razormaid

Ok as an owner of 7 yes SEVEN pairs of PowerBeats2 wireless Bluetooth head phones (each in a different color) lets clear up a few things here:

You cant put the cable behind your neck as shown in the photos. DONE!!  No more discussion. And you wanna know why?  Because you idiots... your controller is on the cable. Yeah. The controller. The one that lets you press to talk to Siri. To press to change songs. To press to answer a phone call and more importantly THE MICROPHONE!  The very thing you use for that telephone call you're complaining about on the quality!  So a singer at a concert should hold her mic BEHIND her neck and sing and you don't find a problem with that?  Seriously?

I ride my bike 26 miles every morning. I do apple tech support calls WHILE I RIDE!  I have not ever have anyone say how bad I sounded because it's where it's supposed to be...BY MY MOUTH THATS TALKING. Geez Louise some of these reviews are dumb as a stick!  I take that back... one time I had a client ask if I was ok. "You're breathing a little hard". My response?  "If you saw this hill I'm climbing on my mountain bike at the moment you'd.be breathing hard too!"  Lol. "You're on your bike??"  (Now there's a great ad for these headphones. I was in heavy traffic going up a hill and they didn't even hear the cars).

Ok onto pairing. 
This one drives me crazy. It's not the device having trouble pairing (remember I'm on last years model!) it's the person doing the pairing. 

1. If you currently are paired to a device click the little  "I" on the right side of the device name and unpair the device. If you don't, you will NEVER pair with anything else. It even asks "do you want to remove this device completely?  Or just unpair?". How hard is that?  Just pick one. 

2.  NOW you can go to the next device whether it be another phone or iPad or computer. Hold the button down for 10 seconds. Not 2. Not 4 - 10!  It tells the headphone and all the other devices "I want to pair to something new now". But this won't happen unless you do step 1 first.

You can't drive two cars at the same time. You have to turn off one car before you turn on the new car. These headphones are no different.

And just like those fancy seat setups where you get in your car and press your number and the car seat adjusts to what you set up as comfortable for you... the powerbeats does the same when you unpair them in step1. You can: "save for future use" (no 10 second hold) just unpair. Or you can "wipe out the device setup completely."

3. If and this is a rare thing trust me - IF you go back to the device (after unpairing from your new one) the fastest way to "re-pair" is to click off Bluetooth and back on. Then pressing the Powerbeats button for a nano second you're connected WHAM (sound of mic dropping to the floor)

This isn't Apple. This is BEATS!  

Apple didn't make this this easy BEATS did waaaaay before Apple bought them.

In fact Apple said straight out after buying them "These will remain two different companies with two different approaches. We will NOT be integrating the two together" and they didn't. That's why Powerbeats 3 is out and working EXACTLY like PowerBeats2 - smooth and easy. 

Oh oh I forgot to mention one thing that I did different than everyone else..... I READ THE DAMN MANUAL FIRST. Yep. This is all in there folks. And guess what if you do as BEATS states it will work for you too. 
"NO. WAY. BECKY!"  
WAY!

This article did manage to get one recommendation  correct. All those different size ear buds?  Thrown them out - all except the giant flexi one. That one squeezes softly into your ear creating a "suction cup" affect - in essence capturing ALL the sound and not let it slip out of your ear. What does that cause?  Excellent tight bass!  Pristine clarity.

I wrote about this before:  I was actually packing my first set up to return because they sounded so shity. Then this little black "pouch" fell to the floor. I opened it up and saw all the other sizes. I tried each one
Small: sounds like shit
Mefium: sounds like shit
Large: sounds like shit
Giant looking flexi thingy: holy crap. Sounds like the BEATS Studio over the ear headphones. No way!  Way!

SUMMARY:
unpair all devices before attempting to pair to a new one
translation:  stop driving one car before you start driving another car!

don't sit backwards when driving a car
translation: don't put the cable that controls the damn headphones behind your head trying to use it like  A contortionist and they will actually work correctly 

gatorguy said:

The Apple that developed the iPhone was a different Apple from today's. The old Apple was leaner, a whole lot less wealthy, driven and more desperate for a home-run product. Today's Apple doesn't have the same motivation or urgency IMHO. $200B sitting idle in the bank makes a difference in the way a company conducts itself. This Apple can easily afford to be much more patient, with "betting the farm" no longer a driver to push hard and fast on a new product. Just my .02

OK.  You said it better than me and without all the anger mine had.  You win.  <grin>  Nice post, thanks.

hypoluxa said:

Same old same old, doom and gloom. How many times has Apple been copied after they introduced something? They may not have to be first, but try to be the best. They have more money than they can spend last I checked. Plus they are very strategic when spending it. Evolution happens in small increments over time. Waiting on new chips from Intel has probably been their big hold-up. The Mac Pro & iMac are probably on the next updates. Hopefully.

No.  This is different.  We saw 3 major product announcements which they called "launches", but not a single product?  Angela herself said, "It's undignified to wait in line.  We want everyone to order online".  You know what that kills?  
WORD OF MOUTH.  
FREE TV COVERAGE.  
SHOWING THE OUTSIDE WORLD WHO's LOYAL.  
All of that gone.  When there's no line because there's no product that's a MAJOR problem.  I went to stand in line at 8:30am on Thursday morning worried about low quantity  - drove home early from my Vegas vacation which was to last till Sunday.  At 9:10am the manager came out and said "No iPhone PLUS at all - not a single one.  Me and the rest of the line left. When there's no product in the store to buy how is that a launch?  

Hasn't anyone figured out school (elementary, high school, college) all schools start in August/September.  They've been doing that for over 100 years.  But Apple releases a new laptop 2 months into the semester AND its a 4-6 week wait too?  Kids need laptops - it's a no brainer.  If Apple doesn't have one the parents have to buy them something.  This isn't rocket science folks.  And you don't want to send you kids off to high school or college without a means to reach them.  So you set the releaase day of the phone September 21st AND a 4-6 week wait too?? - end of October maybe November?

Samsung has phones expoding a slam dunk to grab some new customers and they did nothing to increase manufacturing.

Here's the best... we've waited months for the Jet Black phone - hell any PLUS phone for that matter.  And AI has an article that Apple is pulling back production of iPhone 7 due to "no demand"?  What did you think would happen when you hold a release party with nothing to buy??

This isn't s "doom and gloom" article - not this time anyway.  There are plenty of us 30+ year users of Apple who are getting VERY VERY nervous.  When all we get are political tweets and politically correct nonsense instead of products?  YOU should be nervous to, otherwise YOU will be caught off guard when YOU need to go replace something like the rest of us.  I'm not attacking you, I just think you should do a little more "read bertween the lines" on this particular story because when a company publically comes out and states "we're going to start refreshing every 3 years..." that's not innovation to me.  That's using the good name of Apple and sitting back on your laurels while others around you DO innovate.

And again I say "What the hell is wrong with Apple?"  Why on earth would you kill off something working?  They did this to their Bluetooth ear device. It worked perfectly. Looked high tech. Super small and has noise reduction then WHAM they just pulled it. 

So iphone has top honors they're killing that next?

So then we find out there's more stay at home moms then stay at home dad so we have to kick them out and replace them with Indian males