Travel Tech: Apple AirPods First Impressions

Anyway, the other day I was finally able to pick up a pair of the hard-to-find Newest Thing from Apple: the AirPods.

The AirPods are wireless headphones that are very similar to Apple’s legacy earpods that come with all their iPhones with a few enhancements, which I’ll get to below.

The Design

As you’d expect from Apple, the AirPods have a clean, modern design, which of course called for me to break out the macro lens and the dark acrylic for some product pics.

The AirPods come in a hard plastic case, which doubles as a charger.  When you put the airpods in their respective slots, they magnetically “clip” in with a resounding thud so you know they’re charging.

The case/charger connects via a Lightning cable (although the opening for the charger looks like it was made for a USB-C connection) and stores quite a few charges for the AirPods, which are rated before 5 hours of moderate use but recharge very quickly.