Amazon "Echo Buds (2nd generation)" Review: High Cospe Wireless earphone's ability

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Amazon has released the first genuine wireless earphone "Echo Buds (2nd generation)".

Amazon's new wireless earphone "Echo Buds (2nd generation)", which began to be shipped on February 24.[See all images] Amazon "Echo Buds (2nd generation)" Review: High Cospa Wireless Earphone's Echo Buds series is the second generation, but it is the first Amazon unique wireless earphone in Japan.The price is 14,980 yen (if you choose a wireless charging case, 12,980 yen).I checked the feeling of use on the actual machine.

Just like a smart speaker has become an earphone

The wireless earphone market has a wide range of prices, from those who sell high -quality sounds to over 30,000 yen to 2,000 yen, which emphasizes simplicity. For example, Apple's "AirPods (3rd generation)" costs 23,800 yen for Apple Store, and Google's "Pixel Buds A-Series" costs 11,900 yen (including tax). Echo Buds (2nd generation) is a model that combines relatively affordable price setting and functionality. As the name implies, Echo Buds is an earphone version of the Amazon smart speaker/display "Echo Series". If you call "Alexa" when connecting to your smartphone, you can operate home appliances from the weather and music regeneration. The characteristic functions of Echo Buds, which are earphones, can be used by orders such as "Alexa, XX" (speech of voice calls) and "Alexa, noise canceling". Another common feature of the Echo series of speakers/displays is to regenerate the continuation of music and audiobooks. For example, listening to music on Amazon Music or Apple Music on Echo Buds while going out, and go home and remove the earphones (Echo buds switch/suspension by detaching/stopping). After that, if you say "Alexa, follow the continuation" to the Echo series installed in your house, the song starts to flow from the playback position of the content you had listened to on the speaker/display. There were other parts that I felt "Echo -like" personally. It is where Alexa App has a "microphone mute" function. In recent years, huge IT companies such as Amazon have become indispensable for users' privacy in a broad sense. For example, Amazon has a physical button to explicitly turn off the Echo series microphone and camera. Echo Buds has no physical buttons, but instead has a "mute" function. By the way, if you mute it, it does not respond even if you call it "Alexa". Even if you open an app that uses a microphone, such as an online conference tool, an announcement will be heard from the earphone microphone that the microphone is unable to enter audio. There is no "disable microphone" mode in the Pixel Buds series described above or the AirPods series. Whether the microphone function is convenient or not, is a unique point.

Yutaro Kobayashi