AirPods Pro 2: CT scans compare high-end Apple earbuds with cheap copies

Jon Bruner has now CT scanned another expensive Apple product, having recently subjected the company's Thunderbolt 4 cable to the same treatment. This time, Bruner has compared the AirPods Pro 2 against two counterfeit alternatives to highlight the latter's cost-saving measures.

Unsurprisingly, Bruner's CT scans reveal that the latter contain fewer components than Apple's earbuds. Also, the components that fake AirPods use are often less complex, such as a single electret microphone rather than the three MEMs equivalents found in the AirPods Pro 2. Thus, these fakes provide barely usable active noise cancellation (ANC) and limited call quality.

Moreover, the counterfeit AirPods suffer from poor soldering and wires, not flexible PCBs. Similarly, Apple utilises different batteries both in the earbuds themselves and in the bundled charging case. Likewise, the fake charging cases are greatly simplified and even contain metal weights to give the impression that they are an official Apple part. Please see the video below for a full run-through of all the images created and how fake AirPods differ from Apple's current high-end earbuds.

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