hey guys EBPMAN here and today we're
to take a look at an intelligent
wireless earbud these are the Nuheara
IQbuds let's go ahead and check them
out now traditional earbuds are designed
to serve a couple of purposes one it's
about improving audio quality so you can
hear music really well too
it's also then about noise isolation or
noise cancellation so either by plugging
these things in your ear you're
isolating the noise or a combination of
isolation and then cancellation because
some technology that is kind of
cancelling out the noise and we've seen
this with ear buds like the Bose which
are very well known in the industry
especially for business travelers for
noise cancellation on airplanes and in
other situations now this one goes one
step above the third feature that these
introduced is intelligent noise not only
cancellation but also improving the type
of noises or the kind of vocals that
you're looking to hear so let me explain
that so let's say you're in a loud let's
say restaurant or you're in a concert
alright you're at a ballgame and you
would like to be able to hear the person
next to you but drown out all the other
noise these earbuds are going to help
you do that so they're about enhancing
your hearing at the same time canceling
noise and then also about audio because
these actually sound pretty good so now
taking a closer look at some of the
features here that are highlighted in
the box as I mentioned these are going
to help you with speech amplification
really going to give you um you know
augmented audio type experience you're
going to see some of the what I'm
talking about as we look at the app
unfortunate you're not going to be able
to hear that we also have a high
fidelity audio so they do sound really
good for as as an audio person listening
to music listening to audio books you do
have hands-free calling and then also
I'm looking at something that is not
going to fall out of your ear really
easily now inside the box you can define
your traditional earbuds and there's a
wide variety of your about a microUSB
charging cable the actual earbuds
themselves as well as a travel case now
included with the earbuds you do get a
variety of your gels that you can use
you have round ones and you also have
oval ones so you can size it
appropriately to what you'd like to have
in your ear you actually get four of
each ranging from a extra small all the
way up to an extra large now what your
buds you actually get a travel case now
this is really important because some of
you may think that this is an optional
travel case this serves two purposes
first of all it recharges your buds as
soon as you take them out of your ear
and you place them into the charging
base too they actually shut the buds
down for you and turn them on again so
what we've been seeing is more and more
of these type of intelligent ear buds
that have a case require them for
storage but also this is how you would
turn them off so you wouldn't take these
and putting them in your pocket and
expect them to turn off and then put
them on your ear and expect them to turn
on the ear buds do have some controls
but those controls are really negated to
you know job answering a phone call or
switching an audio mode so you need this
in order to use your ear buds now the
good thing about this is that this case
being a trial charging case is going to
allow you to charge the ear buds around
three times now the other thing that I
find now really unique about these and
let's go ahead and open it up so you can
see what they look like in the inside
the ear buds as they're in this case as
soon as you open it up they're going to
connect and they connect very fast to
your phone and that's one of the things
I really appreciate they are fast
connecting the other thing is that
you're going to get four hours of
battery life using the years ear buds
which is I think fantastic for a believe
it has like a 100 milli amp hour battery
in each one of these ear buds so this is
really good for hours but even more
impressive is the fact that after you
have used them for four hours and you
put them in the charging case for every
15 minutes of charge you're going to get
one to two hours of playback so I'm a
frequent traveler I travel on planes I
really looking at flights that are in
excess of two hours I'm able to use
these for an entire flight and be able
to put them in the charging case close
the case and I know that within 15
minutes I've extended the battery life
one to two hours that's really good now
taking a closer look at the ear but what
you'll find is that you do have a
designation 4 right 4 right left 4 left
you have those gel
that you can switch to personalize your
feel and fit for you
I find that you notice on the back here
they have these little contact points so
make sure you remove a little plastic
when you put them in the cradle so make
sure that they charge and what you'll
find is that they do come out slightly
out of your ear I'm going to have a shot
where I'll show you how they rest in my
ear so they're not completely flush
inside of your ear they come out a
