Bose SoundSport Free Truly Wireless Sport Headphones - Midnight Blue

I have several Bose headphone including the QC30 and have recently purchased the SoundSport Free. My thoughts after a month: Weight. Some speak of them as being heavy in the ears, this is not the case. I have relatively small ears and these fit well and do not protrude as much as people claim. They seal well, the wing tip supplied are by far the best I have used with many similar products. Even after a whole day listening these are fine. I don't do the gym but do walk my dog, there is no wind noise, they do a great job at isolating ambient noise. Battery Life. Superb, I listen all morning, put them back in the case while I eat lunch and they are good to go for the whole afternoon. The simplicity of the charging via the case is a dream, the magnetic recess which holds them in the case is a nice design. Some say the case is too large but I have not found it all bulky in the front pocket of jeans an chinos. Sound Quality. For me this is the most important factor, I follow the ethos of testing headphones by listening to tracks I know well, and I have done this with these, they offer very crisp clear audio, warm and very pleasing depth with good bass, a very powerful soundstage, there is a purity to them that I think is beyond compare with many more expensive wireless earphones and earbuds. Style & Build Quality. The colours on offer are funky, the buttons are quite small but easy to get used to but they are definitely not so hard that you have to remove them from your ears to use the options. I very easily updated them via the Bose support site to the latest software upgrade, it was a necessary upgrade for phone-call quality and a doddle to do. Overall - This is a quality product that will hold its place in the wireless earbud market for a long time to come. There are clearly Bose lovers and hater, if you are a hater, you are unlikely to be reading this review, for the lovers, adding these to their range has been a triumph. Expensive, maybe, but quality always is.

Bought these earphones some two months ago having waited for them to come out in the uk. Looked at many different completely wireless earphones first, but all seemed to have one problem or another (signal drops etc). So far i’m really impressed! I run and use the gym with these, when in the gym, the connection stays solid even when I excercise with my phone on the floor. When running, the earphones have never fallen out or even felt like they would, they ‘wiggle’ a bit but this causes no problems. I run with my phone on an armband or just with my watch and the connection to both has been rock solid. Sound quality is really good, probably better than I really need for excercise! Although I have to admit that the volume is not as high as I might hope (if a class is on in the gym, their music can be heard even at full volume) but when running they really are loud enough and allow ambient noise in making them safer to run with. I even ski’d with them and they were spot on! I tend to use them for about an hour at a time and never get a low battery, can’t confirm the 5hrs quoted though, can’t deny it either! Finally size, when I have them in some people comment on a ‘Frankenstein’ resemblance, but I believe they are smaller than most. The charge case is amazing, from the photos I expected a case around the size of a glasses case, but it is much smaller. Very happy and perfect for my use.

I have been using these now in the gym for about a week and let me start off by saying that I really do love these!! Totally recommend them and that's why I have given them 4 stars as there is a little issue with them I will explain later! The pairing was really easy, and they just worked great with my iPod Nano device. The sound quality for me is awesome and even those these are not noise isolation they do a really good job! When I am in the gym and have the volume up on them I dont hear any of my surroundings. I am not a runner, so only use these for gym workouts and while weightlifting but they honestly are superb. So.. what didnt I like about them? The only gripe I have with these is they stick out a bit from the ear. This isnt a big problem until you do any sort of running. Soon as you start running with them there is a "bouncy" feeling in the ear. They never fall out and they have a very good tight fit for me unlike other brands I have tried before. You do get used to the "bouncy" feeling and start ignoring it after 5-10 mins but could have been avoided if the design was more flush with your ear or the weight of the ear piece got reduced. Also after the firmware update I did the left earbud stopped playing sounds through it. This annoyed me for ages until I held the bluetooth button in for 10 seconds to clear the devices list from the Bose, then I cleared the pairing from my iPod nano. After I did a new sync everything started working again and has been working find since for a few days now. So looks like the left bud got out of sync from the master right side some how. But before you send them back cause of this issue just re-sync them and see if it helps. So overall, if you are not a runner or dont mind the "bouncy" feeling in your ear then I would recommend them! Yes they are expensive but Bose quality is defiantly shown in this product.

