Samsung Galaxy Buds hands-on: Meaningful improvements

Last updated: February 20th, 2019 at twenty:31 UTC+01:00

The Gear IconX earbuds take been around for a couple of years and Samsung has at present decided to switch things up a bit. This year Samsung has rebranded the IconX to Milky way Buds, keeping in line with the strategy to bring its wearable devices under the Galaxy branding. The overall design has been improved as well with the improver of new features. Nosotros got to play with the Milky way Buds in San Francisco and can thus share our early impressions of the brand new device.

Milky way Buds hands-on: Design

The Galaxy Buds await quite similar to the Gear IconX at first glance, non that that's a bad thing. Subtle design improvements have been made to make the device wait better overall. Samsung has besides improved the functionality by bumping upwardly the Bluetooth version to 5.0 from 4.2 on the Gear IconX 2018. There'due south an adaptive dual (inner/outer) microphone in add-on to ear on/off detection. AKG sound does the heavy lifting on the Galaxy Buds which now come with a wireless charging-enabled conveying example with a USB Blazon-C port. Samsung will be offer the Galaxy Buds in Black, White and Neon Xanthous colors.

Wireless charging

Samsung has finally fabricated information technology possible to accuse the earbuds wirelessly. The carrying case has support for wireless charging and you tin even juice it up using the PowerShare contrary wireless charging feature of your Galaxy S10. The case itself has support for USB Blazon-C which means you tin charge it using your phone'south charging cable. The obvious limitation here is that the buds tin't be charged wirelessly without the carrying case so you'll always take to carry it with y'all. The wireless charging functionality works very well with the instance, though, and then no complaints there.

Conclusion

We feel that Samsung has washed a skillful task with the Milky way Buds peculiarly when you compare them with Apple's AirPods. Information technology hasn't thrown in everything but the kitchen sink. Samsung seems to have thought this through and only introduced new features that would actually deliver value to customers. The wireless charging functionality is an excellent instance of that. Some of us hither at SamMobile were disappointed with the reliability and durability of before generations of Samsung'due south wireless earbuds merely we have a skillful feeling nigh the Milky way Buds. Nosotros practice hope that they prove to be more than reliable as there's little to fault on the audio quality front. Nosotros'll certainly be seeing a lot more people using the Galaxy Buds every bit Samsung volition exist offering the article of clothing device as a pre-order incentive for the Galaxy S10 in primal markets.