slight bit so very comfortable their
sweat and water resistant so you can use
these while working out and I found that
with the appropriate gel in the ear
these will stay put they don't fall out
as easily some of the other models that
I've reviewed in the past so they're
nice and they hold up really well so now
I'm using this travel a case and charge
you're going to get around 32 hours of
battery life on the back here you'll
notice is your little charging plug in
its microUSB you have serial number and
barcode information on the bottom this
case also discharges and I want to make
sure you guys are aware of that so even
if you're not using the earbuds and you
have the earbuds fully charged and let's
say you plug them in and you fully
charge them over a matter of days the
case itself will start discharging
itself slowly so I'd be cautious if you
put these in a bag in your backpack for
example and one day you open them up to
use them in a week or so or past you may
find yourself with some dead earbuds
they have no charge so you'll want to
make sure that you check them that
you've charged it recently and that you
don't go on for days without I'm using
the earbuds because the case will
discharge as it's charging your earbuds
in a natural way now in order for the
earbuds to work with your phone and
really take advantage of the settings
right because you have a Bluetooth
connection but then you have the actual
software you'll want to download either
from the Android Marketplace or from the
iOS marketplace the IQ buds software
once you've installed that you'd be able
to pair alright so now let's talk about
the connectivity Bluetooth connectivity
with these earbuds and digital devices
like a smartphone or a tablet now these
devices only have the ability to connect
to one Bluetooth device at a time unlike
some other earbuds that we've reviewed
where you can connect up to two devices
and depending on where the audio is
coming from the earbuds will negotiate
where
stream the music from so this can only
do one at a time however I have had them
paired to multiple phones without a
problem and paired them also with a
phone and a tablet without a problem
however what that means that I can only
have one connection at a time so I
disable bluetooth on one device and
connect it on the other and then I do
vice-versa when I want to switch back
and forth so that's one negative but
that's how these work now the second
thing really a lot is happening here
between the earbuds the technology in
the earbuds and then also the app itself
so there's a couple of things that
you're going to be able to do you're
going to be able to amplify speech so if
you're in a restaurant or in a crowded
area let's say you're in a evenin the
concert and you want to be able to hear
better the person who you're with you'll
be able to adjust things that are
happening in this app in order to be
able to hear that person
you also have noise control which means
you will with this dial here be able to
adjust what you want to hear and what
you're not going to want to hear so
you'll be able to just adjust it until
you drown things out almost completely
and then what you have is blended audio
so you'll be able to using this app
again and depending on the situation
you're in blend the audio that's taking
place between what's happening in the
outside world or around you and then
listening to music so it's going to give
you a lot of situational awareness so
let's take a look at the app so now as
you see in this profile here I have I'm
in the driving mode and what I can do is
I can adjust this and as I'm adjusting
this this way what's happening is I'm
eliminating all the noise that I'm
hearing through the mic or you know the
pass through the fact if you want to
call it that
so when I have it all the way over here
I can actually hear myself speaking I
have one of the earbuds in my ear so
that I could hear what's going on and as
I'm moving it this way I'm actually
starting to lose even my voice as I'm
speaking I'm not hearing myself up to
the point where I don't hear anything
coming through my last year and then I
can bring it back in by just moving the
dial you also have the ability to use
this sync which you know just works
similarly but it cancels out those
noises that are part of this specific
profile that you'd like to eliminate you
could also then easily go back to one of
your other settings and you can see
what's going on here May
an adjustment as we were doing earlier
or what you could do is you can reset it
so here I have this live IQ I can reset
it and it's going to go back to its
normal setting and again here I'm taking
out that sink level here by pressing it
it's coming back you could also do some
adjustment so if I go into live IQ here
I can actually adjust based on my
hearing what I'd like my experience to
be like and as I'm doing this you can't
hear this or experience it like I am the
earbud is changing how much ambient
noise is coming in for that specific
situation and adjusting it so an example
I was at a Cubs game this weekend and I
was wearing these and I wanted to see
