Buds Controller is compatible with Galaxy Buds+, Galaxy Watch4, and their respective following models.

Actual battery life may vary and depend on usage conditions, settings, number of times charged, Bluetooth signal strength, and other factors. Audio playback time tested by pairing a pre-production Galaxy Buds2 to a recently released Galaxy smartphone with default settings including ANC on.

Earbuds and case provide up to 20 hours of battery life when the case and earbuds are charged to 100%.

Changing the 3 levels of ambient sound volume can be set up on Galaxy Wearable app.

ANC(Active Noise Canceling) is on by default, and the touch and hold gesture for ANC can be configured in the Galaxy Wearable app (downloadable from Galaxy Store or Google Play).

Results are based on Samsung internal lab testing subject to POLQA(Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis), a global standardised test for call quality.

Certain devices and applications may not support Auto Switch.

Auto Switch feature only available on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets with OneUI 3.1 or later and Galaxy Watch 4 series or later.

This seems to indicate that the mode isn't transferrable on platforms where the app isn't available. However, even if this setting is turned on and the buds are then connected to an iPhone or PC, the latency measurements didn't change much at 25ms and 263ms, respectively.

We noticed an improvement when using this setting with our Samsung S10e and measured -16ms of latency on Android. You can access this feature in the 'Lab' settings in their companion app, which is only available on Samsung devices. They have a 'Game Mode' that's advertised to lower audio latency too. These headphones are advertised to support Scalable, which is Samsung's proprietary codec for high-quality audio. Luckily, their latency on iOS and Android devices is much lower, so your audio and visuals stay in sync. They also have high latency on PCs, which can be disappointing if you like to stream video. Unfortunately, they don't support NFC or multi-device pairing. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 have decent Bluetooth connectivity. However, the scoring of this box hasn't changed. Update : We've added our latency measurements for 'Game Mode' on Android, iOS, and PC in the text below.

We've updated our text to reflect this, but the scoring of this box hasn't changed. We tested this feature using a non-Samsung Android device and this setting wasn't available in the app. In Samsung's ' Differences Between Galaxy Buds+ and Galaxy Buds2', it details that this feature is only available when connected to Samsung phone or tablet through the Galaxy Wearable app. However, thanks to user feedback, we can confirm that this feature only works on Samsung phones or tablets. Update : We originally reported that the 'Game Mode' only works on Android devices and isn't transferrable to PC or iPhones.

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