GALAXY BUDS PRO vs GALAXY BUDS PLUS (Samsung Removed These Features) By Mike O'Brien

So, the Samsung Galaxy buds pro might seem like an obvious sequel to the Galaxy Buds plus, but honestly, besides just the price difference, there are actually quite a few advantages to using the Galaxy Buds plus instead of the pros. So there's a lot of features that Samsung weirdly cut out of the Galaxy Buds pros that I really liked with the plus. So in this video I want to break those down all the similarities and differences to help you decide which pair is actually the best pair to buy. Now, like I said, of course, price is going to be the first difference, you'll notice. These are a year older, the Galaxy Buds pros here and at the time of release, they were 150. Now I'll link these down below, of course, because I mean we all know, Samsung prices, they change all the time.

I've already seen them as low as 100 150, like anywhere in that range you're, probably going to find these. But the key idea here is that you're pretty much always going to be seeing about a 50 difference between the Galaxy Buds pros released at 200 and the Galaxy Buds plus which were released at 150. Of course, sales are going to happen to either one of these and, of course, the main difference Samsung is marketing between This is going to be the addition of active noise cancellation on the Galaxy Buds pro which I tested out before, and I'll talk about that later on in the video. But I want to get into the physical differences first there's a couple categories in this video physical differences are really the first one that I noticed right away with the comfort and stability between these earbuds. So I mean yeah.

The cases are a little different they're, both pretty compact. They both have wireless charging, USB type-c charging on the back and similarity battery life. When we open the cases, you'll see that the earbuds themselves are fundamentally pretty different, not only do they look different, but they also have very different fit and stability in your ears, so starting off with the Galaxy Buds plus. What we have right here is a little silicone ear tip that goes in your ear. Unlike the Galaxy Buds pro, this one is a nice round tip.

So it's an it's a circle, whereas the Galaxy Buds pro are more of an oval shape, I'm not sure which one I like better. I kind of think I like the circle on the Galaxy Buds plus better, but the big difference here- and this is really I'm not sure why Samsung did this, but you have silicone ear tips like the little wingtips on the Galaxy Buds plus and then they no longer have wingtips on the Galaxy Buds pro. So what that means is, when you put the Galaxy Buds plus in your ear, you put it in you twist it a little and there are three different wing tips you can choose from. So I have the medium ones on right here, and it really grabs the inside of your ear in a really comfortable and secure way. So I mean for the past year, I've been wearing these for a lot of different workouts, and they never fall out of my ear they're very secure, very comfortable all day, and it's one of the reasons I really liked and recommended the Galaxy Buds plus now the galaxy keyboards pro like.

I said for some reason not having that wingtip uh I mean they still fit in your ear pretty well, it doesn't feel nearly as secure, but I will mention that the plastic design, like the overall body of the earbud, does kind of act as a wingtip a little like it grabs a little of the inside of your ear, but not nearly to the extent that we saw on the rubber wing tips. Also, like I said, the ear tips themselves are a different shape so having a more oval shape here. If you take them off you'll see they actually have a small mesh on the inside, which does make them a little harder to clean, but at the same time you're going to have it's gonna, be less likely that anything gets stuck in the actual speaker right there, so good and bad there. But as far as aesthetics goes comparing these two, I think they both look pretty similar. Both look pretty good.

Unfortunately, I have two different colors here, but you guys can comment down below and let me know which one you think looks better between the Galaxy Buds pro, as you can see right here and the Galaxy Buds plus, as you can see right here and, of course, with time, Samsung is known to release more and more colors. So by now the Galaxy Buds plus, I believe, have five colors listed on their website, but they might have more colors other places in the world. So I mean five to seven colors, whereas the Galaxy Buds pro currently just have three colors, I mean the colors. All look pretty good to me. I usually just get either black or white anyway, but I mean regardless there are more options for the Galaxy Buds plus and with that being said, the battery life is another advantage of the Galaxy Buds plus you're, looking at 11 hours of battery in the earbuds 22 hours.