Update after a few weeks: they are ok. Decent sound but let down be frustrating connection issues. Worst thing is connecting them to one device then leaving that device turned off and hoping to use these headphones on another device but they keep trying to connect to the last device despite pressing on the button for them to connect to something else. That alone ruins the enjoyment for me as I often use them for my laptop but try to connect to my iPhone when I go to bed and it is a nightmare trying to get the darn things to stop trying to connect to my laptop. OMG! I tried another brand of in-ear headphones and they promptly went back in the box and back to Amazon. Why did I waste my time on anything but Bose? Bose SoundSport Free are AMAZING! Exactly what you'd expect from Bose. I've not been this pleased with headphones since I bought wired SoundSport in the past and the amazing QuietComfort 35. The ONLY thing that lets these down slightly is the pressure required to press buttons and the terrible Bose Connect app (which I was already familiar with because of having Bose QuietComfort for a few years). Come on Bose... Why does the app have to be so basic? Take a look at the brilliant Jaba app! Why can’t it include an EQ that sends sounds preferences to the earphones so that it applies to all music regardless of the app the user is using? And why oh why does it take over an insane length of time (over an hour on a 200mbps connection) to download an update?

I tried other wireless earbuds with varied success’s. it wasn’t until I got the Bose SoundSport Free that I finally got what I wanted a pair of completely wireless Bluetooth earbuds. I have 7 cats 2 British SH and five Burmese. Having any wires around them is counter productive as they have an evil fascination with chewing lumps out of the wires. Enter Bose they connect automatically with my MacBook Pro laptop, my iPhone 7, my iPad 6th gen and amazingly with my older iPad 3rd gen!! And because they aren’t noise cancelling I can actually have a conversation if required. They are comfortable to wear they weight 14 grams compared to the Jabra 65T I tried, they weight a whopping 340 grams! and my ears felt every minuscule part of each gram. They also have a feature in the app to track the last place your earbuds were at. Not GPS but providing they haven’t been moved they’re easy to find and will even make a noise if programmed. I was lucky to get them on Amazon for £152 even though the retail price is recommended to be £169.99 There is no need to buy a charging case as they come with their own charging case. Each charge lasts 5 hours and a facility for a quick 15 minute charge will give you another 45 mins of play. They come with 3 sizes of earbud cradles S,M & L you can buy others direct from Bose with no extra shipping costs.

Have to say that at first sight I thought they were too heavy and bulky, sticking some way out of my ears so I didn't think that they'd be for me. However having played them for a fair bit of today I have to say that they are fantastic! I changed the ear clip to a better size for me (3 included), downloaded the bose connect app and followed the easy instructions to pair. It's worth noting that phone calls only come through the right earpiece, but this is stated in the manual and not a fault. Also once they go into standby mode (you can set the time for this in the app according to personal preference) you need to click buttons on each earpiece to re-pair them, not just the right one, which may explain some of the issues raised in other reviews about the left earpiece not working. Early days I know, but so far so good and in summary they are really comfortable, and sound amazing. There's no noticeable movement in the ear when I'm moving around, although I have not tried to exercise in them yet. They also seem extremely well made and robust. Just a word of warning though, if you are looking for something small and subtle these are probably not for you.

