Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro's first impressions shared by early buyers ahead of next week's official debut

06 July 2024
The Galaxy Buds3 TWS earphones are also expected to go official next week.

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Blinking lights are good especially when you have your tws out of the case and lost them. They might help you to find it in the darkness.

And no, they don't blink while listening to music ao it shouldn't disturb you.

However, aside from this, I'll pass as I don't use Samsung sp. As long as Samsung keeps insisting on SSC, I'm out.

And I don't be fine using it with AAC, SBC. AAC is not advanced in Android world, Apple focuses in it more. Meanwhile, SBC is mature and energy efficient, it has limitations. Especially can be heard clearly with a device which has LDAC or Aptx HD/Adaptive. The highs and ultra high end in the frequency range is clearly limited with SBC to my ears. I hear more details, air.


I already mentioned it in another comment and I'm not sure it's gonna be published. So, I'm writing one more time.

When people like me criticize Samsung limited codec support, there are those fan..ys coming here throwing bs like:

'why samsung should pay extra for ldac or aptx... Samsung's codec is clearly superior'

My point is this. There are brands like realme releasing tws with less than half of the price with a more global codec like LDAC! When people buy these, they'll have more freedom while using them because LDAC is available widely. Same goes for Aptx, Aptx Adaptive. Even Aptx lossless getting more support as well and promising better specs than SSC.


BTW realme buds air 5 pro has even better specs despite the price being less than half! :)

It has LDAC firstly that won't trap you in Samsung. There's Ambient, ANC, dedicated app, gaming mode(Samsung doesn't have), better call mic quality :) longer battery :) it even has implementation with a planar tweeter giving you much more resolving ultra high end. Samsung uses DD tweeter. I used both buds2 pro and realme buds air 5 pro. Realme me was in the same level while being much cheaper.


Yet, we're here and we'll see those people, criticizing the ones who criticize samsung...

    NoSamsungAtAll, 06 Jul 2024AAC and SBC, typical Samsung way making people angry. Who n... moreNo man. Don't criticize please.

    There are fanboys here defending Samsung's 'amazing' sound quality and 'amazing' decision making strategies!

    They'll come and start calling you names while throwing at your nonsense info like
    'amazing industry leading Harman target'
    'hdr music quality'
    'it's gonna work with any Bluetooth device, who cares'
    'I'm trapped inside the Samsung world, I've never looked above and checked other because they're surely bad amd i know the best'

    Watch out for those geniuses. They'll attack you just because you criticized their 'amazing' brand. Probably, they have some stocks or even one of the shareholders of the company who knows. One thing is for sure. They're bu..hur.. When they see comments like yours or mine. :)

    As long as Samsung keeps ssc special to the Samsung devices, I'll protest and not buy. I happily used buds+, buds pro, buds2 pro until i switched to Vivo.

    I mentioned about Aptx, Ldac amd even other codecs like Aptx Adaptive, lossless.

    But this bu..h... people keep saying why Samsung should pay extra for that bs according to their genius mind.

    Meanwhile we see brands like realme releasing a tws with LDAC less than half of the price of current buds2 pro keeping all the features:
    ambient,
    anc,
    dedicated app,
    Gaming mode(buds don't even have),
    Hybrid driver (dd+planar and Samsung used 2dd),
    Better call quality,
    Longer battery life...

    But no! Of course no! We shouldn't criticize Samsung. We should listen to those samsung Eco system trapped id... with their genius ideas.

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      • HeidelbergGTO104
      • txF
      • 07 Jul 2024

      SBC/AAC? Wtf samsung is smoking for flagship TWS? not even adaptive APTX?

      lol even mid end $70 moondrop golden age tws can transmit LDAC just fine

        walkman8, 06 Jul 2024But why have them turned on in the 1st place? Potentially to help with visibility when you're running or biking in low light. However, it's probably mostly to distinguish it from the airpods and all the other stem buds that look like airpods. You won't mistake them for anything else.

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          • HumbleTechie
          • ELG
          • 07 Jul 2024

          Hope the new design works better and is more comfortable in practical day-to-day usage.

          What caught my eye is the absence of any sign of speaker grill on the case itself. I wish I'm wrong but if it means there's no Find-my loudspeaker on the case, it's a huge SMH in 2024.

