Galaxy Buds FE Wireless Earbuds, Active Noise Cancelling, Comfort Fit, Graphite, 2 Year Manufacturer Extended Warranty (UK Version)

I must say this is probably one of my best tech purchases. Not only the earbuds fit my ears perfectly without falling off but they also perform very well. As mentioned, I am most happy about how comfortably these sit in my ears I wear my buds every day to work as I have a fair distance to walk and I occasionally run but never had any issues with these falling out. The noise cancelling option is a great feature to have. When walking to work I need to listen for the oncoming cyclists or walkers while when I am at work or exercising, I can switch the noise cancelling by simpy touching both pods simultanousely and forget about the whole world. The sound is nice and clear, probably comparable with the higher end buds on the market. I loved how easy it was to pair these buds with my Samsung 23FE and how easy the buds switch between other devices too. The battery life is definitely worth mentioning too. Althought it has only been couple of weeks that I have been using these, I can say I am very pleased with the battery life. They hold the battery well and the case charges so quick and holds additional charge for the buds. So I never really have to worry about buds not being charged - I would use them all day and put them away for the night for them to recharge and so on. I would definitely recommend these buds - great quality an affordable price.

The Samsung Galaxy Buds FE have exceeded my expectations in every way. The sound quality is outstanding for the price - clear vocals, balanced bass, and a rich overall tone that makes music, podcasts, and calls sound great. The noise cancellation is surprisingly effective too, cutting out background noise without feeling unnatural. They’re also incredibly comfortable. The redesigned wing tips keep the buds secure without causing any pressure, even during long listening sessions or workouts. I barely notice I’m wearing them. Pairing with my Samsung phone was instant and seamless, and the touch controls are responsive and easy to use. Battery life has also been excellent; I can go through most of the day with only a quick recharge in the case. Overall, the Galaxy Buds FE offer premium features at a very reasonable price. Great sound, great comfort, great build quality. Highly recommended!

It's pretty easy to draw comparisons on these to others as there are so many brands/makes out there that do wireless headphones. However, as they are the same brand as the phone, it connect easily and without fuss so that's a bonus, as some can be quite a faff to connect. I paired with my phone (and there is a good app that helps you get the best out of them), my tablet and my laptop, so I could try them out in different situations. With the phone, as you would expect, clear sound but I personally felt they lacked a bit of bass/depth to the sound, and this was after my playing with the app. On my tablet, great for streaming. On my laptop, great for meetings and the noise cancelling was pretty good compared to others that claim to cancel noise but don't! It took me a little while to get the fit right in my ears, and the app helped with that as well! but once I worked out the best position, they fit well, were comfortable and a couple of times I forgot they were in! Battery life is pretty decent, and the case can be charged via a USB-C cable so charge pretty quickly. If you lose then, you can locate them with an app, so thats a bonus. My only point to raise that might be viewed as slightly negative is that I would have preferred more bass as that was lacking a little, but overall a good piece of kit to have.

I was quite surprised with the features and the build quality of the buds and the charging case when they arrived. The charging case is pocketable and will fit easily into any jeans pocket or bag. I believe there is a magnet or at least a strong spring in the hinge that keeps the lid closed and avoids a situation where the lid opens accidentally. As the opening of the lid activates the connection with your smartphone (i use an S23), this often overlooked minutia helps to avoid unneeded battery drain. In regards to audio quality i absolutely love these buds! They have really improved the quality of the calls I make and aside from standing in strong winds, people can easily hear and understand me. In addition, for the price, the ambient noise settings and the Active noise cancelling are top notch. When i want to immerse myself in my music or audio books i can switch the ANC on and shut the noise out, then when i need to keep an ear out for deliveries or avoid getting hit when walking to the shops the ambient noise can be turned on to allow me to hear the rest of the world. The settings app on the phone is quite intuitive and easy to use in my opinion with settings to allow you to quickly switch between ANC and ambient with a tap of the button. The use of touch sensitive buttons is not as big a problem as i though it would be, with the only accidental activations being when i brushed up against them with my palm when touching my head. they do not get any false activations when wearing a hoodie or a beanie etc. with the only weird thing being that the auto ANC turns off when a hoodie is worn instead of dropping the levels. it appears to switch to ambient instead. Overall i highly recommend these earphones to anyone looking for quality earphones that are easy to put on and take off and carry around.

