Google’s new Pixel Buds Pro 2 reviewed

We look at the new Pixel Buds Pro 2, the most recent iteration of their evolving ear buds series. 

Pixel Buds Pro 2 reviewed

Here comes the latest version, how different will they be? How good will the noise cancelling be, especially now that some other types we have reviewed recently have really raised the level in terms of what you can now come to expect. How is the price relative to other options out there?

Our testers had enjoyed the previous two iterations of the buds, so they were certainly interested. The snaggy, hooked ear holders are absent. Instead you have a range of mini ‘black tyres’ to adjust where needed. That said our testers were happy from the get go and felt that the size that they came with did the job perfectly well. They are light, fit well, and don’t seem inclined to fall out, so maybe we have all, users and designers, been over thinking the whole will it fit issue.

They are described and water and sweat resistant. With the first you never really want to deeply try this, and the second, after a moment of ick sensation, you realise it is not something you ever deeply thought about. As always you are reluctant to truly trash something to see if it is actually true or not. Therefore our testers slightly sat on the fence for this one.

Switching in and out of the sound mode is near instant and not too clunky, so that works well. Overall our testers felt these were pretty good, not crazily expensive, especially with some of the deals on various large scale selling platforms. As always one of the interesting factors will be how quickly they charge, and retain their charge a year or more down the road but this is impossible to know for now. It seems like a solid evolution of the design, and they do sound good, stay in your ear well, and hopefully we will continue to not lose them at our end. A thumbs up from our testers.

More about Pixel Buds Pro 2

Pixel Buds Pro 2 are deeply integrated with your other Pixel devices. Features like Clear Calling,3 Spatial Audio with head tracking, precise location tracking of your buds and case with Find My Device,4 and seamless switching make them the best earbuds for everything Pixel.

See g.co/pixelbudspro/help for details.

Designed to be the most comfortable earbuds. Pixel Buds Pro 2 are designed to be the most comfortable and secure-fitting earbuds. They were designed using 45 million data points from ear scans to come up with the optimal shape for maximum comfort and a secure fit. Combined with the new Tensor A1 chip, we were further able to reduce the size by 27% as well as make them lighter while increasing performance and battery life.

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