SAMSUNGGalaxy Buds Pro 2 [2022] (SM-R510NLVALTA) - (Violet)

The Samsung Galaxy Pods Pro 2 are a set of excellent wireless earbuds. However, they are a Samsung product intended to be used with other Samsung products. This is not to say that they won't work with other devices – they will. But there are features that you'll never be able to use unless you connect to them with the Samsung Wearable app, and you need an Android phone/tablet for that. Without that, they're just very good earbuds. With the app, they become brilliant.Now, I happen to have a Samsung phone, so I'm able to make use of the added Samsung features. But I'll still try to cover what they can do otherwise.As with most wireless earbuds, these use a charging case strategy; there are rechargeable batteries in the earbuds and a third larger one in the case, which charges the earbuds when they're in the case. Charging the case is done via a USB-C port; these earbuds come with a USB-C-to-USB-C cable that's fairly long; you have to plug it into a USB-C charger (not included) or buy a separate adapter (also not included) to charge it. If you already have a Samsung phone that's at all recent, you already have a USB-C charger. Fully charged earbuds seem to last for a good 6-8 hours of constant use.Pairing the earbuds is simple. Just make sure Bluetooth is enabled on the device, take the earbuds out of the case, and the earbuds should appear on the device shortly. Choose them, confirm that you want to pair, and you're good. If you want to pair them with another device, you'll have to put them into the case, tap and hold both earbuds for a few seconds until the LED blinks, and that puts them into pairing mode, so follow the same procedure with the new device (though actually you don't have to take them out of the case when you reset them this way).And then, if they're connected to one device, and you want to connect them to some other device that's been paired with them in the past, all you have to do is go to that device and tell it to connect to the earbuds. That's it – they'll disconnect from the previous device and connect to the new one. It's very easy if you have certain devices you commonly use the earbuds with. I've paired them with Android, MacOS, and Windows devices and can switch between them all in this way.Now, these earbuds have active noise cancellation. That means they have exterior microphones that can pick up outside noise and the ability to generate a waveform that destructively interferes with those outside sound waves to cancel them out, or mostly so. However, because they have exterior microphones, they can also pass outside sound through to your ears, if you choose. What's more, a long press on either earbud (or controlling them with the app) can switch from noise cancellation to pass-through mode to neither of these. And more than that, these earbuds can tell when you're talking, so when you speak they can auto-switch to pass-through mode. That means you can carry on conversations without taking time to take the earbuds out of your ears (assuming you speak first). After you go for about 10 seconds without saying anything (this can be changed to 5 or 15 seconds, but only with the app), they go back to noise cancellation.I was unable to exceed these earbuds' wireless range while staying in my house. The range is very impressive. I've dealt with some Bluetooth earbuds that wouldn't reach across the room reliably. And even if you do exceed the range, the earbuds automatically reconnect when you come back into range. Some earbuds shut down to save battery when they go out of range and have to be reset (put them back in the case and take them out again) before they'll reconnect. Not so with these.As with many earbuds, these are controlled by tapping, long-pressing, double-tapping, etc. one or the other of the earbuds. There's a bit of delay, but there is also audible feedback when you do this, and the delay has a reason: if you just want to adjust the position of one of the earbuds in your ear, you can press it for a second with no effect; it won't count as a single-tap or a long-press.These earbuds are very comfortable; they're even easy to forget that they're in my ears at all. In fact, the noise cancellation is nice by itself, giving me a bit of an island of silence when I'm usually surrounded by noise at all times without consciously noticing it.On Samsung devices, there's even a feature to track your head movements so the sound seems to be coming from the direction of your phone/tablet, if you enable it. This doesn't make much sense if you're just listening to music or a podcast or making a phone call, but if you're watching a video, this feature makes more sense.The Samsung app (again, only available if you have a Samsung Android phone/tablet) allows you to download firmware updates and configure other things, like turning on ambient sound during phone calls so you can hear yourself talk and not feel like your voice is muffled (which could otherwise make you feel like you have to talk louder), control the amplification of ambient sound when it's passed through, and control the left-right audio balance.I'm not an extreme audiophile, but the sound quality is good. Bass response is always an issue with very small earphones due to simple physics, but these earbuds do better than some devices I've used.Of course, no product can ever be perfect. The shortcomings of these earbuds as I see them:The case has no indication of how much battery power it has left. It has one LED on the outside that tells you when it's charging (red) and when it's fully charged (green). The LED is only active when the charging cable is plugged in or for a few seconds after you open the case. It has another LED on the inside that is red when it's charging the earbuds and green when they're fully charged. There are times when it is used for other things. But nothing indicates how close the case's battery is to being empty or full, or how close the earbuds are to being fully charged.Controlling the volume with the earbuds is very difficult. There's no way to do this at all unless you configure them with the app to enable it (it's a Labs feature, meaning it's still being tested), and even when you do, it's difficult; you have to carefully double-tap on the edge of the left or right earbud just right. And this only seems to work on Samsung devices.The fact that they're so comfortable and so good at automatically reconnecting when they come back into range (after going out of range) is actually detrimental in a way. It means it's easy to forget to take them out and put them back in the case to charge when you're not listening to anything. You have to remember that noise cancellation still uses battery power.And if you don't have a Samsung device to pair them with, there are a lot of features you won't be able to access or at least fine-tune. This isn't really a deal-breaker in most cases, but the way it switches to ambient pass-through mode when you talk or during phone calls is really nice, and I'm not 100% sure it would do these things if I hadn't turned these on using the app.All things told, these are a great pair of wireless earbuds with amazing range, excellent usability, great comfort, and active noise cancellation.

I love these models. They fit perfect in my ears. Also the battery life is great. I love working out with them, walking, bowling, ect. Also the dynamic sound it has along with the ambient mode is awesome. Plus the violet color actually looks nice. It stands out and creates style.It came in a ni e package. With a power cord and instructional Manuel. Not to mention the charging holder. I'd recommend these.

The ear buds have a beautiful clear sound that cones out also they get in the ear really tight they don't just fall off they are great quality and sou d amazing they are super loud and cone with different inserts they charge really fast and connection was easy and fast to connect to Bluetooth great earphones.

I love these headphones, the noise cancelation feature is great especially when I am overstimulated. The sound is so much better than the RayCons I was using before, very clear and easy to use. They connect easily and quickly. They fit alright in the ears but sometimes will fall out if I move my head a certain way or shrug my shoulders. This is fixable by adjusting the way they fit by pulling on my ear lobe when I put them in or changing the flanges.Great performance and value, would absolutely buy again. Buds still work after accidentally washing them but I did need to buy a new case on EBay after the incident.

Great earbuds I had the previous pair of Galaxy pros for a long time and I always had problems with them wanting to sit in my tiny ears, every single pair of earbuds I've ever had have always been a problem for me and it's so frustrating but these are the first ones that have ever fit in my ear!! Not only that but they stay and feel so snug and secure, very comfortable too, the other thing I love is the noise cancellation! I can't hear anyone or anything around me which will be so wonderful for when I am overwhelmed by background noise definitely ADHD approved haha. The only thing that is different from these compared to my previous pair is I feel like my older ones were just a little more better for bass and sound.

I love samsung earbuds, but the price is so ridiculous. These were afford and the quality of the earbuds are amazing. They fit perfectly in my ear. They charge fast with a fast charger and they stay charge for a while. If you download the app for the head phone i can get texts read to me and i can have noise cancellation turned off when both earbuds are in my ear.