The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds are on sale for around $199.95, a significant discount. They are highlighted as excellent for fitness, featuring comfortable earhooks, heart rate monitoring, and integration with fitness apps.
While they support some Apple-exclusive features like spatial audio, they remain largely platform-agnostic, working well with both iOS and Android. Their main drawback is a lower IPX4 water resistance rating, lacking the dust resistance of some competitors.
The article also notes additional deals on sleep tech like the Hatch Restore 3, the Final Fantasy Tactics remaster for PlayStation 5, and the Apple Watch Series 9.
Main Topics: Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 sale and features, additional tech deals (Hatch Restore 3, Final Fantasy Tactics, Apple Watch Series 9).
Beats may have recently redesigned the Beats Fit Pro to be more comfortable and secure, but the company’s latest offering is still no match for its other pair of fitness-centric earbuds: the Powerbeats Pro 2. Luckily, the latter in-ears are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for around $199.95 ($50 off), their second-best price to date.
The gym-friendly Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are 20 percent off right now
It’s also a great time to save on the Apple Watch Series 9, sleep tech, and the recent remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics.
It’s also a great time to save on the Apple Watch Series 9, sleep tech, and the recent remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics.
As you might have guessed, the Powerbeats Pro 2 have been one of our favorite pairs of earbuds for sports and working out since they arrived on the scene early last year. They feature smaller, more comfortable earhooks than the prior model and boast wireless charging, along with an array of updated microphones that do a great job masking unwanted noise while listening to music and taking calls. Their marquee feature, however, is their heart rate monitoring, which leverages built-in sensors on each earbud and integrates well with apps from Nike, Runna, Open, Peloton, and others. Unsurprisingly, you can also quickly view various metrics in Apple Fitness Plus, such as heart rate and calories burned.
Like other Beats earbuds, the noise-canceling Powerbeats Pro 2 are also platform-agnostic, at least to a degree. They do support a handful of Apple-only features — most notably, dynamic head tracking for spatial audio, hands-free Siri access, and Find My integration — but Android users do get a subset of features, including one-touch pairing and some simple customization when it comes to controls. Sadly, though, they only carry an IPX4 rating, which falls short of the IP57 rating found on Apple’s newer AirPods Pro 3. That means that, while water- and sweat-resistant, they don’t offer any dust resistance.
Nonetheless, when you pair the Pro 2 with all the features you do get — as well as their easy-to-use physical controls and terrific transparency mode — you’re left with a well-rounded pair of fitness earbuds that should suit pretty much everybody, regardless of their OS of choice.
More deals and discounts of note
- To celebrate National Sleep Awareness Week — aka Sleep Week — the Hatch Restore 3 is on sale at Amazon and Hatch’s online storefront for an all-time low of $144.99 ($25 off) through March 22nd. The TikTok-friendly smart alarm / sunrise lamp / sound machine is a worthy successor to the Restore 2, with new physical controls and a brighter design that should wake you up more easily. There’s a lot of great content available by default, though be aware that you will need a Hatch Plus account ($4.99 month / $49.99 a year) to access the full suite of sounds and dynamic lighting.
- The PlayStation 5 remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics, one of the seminal games from my youth, is currently available at Amazon for $29.32 (about $21 off), its best price to date. I’ve been itching to play the PlayStation-era strategy title since it made its debut last year with fully voiced dialogue and improved visuals, along with other quality-of-life improvements. I will most certainly be heading back to Ivalice later this week, though I haven’t decided if I’ll opt for the updated game or the OG version from ‘98, which is also included here. Decisions, decisions. Read our review.
- The Apple Watch SE 3 is the Apple Watch we’d recommend for most folks, but now through March 12th, Woot is actually offering the last-gen Apple Watch Series 9 in select LTE configurations starting at just $229.99 ($270 off). The two watches are similar, but with the Series 9, you’re getting a few more advanced health sensors for $10 less, along with a bigger, brighter 2,000-nit display. Just try not to be alarmed when it shows up from Woot in a brown bag — it still packs a standard one-year Apple warranty. Read our review.
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