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            • Anonymous
            • 05e
            • 07 Jul 2024

            Anonymous , 06 Jul 2024Hey, I've been having trouble with my Buds2 Pro fallin... moreWe don't know how you put earbuds in your ears.

              Anonymous, 06 Jul 2024The stem been patent around iPhone 4 keep coping The hair dryer format has been around for decades, Apple just removed the cable.

                Nikojas, 06 Jul 2024Lights on headphones are super distracting say on a plane a... moreYou realize those probably aren't that bright, right? They're not flashlights, they're probably very subtle.

                Also, no one asked for a lot of things we enjoy today.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Rkh
                  • 06 Jul 2024

                  Hey, I've been having trouble with my Buds2 Pro falling out of my ears. Do the new Buds 3 Pro fix that issue? That's my main concern with the Buds2 Pro.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 4BT
                    • 06 Jul 2024

                    YourLocalPhoneCritic, 06 Jul 2024I'm more excited for the base open-ear Galaxy Buds 3. ... moreThe stem been patent around iPhone 4 keep coping

                      i also own an iem (kz zsn pro), yet i still use a bluetooth earphones most of the time because of one reason: convenicnece. i don't want to take out my earphones, attach a usb-c to 3.5mm jack, having to deal with the extra long cable mess i have now created thanks to the dongle, walk around with the cable constantly bumping into my chest and then getting that hitting sound delivered to my ears (ik there are cables that prevent that, i just couldn't be bothered) just for the sake of listening with superior audio quality and ''better'' frequency response. also my buds2 pro already has very good sound (i feel like my zsn pro's have too much bass). i am not writing this to hate on iem's, most of them are just better. but im just saying for the sake of convenience people just prefer bluetooth earphones compared to wired earphones nowadays

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                        • Anonymous
                        • LE{
                        • 06 Jul 2024

                        Anonymous, 06 Jul 2024Yeah, no thanks. I'll keep my IEMs. They are cheape... moreYou shouldn't be here.

                          I'm more excited for the base open-ear Galaxy Buds 3. 😅 (non-pro)

                          I've once tried to find earbuds that match the following criteria:
                          - open-ear (to hear surroundings)
                          - non-apple
                          - look clean
                          - Vertical case
                          - Stem Design (easier to grab, falls less often & saves you from touching wax, clearer calls)

                          But these were SO DIFFICULT to find! I've settled with the "Edifier W320TN" & "Nothing Ear Stick" (which has a weird cylindrical case).

                          The rest of Android earbuds have silicon tips. Sony Linkbuds were too different & the Buds Live have failed. So, I'm super excited for the base Galaxy Buds 3. 👍

                          I don't care if people think it looks like Apple, they didn't invent stems & there's nothing wrong with copying great design!!! (Steve Jobs famously said in 1996: "'good artists copy; great artists steal -- and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.")

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 0mU
                            • 06 Jul 2024

                            Yeah, no thanks.

                            I'll keep my IEMs. They are cheaper. They sound better, look better and last 3 decades instead of 3 years.

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                              • gab88
                              • pUy
                              • 06 Jul 2024

                              Anton .el PAPI., 06 Jul 2024How far Samsung has fallen!! To hide the copy they have mad... morewhat

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 0cB
                                • 06 Jul 2024

                                Not a bad design at all. Stem or round both are equally good. If you hate this design just buy sony or bose or jabra. I have several tws earbuds. Soundcore is the brand that always have good feeling cases and is cheaper.

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                                  • yalim
                                  • 0Iu
                                  • 06 Jul 2024

                                  Still no news about multipoint connection?

                                    walkman8, 06 Jul 2024After all these years, Samsung still cannot figure out 360 ... moreIt is strange that they have not imitated it because Apple has had it for a long time and many more brands

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                                      • Nikojas
                                      • GXs
                                      • 06 Jul 2024

                                      Anonymous, 06 Jul 2024And that is why you can turn it off It's in the art... moreAnd when they are in your ears you can't see the lights anyway so what's the point other than to distract people around you. Tacky.

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                                        • NoSamsungAtAll
                                        • Sqr
                                        • 06 Jul 2024

                                        AAC and SBC, typical Samsung way making people angry. Who needs better codecs? Korean way to life.

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