SAVE 16%: As of Sept. 17, you’ll get a free Samsung Galaxy SmartTag Bluetooth tracker ($29.99) when you order a pair of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 ($149.99) from Amazon.
We’re not saying Tim Cook bamboozled us. We’re just saying we really, really thought we were getting some new AirPods at the iPhone 13 event this week. Apple hasn’t refreshed its standard earbuds or the Pro version since 2019, and at this point, they’re this close to eating the competition’s dust.
There’s still a chance the AirPods 3 will arrive later this fall, but if you’re starting to think about defecting from Team Apple after all this time, Amazon is running a seriously tempting deal on behalf of Team Android: Buy a pair of the fantastic new Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 there for $150, and you’ll get a $30 Galaxy SmartTag Bluetooth tracker for free. (Pop it on your phone, your keys, or your new Buds’ wireless charging case to make sure they never get lost.)
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Released in August after an introduction at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, the Mashable’s Choice Award-winning Buds 2 straight-up “put AirPods to shame,” said tech reporter Alex Perry. Their comfortable, egg-shaped design is *chef’s kiss* — peep those pretty pastel colorways, too — and their excellent noise cancellation manages to compensate for some just-OK sound quality.
Best of all, writes Perry, “they [the Buds 2] do all of that for substantially less than it would cost to get a similar feature set from either Samsung’s other earbud options or from anything Apple sells.” Hard to argue with that.
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