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quiz
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Sep 12, 2020
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Five hours battery life, two hours to charge, and no charging case is not impressive in 2020. The IPX5 water-resistant body is nice, but I'd worry about water getting in through the exposed USB ports. Pairing them sounds like a hassle. Unless these sound terrific (and the three posted reviews use words like 'decent,' 'not the most accurate,' and, my favorite, 'a delight for the mass consumer'), I'm not really sure who the target market is.
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Qwervy
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Sep 13, 2020
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quizI dont think that water would get in through the usb ports because apparently they are hydrophobically coated but the fact taht they need that weird charging thing in the first place and dont have a case/are actually separate earphones is super weird and sounds like a hassle.
PACoug
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Oct 2, 2020
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QwervyAre actually separate earphones: TWS are the hottest trend in earphones.
“that weird charging thing” is a twin micro usb cable. Micro usb is the most common charge port in existence. They don’t “need” the twin cable—they can use any two micro usb cables. The twin is a convenience to take up a single slot in your usb charger instead of 2.
“They don’t have a case”: they have a case.
Toby56
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Oct 2, 2020
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PACougThe point is, they don't have a charging case, which is MUCH more convenient than the split cable thing they provide. Even charging cases that use Micro USB instead of USB C are considered at a disadvantage. And the case is much larger than most TWS charging cases, AND it doesn't provide any extra battery life. And they take a while to charge.
Nickyro23
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Oct 2, 2020
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Toby56Informed, yet still calls it "the split cable thing"... 🤦♂️
But yes, I agree... This is a fail in 2020
Qwervy
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Oct 3, 2020
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PACougYou need to plug them in separately, they aren't encased in a nice single hard block and would rattle around in that massive carry bag. The reason that the TWS is a big trend is because of convenience. It's a way of making a single compact thing that you can just throw in your pocket turn into two discrete wireless earbuds.
I call this "separate earphones" because they aren't a nice system like every other TWS earbud, rather separate earphones with a generic case that is bulky, you need to zip it up and it doesn't charge them so you need to take them out and plug in 3 different things (because most of the time you would just have a charging cable permanently plugged in, but you would need to unplug that to plug in the ungainly splitter cable if you are low on usb port real-estate.
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