My new earbuds finally arrived from Lazada. I’m getting a bit addicted to their vouchers and I seem to finally be “getting” the 11.11/10.10/whatever sales. Imagine, the original price of this is ₱5,490 but got it for ₱3,893.50. That’s a 30% discount! Anyways, here’s a simple unboxing pic series.
Box:
Removing the upper cover:
What’s inside that side container:
- just a USB-C cable, ear-tips, and ear-wings
The actual buds:
The touch controls for switching between Noise Cancelling and Ambient Sound is quite intuitive. Just press-and-hold the touch area until a sound indicates the mode has switched. As for the noise cancelling, it’s quite ok. I can still hear some background noise but it’s not to the level that is without the earbuds. Ambient sound functions as expected. I can hear the outside clearer. Maybe even clearer without the buds!
Anyways, I’m not really an audiophile so as to the sound quality, I’d skip on reviewing that. I only really bought this since I needed good quality wireless earbuds to replace my existing ones.
Update: 2023/11/25
After using it for a few days, I’ve found that the noise cancelling is really good! Although it can’t block loud noises such as vehicle horns and such, it’s really good at blocking out ambient noise like strong winds and vehicle hums. I’m thinking of buying another one when it’s on sale again for more mobile use. Anyways, I’ll update this post again if I find anything else noteworthy.
Update: 2023/11/30
Lazada did another sale for this end-of-month’s payday week and this had a HUGE discount of 50%! So naturally, since I was quite pleased by these earbuds, I purchased another pair. Together with my other Lazada coupons, it amounts to ~55% discount in total!
Anyways, it arrived today and decided to wear my current pair when going down to fetch the new ones. As such I can confidently say that both functions (noise cancelling & ambient sound) work just as well either connected or disconnected to a device via bluetooth. I’ve adapted enough to it that they’re virtually unnoticeable to me now. Anyways, I can’t recommend this enough when discounted to such prices.
Update: 2024/06/07
It’s been a while since I last connected these buds to my phone so the firmware has been a tad out-of-date. My buds current firmware was R400NXXU0AWHF but it seems to have been updated at least 2 times since release? Latest is R400NXXU0AXB1 released last 2024/03/11. The changelog mentions stability during charging and device operation so hopefully it addresses my recent problem where the buds sometimes don’t charge when in their case. 😄
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