Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C just received a $70 discount

This year’s WWDC kicks disconnected successful little than a week, which means Apple is apt to denote a drawstring of bundle changes successful abbreviated order, some of which are designed to amended Apple’s latest brace of premium earbuds. Thankfully, if you haven’t yet pulled the trigger connected the second-gen AirPods Pro, they’re erstwhile again connected merchantability astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for astir $169 ($70 off), matching their champion terms of the year.

If you’re an iPhone user, you’d beryllium hard-pressed to find a amended brace of noise-canceling earbuds than Apple’s latest AirPods Pro with USB-C. The second-gen exemplary ratchets up the sound cancellation and dependable quality, providing dynamic, affluent dependable and ANC that tin spell toe-to-toe with Sony’s XM5 and different like-minded rivals. Unlike the cheaper AirPods 4 with ANC, they besides diagnostic convenient swipe-based controls and 4 sets of silicone tips, whereas Apple’s entry-level earbuds inactive trust connected an open-style plan that allows much ambient sound in.

As for wherefore they’re the cleanable acceptable for iPhone users, well, that’s easy. The Pro are chock-full of Apple-only features, including caput tracking spatial audio, robust Find My support, and automatic instrumentality switching. The included speaker-equipped charging lawsuit besides features a U1 spot for much close tracking, and acknowledgment to a bundle update successful the fall, Apple’s high-end earbuds tin present support your proceeding and service arsenic clinical-grade proceeding aids. That makes them well-suited for those with mild to mean proceeding nonaccomplishment — oregon your adjacent Turnstile concert.

Read our archetypal AirPods Pro (second-gen) review.

Other ways to prevention this weekend

• It’s by nary means a necessity, but I’ve been ogling the Vestaboard Note ever since the spendy split-flap show went up for merchantability past month. The nostalgic 24.5-inch committee is presently disposable for preorder from Vestaboard up of its December motorboat starting astatine $899 ($400 off), and portion it lone features 45 split-flap mechanisms (as opposed to 132 connected the original), it inactive looks similar a delightful mode to showcase immoderate message, pattern, oregon representation you make utilizing the accompanying web interface oregon mobile app.
• Ugreen’s FineTrack Smart Finder is disposable for conscionable $9.99 (about $7 off) from Amazon and Ugreen close now, which is the champion terms we’ve seen connected the inexpensive determination tracker. Sure, it’s not rather arsenic susceptible arsenic an AirTag, but it inactive comes with a two-year replaceable battery, a built-in ringer, and the quality to pat into Apple’s extended Find My web arsenic necessary. Hell, it adjacent comes with a lanyard hole, which isn’t thing we tin accidental astir Apple’s tracker.
• Meta’s entry-level VR headset, the Meta Quest 3S, is connected merchantability erstwhile again astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, wherever you tin prime it up with a transcript of Batman: Arkham Shadow and a three-month proceedings of Meta Horizon Plus for an all-time debased of astir $269 ($30 off). It’s benignant of the mediate kid successful presumption of Meta’s headset lineup, arsenic it features the aforesaid chipset arsenic the Quest 3 but remains reliant connected the aforesaid lenses and tract of presumption arsenic the Quest 2. Still, it tin play astir of the aforesaid standalone games arsenic the former, arsenic good arsenic PC-based virtual world titles if you ain a gaming PC. Read our review.