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dozens of totally wireless earphones have arrived on the market and these sky buds which retail for $200 are one of the better models available though they distinguish themselves more from a performance standpoint than a design standpoint what I like about them is pretty simple they actually work and sound pretty decent for this type of headphone they also maintained a reliable wireless connection and work decently as a headset for making cell phone calls are they comfortable relatively speaking yes but they're not as comfortable as Apple's air pods they did manage to stay in my ear securely and their noise isolating design passively blocks out a good amount of sound you charge and store the buds in their companion battery case battery life is rated at four hours at moderate volume levels and the case gives you an extra five charges a free companion app allows you to update the firmware and there's a new pass-through mode that makes the buds let in ambient noise while their sound quality didn't blow me away it was definitely a step up from what you get from Cheaper totally wireless earphones while I can't come up with a very compelling reason for you to buy these instead the air pods overall I did like the sky buds and think they are one of the better totally wireless buds out there right now I'm David Carney for cnet.com thanks for watching