First up -- for £99 these are lovely. I'd pitch them against the MTW3's interm of overal "out of the box" sound. ANC is very strong. I'd say easily on par with DPP/MTW3 with the Bose QCU being another step-up Was able to crank up the airplane noise video above pretty high and while i could still hear it 55-65% volume on the buds was pleasant hearing volume. They are capable of getting VERY loud. I'm listening at maybe 65-70% but i cannot turn these above maybe 90% before it's unbearable. I didn't want to put them to 100 The buds come in the now obligatory plastic free packaging. Items included: User Guide 3x sets of tips (very tall ones) 1x no ridge wings (normal fins fitted) USB C cable The charging case is small and very pocket friendly. No wireless charging (but since Bose felt it appropriate to skip this on their £300 buds i can forgive Samsung for this) Just a small light on front to indicate charge status. The case is glossy/smooth white (even though buds are graphite colour), i thought i'd got the wrong buds when i saw case :) The included ear-tips are meshed and tall. The stem on the buds is short with a small retention lip but circular. You only get the option of the retention fins as either yes or no. The replacement option in the case is smooth with no raised parts. Typical 3 sizes of ear tips in grey silicone. I found them too tall for me though and immediately replaced with Spinfit CP1025's for TWS which are my go-to tips as they make the buds size much more comfortably in my ears (both canals and concha gets much less fatigue) Pairing/Sync I have a Samsung S23 so the buds are much more deeply integrated into the phone OS than for any other device. Opening up the case immediately does an Apple-esque popup showing a picture of the buds and a simple connect/cancel button. It then downloaded the plug-in for the buds to integrate fully. You have 3 options to see various levels of info/controls: 1. Home screen widget gives you battery level of the buds and 2 buttons to toggle ANC/Ambient/off and a second button to enable/disable the touch controls on the buds 2. Bluetooth section gives battery life, options to divert calls/audio and enable or disable multipoint but this seems tied to Samsung devices. The page also gives ANC controls and a button to open Samsung Wearable App 3. Samsung Wearable gives you the whole entire control suite In the Wearables app you have options to customise the touch controls but only enable or disable predefined functions -- cannot change what the taps do You get find-my-buds option and then settings. In that you get EQ (select from pre-defined options no custom EQ), an earbuds fit-test (simple tone thing), then ususal smart assistant and other basic options There is a labs gaming mode too available which i assume lowers latency Ok - with a quick tip reroll, for me the buds are some of the most comfortable i've got with a caveat. They sit nestled nicely and don't put any pressure on anywhere. They don't feel quite as secure as my MTW3, they do with stock tips but that ends up pressuring my concha too much. But i know i'm really hard to sort out for some reason with my ears Onto the sound... This is where they're a surprise. Out of the box they're really nice. I'd put them very very close to the MTW3's. In terms of bass i enjoy the depth and feeling of a good sub-bass even if it's not particularly elevated, just like the extension into sub-bass. I would rank the 4 buds i've listened to recently in this order: Bose QCU 4th MTW3 tied 3rd Samsung Buds FE 2nd Denon Perl Pro 1st (they just have bass for days) One thing though they don't have any background hiss present when music isn't playing. This is definitely something the MTW3 have. But for the rest of the spectrum i'd probably put them all very similar bracket. Some have slight benefits here and there but it's hard to pinpoint. I'd say the one thing the Samsung Buds lack is EQ possibility since you simply have the "bass boost", "Treble", "Vocals", "Dynamic" type presets but you cannot tweak an EQ, nor do they do any kind of personal tuning. So that puts them in last place for that but the default sound isn't far off how i like it anyway. The dynamic option gives the classic V type of adjustment lifting the bass and treble with a small dip at 2-4k but overall that's the "fun mode" option. Buds touch feedback - they do have beep audio signal on touch press but where with the MTW3/DPP it's a live immediate response to each touch, the Samsung beeps the number of times it thought you pressed after you stop pressing. So just after your double tap you get a very light double-beep. Still better than Bose which has no beep feedback which i find irritating. Codec is hard to know -- they support AAC/SBC but the SSC (Samsung Seamless Codec) which can support 24/96 -- but nowhere can i see in the app / settings where i can confirm my S23 is using that with these except when i checked in Developer Options i could see it was the active codec. The signal strength though is RIGHT up there. With my phone on my desk in my office i could go to the other end of the house (back of kitchen) and it didn't even flicker in sound. Most buds start to break up around the sink (when i'm getting myself a drink i tend to have my buds in and often it starts to give an odd drop with most) I think we're really in a rapidly evolving time with this stuff but it feels like we're creeping towards that point of diminishing returns. The quality you can get for £99 is staggering. Given i've tried the DPP's twice, the MTW3 (own now) and the Bose QCU I cannot see the DPP's or Bose being worth 3x the price. Yes they all have their own twist on things, with DPP's Nura acquired tech, Bose ANC prowess etc But the Bose are not worth the money for me -- the "Ultra" moniker has been used too soon by them to justify it as more than a QC2.5 and for me the music side was lacking. DPP's are nice (actually bought them again to give them another chance) and if you want screaming bass then yeah -- they can pack a huge punch. The MTW3's are the premium "come good" option with their new personalised sound option which seems to have transformed them. I think the issue with "premium" TWS is longevity. The codec's are not unified yet, the tech is getting mature but it is not yet consistent, especially with non-apple products on iPhone still being limited to AAC. Even on Android where LDAC/AptX Adaptive is available most phones still don't have it. So paying so much for a battery depedent item which has non-user service construction means that premium has to be something amazing given a shorter lifespan. At least wired IEM's can be made wireless, or can have a life ranging to many years without issues.

