Samsung Galaxy Buds+ Review

Samsung released the Galaxy Buds last year, with the Galaxy S10 serial. They were pretty decent earbuds, though they weren't really annihilation special – unless you had a Samsung phone. But with the Galaxy Buds+ in 2020, Samsung upgraded just about every attribute of the earbuds and made them even better. And this was all done for only $20 more, coming in at a price tag of $149. While withal undercutting the competition from Sony, Apple, Bose and others.

Milky way Buds+ were non designed to 'Wow' you

The pattern of the Galaxy Buds+ scream functional and not fashionable. And for the bulk of the states, that's only fine. I don't have whatsoever issues with the blueprint of the Galaxy Buds+. They are smaller than most other truly wireless earbuds on the market place, and fit in my ears better than most of them.

In fact, I wore them on a flight from San Francisco to Detroit, which is almost five hours, and actually forgot that they were in my ears. That's how comfortable they are. And a big change from even their predecessor, the Galaxy Buds.

They are a little larger than the earbuds on a pair of wireless earbuds, which is really actually impressive given how practiced these sound and how good the bombardment life is. At that place are touchpads on each earbud, which can be mapped to do different things. I kept them mapped to play/intermission. Which is very useful when on a plane, or doing any kind of travel, so yous tin can break to hear announcements.

Samsung is currently selling the Galaxy Buds+ in 3 colors: black, white and blue. In that location is a cerise colour, but it appears that one is merely in Europe, unfortunately. One the white and blue colored Milky way Buds+, yous can see a hint of the Aura Glow color from the Galaxy Annotation 10+. Where the color changes a tiny flake, depending on how the light hits it. It'due south a really absurd look, simply again, if y'all're putting these in your ears, you won't even come across that.

Equally with well-nigh headphones, truly wireless or non, at that place are three dissimilar sized eartips in the box. This is going to allow y'all to swap them at will, and so you tin can choose the ones that fit your ears the best. I swapped mine out for the smallest ones, and while they felt a little loose at outset, they never fell out of my ears. And were extremely comfy.

A new champ for truly wireless headphones and battery life

Typically, truly wireless headphones offer upward pretty mediocre battery life. Nosotros're normally talking well-nigh four to half dozen hours on a unmarried charge. I was impressed when the Sony WF-1000XM3 earbuds could get up to 8 hours with noise cancellation turned off. But Samsung blew that away with the Galaxy Buds+.

Samsung says you can get well-nigh 11 hours on a unmarried charge, and the carrying case can recharge them one full cycle. Getting you 22 hours total. That is very impressive.

Now, I take to say, I did non wear the Galaxy Buds+ for a full 11 hours straight. That's just crazy. Simply later wearing them for five hours on a flight dwelling house from Unpacked, I even so had most 70% left. Which leads me to believe that you can probably get more than 11 hours. Depending on your settings, what yous're listening too and the volume level.

The carrying case that comes with the Galaxy Buds+ is besides fairly small. It fits in my front jeans pocket pretty nicely really. I did hear some people at Unpacked complain that information technology was still pretty large, but I think it'southward a good size. Peculiarly after using some larger ones like the Sony WF-1000XM3 or the Jabra Aristocracy 65t, which accept much taller cases.

If you lot were waiting to catch a pair of truly wireless headphones because the battery life sucked (and who tin blame you?), at present is the time to grab one. The tech in these headphones are getting better and meliorate. Which also means that it'south getting smaller and more free energy efficient, besides every bit making more room for larger batteries. Which is the case with the Galaxy Buds+.

Sound quality has been much improved

Samsung has actually been talking up the improved sound quality on the Galaxy Buds+, thanks to the dual drivers hither. And you can actually tell the deviation, betwixt these and the original Galaxy Buds. I was using the Galaxy Buds for a couple of weeks before getting the Galaxy Buds+, and you tin hear a big divergence in the sound quality between the two.

The bass is now deeper, simply information technology doesn't overpower the mids and highs which yet sound really good. Samsung added a woofer and a tweeter to the Galaxy Buds+, which is why you are getting improve audio, besides equally deeper bass out of these.

At present, these aren't going to give you lot "studio-quality sound" similar Samsung is claiming, but they practice sound meridian-notch. In fact, when it comes to audio quality, the Galaxy Buds+ are my new favorites, because they are just that skillful.

With the Galaxy Wearable app on Android (and iOS), yous can also adjust the EQ. Now since I listen to a lot of podcasts, I do continue it on "Clear", but at that place are other options for those that want more than bass and and so forth. And you lot can adjust these at volition, which is a really nice characteristic.

Wrap Up

The Galaxy Buds+ accept quickly become my favorite truly wireless headphones, and I knew it would have a lot to go me away from the Sony WF-1000XM3. Samsung offers stellar bombardment life, very comfortable earbuds, and some incredible audio. That'southward a recipe for the all-time pair of truly wireless headphones on the market today.

On top of all of that, the Galaxy Buds+ are also a pretty inexpensive pair of truly wireless headphones, coming in at around $149 correct now. Yous could do a lot worse at this price, but yous won't practice much better.