Don't know if anyone has pointed out that the Airpods are not...

Don't know if anyone has pointed out that the Airpods are not slated for release till late Oct.

Further it seems their battery life is only 5 hrs which is not much of an advantage over the other buds out there imo.

I had thought their design was to allow for bigger batteries but apparently the pointy extensions contain microphones to pick up clearer sound. Again hard to talk about things we have not seen but I would have thought that the in ear microphones would have less distortion or outside interference issues.

Anyway here is a review for those interested.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/au...audio/headphones/apple-airpods-1328292/review