re: Sooooo Apple released the 2nd generation Airpods to no fanfare last night

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Are they noise canceling? If not mine are fine until they add that. That's really the only gripe I have about them except obviously could always use more battery life for talk time.

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It's impossible to make a design like that noise canceling. You need way better isolation. It's hwy noise canceling headphones are almost all over/on the ear types. Only a very small few earbuds out there have noise canceling, and it only works on ones that basically plug your ear up. Airpods just loosely sit near your ear canal, there's basically no actual isolation.