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The world's best-selling earbud has an almost empty spec table on Amazon.
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| Battery life | 3/10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelling | 9/10 | |
| Sound | 8/10 | |
| Comfort | 8/10 | |
| Calls | 8/10 | |
| Value | 5/10 |
The AirPods Pro 3 are the number one seller in earbuds on Amazon, and they are the clearest example of why this site exists.
Amazon's technical specifications table for this product has five rows: brand, ear placement, form factor, weight and manufacturer. No battery life. No Bluetooth version. No codecs. No driver size. No IP rating. Everything we could publish below comes from the marketing bullets, and everything we could not is a blank box.
None of that means they are bad — the cancelling is genuinely near the top of this page, and the eight hours with ANC on beats every other earbud here. It means that the most-sold earbud in the world is bought on the name, not on the data, and that a $40 Soundcore tells you more about its own hardware than a $199 Apple does.
Anything marked «—» is a figure the manufacturer doesn't publish. We don't fill those in by eye.
| Type | In-ear |
|---|---|
| Form factor | True wireless with charging case |
| Active noise cancelling | Yes |
|---|---|
| Cancelling type | Active. Apple claims 2x the reduction of AirPods Pro 2 |
| Transparency mode | Yes |
| Driver size | — |
| Driver type | — |
| EQ in the app | — |
| Battery life, ANC off | — |
|---|---|
| Battery life WITH ANC | 8 |
| Total with the case | — |
| Fast charge | — |
| Wireless charging | — |
| Replaceable battery | No |
| Bluetooth version | — |
|---|---|
| Codecs | — |
| Two devices at once | — |
| Latency | — |
| 2.4 GHz dongle included | No |
| Microphones | — |
| Weight | 73 |
|---|---|
| Water resistance (IP) | — |
| Folds | No |
| Warranty | 1 |
| What Amazon's spec table says | Brand, ear placement, form factor, weight and manufacturer. That is the whole table. No battery, no Bluetooth version, no codecs, no driver, no IP rating. |
|---|---|
| Where the 8 hours comes from | A bullet point, not the spec table: «up to 8 hours of listening time with Active Noise Cancellation». The 10 hours Apple also mentions is in Transparency with the hearing aid feature, not in normal listening. |
| The 73 g | That is the weight Amazon lists for the item, which includes the case. The earbuds alone weigh far less; Apple does not publish that figure here. |
| Extras that are not audio | Heart rate sensing for 50 workout types, and Live Translation with Apple Intelligence. |
A summary of the reviews published on Amazon.com as of 2026-09-08.
4.4 out of 5 from 14,871 ratings, the lowest average of the two Apple models here. The cancelling and the fit dominate the praise. The recurring criticism is the price against the AirPods 4, and a run of complaints about the fit of the new contour for people who got on with the Pro 2.
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Amazon's #2 earbud, and its listing does not state the battery life anywhere.
4.1 out of 5 — the lowest score of any earbud in this comparison, and the only one under 4.2.
88,709 ratings — more than the AirPods Pro 3 and the AirPods 4 on this page put together.