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Price: $80 (with branded box)

Shipping&Packaging: 10/10

They were dispatched on 19th of April and I got them on 6th of May so it was in transit for 18 days (or 13 working days).
They were greatly packaged, even foam was used and the branded box (that was in a random box) is in flawless condition, without damage and with a serial number written on it.

Build quality: 7/10

The airpods and the case are very sturdy, with a premium feeling. But big issue for me is that I have to exert huge amount of force in order to pause / skip forward a track. It's not just a simple "tap" that was working with my 6 years old galaxy buds. I have to pinch these really hard in order for the touch to be registered. Funny thing is, that the volume slider is detected with fine touch, so this is for sure a manufacturing error and not "normal" (like HiCity had stated when I asked him about it).

Sound quality: 6/10

The sound's average, with too much bass and silenced mids and highs. Even in my case, the EQ in StarFun app doesn't work, only the presets which are completely useless. The biggest problem is, that if you have volume set to 40% or lower, you're constantly hearing "white noise", which stops only when you stop playing the audio. The "white noise" is NOT subtle and you hear it louder than the audio you're playing while on <40% set volume.

Connectivity: 8/10

It has issues, but they happen "only" 25% of the time. For example when I take one airpod out of my ear and put it in the case while the other one is still in my ear, the audio disconnects. Sometimes when I take them out of the case and put them in my ears they auto connect to my iPhone fine (and they're detected by it), but the audio is still playing through speakers.
These are the only 2 minor issues I could find regarding connectivity

ANC: 8/10

These are my first earbuds with ANC, so my word means nothing in this category. But other users have stated that it's quite underwhelming and it suppresses something, but continuous ones get through easily. I do not notice any buzzing while it's on like other users stated tho.

Other (3rd generation) functions:

Apple Settings: it is being detected in apple settings, it even shows as a "genuine" product and with "apple care".
Microphone: usable, works fine with most of the social media apps, besides the apple dictaphone
Live translation: as stated by others, isn't fully functional.
Heart rate monitoring: didn't expect much, but it's basically unusable. The "fitness" app is registering that the airpods have an inbuilt hear rate monitor, but it seems "delayed" (by minutes). I had them monitor my hear rate thorough my gym session when I was on 350mg of caffeine (as usual) and during my sets, it showed that I had a hear rate of 56 lol (that's even lower than my resting heart rate) and while taking 3 minute breaks between sets, the hear rate jumped to 100 (which I didn't have for sure, as i was relaxing between sets). So In conclusions, it obviously isn't accurate and with a great delay in minutes.
Conversation awareness: in my case works, but it also picks up music? (That was played in the gym and didn't contain any lyrics). So I had to turn it off thorough my gym session as it was constantly decreasing the volume while nobody spoke to me.
Transparency mode: I couldn't find any issues with it, it just works
Find My app: it works perfectly and is actually quite precise, so you won't have to panic when you lose them.

Battery: 8/10

After 2 hour gym session with ANC turned on + the time it took to walk home (30 minutes max) I was sitting around 74%. The case provides 3 full charges, so I would say that the battery life is average (similar to my old galaxy buds).

Conclusion:

If you have older generation of airpods (pro 2 v5.3 tb for example) I wouldn't recommend them for you. The only reason I'm keeping these is that my 6 year old galaxy buds have died on me.