When you include the case, so a substantial battery life there now the Galaxy Buds pro. On the other hand, the battery life is a little different because it depends on whether you have active noise cancellation on. So if you have ANC on you're looking at about five hours of battery in the earbuds and 18 with the case so a decent battery life, but I mean in the earbuds you're looking at about half the battery life that you see in the Galaxy Buds plus now, when you have active noise cancellation off, they are a little more similar you're, looking at eight hours in the earbuds and 28 hours. When you include the case, so battery life is you know it's pretty similar, technically you're, getting a longer battery life with the Galaxy Buds pro. If you include the case- and you don't use active noise cancellation, okay, so let's actually get into a microphone test right now, and this is the Galaxy Buds pro.

This is what it sounds like if you're talking in a studio environment, it's pretty quiet in here uh, it's not like, obviously, almost no echo at all, but we're going to go outside in a second to see how they sound out there I mean we've already tested these in two videos. Previously, I know they sound, perfect. Okay and, of course, these are the Galaxy Buds plus. This is what it sounds like I mean first thing I noticed when I put these in, of course, is going to be the comfort difference. I really like the Galaxy Buds plus because they have that wingtip they just fit in my ears a little better.

In my opinion, all right guys. This is a test near a busy road. So obviously a lot of sound out here. It's not really that windy, though, but comment down below again. This is the buds plus here comment down below.

Let me know if you can hear what I'm saying all right now. This is the Galaxy Buds pro again with a lot of traffic behind me. So comment down below and let me know if you can hear what I'm saying uh one thing about these at least right now I have to dig into the settings. I think uh, there's no like transparency mode by default. When I'm talking on a phone like this, so I feel like I'm really yelling.

But again, let me know if you can hear what I'm saying now, physically speaking, the big advantage of the Galaxy Buds pro is actually the waterproof rating, so the Galaxy Buds plus from last year had a really disappointing ipx2 rating, which, compared to a lot of other earbuds, like I said, is really pretty disappointing. The Galaxy Buds pro. However, this year is now ipx7. Now I mean don't get me wrong. Both of them are fine, if you're, if you're sweating or if it's a light, drizzle outside, but if you're working out in any kind of like heavy rain or if you drop these in a puddle, it's very likely you're going to see some kind of water damage on the Galaxy Buds plus, whereas the galaxy butts pro.

You really don't worry about that. Oh, and one other thing I want to mention, is on the Galaxy Buds plus and with most other earbuds out there, I usually wear the medium ear tips, whereas on the Galaxy Buds pro, I had to go down to these small ear tips. So if anybody has small ears out there, I mean I think I have pretty medium ears. But if you have small ears, it's likely that the Galaxy Buds pro might not fit in your ears that well, or at least it might require a little more force to get them in okay. So now, let's get into some feature, differences between these earbuds and starting off with some advantages for the Galaxy Buds plus.

The first thing I was disappointed to not see in the Galaxy Buds pro was the double tap the earbud edge feature. This was kind of hidden down in the lab section of the app, but essentially what it allowed you to do was have an extra level of functionality on the earbuds, where normally you have the touchpads right, you could double, you could tap it once double tap, triple tap or tap and hold, and if you enabled the edge tapping, what you could do is just like flick, your ear or tap the bottom, or anywhere you wanted. You would just kind of tap the earbud twice and what it does is it uses the accelerometer on board to register that it shook twice, and it'll change the volume and the reason it sounds like kind of a weird feature, but the reason I really like this was because it kind of frees up the touchpad to do something else. Now you have more controls on your earbuds. It means less of a chance.

You're going to have to take your phone out of your pocket uh to do something like that and speaking of the app an absolutely huge difference between these two is that effectively the Galaxy Buds plus will work with an iPhone and the Galaxy Buds. Pro won't, and I mean admittedly, they'll both connect to an iPhone they'll both play music on an iPhone. But the difference is that you can't there's no app support for the Galaxy Buds pro on any iOS device. I'm not sure why they did this right now. Maybe they'll be rolling out an app eventually, but it's a big difference that if you have an iPhone I mean you should absolutely be saving the money and getting the Galaxy Buds plus right here or maybe even considering a different pair of earbuds in general, just because Samsung is not supporting the Galaxy Buds pro on iOS right now.

