The world would be a better place if AirPods had this one Pixel Buds 2a design feature.
Wireless earbuds are better now than they’ve ever been. Trust me, I’ve tried a lot of them. They sound better; they look better; they have impressive noise cancelling, and in the grand scheme of things, they’re pretty affordable. That being said, there is one thing they’re sorely lacking, and that’s modularity and repairability.
As solid as Apple’s AirPods are, when the battery goes, so too does the whole pair of wireless earbuds. That sucks, to say the least. This sad fact about most wireless earbuds out there in the world is exactly why, when Google unveiled the Pixel Buds 2a at its annual hardware event this week, my eyes lit up. The Pixel Buds 2a aren’t the most groundbreaking pair of wireless earbuds on paper—you know it’s an incremental upgrade when active noise cancellation is the headlining feature—but there is one thing they definitely have that other earbuds don’t, and that’s a replaceable battery.