I read lots of reviews including the negative points and decided to go for it and buy these. I already own a pair of soundsport wireless (which have a wire between the two buds) and when working out or running the wire irritates me slightly although the sound is fantastic so i was think about completely wire free. So back to the new wire free pair. I’m so glad that I decided to ignore the concerns around dropping out (sound/connection) and also actually falling out of the ear. If you put them in your ear you have to turn them towards the back of your head which has the effect of locking the stay hear tip into the “shell” of your ear! Brilliant - they don’t budge at all and you almost forget they are there. If they fall out, you haven’t read the instructions and followed this simple technique. I have had no such problems and I use them every day without fail at the gym. I’m usually there for around 90 mins and haven’t once been irritated by sound, quality, sensitivity, noise block from other sounds. The charging case re-charges the pods/buds to 90 or 100% when you finish your worklut and at the moment I am only having to plug in the charging case 1nignt per week. These are effortless. The sound quality is great and I listen to all sorts of music, I am now even hearing detail in the arrangement that I hadn’t noticed before. Whether that be house, pop, classical, or just random Spotify or amazon music. I’m really pleased! Take time to set them up properly and allow firmware updates etc when you first connect to your device. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I tried a friends apple AirPods and didn’t like them as much for the gym, but for other general use I would perhaps use the AirPods instead. Example On a train/flight etc simply because the apple AirPods do look better when not in use for exercise.

Ok the sound on these is amazing, very comfortable and i love the charging case etc. But the negatives far outweigh the positives and for £169 wireless earphones they will be going straight back and here's why : I use a 3rd party bluetooth transmitter, a TT-BA01UK, which is plugged into my TV's headphone socket. This has been working flawlessly with a really old pair of Sony MW600 bluetooth wireless earphones. No latency, lag or lip sync issues whatsoever. This transmitter only cost me £16.99 and its been great! I wanted an upgrade on the sound though, so thought spending this much money might be OTT but the sound is great, however, using the same setup i get terrible lag and the lip sync is completely out, almost by a second so its completely useless for watching TV and that was half the reason i got these. There is no feature on my TV to change the audio delay and if they work with my other bluetooth earphones i see no reason why i'd need to anyway? The other problem, i pair these with my laptop running Windows 10 and i only get sound out of the right ear just like if it were a phone call, my laptop thinks it a handsfree mobile headset not wireless headphones, so films etc sound terrible! Again, my trusty and very old MW600 worked correctly and had no issues, so how can a much newer and much, much more expensive product not cope with such a basic connection like his? Surely Bose didn't presume everyone would just be pairing these to a phone and nothing else??? These are bluetooth and this is supposed to be one of the benefits in that you can connect a mulitude of devices to each other isn't it????.... I'm very disappointed. I did check all the reviews relating to this and it was a mixed bag really, so i didn't know what to expect. I would recommend this is you're only going to use them for music, but for anything else like tv or video i'd avoid them completely! It's simply a case that they've released this product without testing them in all connection scenarios first and from such a big name as Bose that's pretty damn shocking!!! This isn't a software fix, they really need to get these redesigned and manufactured so that they work properly and include some low latency hardware like aptX-LL! There are a lot of posts on the Bose community forums, but there are no solutions just a lot of people complaining about the same experiences.. One last grumble and like others have said, these do protrude out of your ears quite a bit, so unless you want to look like a hipster come tattoo artist with dodgy earrings, that might bother you too.. There's no way i'm spending £169 for them just to use only with my phone!

