occiam Sport Wireless Earbuds Bluetooth Headphones 80hrs Playtime Deep Bass Ear Buds with Earhook Noise Cancelling Mic Waterproof Earphones for Workout Running Matte Black

Overview – Long lasting, good sound, good mic, wireless charging, everything I’m looking for and no downside. Background – I wear earbuds almost all day, whether I’m listening to audio books, podcasts, or calling into work meetings. I wanted something that clipped over-the-ear instead of just sticking in place because I sometimes wear them while mountain biking, and I’m worried they’ll fall out and get lost/broken. I wanted wireless charging and a long battery life. Pros – Always works. I’ve had this product a few years now (on a 2nd pair) and never needed to replace it due to a functionality issue. (I lost one ear bud when I dropped the case. Thus the “2nd pair”). Feels comfortable enough to wear all day Battery lasts 6-8 hours of constant use. Case recharges them very quickly. Case charger uses USB C and can also be charged wirelessly. I love this combo because in the past the charger port is usually the failure point on my devices, and USB C or wireless seem to be the best solution. Sound is good. I can’t say I’m an expert on sound quality for music, etc. But for meetings and speech, I have no issues. Others can also hear me clearly when I talk, which has been an issue with other devices. Cons – It’s a small con, but I wish the case snapped shut or was held together slightly better. Everytime the case drops to the floor, you can just count on the earbuds popping out. I don’t think these are overpriced, but there are much lower cost options if those meet your needs. Final Thoughts – These are my go-to ear buds if I ever need to replace, them I’ll re-order the same product.

This is a pretty much a good quality headphone for the price range. Good: Charging case charges faster. Charging case lid has something like magnet to close it. After continuous use it provided almost 48 hrs of charge which is pretty good. Headphone survives pretty much 8 hours of play time. Bluetooth works really good when connected to my iphone. Pairs pretty easily. It didn’t interrupt while at a certain distance which happens often while I used my other bluetooth headphones but yes it interrupted while using with my laptop. Sound quality is crisp and clear. Little less bass and at high volume you feel bass but they can work on this section. Didn’t try under water. So can’t say if it is water proof but it should be water resistant. This earbud headphone doesn’t hurt your ear and you barely feel you have anything on your ear. Pretty comfortable. Control section is good. You can play, pause, next, previous music, call people via siri, accept and receive call using one same power button by amount of clicks. Awesome! Best part about this earbud headphone is voice call quality. This one catches your voice so clearly and other end person over will have no complain hearing you but yes it catches background noises and other end person over phone can hear it but i believe it tries to minimize noises. Other than that you can both enjoy quality call. I love it! Bad: Charging case looks cheap but when you grab it with hand doesn’t feel cheap. Display of battery life is awesome but I wish you could see the display of charging outside of the case when you close the lid. If you don’t turn off your headphone and it was still connected to your device, when you put them inside the box for charging it will always disconnect which is good but I believe somehow for my last charging session it took charges from the box, so box charge was empty and then when I put my earphone on it was off. So, I hd to turn on and after few minutes it said low battery. So, I am pretty much sure it will release charges if you don’t put it off while putting in for charge when charging box charge is finished. Customer Service is not prompt. I had to wait and then shoot second email to reach them. Not sure in future how they will serve but I can see they are trying their best to make their product a brand. And I wish them success for this good product. I am not sure how long this earphone will survive but it is a pretty quality earphone within the price range and my favorite headphone for now. Ignore all the bad reviews and trust me this is a quality earphone. You will love it. For my side, this earphone worked good :)

My first bluetooth headphones were the Powerbeats Pro. (They were a Christmas present, I wouldn't have gotten anything that expensive.) Since they were my first ones I didn't have anything to compare them to. Powerbeats Pro (Roughly 1 year) The beats were really cool at first, but ended up really finicky, were difficult to keep connected, I had to disconnect and reboot them far too often, would never sit in the case right so they were never properly charged, and the worst part was that I needed an app to use them. Because of the price, my stomach dropped every time they fell even a short distance. But I didn't know any better than to love them! Eventually they stopped taking a charge; eventually they stopped turning on at all; eventually the case completely died. Buying new ones was waaay cheaper than servicing them. They're in a box somewhere. Occiam (1.5+ years) After an absurd amount of research, I settled on these as a replacement. Note, I wore these all day, everyday. By which I mean 8am to 4 ish, then I'd charge them about half an hour, and then 4:30 until 10-11 or whenever I went to bed. They did get some water on them (not regularly, but at least once a week), and (maybe gross to hear, but) I do make a lot of earwax - my point is, I really wore these out. The price made the whole process less stressful. That was worth it. The sound was surprisingly good, definitely better than the beats (by the time that they had died). I really expected the $300 headphones to have better sound quality after 1 year than $35 headphones out the package. I was very pleased right of the bat. I used them for short phone calls, but nothing that extensive, so I have no opinion about the mic. The connection was iffy at times. They were reliable in that they weren't very hard to connect, but after a little while if I touched... like, possibly any item whatsoever, they would go out. Sometimes they would go out when I wasn't doing anything, but they would come back on about a second later. This didn't bother me because I'd had such a hard time connecting the Beats; I was grateful that they worked at all. The fit wasn't all that special. I got over the ear because my ear canals are small, I guess, and all kinds of ear buds always pop out - including these. (Even using with the smallest tips.) When they would come out, I would just push them back in. Since the buttons weren't so easy to press, this wasn't a problem. With the Beats, I would accidentally push buttons all the time. People complained about these buttons being too hard to press, and they're not wrong, but I just used another finger to support the earbuds or just pressed the dang thing in my ear harder - it didn't bother me. The interface I liked. You could use just one at a time, which I never did, but more importantly both earbuds had all controls so I could control them despite my hands being kind of full. The battery life was decent, but nothing I was too impressed by. Maybe 8 hours of play time - at first! Which brings me to why I stopped using them. At some point (maybe 6-8 months in) they would only hold a charge for 3-4 hours. Usually if there was a charging issue, I'd just clean the case and whatnot and it would be fine, but nope. No matter what I did they wouldn't hold much of a charge. This was a problem because I needed to block out my coworkers for at least 8 hours a day to keep my sanity. So I retired them as backups and bought new ones. My newest ones were bluetooth but connected by a wire, which has pros and cons. Recently the wire connection got messed up, and I turned back to these hoping that after 6 months of not even needing my back ups, these would mercifully allow me to bridge the gap to purchasing my next pair. Charged the case, popped them in, they work just fine. I haven't used them long enough to re-test the battery life. And despite the overall pleasant review - I won't be repurchasing them. Edit: (Week or so later) I tried two other headphones and I am going to get these again instead.