Gadgetory

i'm david carly from cnet.com and this is the parrot zeke 2.0 wireless bluetooth headphone with active noise cancellation it costs the same as the original Zeke $400 and parrot a French company once again worked with French designer Philippe Starck to create this new model which comes in a variety of colors most immediate difference you'll notice between the two models is a weight loss thanks to a move from iron to aluminum and some other design alterations the headphone is now seventy percent lighter going from 325 grams to 270 grams the finish on the head vote has also been changed from soft to the touch plastic to a swanky faux leather finish the original Zeke was one of the most high-tech headphones and so is the Zeke 2.0 it has touch controls on the right earpiece that allow you to adjust volume pause your music answer calls and skip tracks forward and back with a swipe of your finger and there's a companion app that allows you to tweak your EQ settings import custom settings and raise and lower the intensity of the noise cancellation which proved to be quite effective in my test in the New York City Subway the headphone is equipped with eight microphones and there's a bone conduction sensor in the right earpiece that's supposed to help pick up low frequencies of your voice better for phone calls you also get NFC tap tap air technology and a sensor in the right earpiece there's a text when the headphones aren't on your head and automatically pauses the music when you rest them on your neck alas one of the things that hasn't improved is the battery life is still around 6 hours with both bluetooth and noise cancelling activated which just isn't all that good on longer flights you can listen to the headphone in Wired mode with the Bluetooth off and noise cancelling on and get up to 18 hours of battery life the battery dies you can also continue using the headphone as a wired headphone that will sound a little stunted one big plus is the battery the powers the headphone is replaceable though I haven't seen a replacement battery for sale anywhere yet as far as sound goes it's quite good for a bluetooth headphone and improvement over the original sound but at the same time compared have also improved the sound quality of their Bluetooth headphones I compared it to the Beats Studio 2.0 which cost slightly less and also features noise canceling because you can tweak the sound of the Zeke 2.0 it's very hard to compare it to another headphone there's this fixed sound profile but what I did find is that the Z to point O sounded better with some tracks while the beats with superior with others in the end this is an impressively engineered strikingly designed headphone that's loaded with features and is an improvement over the original Zeke both in terms of design and performance over as good as I think it is I can also see how it might not appeal to everyone particularly those who want to keep things simple and not bother with an add-on app and tweaking their EQ settings I'm David Carr joy that's the parrot Zeke 2.0 thanks for watching