If you’d like to control your playback from your phone, you can control it via voice commands, or a series of pinches and swipes. Just be aware that the location of the pinch area is closer to the bottom of the stem than it is the middle, which can be a little confusing.

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro controls:

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro microphone demo (Office conditions):

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro microphone demo (Street conditions):

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro microphone demo (Windy conditions):

Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro microphone demo (Reverberant space):

For whatever reason, we couldn’t get much noise reduction out of the Samsung Galaxy Buds3 Pro, but that might be one of those things that requires certain apps to be used with the earbuds, as the Windows computer and voice notes app by Samsung had similar results. Though the samples above might not reject outside noise all that well, it’s entirely possible that you’re going to have different results based on which client you use, or which device. It’s also possible that a firmware update could ameliorate this.

Bass boost EQ Preset

The bass boost EQ preset does exactly what you’d think it does, and boosts bass to a rather silly degree. Some may like this, we do not.

Smooth EQ Preset

This preset has a rather pronounced bass shelf that starts pretty high, at about 400Hz. Highs are a little tamped down, but to more reasonable levels than the default behavior.

Dynamic EQ Preset

This preset has a similar bass shelf to the one exhibited by the Smooth preset, but with more emphasis in the highs.

Clear EQ Preset

Our preferred EQ preset, the Clear EQ preset has the most palatable response in our opinion, and deviates from our preference curve in ways we’ve come to expect as “normal.” For example, many other earbuds have a slight dip at 500Hz as shown above, along with some rolloff in the highs past 10kHz.

Treble boost EQ Preset

Much like the Bass boost EQ preset, the Treble boost EQ preset does exactly what’s on the label: by toning down bass a little and boosting highs, leading to a perceived treble emphasis.

Balanced EQ Preset

This preset has a strong bass emphasis but also a more-restrained high end.