Amazon’s Prime Day sale is back with four days of summer savings, and if you’ve been eyeing up a new pair of Apple headphones now’s your chance to grab a discount in the online retailer’s four-day sale.
Launched back in 2024, the AirPods 4 are Apple’s entry-level earbuds. New Apple releases are rarely discounted but these have been on the market long enough to receive a reduction worth shouting about, in this case 25 per cent, bringing the price down to £125 from £169. The Apple earbuds only received an 11 per cent discount in last summer’s Prime Day sale, and this is the lowest they’ve ever dropped to at the online retailer.
They’re not the only Apple earphones to receive a discount for Prime Day. If you don’t want to spend more than £100, the AirPods 4 are also available without noise cancellation for just £80.
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AirPods 4 wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation: Was £169, now £125.40, Amazon.co.uk
The Independent’s tech critic David Phelan tested the AirPods 4 as soon as they launched in September 2024. In his Airpods 4 review, David described the audio quality as “strong” and said: “Listening to music is exemplary, even with noise-cancelling off, offering decent breadth of sound and fidelity in vocals and mid-range notes.”
These are MagSafe compatible and David described them as “amazingly small and light”, adding that they come with a feature you may find handy if you’re prone to losing your earphones. “There’s also a speaker on the bottom of the case so if you lose your AirPods, you can cause the case to make a sound to help you find it,” he wrote.
They’re designed for better comfort over long periods than previous models, and David confirmed that they were “definitely comfortable”.
You’ll get a battery life of five hours if you choose to use noise-cancelling, and four hours with. Plus, you’ll get up to an hour’s listening time after a five-minute charge time.
AirPods 4 wireless earbuds: Was £119, now £79.80, Amazon.co.uk
These earbuds feel similar to their premium counterpart “with the same comfortable fit and intuitive controls where you press to pause or play, for instance,” writes tech critic David Phelan in his review. However, they don’t come with active noise cancellation.
If this feature isn’t important to you, you can save 32 per cent on the AirPods 4, which brings the price down to £79.80.
David described them as “the best-value AirPods ever” and praised their “neat design, tiny case, good battery life and excellent sound.”
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