are you looking into wireless earbuds for the first time or are you looking for a new
pair that won't break the bank like some other companies well you're in the right place hello i
am Wanderer001 and this is my review of the wyze buds pros i will say this is actually my first
foray into wireless earbuds they're not something that i normally like i'm one of those people who
prefers not to have the earbuds or earphones stuck into my ear canal i much prefer the over the head
option review over there in the corner of the wyze headphones that i have which i will admit
work very good for the price point that you get and that's why you're here you are either
familiar with wyze as a company offering good quality hardware but at a reasonable price and i
don't say low end price anymore because of either supply chain issues chip shortages or the overall
business model of wyze they're not exactly on the cheap side anymore they're a lower to mid-range
option but that does not mean that you're going to be breaking the bank with these pair of earbuds
now i say pair of earbuds even though they're sitting stealthfully in this case this case is
actually how you transport the wireless earbuds as well as charge them you'll notice there on
the bottom there is a usb-c charging port and that charges both the case and the earbuds that
are hiding inside there is an led status light right there and if i flip it open that led status
light will let you know what's happening charge wyze and pairing wyze you can see right there
there is a blinking light letting you know that it is trying to pair up to my phone
the wyze buds themselves can only be paired to one device at a time and that is one
of the things that i wish they did a little differently i do wish that i could have these
paired to at least a minimum of two devices only because my primary reason for getting these was
to stealthily use them at work while paired to my office computer i wish i could also have them
paired to my phone at the same time because this is a wyze product that does mean that there is a
setup process for them is it a terrible setup process i will admit being the first time that
i've ever tried pairing a set of buds like this it was a little trickier for me than it might be
for you but let's use this as a segway to take a look at the setup process for the wyze buds here
this is setup of the wyze buds pro we're in the wyze application we're going to select up at the
top add a device and then we're going to come and find i'm going to assume lifestyle yep wyze buds
pro we'll do that all right so we're going to select allow contacts and call history and pair
and there you saw it was connected with alex a
and here we go now of course there's a firmware upgrade so we are going to do that right now
and we're going to select update but not make you sit through this especially since it says it can
take up to 30 minutes for this to update total update time four minutes so not bad we'll select
done and here we can see basic information we'll just cover this in the application portion so
that was set up of the wyze buds and they should be at the top here okay wyze buds pro once you go
through the setup process one time i will admit it is much easier to do uh you just need to make sure
that you know that there is a pairing button right there which took me a bit of time to do
i will also state that you do not use you do not need to use the wyze application in order to pair
the earbuds to a device obviously i attached it to a computer where you can't have the wyze app
on so you can just pair these as a standalone bluetooth device which i do really appreciate
and always want to make sure anything that integrates into an app that you can use it
without the app what we're going to do now is i'm going to open up the case here and i'm going to
take one of the earbuds out i'm going to see if i can get in there a little bit it's kind of tricky
because it's shiny but the lid itself is magnetic so it'll keep it kind of shut
i did at first since the wyze logo was on the back here and i saw this strip i thought it opened this
way so i almost broke the case a couple times until i realized oh the status light is where
uh you need to open it from the headphone itself is magnetic so it slips in and is held in place by
magnets so it won't pop out there also are little metal charging footies all the way down in there
that you can't really see and if i bring up the tip into focus here let's see if i can do this
right there uh would be where it kind of mounts up and charges so this is the overall shape of the
earbud itself it is a oval shape right here for the ear canal which why i said they did a lot of
research on to you know best give the shape for the ear canal i will admit i do kind of like the
oval shape as it sits in my ear it does help to create a better seal and that's partially done
with this rubberized bit around the tip now in the box with the buds and the case itself
you also get a usb c charging cable no power brick though but you also get other rubberized ear tips
so you have on here is the standard but you have large and small so depending on your ear canal you
can adjust as needed i will admit uh i guess my ear canals are a little weird so i have the normal
on the right ear and then on my left ear i swapped it out for the smaller tip
and that gets the good seal because these have active noise cancellation and in order to get the
best use out of that active noise cancellation you need to have a nice rubberized seal i will admit
i was actually very surprised at the ability of the noise cat the active noise cancellation
which y states is 40 decibels of noise cancellation yes there are specific pitches
and tones that you may notice through the earbuds and again general office work driving even though
you're not supposed to but you can have one earbud at a time i'll explain that a little later you can
block out a lot of generalized noise and in fact while testing these you know i would use them
while washing dishes my wife would be talking and she wouldn't realize i had them in since they're
so small and stealthy uh i've also used them while mowing the lawn which is my primary test even for
the original wyze headphones over there to see how well they did now they do not do as good as
the wyze headphones but those are something that go around the entire ear encompassing it in foam
these however stick right into your ear but did surprisingly well and i will admit uh for the
amount of time that you're supposed to be able to get out of these uh you should be able to
