Samsung delays Galaxy Buds3 Pro release over quality concerns

"It tore from the inside instantly."

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[Systema Encephale]

I didn’t say it was illegal. (...) Samsung has half their work done by Google, and yet their phones are as expensive or more expensive than Apple’s! Thieves.

Yes, you did, and now you did it again.

Well there is nothing random here. They copied Apple like they always do. When they eventually introduce their AR headet it will feature a front facing glass panel just like the Vision Pro.

The Buds3 are an embarrassing copy. But part of the controversy around them is that Samsung abandoned their established stemless earbud style for them, so copied-Apple-like-they-always-do is false - for many years Samsung used their own design.

 

[Systema Encephale]

Lately? I have now avoided Samsung products for 15 years now. Every time I do get one, the QC is horrible and I have to deal with a problem that is uniquely Samsung.

That sucks. I've been using a lot of mid-range Samsung stuff the past 5 years, not a single issue. If we form the average of our anecdata, they are probably doing alright.

 

[ewelch]

Well, knock me over with an AirPod Pro.

 

[ewelch]

Yes, you did, and now you did it again.


The Buds3 are an embarrassing copy. But part of the controversy around them is that Samsung abandoned their established stemless earbud style for them, so copied-Apple-like-they-always-do is false - for many years Samsung used their own design.

Yah, never believe your lying eyes. Have a contrary example?

 

[BucketHead]

I hope they fix this. My Bud2 are fantastic. Sound really good, swing well above thier weight at $100.00 and have an autoeq profile in wavelet. They suck for workouts though, they just don't stay in my ears, regardless of tips I've tried. The downstem design seems to be better for workouts.

 

[Apple fanboy 101]

Yes, you did, and now you did it again.

No. I didn’t.

 

[Systema Encephale]

No. I didn’t.

You called them thieves for their behaviour. Theft is illegal. So yes, you called their behaviour illegal, twice.

 

[balthazarr]

I don't really get why these exist? Who are they for? How do they differentiate themselves in the market?

Apple's AirPods were an improvement with their chip and iCloud integration - so anyone in the Apple ecosystem would get ease of use and stability benefits.

Other brands, like Sony, Bose, Sennheiser etc. trade on their audio quality (and things like noise cancellation), etc.

What do these bring? I don't get it.

 

[Apple fanboy 101]

You called them thieves for their behaviour. Theft is illegal. So yes, you called their behaviour illegal, twice.

It’s a hyperbole.

 

[markgo]

Well, yeah. Considering plenty of women put large amounts of it in their breasts to (most of the time) no ill effects, silicone itself shouldn’t be the issue. The thought of it makes me miss my ex a bit, although she was a handful (hu hu) in other ways too.

What the actual f? Welcome to the ignore zone.

NB: for the newbies tap on the name, tap more options, tap ignore. You’ll never have to see his posts again except if someone replies to them (and you unmask the post) or you explicitly click “Show ignored posts”. Would that all social media implemented block so elegantly.

 

[xWidget]

Yes, you did, and now you did it again.

...

It's a figure of speech for someone charging so much money that it feels like you're being stolen from. See also: highway robbery, which usually does not involve highways nor robbery.

 

[xWidget]

I’ve had a similar experience with my Jabras. Really worried I would tear the material getting the tips off the headphones, but the material just bounced back into place.

In spite of silicone materials tending to be advertised as just “silicone”, there are a variety of formulations, which can include non-silicone ingredients to fine-tune material characteristics. I guess how easily torn is one of those characteristics that can vary.

As an aside, the watch band my Garmin came with is silicone, and caused a rash. Pure silicone shouldn’t do that, but as I pointed out to my sister, at the very least they had to put in a dye, since silicone is not naturally forest green, and probably there were other non-silicone additives to get just the flexibility (and/or some other characteristic) they wanted. The replacement silicone band I bought hasn’t caused a rash, heavily supporting the idea that’s it wasn’t the silicone in the first band that was the problem.

Silicone is really just a category to begin with, with a few common polymers but a lot of possible ones.

Unlike a lot of other plastics besides TPUs/TPEs (often just called "rubber") and some nylons, it's really common for all sorts of additives to make up a huge amount of the final material.

 

[Drop table users;]

This seems like a weird mistake for a company that hasn't...exactly...started manufacturing consumer electronics yesterday to make.

Obviously even experience doesn't always save you; but it's not like this is some dude with a kickstarter and a dream taking his first steps into the grim horrible world of scaling up manufacturing. This is a company that has put a lot of assorted projects out the door(how much they do internally and how much they do by knowing how to keep pet ODMs and contract manufacturers in line, no idea; but either approach is a flavor of manufacturing experience).

It's not as though elastomeric silicones are some kind of novel, ill-characterized, material just out of the lab that nobody has ever handled before.

You could argue that this is part of the problem.

Samsung produces what seems like thousands of skus which are variations of the same thing.

I cannot imagine that you have any depth of focus with such a scatterbrained approach.

 

[exregis]

I can’t speak to any of their other products but I’ve been very happy with my LG OLED TV. That’s been excellent.

My two LG refrigerators were great. Except for the compressors, both of which failed in two years. The LG-authorized repairman refused to use the compressor intended for the refrigerator and demanded a better one for mine. He reconditions and donates failed LG refrigerators.

 

[Apple fanboy 101]

You could argue that this is part of the problem.

Samsung produces what seems like thousands of skus which are variations of the same thing.

I cannot imagine that you have any depth of focus with such a scatterbrained approach.

It's always the personal attacks with you.
Every single one of you comments has to include some assertion that the person is stupid, or is a moron, or implication that they are slow to think, small brained, confused... It's almost systematic, whichever the subject, with no provocation.

 

[balthazarr]

My two LG refrigerators were great. Except for the compressors, both of which failed in two years. The LG-authorized repairman refused to use the compressor intended for the refrigerator and demanded a better one for mine. He reconditions and donates failed LG refrigerators.

Uh, what? 'My product was great, except for its core function and purpose'? And the repair guy recognised the shit component and refused to replace it with the same one... yeah, they sound great.

 

[Matthew J.]

I actually prefer the current "bean-like shape." It fits my ears better and stays in more comfortably and reliably than any of the other brands I've tried.