 Hey, it's Nick Stout with The Verge and we just wrapped up here at the Galaxy S10 event in San Francisco and on our way Out we got our hands on a pair of the Galaxy Buds. These are Samsung's wireless earphones They're designed to be kind of an answer to the AirPods So there's cheaper than the AirPods by about $30 and they've also come with wireless charging capabilities something that Apple's headphones Do not have yet kind of look like the Jabra elites there You know they have the earphone here on the end instead of the earphone here is a pretty bulky with the battery and all that Other stuff inside they are pretty comfortable they don't fit my ears too well, but I can see that being a personal preference that said I've gotten to test the sound a little bit and They sound pretty decent. I mean we're out here, and it's windy and lots of traffic But they sound pretty good in terms of earphones even better though is that it has USB-C now the case is going to give you seven hours of additional battery life as for the Galaxy Buds themselves They get six hours of battery life when you're streaming music or on five when you're talking on the phone Now the Galaxy Buds don't have new noise canceling anything that you might find in a fancier pair of headphones But they do have a dual mic system essentially when you're trying to talk on the phone It'll move to a different mic so they can pick you up only your voice and not pick up all the ambient noise around you That's super critical for wireless earbuds in particular a lot of wireless earbuds AirPods excluded because those are pretty good are terrible at Picking up all this ambient noise around you they make talking on the phone really difficult because they're picking up sounds of cars They're picking up traffic little children and playgrounds across the street things like that these Technically according to Samsung don't have that issue because of the dual mic system We haven't necessarily been able to try that right now because we haven't done a phone call with them yet But Samsung claims will be better than your average wireless earbuds when it comes to picking up sound and picking up your voice when you're Talking on the phone in terms of color options you do get three Different options you have white you have black and you have like a canary yellow color They'll certainly make the galaxy buds harder to lose. It's a little bit loud So if you like more of a softer standard tech product colors You probably want to go with the white or the black we have the white one here looks pretty nice So the galaxy buds launched in the US on March 6 for a hundred and twenty nine ninety nine They launched in Europe later this month on March 29th for a hundred and forty nine euros But if you pre-order the s10 or the s10 plus they'll come bundled with it So in terms of pairing Samsung has a neat little air pods like animation for when you're using a galaxy device I have an iPhone XS here these can still pair with that But you just have to open them up right in front while you're looking at the Bluetooth menu here And they should pop up under the other devices right there. It took just you know a second tap it and Bam, we're connected. So it's super seamless if you're an iOS user You should have no problem using these if for some reason you don't want the air pods or you know You get these as a gift or something like that. That said it should work a lot faster and a lot more seamless on a Galaxy device where it will just pop up a little overlay that you tap once and they should connect automatically For all the Samsung news announced here at unpacked make sure to read the verge comm and also check out our hands-on video of the full Galaxy s10 lineup over at YouTube at youtube.com slash the verge. Thanks for watching