get through unless you have a very large lawn a good mowing session with them they also have a 15
minute rapid charge in order to get up to at least an hour's worth of use so that's also good because
again while testing i did this several times i forgot to charge them and i need to charge at 15
minutes and i was good to go for my mowing session which was very nice they are listed at ip4 water
resistant what does that mean that means pretty much sweat i will admit that i did take these out
while it was misting to slightly drizzling while raining i did have a hat on which might have
helped a little bit they did get a little damp but i did not notice any worse for wear when utilizing
them in that fashion so very very cautious with that but they can take a little bit of water
speaking of the headphone themselves the earbud itself it uses three voice isolating microphones
in order to make you sound super crisp and again i've used these people don't realize i have them
especially when i'm on zoom calls in the office again that stealthy mode because these aren't
white like some other earbuds out there it's a little trickier to see them i don't have long
hair i have short hair but if i have one in and have my head towards the door you only see the one
side of my head with earbud in the other you'll notice it is a little bulbous here so it does
stick out oddly i want to say but the stem the stem is not as long as some other ones and that's
why i think it's a little stealthier if we bring the stem into focus you'll notice right up here
this is actually a touch pad there is a touch pad on both the right bud and the left butt allowing
you to do specific actions play pause raise volume activate your voice assistant of choice alex a is
built into the ear buds but depending on if you're on ios or android you can change that so that
you can activate your phone's voice assistant of choice the earbuds also support auto pause which
is something that i don't really like because i use them sometimes with one butt at a time
that however can be changed in the application for the wyze buds so why don't we take a look at what
you can actually do with the wyze app for the wyze buds this will be the wyze app for the wyze buds
pro keep in mind you will need to have your wyze buds already paired to your device via
bluetooth in order to access this menu system if you don't have them attached via bluetooth you
won't actually be able to edit any of the settings so once you do that you simply select the buds
they go through their connecting phase even though they're already connected to your device
and then you're brought to your main splash screen here right now you can see they are
in active noise cancellation mode by default swiping to the right the wyze buds are just on
swiping to the right best for quiet or windy places and then transparency mode
meaning you can hear the outside so active noise cancellation on active noise cancellation off
and then transparency mode so you can hear what's going on and you've got your dots down here that
lets you know where you're progressing i wish they did a little better job kind of relaying what that
actual information is at the top you have left right and case battery distinctions for each
clicking on them does absolutely nothing so you don't have to worry about this page except for
swiping left and right between the active noise cancellations notice there's no battery percentage
on this screen just a image to let you know how much is there but if we come up to the sprocket
icon or the cog icon we can name our wyze buds simply by selecting that and changing the name
here you actually get a percent readout for each individual earbud as well as the case and this is
one thing i did notice a lot was that the wyze buds themselves didn't discharge equally in my
opinion uh here you can see left is at 87 and the right is at 90. granted that's not a large swath
difference between the two but it was enough where i tried to figure out is it because i'm touching
the right one more than the left one there's a time i just left it alone which is what we're
looking at right now and it just it just seems to discharge a little faster you've got a bass boost
selector right here so toggling that on will activate the bass boost here we have our touch
controls these are kind of cool in that you can do different things based on how you touch the earbud
or an individual earbud so right now you can see single tap right increases the volume and left
decreases the volume so if i tap on my right ear butt it will raise the volume
if i tap on the left ear bud it will lower volume double tap on either we'll play pause
triple tap will activate the voice assistant again on either you can change that where if we select
you can say what it does and then if it's the left one or the right one so down here we have
our control options so a single tap right now i have it set for do nothing double tap answers
and then triple rejects a call and again this is the menu system where you can change those and you
see they have little indications right there as to what the tapping motion should be i kind of like
the ability to change those things so i'm glad that wyze added them into the application portion
here here you have your voice assistant so you can select native or the alex a because well let's be
honest wyze definitely seems to have paired with alex a in their product rollouts but if you have
an iphone or you have an android you can use your either native siri or google assistant and
then here we have automatic pause your content when you remove an earbud i found that this is
hit or miss depending on which earbud i removed if i removed them both then yes things paused when
i put them back they started but if i removed one over the other it was if that would actually work
here we have our product guide so it's pretty much just going to walk you through the basics of how
to get everything situated here we have our device info selecting that will show you information
about the wyze buds pro themselves your why support which is built into the application
again i do appreciate the fact that wyze puts this in here makes it easier to find product info
so begin troubleshooting and then lets you kind of work your way through a faq style to help yourself
out with the nb that if you cannot you can always contact support and that is everything that you
can do with the wyze buds pro notice that there is there is a thing missing with the wyze headphones
