So, I bought my Buds3 Pro on Black Friday, and I have no regrets.
Only issues I have are very minor... Like, the fact that you can't locate the buds in the case, which is a thing that is heavily requested. Another issue I have is the case keeps telling me that there is moisture/debris on the charger ports inside the case, when they have nothing in them... Maybe a bug?
That aside... The audio quality is pristine, the fit is snug and the light bar is a plus although I would love if they added more light modes in future updates.
All that for the small price of $185 plus tax... So, like... $210
The moisture notification tends to pop up a lot on Samsung devices in the winter because it gets so cold and when the aluminum or whatever it is gets really cold or the usb-c port is it counts that as water as just a warning because when things are cold and they get warm they tend to sweat or release some sort of moisture so it's basically a preventive measure.
Locating the buds inside a case isn't something they would be able to do unless they added some sort of Bluetooth stack or Wi-Fi antenna into the case which would make it ungodly bulky and the location features with Samsung stuff is gimmicky at best anyway as it really only tends to work if you lost it and say your own home or area where you could search for them with your phone other than that if you were to have lost them outside you may be **bleep** entirely until another person with a Samsung device passes by them to where it can update on the Samsung SmartThings or find app it's kind of why they haven't really implemented it yet because you know honesty they're afraid to tell people how gimmicky the find my features actually really are. For example say you were to lose your wallet and it happened to have a smart tag attached to it or you lost your keys and it had a smart tag attached to it and you happened to lose this in an area where there are mainly iPhone users well you might not ever find that phone then because it will only tell you the last place that it actually updated its signal which isn't necessarily the last place that you left or lost it which means you would have to wait and wait and wait until a Samsung user passed by what their device and updated your stuff for you to give it a proper location ping... if they were to put that into the Galaxy buds it would add an excruciating price to the headphones and these things cost a lot as it is the Galaxy buds 2 Pro are still going for like $100 online... these additions that people want are what caused devices to increase in price did you know that for example every single cell phone gets a $20 fee attached to it instantaneously because they did waterproof testing to where they could give you an actual IP rating? Seriously there are many phones that are IP rated and just never bothered to put the information on there because that would require some actual test which and then that fee gets passed on to you so if a basic pair of the brand new buds 3 costs $140 just to have that search implementation added that you want that would easily boost these headphones to well over $200 just for a gimmick it's not worth it Samsung is known for taking things away that the majority of people don't ever use it's why they still have not put IR blasters back in their devices even though other companies have when Samsung was literally the king of IR blasters it's because the people who still want to use one are so Niche to them it's not worth it trying to search for your headphones from a case is it necessarily worth it to them.. It's also why they don't make wallet trackers and why only third parties do because the chances of people carrying around a wallet where they actually want to track her in it are so few and far between that's not added either and if they did at it it would still work the same way
