OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Specs and features compared

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The OnePlus Buds Pro is officially coming on September 1, and it'southward set to exist the most advanced pair of OnePlus headphones by far. With adaptive agile dissonance counterfoil (ANC) and personalized sound, it could fifty-fifty exist a contender for our list of the best wireless earbuds.

Just how exercise its specs and features stack upwardly confronting those of the AirPods Pro: one of the most popular earbuds always? In this OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro comparison, we'll take a expect at what each pair has to offer, until we tin complete our total Buds Pro review in Baronial.

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OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Specs compared

	OnePlus Buds Pro	AirPods Pro
Toll	$149	$249
Wireless Charging Instance	Yes	Yes
Chip	Not stated	H1
Battery Life (Rated)	v hours (ANC on), 7 hours (ANC off), 28 hours (charging example with ANC on), 38 hours (charging case with ANC off)	four.v hours (ANC on), 5 hours (ANC off), 24 hours (with charging case)
Water Resistance	IP55 (earbuds), IPX4 (case)	IPX4 (earbuds but)
Instance Size	2.4 x one.9 ten 1 inches	ane.8 x 0.nine x 2.4 inches
Instance Weight	1.8 ounces	one.six ounces
Special features	Adaptive active dissonance counterfoil, transparency way, Warp Charge fast-charging, Bluetooth 5.ii, OnePlus Audio ID, IP55 water and dust resistance, wireless charging	Active noise cancellation, transparency mode, adaptive EQ, spatial sound, automatic switching, customizable fit, sound sharing, Fast Fuel charging, Headphones Accommodations, announced letters with Siri, "Hey Siri" voice-activated assistance, wireless charging instance

OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Toll

The OnePlus Buds Pro is the cheaper of the two pairs by a comfortable margin, with an MSRP of $149. In fairness to the AirPods Pro, Apple's model has dropped significantly from its $259 launch price, and now goes for effectually $189. Simply the brand-new Buds Pro will likely always be the more affordable option.

Noise-cancelling earbuds seem to exist getting less and less expensive, save for intentionally premium outliers similar the Bowers & Wilkins PI5 and Sony WF-1000XM4. While the OnePlus Buds Pro represents a pregnant hardware upgrade over the OnePlus Buds, the Pro seems to be following in this tendency.

OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Design

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder, merely from where we're beholding, the OnePlus Buds is a little more handsome than the AirPods Pro. They share a remarkably similar silhouette, however, with visible-just-short stems and in-ear tips.

In contrast to the pure, porcelain-white AirPods, the Buds Pro earpieces adopt a mixture of matte plastic on top and a sleeky metallic effect effectually the stems.

We accept no complaints on the styling, then, although we'll take to look and run across whether the OnePlus Buds tin beat the AirPods Pro on comfort and fit. The Buds definitely have slightly meliorate protection confronting water and sweat, though, too as dust ingress. These earbuds come across the IP55 weatherproofing standard, whereas the AirPods Pro may but attain IPX4. Apple's charging instance design also lacks water resistance on its own, whereas the Buds pro case meets the IPX4 standard.

OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Special features

ANC is a major selling betoken for both pairs of buds. This is actually one area in which the OnePlus Buds Pro might face an uphill struggle, as Apple's racket-cancelling tech is some of the best you lot'll find in a pair of wireless earbuds.

To requite its device the all-time possible chance, OnePlus has equipped the Buds Pro with adaptive ANC. This means it should be able to notice when ambience sounds are getting louder, such as when y'all motion from indoors to outdoors, and increases the ANC intensity appropriately.

Another potentially powerful feature on the Buds Pro is OnePlus Audio ID. With the aid of a mobile app, this functionality tests your sensitivity to different frequencies, and tunes the sound output to create a personalized sound contour. The AirPods Pro has a very like feature, however, in the Headphones Accommodations tool on iOS and iPadOS.

For those who ain an iOS phone, AirPods Pro also delivers fast pairing, hands-complimentary voice activation for Siri and full spatial audio back up with head tracking. The Buds Pro can fast-pair with OnePlus handsets, but doesn't have a spatial audio equivalent.

OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Bombardment life

On paper, the OnePlus Buds Pro has a slight reward on per-accuse playback time: It's rated for v hours of ANC-enabled playback, compared to 4.5 hours on the AirPods Pro. That said, nosotros find Apple tree's earbuds more often than not stay true to this figure in exercise, but nosotros'll have to wait and see if the Buds Pro can arrive to the full five hours in the existent world.

The charge case could also tip things in OnePlus' favor. The AirPods Pro promises a total of 24 hours uptime through multiple charges; the OnePlus Buds Pro claims 28 hours, and that'southward with ANC enabled. Switch this characteristic off, and the Buds can plainly go far to 38 hours.

Nosotros're besides interested to try out the Buds Pro's Warp Accuse capability, which OnePlus claims can evangelize 10 hours of juice from a quick 10-minute charge. By comparison, Apple says you lot tin can get 1 hour from 5 minutes of charging.

It's worth noting that Warp Charging requires a USB-C connection, though. If you use wireless charging, which both the Buds Pro and AirPods Pro support, OnePlus' earbuds won't recharge as chop-chop.

OnePlus Buds Pro vs. AirPods Pro: Outlook

As with any gear up of headphones, the most important quality of the OnePlus Buds Pro will be its sound quality. We wait forwards to seeing, or rather hearing, how it stands upward to the AirPods Pro in this regard. That'south partly because, in a direct specs shootout, neither pair looks significantly likely to beat the other.

The OnePlus Buds Pro'southward strengths appear to lie in its more affordable price, longer bombardment life and arguably superior design. Merely few wireless earbuds tin friction match the sheer wealth of features that the AirPods Pro possesses. Stay tuned, and we'll bring you a hands-on showdown between these earbuds as soon equally possible.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Newspaper Shotgun, but before that was Sound Editor at Tom'southward Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote calculating and gaming news for TG, commonly relating to how hard it is to find graphics carte du jour stock.