Now, of course, the Galaxy Buds pro obviously have active noise cancellation, and on top of that, they have the really cool voice feature where it'll, it'll detect when you're speaking, and it'll automatically turn off the active noise cancellation. Turn your music down and turn on transparency mode, and that's something that we don't see on the Galaxy Buds plus it's a really nice feature of the pro another cool feature with the galaxy buzz pro is the smart switching between devices. I mean it's already pretty easy to switch between devices with the Galaxy Buds plus, but now it's even easier. So if you have a Samsung tablet and a Samsung phone, and you get a call on one of them, it can switch really easily. It's really convenient to have that, especially if you have like a tablet and your phone, and you're using both them at the same time.

But again it's not something. That's specifically new for these, like the sabra elite, 85 ts already pretty much. Do that a lot of headphones already do that as well, but it's something that it is convenient to have on the pro that you don't see on the plus now and then of course, the last feature that I want to mention with the pros is that they do have that Dolby, head tracking audio, it's something that again only works with Samsung devices, and it gives you more of a 3d type experience. So you can like look around it'll sound a little different. It feels more like you're in like there in person, but it's not at least at the moment.

It's not rolled out to all Samsung devices. I think it's only on the s21 right now, so I mean, depending on when you're watching this it might be on other devices uh, but that's a difference that you won't be seeing. You won't be getting that on the Galaxy Buds plus so talking about the sound quality differences in these earbuds there's a couple key differences. I want to point out the first one is that the Galaxy Buds pro do seem to be a bit louder. So I'm listening to the same music at about two notches, lower on my phone with the pro to get the same volume, I was getting on the Galaxy Buds plus, so anybody looking for really loud music, the pro I mean they can definitely deliver that.

I don't normally listen to really loud music, so it doesn't make a big difference to me, but the next difference, I'll notice, is that the Galaxy Buds pro tend to be a little more dynamic. So I mean you can really exemplify this very obviously, when you're looking at the EQ in the galaxy wear app on the Galaxy Buds plus, I usually don't use natural mode. It sounds a little dull and flat to me, so I go to the dynamic mode, and it sounds a lot better now, with the Galaxy Buds pro, I just leave it in that, like natural neutral mode, it sounds really, really good. There's a lot of bass, there's a lot of treble. It also has a little more clarity from my opinion, with the galaxy butts pro, so I mean pretty much all across the board.

The sound quality is better on the Galaxy Buds pro, but I mean with that being said: a lot of people might not even notice the difference. They both sound, really nice, especially if you go into dynamic mode on the Galaxy Buds plus they both give you a pretty similar, sound signature. It's just slightly better on the Galaxy Buds pro now I didn't want to brush over the active noise cancellation. That's definitely a big plus of the Galaxy Buds pro, and originally I wanted to kind of do like a test to show you guys how much they block out and what the difference is there, but I mean realistically just I'll explain: it's going to be easier to do it this way, so passive noise blocking is essentially just like plugging your ears, so both of these have silicone ear tips. They plug your ears and they both block.

A lot of higher frequency sounds around you, but the lower frequency stuff, I'm talking about like traffic on a road or if you have like a vacuum, cleaner running a dishwasher stuff like that you're still going to hear that through the Galaxy Buds plus, but the Galaxy Buds pro with the active noise cancellation, pretty much cuts all of that out, and so, if you're, a frequent traveler. If you're going to be on trains and planes, whenever then the Galaxy Buds pro are probably going to be an obvious choice for you, alright guys. So that's pretty much everything I wanted to say about the Galaxy Buds pro and the Galaxy Buds plus I mean to summarize both great pairs of earbuds. If you find them both on sale for like the same price, then I would probably say the pros are going to be a better buy just because they're giving you that active noise cancellation and a little better of sound quality microphone quality like all around they're, a slightly better pair of earbuds. But if you are somebody who is looking to work out a lot personally, I would lean more towards the Galaxy Buds plus just because they fit better in my ears, they're more secure, and I find them to be more comfortable.

So if you're not worried about blocking out sounds around you, the plus definitely do a great job, and you'll be saving around fifty dollars, but I mean it's really tricky. It depends on your financial situation and how much white noise you're trying to block out if active, noise cancellation is really important. I mean these are going to be an obvious, buy right here, but guys the good news. Are you really can't go wrong, they're, both great pairs of earbuds? I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did consider liking and subscribing, I actually have a full review of the Galaxy Buds pro as well as a comparison I mean, I have a lot of comparisons if you guys want to see them check out my channel just click down below or maybe like right there, and I'll see you guys in the next video thanks for watching, see you next time.

Source : Mike O'Brien