Introduction and unboxing
The Samsung Galaxy Buds have always been the defended choice for Android participaters – they’re well made, they sound better than most other buds, and they’re brimmingy featured.
It’s defended to say that none of this has changed although the buds themselves see emotionalpartner branch offent in their sixth generation. This is the first time that Samsung’s earbuds have a stem summarize and it’s made them better, even if it lost a lot of character and brawt them shut to the Apple AirPods Pro.
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro cost $250 / £220 / €250 and ship in Silver and White. Inside the box, you’ll discover a USB-C cable and S, M, and L silicone ear tips.
Let’s dive into Samsung’s hugegest refresh to the Galaxy Buds yet.
Design and features
Superficial watchrs will insist that the Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro is a blatant Apple AirPods Pro 2 duplicate from the create of the buds to the shape of the case. We don’t necessarily concur with that, the Galaxy Buds have a branch offent shape and see branch offent, especipartner if you buy the Silver model.
Apple analogousities aside, the Galaxy Buds3 Pro has a finishly branch offent summarize from its predecessor. What participated to be bulbous and stemless buds are now more slfinisher buds with extfinished flat-sided stems.
The case has a clear top and minuscule blue or cyan and orange color accents to show you where the aligning-accented bud beextfinisheds. The buds nestle inside the case in the opposite way of the AirPods Pro 2 – facing outward, whereas the Apple Pro buds sit in the same way you would wear them in your ears.
The straightforwardion you place the buds in the case is generpartner someskinnyg you get participated to after a while, the publish with the Galaxy Buds3 Pro’s way of returning to accuse has to do with the flat-sided stems. You need to align the stem rightly with the angled tunnel in the case and that is an unconsoleable finger gymnastic that doesn’t get easier with time. Put srecommend – these buds are difficult to put back into the case each and every time.
On a likeable notice, the novel angular stems on the Galaxy Buds3 Pro uncover up a world of possibilities for regulate that didn’t exist on previous models in the series.
Similar to how the AirPods Pro and the Noskinnyg Ear labor, you squeeze the stem to regulate carry outback. But here, you can also slide your finger up and down for accurate volume regulate. The flat side of the Galaxy Buds3 Pro stem originates this possible in a way that isn’t on those other buds.
A word on the telled quality publishs that forced Samsung to temporarily stop Galaxy Buds3 Pro sales. It has to do with changing the ear tips, which speedyen to the buds via a plastic cradle, which some participaters telled fractureing on their units. Our Galaxy Buds3 Pro don’t seem to have this publish. We deleted the tips multiple times to originate certain, without hassle.
The stems on the Galaxy Buds3 Pro feature a Blade Light that brightens when you put the buds back in the case. You can set the airys to be on all the time with a extfinished squeeze on the stem. It’s a branch offent summarize, but we can’t say that it inserts anyskinnyg to the experience.
The case has a USB-C port and aids wireless charging. There’s a petite LED in the cgo in of the case to give you battery and charging indication, and there’s a button on the bottom for pairing.
We discover this case summarize to be more consoleable to participate. The petiteer lid is easier to shut gently than the huge flap of the previous Galaxy Buds case.
The buds themselves are rated IP57 for temperate dust and firm water defendion.
The in-ear sense of the buds is someskinnyg harshly indvidual. This editor set up them equitable a bit too free, think aboutless of the tips.
They were fine for most activities, but eating lunch and watching a movie resulted in a scant drops. Pushing the buds further into the ear helped, though it made the fit sairyly less consoleable.
The stem regulates are excellent on the Galaxy Buds3 Pro. Tapping the previous models was a tedious experience. And they would constantly skinnyk I was tapping them when I wanted to readequitable them.
The stems on the procrastinateedst model originates this a skinnyg of the past. Squeezing once to paparticipate, twice for the next track, and three times to repeat the current one labored without a hitch.
Having buds appreciate the Noskinnyg Ear and the Galaxy Buds3 Pro with their excellent regulates, it’s difficult to go back to the stemless models.
