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If one thing’s clear to us, it’s that the team over at Nomad likes to design Apple Watch wrist bands. After all, the brand continues to come out with new colors and designs on a regular basis, like clockwork.

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Nomad’s latest creation is a lightweight FKM rubber band called the Tempo band that differs from the brand’s traditional Sport band because of its streamlined profile, gently chamfered edges, and minimal aesthetic.

Being made from the same materials as the Sport band, Nomad’s Tempo band enjoys all the same benefits, including being 100% waterproof and comfortable for Summer activities, such as outdoor workouts where you’re liable for sweating.

Unlike the Sport band, which Nomad designed for two sizes of the Apple Watch, the brand says they’ve made three different versions of the Tempo band that are optimized for whatever Apple Watch you might have. Those include:

• 42mm – optimized for the smallest current Apple Watch model
• 46mm – optimized for the largest current Apple Watch model
• 49mm – optimized specifically for the Apple Watch Ultra

As for colors, Nomad’s Tempo band is available in four different options, including:

• Lumen – a bright neon green
• Dusk – an unsaturated dark blue
• Crush – a vibrant orange/red
• Black – need we say more…?

Regardless of which model of Apple Watch you have, or what color you prefer, the Tempo band is available from Nomad’s website starting today for $49.

Anyone looking for a sleek and minimalist-friendly Sport-style band with a custom Nomad-designed metal closure pin will want to check out the Tempo band, as its less bulky aesthetic combines well with an active lifestyle where you’re always moving and prefer staying as lightweight as possible.

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The upcoming AirPods Pro 3 earbuds are said to bring a redesigned charging case that should shrink in size and lose a dedicated Bluetooth pairing button.

Asher Dipprey, who is a 3D artist at Front Page Tech, has shared on his X (Twitter) account that the next AirPods Pro will bring design tweaks to make them more in line with the AirPods 4. He wrote that the charging case size will “decrease slightly.” Also, Apple will allegedly remove a physiacl pairing button from the AirPods Pro 3’s charging case. Instead, you can tap on the case itself to enter pairing mode.

Leaker Majin Bu has corroborated Dipprey’s findings. Based on information obtained “from a well-known accessory manufacturer,” Bu added that the AirPods Pro 3’s charging case will also retain support for the lanyard.

AirPods Pro 3 charging may lose the pairing button

This sounds a lot like a design change Apple brought with the AirPods 4, released in September 2024. The AirPods 4 lack a traditional physical pairing button and instead embed a hidden touch-sensitive area on the front. To activate pairing mode on the AirPods 4, you just double-tap the front of the case.

The fact that the AirPods Pro 3 will have a slightly smaller charging case indicates that the earbuds themselves will probably shrink in size. Earlier this year, a leaked image (below) of what appeared to be the next AirPods Pro depicted changes like shorter stems and a bigger in-ear portion.

If true, this makes a lot of sense. Design differences between the regular AirPods and the AirPods Pro line never felt justified to me. Why engineer two sets of visually slightly different earbuds and charging cases when you could streamline these designs across AirPods products?

Other rumored AirPods Pro 3 features

Provided this rumor is true, it sounds like the next AirPods Pro and the regular AirPods may look more uniform. Earlier this year, Mark Gurman reported on Bloomberg that the AirPods Pro 3 will bring “a new design” along with upgraded noise cancellation that will be “much better” than the existing feature on the AirPods Pro 3 and a new Apple H3 headphone chip that will enable new computational audio capabilities.

Gurman also said earlier that Apple is working on health tracking features for future AirPods models, including in-ear heart rate monitoring and temperature sensing, and new sensors powering “a slew of physiological measures.” It’s unclear if any of those health features will make the cut for the AirPods Pro 3.

It’s been three years since Apple updated the AirPods Pro, but the wait should soon be over; Apple is expected to release the AirPods Pro 3 alongside the iPhone 17 lineup in September.

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