#Beats studio 2.0 vs solo 3 update

But take note: not all plastic gadgets are terrible, and the old reputation of Beats headphones for being poorly constructed exercises in selling crap through branding are long gone.

In terms of materials, plastic rules supreme, as it always has done with Beats headphones. This over-ear Beats Studio 3 model shares an obvious design affinity with the smaller and less expensive on-ear Solo range, though it classes things up a little with matte rather than glossy finishes. Whatever color of Beats headphones you choose, even the murdered-out black-on-black option, theyвЂ™re still unmistakably Beats headphones. But before I get to those performance matters, letвЂ™s look at the universal aspects of comfort and design. The big challenge of assessing the Beats Studio 3 is that theyвЂ™re two fundamentally different pairs of headphones depending on whether you have them hooked up to an iPhone or an Android device. As my colleague Nilay Patel wrote recently, the future of headphones is shaping up to be a realm divided by the wireless tech that was once our liberator. Try using them with a Google Pixel, a Chromebook, or a Windows PC, as I did, and youвЂ™ll find most of their strengths diminished.

They work fantastically well with other Apple products - seamless syncing, stable Bluetooth connection, long battery life - but only with other Apple products.

#Beats studio 2.0 vs solo 3 update

Say hello to the $350 Beats Studio 3 Wireless, the latest update to the Beats line to feature AppleвЂ™s superb W1 wireless chip as well as newly upgraded noise canceling. WeвЂ™re now living in the sort of topsy turvy world where the latest wireless tech actually locks us in more than it frees us. The shedding of wires has always been a literal and symbolic liberation of the user from a layer of technological friction.

ThatвЂ™s what we are promised by headphone makers, wireless charging evangelists, and even gaming mice specialists. Whenever you hear or read the word вЂњwireless,вЂќ itвЂ™s most often followed by the word вЂњfreedom.вЂќ Wireless freedom.