Por fin ha acabado mi peregrinaje por los auriculares true wireless. He comprado los Jaybird Run, Airpods y por fin en cuanto han llegado a España, la que hubiera sido mi primera elección, Bose. La única duda que me ofrecían era si eran capaces de llevar su audio al wireless y la conectividad. Resultado, ambos aspectos son sobresalientes. En calidad de audio están a la altura de marca, suavidad, equilibrio en cualquier volumen y gran riqueza en los matices del sonido. Son el equilibro en la música, si te gustan los graves potentes, tendrás mejores opciones. Los Airpods están decentes en el sonido por su equilibrio, y los Bose son los Airpods con calidad de sonido maxima. Y digo que son los Airpods porque su conectividad es similar, perfecta. En 3 semanas de uso, solo un triste microcorte entre los cascos, como los apple. Da igual donde lleves el móvil, por la calle no se cortan nunca (no como los Jaybird, eran cortes continuos solo con girar la cabeza, increíble en un producto de un precio igual a este). Actualizaciones de firewire casi semanales solo conectando la app del móvil. Esta app es la única pega (junto al tamaño )que les pongo frente a Jaybird, no permite ecualizar, lo cual es una pena (a ver si nos ponemos las pilas los desarrolladores). El tamaño es otra pega, son voluminosos, puestos quedan grandísimos, como dos champiñones. Eso si, cómodos y firmes en la sujeción como ellos solos. Pero a cambio te dan control de volumen, cosa que ningún otro te da, junto al normal botón multifuncion. El uso de estos botones de volumen había leído que es incómodo, pero a mi no me lo parece si se usa bien. Si los aprietas solo con el índice desde arriba, obviamente se mueve el auricular porque están duros (ya que los auriculares son a prueba de agua). Pero si pulsas el botón utilizando tu pinza manual (el indice para pulsar y el pulgar debajo para sujetar) funcionan a la perfeccion. Por eso creo que el tamaño mayor del auricular es necesario. Todo esto hace que el estuche para cargarlos sean casi 3 veces más gran que el de los Airpods, demasiado. El estuche ofrece 5 cargas, tiene un indicador de carga de 5 leds y ella apertura es segura, no se abre solo y te conecta sin querer cuando lo llevas en el bolsillo (otra pega importante de los Jaybird) Pros: Calidad de sonido. Conectividad. Contras: Apliacion con pocas funciones, tamaño demasiado grande. Recomiendo la compra al 100%, Si, son estos, son los mejores.

This Product is Good but it looks not new because it's already open. And no plastic cover for bose charging case... Plastic from the extra air bud ws pierce by sharp or something

Uso este artículo para entrenar y correr. Al principio no estaba acostumbrado al diseño y me parecía que se iban a caer, pero con el tiempo y uso me fui dando cuenta que se fijan bastante bien. El sonido es excelente. No soy ningún ingeniero de audio ni experto en este sentido, pero para lo que yo los uso (correr, entrenar, caminar, etc) mientras escucho mi música en volumen alto, cumple perfecto. Me gusta que el volumen alto no molesta al oído, pareciera que va directamente al cerebro (no sé cómo explicarlo). Su diseño aísla muy bien el sonido externo, permitiendo que se escuche bien la música incluso a volumen bajo. Hay algunos detalles que tal vez podrían mejorar. No he comprobado si es normal (y si no, por favor díganmelo), pero las llamadas sólo se escuchan en el auricular derecho. Me pareció algo raro pero asumí que era normal, aunque no entiendo por qué, y en este sentido siento que la calidad del enlace con la llamada no es tan buena, en ocasiones se escucha a bajo volumen, en otras ocasiones se ha cortado, pero es posible que también sea problema de la llamada en sí, aunque sí pondría un poco de atención en esto. Estaría bien que se pudiera adelantar o atrasar las canciones desde alguno de los auriculares. No tiene esta opción, por si alguien lo busca, pero sí se puede subir y bajar volumen desde el auricular derecho. Así como conectar y medir el nivel de batería desde el izquierdo. El cargador ( & case) dura varias cargas de los auriculares, incluso si no está conectado. Son auriculares pequeños y obviamente sin cables por lo que sugiero llevarlos siempre con su cargador porque pueden perderse fácilmente. En general ha sido una excelente adquisición y de muy buena calidad y diseño.

