Testing every pair of Fake AirPods Pro

all right so this is a topic I've been looking to cover for a while now there are so many air pod type headphones that are available on the market I did a video on a product called black pods but the a was flipped I didn't think much of it I didn't realize how big the landscape of these kind of air pod looking headphones really was its extensive and of course I have a bunch of new ones that popped up in the air pods Pro format this one is called air buds Pro the same company that did the black pods that I featured and they've got their very own black version of what the air pods Pro look like these are the original black pods which by the way you have no idea really what you're buying when you buy any of these a number of people that based on that original video went out and tried to buy these ones and then ended up thinking they had received a different product and the one that I even showcased in a video on top of that there's people who paid money to certain websites and didn't get products back so just as you are watching this realized right now that this landscape is vast and bizarre you don't really know what's what and what you're gonna get for your money so keep that in mind for the record like this one is called Nikes look at that these are a bit different I've got them on the table because they just showed up as well they're called air golds first things first if you ordered some of these in the past on the base on the original video you have some kind of problem with it I just want to speak directly to this company black please try to make it right by these people just refund their money if they didn't if they can't receive the package I don't know do something and I have no affiliation with this company at all nonetheless we're gonna go over some of the newer options here before we get into it I got to give a quick shout out we have an official unbox therapy unboxing knife you've probably seen this on the channel you can actually buy it right now it is a collaboration unbox therapy and stat gear it's the pocket samurai it's a pocket knife with the unbox therapy inscription on it it's available on their website it's also available on Amazon but like I said it's limited quantities they have been doing this particular pocket knife for a while and then just sort of upgraded it for the box therapy version unbox your products like a professional first things first less poppy inted bees what are called the air buds Pro really has the buds air this company has the air buds we still got the dog Air Bud mm-hmm so you got to keep it all together now they include the paperwork it's very Apple ask it's almost like you bought the official thing here the packaging is very well it's Apple esque I think it's identical to be honest and this is what the cable looked like type-c connector so oh man maybe the lid is a little more loose you want to compare it oh yeah do you have the yeah where are the air pods Pro oh yeah this is the air pods Pro who can even keep it look at the box okay that's the air pods Pro so there they are those two next to each other wait wait is very similar the product from Apple it has a smoother open/close on the lid the lid has a little bit of give like like this back and forth the Apple one is a bit tighter the black grille looks more like a mesh sticker on the air buds Pro and also on the bottom it looks quite a bit different now if we compare that to the product the black pods product these two must be oh no they're no this is a matte finish on this product compared to glossy on the earlier one so the paint but the hinge is the same and the grill unit is a bit different on this one the whole thing is not a grill these ones are similar but they're also a little different and then the last pair of the pro models is these ones called na keys now the box here looks identical to the box from the first pair the air buds Pro that one looks almost exactly like the first one oh no the hinge is a bit different on the container it's kind of wild there's all these little variations and varieties than na keys probably have the best grill component it's them it's buried in there the smoothest my goodness would you look at that now also it's important to note the black pods situation there original inspiration was to create an air pod-like device that was black because apple didn't do it they did not make black available so of course when it comes to the pro model they're gonna have to have the black version as well and this one is the matte black style exactly the same except for the fact that is matte black the black pods models are using a traditional USB connector to lightning and the earlier ones that I unbox the earbuds Pro and the na keys are using lightning to USB type-c okay so that's another thing worth mentioning all right so the last one to add to the mix before we listen to a couple of these is the air goals which to me it's obviously the most unique of the bunch it's gonna be painted in gold by the looks of it it effectively gives you a painted gold air pod if you if you really have to show that off I don't know maybe you want to be different but I'm really curious about is the new pro models of this variety of products that exists that aren't made by Apple so let's go ahead and test a few of these all right so I have an iPhone 11 Pro max over here I also have a wireless charger here in order to check which one's Wireless charge so here are the black pods also in orange light which is tougher to see so those ones are charging wirelessly the white black pods same thing orange light comes on these are the na keys a super dim orange light comes on so they're charging and the air buds Pro yes whoo and it's also got a really dim tiny little orange light that comes on so they all appear to support wireless charging I want to be clear as well at this moment before I listen to these things I am NOT promoting or endorsing these products purchase at your own risk obviously the dream of getting an air pod like device for a hundred bucks ear pods probe device for 100 bucks