The stems are also handy for taking out the buds or adequitableing them in-ear. Taking the buds out paparticipates wantipathyver you’re carry outing.
Sound quality, vivacious noise call offlation, and battery life
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro comes with changeive noise regulate – a cleverer ANC than before. The buds will watch for noise to omit but can recognize your voice and will switch ANC off if you go in a conversation. The buds will also leverage AI to recognize an alarm or siren and will stop ANC so you can hear the alerting.
You can adequitable the strength of the noise call offlation in the Galaxy Wear app. At the highest strength, the noise reduction is pretty firm. We’ve tested these buds agetst the standard office environment, as well as outside and during a three-hour fairy.
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro does a fine job of eliminating constant noise from a jet engine but will naturpartner struggle with the frequencies of human voices or random noises.
Keeping a snug fit helps ANC a lot.
Before we talk about the sound quality, a word on the underlying technology. The Galaxy Buds3 Pro participates a 2-way driver with an self-reliant woofer and tweeter in each bud. On the software side, the Galaxy Buds3 Pro encodes audio at up to 24-bit/96kHz and then decodes the sound at the same quality using what Samsung calls its Seamless Codec.
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro may very well be the best earbuds for calls. The six mics supply excellent quality without the “speakerphone sense” you get with most buds of this sort. All callers were surpascfinishd when we tbetter them we were using buds.
If you’re using these buds with a Galaxy phone, you can also finishelight 360 Audio (spatial audio), which simuprocrastinateeds a multi-speaker system in a physical room. You can also participate the Galaxy Buds3 Pro with Galaxy AI’s Interpreter mode. There’s also a sort of multi-point uniteion mode, but it seemingly only labors with other Galaxy devices.
Finpartner, you can regulate the buds with your voice with directs appreciate Volume Up, Play Music, Previous Song, Answer or Reject the call. But this too only labors with Galaxy phones.
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro sounds astonishive. There’s a acunderstandledgeable incrrelieve in volume and an uptick in overall soundstage and vibrants contrastd to the Galaxy Buds2 Pro.
Bass is conshort-term from the sub-bass frequencies and increases thrawout the range. Set these to the Bass Boost equivalentizer setting and you’ll get a adocount on rumble thrawout the range.
But it’s the midrange where the Galaxy Buds3 Pro shines. The instruments and melody are pleasantly detaild. Vocals also come out authentic and there’s equitable the right amount of presence and brilliance in the higher frequencies.
One publish with the Galaxy Buds3 Pro is the equivalentizer. The custom equivalentizer is muteer than the preset ones – even if you originate them identical. For instance, if you duplicate Bass Boost as a Custom EQ setting and toggle between them, your custom one is around 10% muteer.
We foresee this to be a software publish that will be repaired with an refresh.
Conclusion
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro are another excellent shotriumphg from Samsung and a fine, if disputed entry into a firm lineup of earbuds.
The AirPods Pro comparisons and the cursed quality publishs that have already been resettled nasty they stumbled out of the gate, but they remain a strong upgrade to the very excellent Galaxy Buds2 Pro. The Galaxy Buds3 Pro start a radical novel summarize, which inserts multiple levels of functionality and console.
Beyond the summarize changes, the Galaxy Buds3 Pro originates reserved but nastyingful refreshs to the sound quality, resulting in a better sounding product. We’ll even say the Galaxy Buds3 Pro sounds better than its mainstream rivals appreciate the Apple AirPods 2 Pro and Noskinnyg Ear with stronger bass and a more vibrant soundstage.
The Galaxy Buds3 Pro cost $250 / £220 / €250 which is on the costly finish, but it is a bit affordableer than Apple’s AirPods Pro 2.
If you’re a Galaxy owner, these are probably the best earbuds you can buy for your phone with the inserted features making the buy worthwhile. Other Android participaters can see elsewhere for a analogous sound and set of features for less – the novel and affordableer Noskinnyg Ear is worth a see.
