“I do not care.” Samsung responds to allegations of AirPods copying.

Anyone with even the slightest eye can spot the obvious: Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds Professional 3 look a lot like the AirPods.

Yes, the charging case on Samsung’s wireless earbuds has a clear raised lid; They come in silver (with white); stem – sorry, blade -Buds 3 Professional is designed for a variety of purposes. However come on, they appear to be AirPods. Naturally, the web is blaming Samsung for copying Apple.

However Samsung says it did not give the brochure to its primary shopper tech rival. At a recent media roundtable, Patrick Chomet, EVP and head of CX office, Cellular Experience Trade, said that copying AirPods has “never been a consideration,” and the Northern Superstar is focused on creating the best product for consumers. want. from the beginning.

“I don’t care,” Chomet remembers telling Samsung product designers and engineers once they suggested society might check out the Buds 3S and AirPods. “I want the best product anyway, so we designed it to be the best for consumers. That’s the honest answer, and we may face criticism, but I don’t really care because I just want the best product.

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Aside from the similarity in appearance, Chomate also had a better solution as to why Samsung redesigned the buds with stems. As I suggested with my untouched hands, even though Apple was the first to make mainstream wireless earbuds with the stem cut off – a design that was widely ridiculed before – the silhouette might actually be the best way to go. Make Wi-Fi earbuds.

Chomet said the design of the Buds 3 Pro started with engineering them for top-notch tone detail that could surpass the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, and then developing perhaps the most optimal commercial design to bring that feature to fruition. Is.

When he got the chance to work on Buds 3 Professional 18 months ago, Chomet said, “We learned two things.” “The sound is even more amazing because you separate the woofer and the speaker, and you need space for that. And then, this thing must understand your environment, and there will be a lot of AI to figure out how it works depending on the context.

“It may look (like the AirPods stem) on the surface, but it’s not the same at all. “I can guarantee it.”

Those features are launching in the Buds Pro 3 in the form of drivers and speakers that can deliver 24-bit/96kHz Hi-Fi tones with a frequency response area of ​​up to 40kHz. In layman’s terms, this means extra clear authoritative separation between lows, mids and highs for your track, and less distortion at top volume. On the AI ​​front, the Buds 3 Pro have “Adaptive ANC”, which uses a tone detection model to regularly control ANC according to the type and intensity level of sounds for your state. And with the AI ​​model, Samsung says the Buds 3 Pro can “restore” your echo during a telephone call, matching the tone description you immediately get from your phone’s earpiece. Essentially, the Buds 3 are upscaling somewhat to make your resonance tone clearer over the Bluetooth connection, which transmits data at a lower sample rate and makes the audio tone sound thinner.

All of these enhancements certainly make for a great pair of wireless earbuds (and a reason to promote the new earbuds to society), though the Buds 3 Professional need a “blade” to allow for better tone detail and AI. There is also another technical reason for being- capable alternative: ear.

Chomet said Samsung would have made the Galaxy Buds 3 stemless, and would have ongoing prototypes to make it happen, but the top difference in on-ear style and shape suggests that Adaptive ANC and ANC on the stem-less earbuds. There were no facilities like resonance calling recovery. Absolutely right.

“We have a team that simulates thousands of ears from all over the planet, and that’s how we got to the blade,” Chomet said. “It may look (like the AirPods stem) on the surface, but it’s not the same at all. “I can guarantee it.”

According to Chomate, and as I’ve suggested from my many years of reviewing wireless earbuds and traveling earbuds in the lab, the idea is to move some parts like the microphone and controls to the stem and allow more room for a larger or backup speaker. The method works as follows.

Samsung may seem like a copycat, but other wireless earbud makers, like Nothing, came to the same conclusion a long time ago. Apple got this right from the beginning, for which it deserves credit. Although in similar form, AirPods evolved from Bluetooth headsets, which were essentially long extendable stems that placed the microphone as evenly as possible over your mouth. And Bluetooth headsets were just smaller and wireless versions of telemarketing/teleconference headsets with their flexible mics. So today’s stem-equipped wireless earbuds are really just an evolution of what came long before them.

Samsung is totally feeling the heat right now, but don’t be surprised if alternative wireless earbud makers that have had past experience with stem-less designs upload their own stems or blades to existing versions. This seems inevitable as companies add AI options and recognize the restrictions of stem-less designs. You wouldn’t reach for a camera for AI-powered PC visuals without a stem.