Cuffie dalla qualità del suono fantastica, con leggera enfasi dei bassi. L'archetto fornito di varie dimensioni le aggancia graniticamente all'orecchio e le rende comodissime, nonostante siano abbastanza grandi rispetto ad altre cuffie rivali risultano molto leggere e una volta indossate sembrerà di non averle. Non sono completamente in-ear, cosa che personalmente preferisco, il che non le rende molto insonorizzate, però diciamo che con volume cuffia e telefono all'80%, (cosa che facevo anche con le precedenti cuffie) in palestra che è un ambiente rumoroso non sento l'ambiente esterno. L'applicazione dedicata è ben fatta e se collegate permette di ritrovare le cuffie facendogli emettere un suono, inoltre si può controllare Spotify e i vari lettori multimediali direttamente da lì. I tasti sulla cuffia sono fisici e un po' duri, forse un po' difficili da premere mentre si corre. Batteria praticamente infinita, sono ad un mese di utilizzo e di solito dopo 2 ore di allenamento in palestra sono al 70% in più la custodia tiene due cariche complete, solitamente mi durano 3/4 allenamenti prima di doverle caricare. Una menzione va al problema di delay tra audio-video, problema "risolto" via software, ho cambiato telefono da poco e mentre sul mio vecchio Honor 10 il software faceva andare a scatti il video per tenere l'audio in Sync, (cosa forse anche più fastidiosa del problema originale) sul nuovo mi 9t pro il problema è magicamente sparito e funzionano alla perfezione. Penso quindi che dipenda da quanto performante è il telefono utilizzato. In ogni caso io le utilizzo principalmente per palestra e corsa e sono FANTASTICHE.

I read a lot of reviews and compared a lot of products before buying these. I am 100% sure its the best that I have bought. Few concerns about people not being able to decide. 1. Sound quality is at par with a bose over-ear headphone such as QC 35. It truly is. I own both and so can tell. So rest assured in that regard. 2. Lot of remarks about getting disconnected and not being able to pair. Most reviews pointing those issue out are old. New updates on the firmware (mine was pre-installed with it) seem to have taken care of it. I have had no issue using multiple devices. 3. Reviews comparing and complainign about range. I have had no issue or drop even after being away from my phone behind 2 different rooms and 2 set of closed doors. 4. The fit is so good. Bose gives 3 pairs (s,m,l) of earpieces which makes the fit so good that it blocks most of the sound out. For me this was not a priority anyways as i wanted to hear a bit of ambient noise in the gym and outdoor sports where i want to be aware of the surroundings. With higher (50+%) volumes I cant even here the my own treadmill thumps I make. 5. The design lets you do all kinds of gym activities without the fear of the earpiece slipping out due to its design. So far it has not slipped out during chest presses, abs board exercises, running, etc. 6. Concerns about bass being too loud and mids being flats are absolutely untrue. Plus most apps like Spotify, etc have their own eq settings that you can tweak if you are an audiophile. Having said that the sound of these truely wireless headphones will blow you off regardless of whether you use any equalizers. 7. Weird looking gadget, protudes out of the ear too much.. etc etc. I don't see myself when i am wearing these and its not even a compromise you are making against the sound delivered in your ears. Its made my gym experience so much more fun and exciting. 8. The battery life is pretty good. I have not stretched it to its limits but with my use of 50-60 mins a day, i had to recharge the wireless case after 15-16 days which i have no issues with. The only issue i think are the buttons on the right earpiece. It feels pretty hard for a premium product and there is a slight bit of delay in response from those buttons. So a volume change from the button would probably have a half second delay which i personally don't think is a bit issue. Also, only the right earpiece is engaged for calls and announcements which gives a weird feeling when left earpiece sound just shuts down all of a sudden while hearing music and there is an incoming call. If you have the budget, and are looking for premium sound, its a no-brainer. If you are looking for a noise cancelling headphones to watch movies, there are better options, but if you are looking for a wireless sports headphone to wear in the gym, you should buy these. These are returnable on Amazon, so if you don't like them, you can always return, but believe me once you hear the sound out of these, all your concerns will melt away. From me its a triple major go-for-it ! Note: Ensure that your city has a BOSE authorized service center. Even though amazon officially partners with appario retail (the seller on amazon), if these stop working after the return window is closed, local bose service centers will give you full support on amazon's invoice and warranty certificate during the warranty period. Good luck