Now with smoother ear-to-ear syncing and a more refined experience when not playing content. Hear all of what's around you while enjoying rich, private sound. The earbuds' open-ear design says, "I can still hear you" while OpenAudio technology provides you with high-quality, private sound.
Designed for comfortable all-day wear, you'll put these on and never want to take them off. The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds feature a flexible joint and stable, light-as-air-grip – you'll forget you're even wearing them.
With up to 7 hours of play time (up to 4 hours with Immersive Audio) or up to 48 hours of standby, you're equipped with the power of long-lasting battery life. Plus, the included charging case provides up to an extra 19.5 hours of power, making it perfect for on-the-go charging
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Now with smoother ear-to-ear syncing and a more refined experience when not playing content. Hear all of what's around you while enjoying rich, private sound. The earbuds' open-ear design says, "I can still hear you" while OpenAudio technology provides you with high-quality, private sound.
Designed for comfortable all-day wear, you'll put these on and never want to take them off. The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds feature a flexible joint and stable, light-as-air-grip – you'll forget you're even wearing them.
With up to 7 hours of play time (up to 4 hours with Immersive Audio) or up to 48 hours of standby, you're equipped with the power of long-lasting battery life. Plus, the included charging case provides up to an extra 19.5 hours of power, making it perfect for on-the-go charging
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Many comments regarding poor connectivity, issues with multi point connectivity, and crap call quality. For just listening to music they seem good and the fit is extremely good. If they didn't have connectivity issues, I would jump on it.
Many comments regarding poor connectivity, issues with multi point connectivity, and crap call quality. For just listening to music they seem good and the fit is extremely good. If they didn't have connectivity issues, I would jump on it.
The call quality is very bad.
The audio quality is a tad better than my shokz openrun pro 2, but I would pay retail for the Pro 2's over this sale price any day of the week for comfort and battery life. I don't wear earings, but I couldn't get use to these on my ears and if I wanted to itch my ear (weird I know lol), I'd have to take these off completely and put them back on again.
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I still remember I bought the Bose headphone back in 2015. I put it in the drawer for a couple years and the ear cushion melted. I contacted their CS and they refused to replace it for me. No more Bose from then.
All that for an ear cushion. Just buy replacements online.
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As much as these novel bone conduction headphones seem like a fix, they still die (charging contacts or casing gaps) just as quickly from sweat as normal IP68 earbuds in my experience (like within 2-3 months).
And the audio quality is bad.
Anyway - if you want to find harder to kill workout headphones I'd recommend wired ones with a USB-C to stereo adapter. Went this direction after killing 5 wireless headphones so far this year with sweat. They seem to be holding out.
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Can anyone compare these to the Nothing Ear Open?
Nothing is lighter, there is a different sound signature too. Boss is more bass leaning while nothing is more neutral. For me nothing was more comfortable. I've forgotten I'm wearing multiple occasions.
I tried these. Great sound but they were heavy and caused my earlobes to hurt after maybe 30 or so minutes of wearing them. Went with the One Dots from Shokz - much lighter.
These have been the same price over at Amazon recently.
I'd recommend if you prioritize comfort, fit, and open earbuds design over sound quality.
The pros - they are impossibly light and comfortable. Sometime I forget I'm wearing them, leaving them on for hours until I scratch my ear and notice. I can easily hear everyone around me and there is no ear fatigue. Battery life is good. Super tactile physical buttons are the best I've ever used.
The cons - sound quality is poor compared to any other headphones I own. Significantly worse than even the most basic AirPods. Fine for audiobooks, podcasts, etc. Ok for music and videos.
No connection issues, ever, and no call quality issues mentioned. Perhaps the reported issues were with older firmware versions.
I have the previous qc2 earbuds and they were completely awful with random disconnects, weird feedback, and they were uncomfortable after a few hours. I found a post on reddit that said removing the bose app fixes those issues. And I was shocked that worked. But I still found them uncomfortable and would fall out of my ears during workouts (but thats my ear shape and not due to the earbuds). I just purchased powerbeats pro 2, and the sound quality is way better than the qc2. And the ear hook keeps them from falling off and are more comfortable. If you do buy these, definitely do not install the bose app, at least on iphone.
Over a thousand reviews with an average of 4.1 stars.
If something is reviewed that many times by the general public with a rating below 4.5, at that point it's not a good product.
Considering people seem to have a tendency to want to be generous with ratings (give a 5 star rating when it really wasn't a 5 star product or experience). I agree with this. I use to think 4.0/5 was the limit but now I'm starting to receive a lot of subpar experiences and products from the 4.0-4.4 range. 4.5+ with ideally 1000 or more ratings is what's needed to give me confidence nowadays.
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Having said that I bought both pairs for total $300 new off ebay. I use them 2-4 times a day, almost exclusively when walking the dog so I can hear what is going on.
Haven't had any issues since deleting the Bose APP, but had a litany of issues WITH the APP installed. No one has complained about the call quality. Obviously, not much bass, some things don't sound great in them, but that is the nature of the type of earbud.
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The audio quality is a tad better than my shokz openrun pro 2, but I would pay retail for the Pro 2's over this sale price any day of the week for comfort and battery life. I don't wear earings, but I couldn't get use to these on my ears and if I wanted to itch my ear (weird I know lol), I'd have to take these off completely and put them back on again.
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And the audio quality is bad.
Anyway - if you want to find harder to kill workout headphones I'd recommend wired ones with a USB-C to stereo adapter. Went this direction after killing 5 wireless headphones so far this year with sweat. They seem to be holding out.
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I'd recommend if you prioritize comfort, fit, and open earbuds design over sound quality.
The pros - they are impossibly light and comfortable. Sometime I forget I'm wearing them, leaving them on for hours until I scratch my ear and notice. I can easily hear everyone around me and there is no ear fatigue. Battery life is good. Super tactile physical buttons are the best I've ever used.
The cons - sound quality is poor compared to any other headphones I own. Significantly worse than even the most basic AirPods. Fine for audiobooks, podcasts, etc. Ok for music and videos.
No connection issues, ever, and no call quality issues mentioned. Perhaps the reported issues were with older firmware versions.
If something is reviewed that many times by the general public with a rating below 4.5, at that point it's not a good product.
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Having said that I bought both pairs for total $300 new off ebay. I use them 2-4 times a day, almost exclusively when walking the dog so I can hear what is going on.
Haven't had any issues since deleting the Bose APP, but had a litany of issues WITH the APP installed. No one has complained about the call quality. Obviously, not much bass, some things don't sound great in them, but that is the nature of the type of earbud.
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