still have
lightning here and then also I forgot
one more thing under here there is your
lightning to USB type a so nothing
really exciting there it's just as
expected and if we open these up you'll
see it's got the little light on the
front now if I set them on a wireless
charger this is the charger I normally
use let's see if it charges yet
now you'll see on the side here it's
actually charging this is a charge
indicator light so it's charging there
but let me pair these with my iPhone and
we'll see if they pair more quickly or
anything like that so here's my iPhone
let's open these up and that was pretty
quick we'll hit connect and they're
paired so it's 81 percent and let's see
if it tells us anything about charging
now it's blinking again I don't know if
you can see that down here that it's
charging but let's see if we go to a
widget here you'll see we have the air
pods and the air pods case so just as
expected now what I'll do is let's take
this out of here let's compare it with
the previous generation and see if it's
any different at all
so let's take the right one out of here
as well this could be confusing but it
has the same exact design it looks like
so they're basically identical the
bottom is identical and this side is
identical as well so it'd be really easy
to mistake these but it's hard to say
which one sounds better so I'm gonna
take a listen to these see what it
sounds like and see if it's actually a
little bit better also the finish on
this looks a little more shiny I don't
know if that's because of its less worn
or not but you can also pair these via
bluetooth to any Bluetooth device so let
me listen to these for a moment and then
swap back and forth and see what they
sound like I've been listening to the
air pods 2nd generation for a few
and I would say they sound a little bit
clearer maybe a tiny bit clearer than
the previous generation about the same
the sound is pretty even bass mids and
highs are fairly even you're not going
to get any booming bass out of these or
anything like that now they're supposed
to connect more quickly and you'll see
here let me stick this in my ear so it
tries to connect and I'll hit connect it
doesn't seem to connect terribly fast
sometimes it connects quickly sometimes
it doesn't currently it's connected to
my Mac Mini and I want to show you
because I haven't been seeing this
connect superfast now it's connected and
if we go home you'll see we've got the
little headphones here now and if we
slide over there's the air pods so it's
telling left and right and one thing I
found is if I use the Samsung charger
put this on here it seems to charge just
fine right away and then this light will
kind of go out so I don't know this is a
qi wireless standard but it doesn't tell
us that the actual charge level of the
case itself while it's charging and if I
go into the settings there isn't a whole
lot of new settings it has the same
things basically as the previous
generation you can adjust the air pod
Siri play pause next track previous
track just by tapping them or double
tapping them and then the same thing for
the left or right ear pod and then
automatic ear detection and the
microphone as well so always left air
pod always right air pod so it works
pretty well just like the other air pods
I would say they sound a little bit
cleaner but nothing fantastic compared
to really high-end earphones but the
convenience outweighs all of that for
most people so I'll be using these over
the next week or so and I'll see how
they work between here and my Mac Mini
the previous generation were almost
unusable with my Mac or my macbook they
would just cut in and out constantly
they worked fine with iOS devices but
not the Mac itself so something's weird
there but I'll be using them and
hopefully they're a little bit better
and the previous ones only get about one
and a half to two hours of battery life
after using them for two years so this
will be a welcome change to get about
five hours of battery life supposedly
and they charge in 15 minutes
inside here
that will give it three hours of
listening also this supposedly provides
24 hours plus of charging for these
earphones so we'll see it's supposed to
be faster and more stable in the Serie
it does work I tried it out nothing that
I'd really use regularly though let me
know your thoughts about the second
generation air pods of course it doesn't
say anything here as far as second
generation and that's a little confusing
they should just name them air pods too
but it is what it is so let me know your
thoughts about them are they what you
were looking for let me know in the
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