The AirPods Pro 2 feature I’m happiest about is also one of its smallest

Huge news, portable music lovers! Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 true wireless earbuds are here – a follow up to the Cupertino giant’s 2019 flagship noise-cancelling, personalized Spatial Audio-toting AirPods Pro earphones, now with the H2 chip.  The second-generation Pro in-ear ‘Pods have arrived unexpectedly early, at Apple’s September 7 Far Out event (many predicted them to land in late October, as is traditional, but Tim Cook’s behemoth was having none of it!) and the headline-grabber for me is the AirPods Pro 2’s incremental upgrades, since we didn’t get any lofty temperature sensors or wild fitness tracking software.  As a result of that new H2 chip, the new perks include (but are not limited to) double the noise cancellation compared to original AirPods Pro, a new extra-small eartip in the box to improve the fit and a new adaptive transparency mode to dynamically reduce heavy noise, with readings taken 48,000 per second.

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