Calling the AirPods 4 Apple’s best wireless earbuds ever is a bold statement indeed, but that’s been the word since they dropped last year. Amazon’s notoriously persnickety reviewer community has definitely weighed in — over 13,000 of them — and given the AirPods 4 a killer 4.5-star rating. And now just ahead of Labor Day Weekend, Amazon’s dropped the AirPods 4 to within a dollar of their all-time lowest price: They’re just $90 right now, a 30%-off steal of a deal.
What got everyone all hot and heavy for the AirPods 4? A redesigned fit for greater comfort, personalized spatial audio, up to 30 hours of battery life, and compared to the rest of the Apple fleet of wireless buds and also most of their competitors, a terrifically accessible price point. Drop another $40 from that original price, and this Amazon deal borders on theft.
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All In the Chip
When you drill down on all of the upgrades and improvements that Apple poured into the AirPods 4, most of them can be traced back to the same source: the H2 chip. The new Apple-designed processor gives the AirPods 4 an across-the-board performance boost, but where it really stands out is when you use the AirPods 4 to take or make a phone call. The H2 chip enables the new Voice Isolation feature, where the AirPods 4 drill down on your voice to pull it out of all the background noise, so you come through loud and clear even in a crowded, loud room.
The upgraded chip also makes the personalized spatial audio feature so good that it has to be heard to be believed. Dynamic head tracking not only gives you a superior surround-sound experience, it moves the sound in sync with your head movements. If you’re listening to music and it sounds like the band is in front of you, turn your head to the left and the sound moves to your right ear, as it would in a live show.
All-Day Listening
Apple went to lengths to improve the design of the AirPods 4, creating a more refined curvature and shorter stems, so they fit more snugly and more comfortably in your ears. The charging case got a facelift as well, making it 10% smaller by volume than the previous-gen AirPods case. They’re ready for all-day listening, and you can do exactly that thanks to the 30-hour battery life.
The nearly unanimous reviews saying the AirPods 4 are among the very best $129 wireless earbuds on the market will need to be updated during this pre-Labor Day deal at Amazon. Right now, the AirPods 4 are hands-down the absolute best $90 wireless earbuds you can buy.
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