Review on 🎧 Honor Magic Earbuds: Waterproof Wireless Bluetooth Earphones for Sport, iOS & Android with Case (White) by Julie Bahr

I've tried about a dozen true wireless headphones over the past few years. I listen to a lot of podcasts on my smartphone and features like noise cancellation make TWS products very attractive to me. I love how they connect automatically and are particularly good for voice calls or interacting with voice assistants like Siri or Alexa. To be honest I don't know why I feel the need to keep buying these items, I think it's because I know they are essentially consumable and disposable items as most of them don't let you allow to change the batteries, which in some cases can be very difficult. Source even if you could open them by destroying the earpiece. The influence of Apple's AirPods is undeniable given the look Honor was aiming for with these headphones. They literally look like pros with longer stems from regular 2nd/1st Gen AirPods. generation off. Honor is a company owned by Huawei, a Chinese tech company that makes smartphones and laptops and even develops its own Kirin chips to compete with Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos. Due to restrictions placed on them by the US government and the Trump administration, no US company should do business with them. This cut them off from Windows on a laptop and Android on smartphones. They launched a number of wearables that were already in production before this event, but now it makes more sense since these devices can be made without relying on western software. Touch controls, auto pause when you take them out of your ears, very good build quality with a metal screen over the drivers near the silicone tips. Pairing is easy with the button on the charging case as you can pair them first while the earbuds are still in the case. I am so impressed with the $100 ANC. It works even better than the Revain Echo buds, which do a decent job of doing the job. The only major downside is the battery life, which ranges from 3.5 to 4 hours depending on whether ANC is enabled or not. I'd say 6-8 hours is the standard so there's not much reason to ignore it. Otherwise everything else is really good for the price. You can usually get Auto Pause/Play and ANC for $150, but rarely much less. The sound quality is ok, not bad at all. I find that most $100-$200 true wireless networks are very similar. They're certainly as good in sound quality as the $150-$170 second-gen AirPods. There is an app that can be used with Android, but it's not available on the iOS side, so I couldn't test it. If you have a Huawei or Honor phone, they have a simple pairing pop-up feature similar to AirPods, but it won't work on a Samsung or any other Android device (probably requires the Huawei version of Google Play Services, to work). Other omissions include the lack of wireless charging and a "pass-through" mode to hear the outside world around me. I'd love to see these features, but I'm sure there was a limited selection of things to enable before trimming their Benefit from how much it would cost, all these features for less than $100 to have. I think these are really good headphones with an impressive range of features and no quirks that I found in daily use for a week. There are so many options for $100 TWS headphones, I don't know if I can say these are the best, but they definitely make the top 5, along with some products from 1more and Soundcore. Update: I would also like to point out that these headphones do not have the Ambient Sound Mode or Awareness Mode mentioned on the article page. A long press on the touch sensor ONLY toggles noise cancellation on and off. Update 2: I'm changing my rating to 3 stars (down from 5) based on standby battery life. If you are not actively using these headphones, the charging case will still fully discharge to 0%. This is a problem and it is not a general problem. I have a dozen true wireless headphones ranging from cheap to $300 premium. I've never experienced earbuds running out of power just because they're sitting in a drawer, this can happen in about a week or so (so I'm not thinking months and months).