and that was any sort of eq controls you have bass boost and that's it everything else is just this
is what you get the application itself is a little sparse in what you could do to manipulate the
wyze buds themselves but if you're using active noise cancelling earbuds like that chances are
you're doing it more for working out or something of that nature but this has been the look at the
application for the wyze buds pro so you may have noticed when i was in the application that there
was no eq settings and that's because the wyze algorithm to automatically adjust the frequency
levels depending on what you're listening to myself i mostly listen to podcasts so that's the
spoken word i have listened to music through them and for me being a non-audiophile it worked out
perfectly fine i'm not saying that it's going to give you the greatest sound quality because let's
be honest you're looking at a lower to mid-range earbud but for me i found it perfectly acceptable
and very good even with their adaptive eq working and not me telling it what to do the earbud and
case itself is bluetooth 5.0 which is how it's going to connect to your phone but that means
you're going to have good transmission distance as well as battery efficiency the 10 millimeter
driver in here i will admit again is a lot better than i thought you would get for something
in a earbud and again this is my first time experiencing an earbud so this is actually an
interesting use case a lot of other reviewers out there have tested lots and lots of earbuds
this is my first one so i'm coming at this from an a fresh outlook i've got nothing to compare it to
the only thing i have it to compare to is a larger over the head earphone and i've done
a lot of those battery life for the earbuds if you don't throw them back in the case to charge
y says with anc on you'll get about four and a half hours i have used them for three hours
and after that they got a little irritating for me again not used to having something in my ear canal
but four and a half hours does seem very doable anc off is six hours of playback
time realistically if you're gonna get these you're gonna use the anc i highly recommend it
they also have a transparency mode which will get you about the same as the anc because those are
using active microphones on the outside so that you can be situationally aware which is again
something that i appreciate it's not muffling out the sound you kind of get like super hearing
because well you can hear a lot better since those microphones are increasing the volume and bringing
it into the headphone the case itself you charge via usbc or if you have a qi compatible charger
we'll just put that right there let you know yep you can charge this wirelessly as long as you have
a suitable device keep in mind charging wirelessly will take a little longer
to charge earbuds themselves take an hour and a half to charge the case wire depending on the
wall work that you're using plugged into the usbc can take upwards of three hours to charge now you
heard me mention several times that you can listen to one earbud at a time but keep in mind you do
have to make that change in the application itself and remember that depending on what controls you
add to each earbud you may or may not be able to control all of the functionality from the earbuds
from this which is the little touch pad again it took me a little time to get used to coming up
here in order to touch and depending on the size of your hands that could be a little difficult to
find one other thing that i have noticed is the earbuds themselves do always pair in anc mode
i do wish that wyze would give you the option in the application itself to tell it either pair in
transparency mode or not at all and again i know they're making updates because in the application
portion i said that you could only change to the non-anc or transparency mode through the
app afterwards uh right before filming this they changed it where you can actually tap uh to rotate
to that third option again wyze i know you watch a lot of these just consider being able to pick
which mode it goes into one thing to consider um even with the shorter stem here just being
the age that we're currently living in and where i work i still have to mask up at work just like any
of these even with the shorter stem you may flip it off depending on when you're taking off your
mask i did that a lot i almost lost one they're resilient even hitting hardwood floor from uh five
feet seven inches up we'll say one other thing that i wish would change for the wyze bud is when
they get low on battery we'll just put that back in there close take out the other one is i wish
that it would not nag you as much as it does when it gets down to 15 it will start nagging saying 15
please charge you notice or you remember from the application your wyze buds themselves may have
slightly different percents based on usage i did find that when one bud dies if you open your case
up repair it you can use the other bud that still hasn't died independently of the other just keep
in mind that if you're down to 15 with one bud the other buds probably fairly close you're only going
to get a couple more minutes of usage out of it uh the shiny plastic i will admit i wish was kind
of muted for the earbud but it's not terrible i just find myself wiping wiping them down after
every use so if all of that sounds good to you even with those few quirks that i had mentioned
the big question then becomes well i said that they were a lower to mid-range price point now
how much do they cost well that really depends on where you're picking them up
if you get them from wyze itself right now they're listed at 74. if you get them on amazon it might
be closer to 90. keep in mind with wyze that you do pay for shipping so that does bump up
the price at that price point are these good earbuds personally like i said i have never
tested any other earbuds before for myself as a earbud newbie that price point for what i got i
was pleasantly surprised and if this is your first foray into earbuds i think you will probably be
pleasantly surprised as well especially if you're familiar with all the other products that wyze has
chances are if you're watching this you are if you have more high-end earbuds this might not do it
for you i will admit that however if price point and functionality and options are what you're
looking for then you can't go wrong checking out the wyze buds pro from wyze with that being said
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