They may look like AirPods Pro, but they don’t repair like them
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro earbuds changed their design this year in a way that strongly mimics Apple’s AirPods Pro 2. But they differ from Apple’s pro earbuds in one crucial respect: they’re « extremely easy » to take apart and potentially repair, according to a repair specialist.
As iFixit put it, AirPods Pro 2 repairs are firmly in « don’t try this at home » territory, largely due to « incredible amounts of glue »; Apple’s earbuds are « among the most unfixable » and if you remove the battery « the driver is toast ». But Samsung doesn’t appear to have copied that part of Apple’s design, mercifully.
The news comes via Canadian vlogger Phone Repair Guru on YouTube, who tears down the new Samsung earbuds to see how their repairability compares to Apple’s. As he says, « most of these end up in landfills when the battery eventually dies ». But these buds appear to be better and potentially could last a lot longer.
