There should be a word for the delightful feeling of having used something for a while and occasionally wishing that it had a particular feature, only to discover that it had that feature all along.
I have a pair of earbuds – Soundcore R50i NC, a gift from Juliet – and I really like them. The baby blue colour, the rounded pebble-like box with its thin LED indicator, the satisfying way the earbuds snap magnetically into their charging slots, they way they sound, how light they are...
There was only thing I wished I could change. The earbuds, I thought, had only two modes, toggled with a long press: Noise cancelling (which actively suppresses ambient sounds) and Transparency (which magnifies them). My headphones (also Soundcore) also have a Normal mode which is in between – they neither suppress nor amplify. Noise-cancellation bothers me, and I often found myself wishing my earbuds had a Normal mode too.
Guess what, they did have it all along. I just needed to activate it through the phone app.
I also discovered that the box doubles as a phone stand, as shown in the image below. This wasn't a feature that I needed or wished for, but it's cute.
It's a great feeling in general when we really like an object that we use daily – I mean really like, beyond just finding it "useful" or "satisfactory". This is currently the case with my earbuds, glasses and computer, among other things.
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