Here One Wireless Smart Earbuds: 3-in-1 Noise Cancelling & In Ear Bluetooth Earbuds - Android App & Bluetooth Compatible and iPhone Bluetooth Compatible (Black)

Both Here One and Nuheara IQbus offer similar features: completely wireless, active noise cancellation/sound augmentation, and recharging case. Bragi Headphone is a completely wireless headphone with only passive noise isolation and no rechargeable case at half the price of the other two. I prefer the Nuheara out of the three headphones because it has comparable battery life to Bragi and has the active noise cancellation feature. Here One offers similar features, but the battery life is not very good.Some detail comparison:Battery Life with Music Streaming (Nuheara and Here One can last longer if you only use the Sound Augmenting Feature without music streaming)Bragi: 6 hours per chargeNuheara: 4 hours per charge with 3 more charges from the caseHere One: 1.5 hours per charge with 3 more charges from the caseActive Noise CancellationHere One and Nuheara offer similar active noise cancellation capability. They are not as good as Bose QC 20, but much better than just having passive noise isolation from Bragi. Both headphones do a good job of reducing street noise and airplane noise (recording from Youtube).Sound AugmentationIn addition to active noise cancellation, Here One and Nuheara also allow the user to control how much and what type of sounds from the outside world to reach the user. In theory, this is useful to reduce airplane engine noise, but then amplify human voices to talk to flight attendants or travelling companions. Unfortunately, even though this feature does work somewhat, neither headphones are that great at it. Here One is slight better at increasing the sound of a speaker over ambient noise, but in order to achieve this, it also increases ambient noise at similar frequencies as the human voice, so this can be distracting. Overall, using this feature on either headphones to increase a speaker's voice for a short conversation is nice, but anything longer than a minute and it can be distracting.Headphone ControlsHere One and Nuheara has capacitive button on each headphone for control. Bragi has three physical buttons on the right side for control.Bragi has pause/play, volume, bypass, and answer/reject call control using the buttons.Here One has pause/play, bypass, siri/google now, and answer/reject call using either left or right earbuds.Nuheara has pause/play and answer/reject call using left earbuds and audio augmentation mode control on the right earbuds. Nuheara also has siri/google now control using double tap on either earbuds.I prefer the Nuheara for being able to cycle through different augmentation modes, so I can easily switch between Music (basically complete active noise cancellation) to Office or Plane (for quick conversations). Here One only allow the user to turn Smart Augmentation On or Off using the bypass control. This means I can only choose between reduced ambient sound or allowing all ambient sound in whereas Nuheara allows me to keep the ambient sound reduction on while still having a quick conversation but just amplifying human voices.Bluetooth ConnectionAll three headphones have good bluetooth connection for indoor and outdoor although Bragi and Here One are slight better than Nuheara. Nuheara had little more drop outs than the other two, but it is still acceptable for everyday use.AppsHere One app is simpler to use than the Nuheara app although Here One app required more permissions. I am not sure why Here One needed location permission. Also, whenever I opened the Hear One app to check on the battery life of the earbuds while listening to music, it had to reconnect to the earbuds and the earbuds chimed to confirm the connection. This was a little annoying.For the Nuheara app, there is couple of more setting you can modify for each Smart Augmentation Modes (e.g. SINC and EQ), but in the end, I just used the default settings. Bragi has no app which means connection to the phone is slight simpler. Also switching between phones and tablets are easier for Bragi because it just needs a bluetooth connection.FitAll three earbuds give you different size ear tips, but they have different approach.Here One provides L, M, S silicone and foam tips for 6 total pairs.Nuheara provides L, M, S, XS circular and oval silicone tips for 8 total pairs.Bragi provides M, S silicone and one comply foam tips for 3 total pairs.I found the Nuheara medium oval silicone tips to be most comfortable out of all three earbuds. Here One medium silicone tips are also fine but not as secure as the oval tips from Nuheara. Bragi medium silicone tips are ok, but does not offer much passive noise isolation. Bragi comply tips provided better passive noise isolation, but broke after 2 months of use.Battery CaseNuheara battery case has more LEDs to provide more information about the status of the charge of the case and the earbuds, but it is bigger than the Here One case although both cases are very compact. Bragi's case does not have a battery to recharge the earbuds. Also the Bragi case is two pieces that slide apart while Nuheara and Hear One cases snap open and shut.Sound QualityAll three headphones are about the same in this aspect as far as I can tell.

I am always on the lookout for new and interesting tech products that improve my life and make my day-to-day experience more convenient. As an owner of a few different wireless headphones, including the Apple AirPods, I became interested in the Here One earbuds after reading a few articles about what this amazing product can do. Overall, they are incredible and definitely offer a much different experience versus the AirPods.Positives:Sound quality is extremely high fidelity, exceeding my expectations for wireless earbuds. They sound much better than the Apple’s Airpods with more powerful bass and clear sound.Noise cancellation capabilities are the most advanced I have ever seen. While all noise cancelling headphones I’ve previously used have offered two settings (noise cancelling on, or off), these buds let you fully customize the level of cancellation you want. This allows you to still enjoy the benefits of noise cancellation without necessarily tuning out everything (although you can do that if you want to!), which is a great option for when you still want to maintain awareness of external sounds.I have primarily used these while riding the subway system in San Francisco and so I’ve made generous usage of the “MUNI” noise filter. These noise filters are fascinating, as they are tailored towards various environments - the MUNI/Subway filter, for example, filters out the background noises, screeches, etc., that you typically hear on a subway. There are other filters for scenarios like bus, plane, city, and so on. You can even target the noise cancelling in a certain directions, enabling you to hear only noises in front of you, or behind you. This is an extremely cool application of noise cancellation tech and I’m looking forward to experimenting further with these various filters.Here One includes a range of earbud attachments to help you find the best fit for your ears. A few of these attachments are made from a squishy material that is essentially moldable, which helps you achieve a very precise fit to the inside of your ear. As someone who always struggles with finding a decent fit for earbuds, this was a total revelation! The buds fit perfectly and I don’t know why other earbud manufacturers aren’t using this material!Opportunities:While the Here One app is a great way to control the overall experience, in some ways it feels too complex and geared primarily towards an “expert user.” For instance, noise cancellation is handled via a scale that goes from -22 to +6, which doesn’t feel intuitive. There is also a feature called Live Mix which allows you to fully customize the level and type of noises that the technology mutes. This feature is placed prominently within the app’s main screen, and while I’m sure that more advanced users would greatly appreciate these options, I found them overwhelming. Generally, I think the app would benefit from some streamlining and simplification, with an eye towards user education, to make it easier to know which settings are best for which situations.I was surprised that there is currently no option to add Here One as an iPhone widget for quicker access to settings. Would be great to see this in a future software update! (...hint, hint…)I had some initial frustrations while pairing the buds with my phone, eventually realizing that the buds simply didn’t have enough charge out of the box to proceed with setup. While I should have expected this, upon opening the case for the first time, the battery indicator lights all fully lit up, giving me the impression of a full charge. I later learned that this indicator is for the charging case, not the buds themselves. While it is completely understandable that the buds would need to be charged before first use, initial setup did not highlight this as a necessary step, causing a slightly rough onboarding process for me. Once I allowed the buds to fully charge, everything proceeded smoothly.