Apple now sells the AirPods Pro USB-C case by itself — for $99
Apple now sells the AirPods Pro USB-C case by itself — for $99
At that price, you’re going to have to really want it.
Charges just fine on my watch charger, which I have to bring along with me when I travel anyways.
Interestingly, if you have a big AirPods case (like I do) then the iPhone MagSafe will charge it just fine!
This is how I’ve been charging mine too, works well!
Hold up. You can charge your airpods with watch charger?!
Yeah, my series 8 charger will charge my airpods pro 2nd gen.
Yeah, I’ll stick with the lightning one…
$159 here is Australia. That’s definitely some challenging pricing. I don’t know how I’m justifying Apple next time I’m replacing things with all their pricing increases here.
I can sell you two for $10.
Next year: Apple now sells videos of them giving you the middle finger and laughing at you for $699.99
Stock is currently sold out.
Oh this will be confusing. The USB-C AirPods Pro do have some additional features in preparation for the Vision Pro iirc. Surely the old Lightning AirPods Pro 2 won't magically get them just because they have a new case?
I don't believe the earphone part is different. When USB-C APP2 premiered they advertised a lot of new features (adaptative mode, speech triggered transparency etc) but all of them were immediately available on old ones too via firmware update.
See here for example: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23870723/apple-airpods-pro-usb-c-lossless-audio-vision
Update September 22nd, 1PM ET: In an episode of the Apple Blitz XL podcast, Apple’s Ron Huang explained that the USB-C AirPods can communicate at 5GHz, unlike the earlier models, enabling the lossless audio link to Vision Pro.