![]() The only other wobble was an issue that affects most, perhaps all, Bluetooth earphones. But the upside was that I was never in danger from things around me due to not hearing them. When I was listening to podcasts, occasionally a bus would drive past me, drowning out the program. The second is that sometimes there’s too much environmental noise to hear things clearly through the earphones. There are two downsides to the non-sealing design. To turn up the volume you tap the right earbud. To play/pause, you click in the left earbud. ![]() But earbuds have a click button – the whole surface – and are also touch sensitive. The right earbud is for changing the volume. (The printed Quick Start Guide has things the right way around.) You can swap the default left-right setting (left) to match the manual (right), or for your own convenienceīy default, play/pause and track skipping, answering calls and hanging up, invoking Google Assistant or Siri and pairing are all managed from the left earbud. Nonetheless, it did have me a little confused at the outset. Within the app’s settings you can switch the earphones to work the other way around. The controls are the other way around than indicated by the user guide. But, no, it’s actually on the left earbud. It tells you, for example, that the Play/Pause button is on the right earbud. Unfortunately, it’s a bit misleading at the start. Fortunately, there’s a manual within the BackBeat app. Now, of course you’re going to have to work out how the controls work. The other says, “phone connected”, and then you’re right to go. The right hand one says, “headset connected”, which means that the two buds are connected to each other. They will announce that they are powered on, along with their battery level: high, medium or low. When you put them on you’ll hear three messages. The grey models come with black tips, rather than red You are supposed to be able to hear what’s around you. That seems to be intentional in the design. Or, at least, they certainly didn’t seal up mine. These earphones do not seal up your ear canal. So, you pull them out of the case and pop them around and into your ears. They work with the same phone app used by the Plantronics BackBeat GO 410 earphones, which we reviewed a few days ago. Oddly, when you open the case naturally, the right earpiece is on the left and the left one on the right. The earphones clip into place securely within the case. It looks much more like a soft carry case than a charge case, and it ought to be safer when dropped than those with hard plastic cases. It has a zipper and a leather-look finish. These cases are typically hard plastic affairs. (Also, a 15-minute quick charge in the case gives an extra hour of listening.) The run time is specified at an unusually long five hours per charge. In this case, there are two additional charges available in the case. Because they have a limited run time on their own – too big a battery would make them too heavy – the case provides multiple recharges. True wireless earbuds routinely come with a charge case. The loops hold them loosely in place, but there’s no real seal. As we’ll see, that’s because they are not designed to plug fully into the user’s ears. Second, the silicon tips – they’re bright red – aren’t replaceable. First, they come with fixed loops which go around the wearer’s ears. Each of the earbuds contains a surprisingly large 13.5mm driver, seemingly of conventional dynamic design.
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