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3.0 out of 5 starsDecent baseline earbuds with a major dealbreaker
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2024
Pros:
• Compact case size is very convenient
• I have small ears and these are one of the only headphones I've tried that fit in my ears without constantly falling out
• Pretty good sound quality for the price point
• Not ANC but they are seriously noise cancelling because of how snug they fit in the ear
Cons:
• After a few months of use, the case needs to be charged every single day sometimes multiple times a day. To be fair, this is the risk you take with something with such a small battery.
• Also after a few months of use the battery on the earbuds themselves barely last 2 hours
• The squishy rubber part is uniquely shaped to these specific headphones - meaning you can't switch them out with any old extra squishy rubber part that you have around. I tried to put spin fits squishys on these and even the smallest size made it so the headphones can't seat within the case to charge nor can the case even close, super annoying. To my knowledge you also cannot buy replacements of this part from TOZO so if you lose them you're SOL.
• The mic on these is absolute unusable trash. These are not the kind of earbuds you can use for calls whatsoever - you either sound far away, distorted, or the person you're talking to simply can't hear you at all. It's a bummer because out of the four pairs of TOZO Earbuds I've purchased, these are the only ones I've had this mic issue with.
• Maybe this is just an iOS thing but you simply cannot use voice to text with these earbuds. As someone who uses voice to text a lottttt, having to disconnect Bluetooth every time I wanted to use voice to text got incredibly old incredibly quickly and was the main reason why I switched to a different model.
In conclusion, I love TOZO and I think these earbuds are as good as they can get for the price point, I just can no longer use these as my daily riders because of the issues with the mic.