Gotcha. It really is such an old take.

I assume you meant this for the OP?

After 14 hours of being off the plug, Bluetooth being on the entire time, and streaming over Bluetooth for maybe 1.5 hours, Bluetooth has used 1% of my battery. Wouldn’t call that a battery drain.

For those who don’t want to wait for the manufacturer to implement this, it can be done through shortcuts. For example, you can set the phrase “run robo-cleaner” to perform the command “Speak to LG Smart to turn on robot cleaner.”

Brand snob.

GM should really consider just bringing them over as Opels.

I can’t speak for where you live, but here in DC there are several credit unions that allow for exactly what you’re asking for: they decline transactions, rather than overdraft.

I don’t know. I’d consider listening to audio, having a conversation and even activating a personal assistant a basic function. Doing on the fly translation and only providing one direction of the conversation takes some extra work. They’re able to control the Pixels and that’s probably why they’re the ones capable.…

What specific function are you talking about? The only thing a non-Pixel phone can’t do is the translate feature. That’s not quite a “basic” function.

Assuming you mean the very last part about not connecting to computers as a headset, I’m not sure. I know that you can connect to them as a listening device, as per Google, but I haven’t seen anything about actually using them as a headset in that type of connection. The Google documentation does say that it needs to…

You can use Apple’s Siri via Apple’s Airpods on any Apple device that has Siri.

We’re talking about the Google Assistant translate function of the Pixel Buds here, not just plain old connecting and using as a headset. Adam’s quote:

Pixel Buds work with other devices just fine, but without the Assistant. You can’t use Siri on Android devices with the Airpods. This is the same thing.

But I think the most valid gripe is the lack of connectivity with anything other than Android phones with Marshmallow or newer (ie, just over 50% of Android phones in the wild, although if someone’s going to pay $160 for Google headphones, they most likely have a Pixel phone). The fact that you can’t connect them…

Adam’s reviews are always the worst...

The case and earbuds combo is so unintuitive that Google includes instructions on how to wrap the wire around the case so that it will close.

It didn’t. Sam doesn’t understand the new part here.

It actually has been on all handsets. It’s part of stock Android and has been for a long time.

It’s fairly clear that the author doesn’t understand what is actually new here. There’s been a battery monitor in stock Android for years. What’s new is the flagging of potentiality problematic apps.