Apple brings the PowerBeats Pro 2 heart rate monitoring

Apple Tuesday announces Long -awaited debut On PowerBeats Pro 2 ears. The new headsets arrive nearly six years after Original PowerBeats hit the market. The new model supports the familiar training hook for training, while delivering a modernized sound, better battery life and a wireless charging case.

Rumors also note the main next step in the company’s offer to expand its healthcare functions, with the addition of built -in cardiac rhythm monitoring. The feature triggers during training, offering real -time data through LED optical sensors.

In addition to Apple’s own health app, monitoring is compatible with a number of leading fitness applications, including Open, Peloton, Runna, slopes, ladder, Nike Run Club and Yaoyao. One of the most popular working applications, Strava, is obviously absent from the list.

PowerBeats are expanding Apple Health’s portfolio, which is currently rotating around the Apple Watch. While elements such as step tracking have existed since the first days, Apple has since struck health. The clock now has ECG testimony, autumn detection, sleep tracking and various other features aimed at providing a complete picture of the health of the user.

Apple’s Health Apartment further branched in 2024. With adding hearing aid function For AirPods Pro 2. Arrival of heart rate monitoring along the Beats line may announce the addition of the function to the upcoming AirPods updates – although this will require a great hardware refresh.

Apple branded headsets are also more general lifestyle products than PowerBeats’ fitness focus.

The new headsets are upgraded from the AppL-to-H2 chip, which debuted at AirPods Pro 2 in 2022. This continues to be the best Apple headset chip while the company introduced AirPods Pro 3 on a future date.

Apple cites its own silicon as a driving force in battery life improvements. The buds themselves exercise for 10 hours of battery, compared to the nine of their predecessor. However, more impressive is the case that improves the overall battery life of 24 to 45 hours, the feat that the company manages, while reducing the print of the original massive case of PowerBeats Pro.

Apple also advertises sound quality improvements, thanks to the addition of spatial audio with head tracking, the same noise located on the AirPods Pro 2nd to its adaptive EQ technology that adjusts the quality of the audio to match the ear to the user.

The well -known ear hooks now sports nickel alloy for improved strength, while the total weight of the buds has decreased by 20%.

Apple says he has tested the pros of 1000 athletes in an attempt to create a more universal fit. The headphones also have an assessment of IPX4 sweat resistance – the same assessment found on AirPods. In addition to wireless charging, the headphones exchange the lightning port of their predecessor for USB-C.

The PowerBeats Pro 2 are available online, with a price of $ 250 today – the same as their predecessors, in 2019 they hit the shelves of stores this Thursday, February 13th.

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