Beats makes iPhone cases now. For some reason.
As cases go, this is a good one. The hard glossy plastic gives an iPhone 5C feel in hand. It can get slippery, though.
The overlay for the Camera Control button works great; it uses the same sapphire cover and “conductive layer” as Apple’s case. And you’ve got unencumbered access to the USB-C port.
I’ll probably keep using it.
The AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation are worth springing for compared to the regular pair. Both sound good, but the ANC works surprisingly well — most of the time.
I’m old enough to remember Samsung’s advertising blitz against Apple back in the days when a lot of people still waited in lines for the latest iPhone. Some of those were funny.
But finding random people named Sam Sung to hype up your folding phone? Pretty weak, Honor. Tech companies have seriously lost their fastball when it comes to this stuff.
On the opposite end of its mass market noise-canceling headphones, Sony still routinely releases models designed to accurately reflect creative intent in studio environments. The new $249.99 MDR-M1 has an “exclusively developed driver unit that achieves ultra-wideband playback of 5Hz – 80kHz,” a detachable cable, easily replaceable ear cushions, and a “well-balanced and uncolored frequency response.”
The WH-1000XM5, by comparison, are quite colored.
