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Samsung has a touch of the Apples

by on14 July 2016


Charging silly money for earbuds

When Samsung has released a pair of wireless earbuds for a price that only Apple could get away with.

The Samsung Gear IconX wireless earbuds targeted at fitness enthusiasts and apparently those with more money than sense because they will be flogged for $195. Still they come in a nice looking box.

The justification is that they have 4GB of internal memory, sensors, and capacitive touch and they are wireless after all. But hang on we are still talking about ear buds here. They are still going to go out of the listening device and end up pouring low quality, baseless, sound into your lug-holes.

Earbud technology has not evolved to the point where it can mimic a bigger quality headset. You will still get the same quality from bugs which are a third of that price.

Anyway Samsung will get the chance to see the error of its ways when it launches them in South Korea this week before it goes to the US in August.

But this is the sort of trick that you would expect from Apple. But at least it has a fanboy base which would buy and use a testicular masher if it had an apple logo on it and scream in a very high voice about how wonderful it was.

Last modified on 14 July 2016
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