that's obviously an appealing concept so do your own due diligence let's kick it off with the black pods themselves oh okay look at that it's setting up essentially the same way that the Apple branded earpods would one of the cool features of the official air pods Pro is that they have these microphones on the exterior of the device I don't think of getting any of that functionality here you're getting a product very similar to their previous product that they did but in a new format with an in-ear style let's see if I have audio coming through I'm getting play/pause functionality on the button if I tap it it gives me an audio whew a tick tick like I'm switching modes but I don't hear a discernible difference I mean as headphones they they sound alright though that's the problem see that's the problem with this it's people what they really want to know is can I have fully wireless headphones earbuds that are convenient to pair with my iPhone presumably am I gonna hear what I'm listening to and you are and they don't sound as good as the real deal but it's a fraction of the cost and people are cost sensitive so it's easy to understand or maybe they want black ones and it's not even an option directly from Apple you could of course go out and get them painted this is a color web product these are the official air pods - painted black but that'll cost you even more yeah they sound okay yeah I think you gotta adjust your expectations obviously to go with the price so next why don't we do this is the air buds Pro the first product that I unbox let's see what happens oh okay same thing now I have to say man this just it looks like a sticker that you peel off yeah it's definitely a sticker Jack you see that there's no microphone there alright this starts playing right away oh okay there it responded these sound way worse or way worse I think a lot of people say that's unacceptable actually that product last up here we go these are called the na keys and interestingly enough these ones have some details on the inside of the lid I don't know if Jack can see that there's text up in there a serial number and a model number Wow so those connected real smooth these are the official ones Oh oh my god I was gonna say what's going on right now I hear my surroundings and mics are on they sound good I'm like what's happening I had that these two screwed up man holy man I gotta say right now though just as a little side note since we're doing this the mics are turned on in the outside I feel so comfy right now on pause just talking to you that everything the whole thing when I put this on it all felt super quality and I was like wait a second yeah all right so on to the last one this is the NA keys it's like $95 you say five dollars off the black pods it's the only one where the grill on the side is not an obvious sticker I still doubt that it's an actual microphone or speaker unit in there or anything like that but you can see I flip it open right away oh look at this hold button okay and it's telling me to pinch it to go between modes but there's no way that's built into this come on anyway let's listen to these all right these ones sound pretty good not ease KP pro I need to do a quick one to knock ease versus official-official time oh man this is this is complicated switching back it's uh they sound better hold on hold on hold on hold on the base is actually accentuated on the na keys it doesn't sound better that obviously the original air pod sound better but so obviously you're not getting any of the cool features with the pass-through and a microphone no matter which one you go for that's just something you give up if you don't want to spend the 250 it doesn't really matter anything had to be apple headphones if you want that feature it's gonna cost you some money regardless of which you select but when it comes to sound probably for me the best sounding ones are the last pair that I wore there's a lot of volume there's some low-end in there it doesn't sound as full across the entire range as what the official air pods Pro do but look man if you want to take a chance do I think you should do it is complicated because these are super convenient the entire package the way this thing is put together that's what makes the air pod so successful to begin with I guess I kind of hate the fact that you're not getting the feature that I like so much in the actual air pods which is the mic pass through which you can toggle on or off and the effective noise cancelling so I would pay the extra money but if you're super cost sensitive I would say probably just skip the pro model all together and get the cheapo version of the regular air pods because those go as low as 50 bucks and you're obviously not in it for the ultimate sound quality that said if you if you're dead set on having $100 a pair of ear pods Pro equivalent probably go with the knock ease model out of the bunch that I tested here that's pretty much all I can say shop at your own risk that's that

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Id: a500SZyQFxQ

Length: 12min 6sec (726 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 26 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/SirensToGo]

It's super easy, it's a single bluetooth LE advertisement.

https://github.com/hexway/apple_bleee/blob/master/adv_airpods.py

You can emit it on any commodity hardware.

[u/Stazalicious]

Isn’t it triggered by NFC?

[u/widerbergaren]

I would assume that the W1 or H1 chipsets are capable of BLE or ToF (time of flight) and that would trigger the contextual pop-up. These Chinese copies probably have knockoff chips in them. It could even be UWB. NFC typically have a range of 10cm or less and that menu can pop up from at least 50cm depending on when and what you do while opening the lid. So my guess would be that the W1 or H1 triggers a typical AT command to the BT chipset, firing a BLE Beacon which triggers a listening process on the compatible devices after calculating the time of flight or even RSSI. If the dbA signal is fast/strong enough, the device simply displays the pop-up.