how much of the noise in the game could
I eliminate but still hear what's going
on
I was also sitting next to my wife and I
wanted to make sure I can still have a
conversation with her so I had them on
and I was able to adjust these to the
point where I was so able to enjoy the
game listen to everything was going on
but most of the noise that was going on
around me kind of went into the
background yet I could still have a very
clear conversation with my wife even
though these things were in my ear so
now the next thing you may be asking
yourself well you know we've talked
about battery life in the fact that you
get four hours from these with the case
you get anywhere from 16 to 32 and you
can charge them about three times you
get 15 minutes of battery life for every
hour or an hour for every 15 minutes
that they plugged in here
and then now when you think about so you
know how's the overall we're well very
good I find that they stay securely in
my ear I find that the audio as well is
very good so when you're listening to
music on being able to enhance both
what's happening around you and then
also the music that you're enjoying is
is actually very good I also find that
unlike other solutions I've reviewed the
compatibility between Android and iOS is
pretty equal so the application itself
for Android has the same features and
functions that you have in an iOS device
so they're not catering to one specific
crowd versus the other they're actually
creating a consistent experience across
two different ecosystems
and if you're like me there are a lot of
people who have two devices or for
example my wife uses an Android phone
and then she has an iPad so she's able
to have the same experience connecting
earbuds to two devices and not have to
negotiate you know which experience is
going to be better based on the
application development and the
operating system of the device that
she's using all right so now let's see
what the new here IQ buzz look like in
the year so what you're going to do is
you're going to place them in your ear
and then once you place them in your ear
you're going to twist and that's all it
takes
so now let's talk about are there any
drawbacks with this ear buds and with
any new technology as these are there
are always going to be drawbacks first I
would say that I do find that at times
when I'm putting them back in the case
that the mics squeak back at me you know
sometimes when you put a speaker into my
clothes together how it kind of yells
and screams I get that effect as well
I also found that from a audio
perspective for phone calls the caller
find them very annoying they're picking
up too much ambient noise around me so
unlike other earbuds where they do a
really good job of negotiating the noise
around you in Pampa only your voice
these aren't really doing a good job at
all they're probably the worst that I've
reviewed when it comes to bullies calls
in environments where there's noise and
some of the situations I've been is
simply walking in an airport no wind and
just a normal noise in an airport I'm
able to have a conversation with other
people and with other earbuds and the
person around me can tell that I'm on on
earbud but they really can't tell where
I'm at and the or that I'm in a crowded
area can't use these to take a phone
call at a game or concert or in an
office setting where there's just
chatter going on and I'm talking very
loud I'm just talking normal office
noises
definitely not like in an airport
setting so that was very disappointing
to me even out to the point if you're
outside and then you have wind's coming
in they again they just pick up
excessive noise and it's very to the
point where I've had some callers that
said hey can you switch
and just call me back that's how
annoying they were now is that something
that can be fixed by the manufacturer I
don't know I've sent the messages I'm
hoping I'll get a response soon
maybe there's a firmware upgrade coming
so if that does take place I'll let you
know now from an audio perspective and a
speech enhancement those of you who may
be interested in that technology it's
very very cool I find them very useful
and all in all you know if you're
looking for intelligent ear buds of this
type this may be something you want to
look at especially because it has a four
hour battery life so battery life to me
is a make-it-or-break-it this has a four
hour battery life which is great and the
fast charging technology also makes it
very usable the app pretty consistent
and I always like that and all in all
for this type of solution I think it's a
Buy if you're looking for something just
like this so this concludes my review of
the IQ buds from no hero if you have any
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I will be doing a comparison between IQ
buds and here one I did a separate video
on that and I had some issues with it
the manufacturers are sending me a
another set that I'll be reviewing and
will do a comparison between the two and
hopefully that will help you understand
which one is the best solution for you
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