PowerBeats Pro 2: a radical modernization of the emblematic sports headphones of Beats
As would be expected, the first Apple product of 2025 is stamped Beats. Indeed, the PowerBeats Pro 2 were the last headphones to have been officially unveiled by the Apple brand in a Video Teaserin parallel with his Keynote 2024.
We only knew that they would be simple successors of the sports headphones Pro PowerBeats Released 6 years ago now, until we discover the existence of a sensor to measure the user's heart rate in the lines of code of iOS 18. A news that had what we Reinforce the idea that this unprecedented function would soon be entering.
Now sold, PowerBeats Pro 2 indeed have sensors dedicated to the measure of heart rate. It is therefore not clear that they have served as a laboratory for future Airpods Pro 3since the latter should give pride of place to health functions according to a plethora of rumors.
A familiar formula, typical of Beats
Like their elders, the PowerBeats Pro 2 materialize by a sporting design mixing intra-ear architecture and ear hooks. They would therefore combine everything necessary for the maintenance, insulation and sound performance. Beats therefore remains in his penates by taking over the emblematic design of the old powerbeats, at a time when the vast majority of sports headphones have open formats or bone conduction.
The PowerBeats Pro 2 also inherit physical orders, IPX4 certification and the fairly imposing load box of their elders. For the rest, both on ergonomics and at the level of acoustic architecture, their design was reviewed from A to Z.
Optimized design, H2 chip and Apple noise reduction … Drastic modernization
The PowerBeats Pro 2 differ first from their predecessors by a new design, characterized by a reduced weight at 8.7 g, more small dimensions and memory ear hooks facilitating their implementation. Having one with the stems, the shells are now similar to those of headphones True Wireless Standard beats. Thus, everything seems to have been implemented in favor of comfort and aesthetics.
Above all, these new Beats headphones happily modernize the aging software formula of PowerBeats Pro. If we always regret the absence of multipoint and advanced Bluetooth audio codecs, the integration of Apple's H2 chip gives access to space audio, adaptive equalization and other state -of -the -art functions of the brand to the apple. Unlike AirPods, PowerBeats Pro 2 offer a rather complete experience on Android via the Beats application.
Resolutely modern, PowerBeats Pro 2 obviously have microphones optimized by AI and a noise reduction system. For the latter, the brand also announces performances worthy of the best Apple headphones. In addition, Beats was particularly rental to describe the performance of the new acoustic architecture conferred on these headphones.
Generous autonomy would be equal to the rendezvous with the promise of a lifespan of 10 hours with the activated ANC. An hour more than their predecessors without noise reduction.
Heart pace monitoring sensors dedicated to athletes
With a decade of R&D for its Apple Watch, Apple has decided to equip the pro 2 PowerBeats with LED optical sensors dedicated to monitoring the heart rate. When the Health App (iOS) is open and the headphones housed in the ears, the sensors light up and emit more than 100 pulsations per second in order to precisely measure the blood flow. The results can be transmitted in real time to third -party sports apps such as Nike Run Club, Open, Runna, etc.
Sports headphones True Wireless Beats PowerBeats Pro 2 are already available for purchase for € 299.95 in black, mauve, orange and sand finishes.