At the beginning I want to tell that these buds are not for listening music. I bought them because they are made by Samsung and they have same Bluetooth variant with my phone, I think 5.3, I don't remember now this technical detail but I checked when I bought the buds. My presumption was that they will match the phone settings and I was right. There is no difference between using a wired pair of buds and these wireless ones. I have other wireless buds with much better sound made by other producers but main problem is the Bluetooth stability connection and incompatibility with phone's settings. Many times happened to have issues like music started on my phone while I was on a phone call or other sound issues. Samsung buds never had any problems, just gave me a cristal clear sound when I needed, exactly like a wired pair of buds. I am making this comparison with wired buds because I had so many issues that gave up using wireless technology while I was on phone calls. Then I bought these Galaxy buds and I am back to wireless. Don't get me wrong, they are not forbidden for listening music but there are much better choices for this out there. And yes, they are comfortable and battery life is excellent, especially because you don't need to push the volume up, because the sound is cristal clear and you will clearly hear every whisper coming from these little things. So yes, as Samsung usually are doing, they made another product what does the job amazing and hits the target. One more thing : the price is way too high. I bought these at half price hoping to "cut" the wire of my usual wired earphones used on phone calls and it worked. If would be to pay the full price for them I wouldn't buy it. I would stay with wired ones. Even this half price what I paid for seems to be a bit high because they are not offering too much and the main thing offered is a strong, wire-like connection with my Samsung phone. And as honorable mention I must specify the reliable music start-stop button on the left bud which never miss the target and in that way I am sure that my music will never interfere with my phone calls.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Comfortable, Compact & Clear 🎧 – Great for Everyday Use I’ve tried a fair few wireless earbuds over the years, and the Samsung Galaxy Buds FE have genuinely impressed me. I actually own two pairs now — that probably says it all 😄 Let’s start with comfort — because that’s what first won me over. I originally ruled out Samsung’s earbuds because the non-FE versions were too bulky and uncomfortable. These FE versions are smaller, lightweight, and shaped perfectly for my ears. I can wear them all day (and I do!) without any discomfort — which is rare for in-ear buds 👂💯 Sound quality is solid 🎵 — clear, nicely balanced, with enough bass to feel full without overpowering the rest. Whether I’m listening to music, podcasts, or hopping on a quick call, they deliver. The Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) works well indoors, reducing distractions like background chatter or hum. It's not studio-level ANC, but for everyday use, it's more than enough ✅ Battery life is decent 🔋 — not the best I’ve ever had, especially compared to some cheaper alternatives — but I’m a very heavy user. I often have at least one bud in all day, even when watching TV. It's worth noting that having ANC on uses more battery, so turning it off when you don't need it does make a difference. 🔇 When they’re running low, you get a beep warning which is helpful. And to be fair, they charge really quickly in the case ⚡️ — so even short breaks keep them topped up and ready to go. The 2-year manufacturer extended warranty adds peace of mind 🛡️, and for what most people need day to day, these absolutely deliver. --- Final verdict: Great value, especially for those who want comfort, clarity, and convenience. I hope this review helps you decide if this item is right for you 😊 Addendum: I have two sets of these. The latest one ordered 10th June. I used them for the first time on the 12th (delivered 11th). They had some charge already so not in initial concerns. However I put them on charge last night and the right charged to 100 percent and the left remains on 3 percent. The case is also at 100 percent. The left no matter what I do will not charge. I have now asked for a replacement. Low and behold I have to return by the 13th August or I will be charged (no issues I'll return), however the new set will come between the 28th July and 20th August. Why? Just why? I ordered a UK based product. Incidentally the other set is EU and no issues. I am upset the amount of time I have to wait. If I ordered another set today (seperate to this issue) it would be delivered tomorrow so feels like I am being punished! I will update my review again later once received.

I bought these on a 50% discount as I don't like paying a lot for earbuds and it was a MASSIVE upgrade from the cheap ones you can find on Amazon! These are really comfortable (may take a few days to adapt but after that it's super comfortable) and stay in my ears even if I move my head a lot. Sound wise, the noise cancel option is so good that even in public transports I can barely hear anything when nothing's playing, and with music then you hear nothing. The app allows you to manage the sound cancelling option to turn it off as well as check battery, equaliser, volume, etc, which is quite good. Definitely recommend waiting for a discount if you think the normal price is too high as it's worth having them!

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I bought the buds and returned them twice, each time the left earbud had defect where there is wind noise when using ANC or Ambient modes