AirPods Pro killers they are not, even for Pixel phone owners
Now, some good news: the touch controls are very good here, and there's on-ear volume control by swiping forward or back which works very well – so there's a feature you won't find on the, Apple users – plus you can customize it so that a long press on the left earbud is a physical way to summon Google Assistant, and the right scrolls between noise cancellation profiles.
. Active Noise Cancellation? Yes, it's good, as is transparency. You cannot tweak the levels of either further than 'on' or 'off', but that's acceptable here given the efficacy of each. AirPods Pro-killers though? The jury's still out… back in 2020 and followed them with the more affordable A-Series variants mentioned above. But with these new earbuds, Google will once again be hoping to provide some serious competition for the AirPods range.