Gadgetory

wave port a new Kickstarter recently reached out to me with their new waterproof headphones and asked if I wanted to test them out naturally I said yes testing electronics is my specialty these headphones are bluetooth but also have 8 gigabytes of internal memory so they can function as a normal mp3 player without needing a phone to control them the packaging is pretty solid little magnets hold the flap in place and then foam holds the headphones and all of the earbuds these earbuds are important and I'll come back to them later a soft rubber coated wire wraps around your head and over your ears to keep the headphones in place the headphones have a sealed body and supposedly a coated PCB board but we'll check on that later inside the mesh bag comes the microUSB charging cable that plugs into the dock and an extra batch of headphone buds now these are extremely important if you plan on using these headphones underwater as we know speakers use air to produce sound without air there's no way for the speaker vibrations to reach your ear so this extra set of earbuds traps a little pocket of air between your ear and the headphone speaker allowing you to hear underwater now this does quiet the sound ever so slightly I had to turn my headphones up all the way but it does still work if you try and wear the regular earbuds with the hole your headphones will still be waterproof it just doesn't have air to transfer the sound and you won't be able to hear anything at all the air pocket earbuds are extremely important the microUSB charging cable plugs into the charging dock and then the little pins on the dock match up with the contact points on the Left headphone to charge this is part of the waterproof feature there is an LED indicator on the dock that indicates when the headphones are fully charged and that takes about 2 hours or so I have tried quite a few wireless headphones in the past when comparing the wave ports to some of the big boys like the power beats the beats have a similar behind-the-ear design and weigh about the same but the behind the head wire design of the wave ports make it slightly more comfortable and get the ear buds a bit deeper into your ear and since your ear is sealed off the base of the wave ports comes through a lot more than the base on the beats the underarmor JBL headphones are another favorite of mine they also seal off your ear entirely but since the JBL s do not have any over the ear hooks they don't stay in quite as well during running or lifting battery life and bluetooth connectivity distance are pretty much the same across all of the headphone I've been wearing the headphones around for the last few days getting a feel for the sound when not in use they'll sit secure on my neck and don't fall out when I'm bitching or lifting weights like the JBL Under Armour's do and the behind the neck wire gently keeps things snug unlike the long loose ribbon on the beats that catches and tugs of my ears every time I turn my head and most importantly they do not bounce out when I am running I spend more time out of the water than in it so the daily usability factor of the headphones is more important than the waterproof feature for me but since the whole point of the waterproof headphones is the waterproof part let's test them out in some water now wave for claims that the headphones are ipx7 which means that they can be underwater for 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter I'm not the best of following rules so I took off my arm floaties and swam to the deep end of the pool Bluetooth does not work underwater so Spotify or Pandora is out of the question but since the headphones have a gigabytes of internal memory my phone does not need to be nearby at this point I do have the water buds attached the ones with a little air pocket inside so the sound is a little bit quieter than normal but definitely still audible the headphones stayed on well enough to the general floating and swimming around but fell off if I ever pushed away from the wall I imagine wearing one of the little rubber hair caps would help keep them in place but I'm fresh out of hair caps at the moment these headphones work great in the shower or for a water aerobics class but if they fall off they will sink to the bottom of the pool now one of my qualms with the water-resistant Galaxy s7 is that the motherboard was not coated with a hydrophobic spray and therefore missing an important layer of protection wave port didn't exactly give me permission to take these apart but here we go remember I'm only doing this as a demonstration and to verify advertising like I always do if you open these headphones at all you will lose any waterproof capabilities and warranty and all of that good stuff once the speaker cap is off we can see the shiny circuit board and speaker wires and the internal memory card if I drop any water on the components it will immediately run off the board leaving it completely dry unlike on the galaxy s7 where the water would cling to the uncoated circuit board and not run off so this board is indeed coated with the hydrophobic spray and with that you are definitely safe to use them in the rain the pool the shower or anywhere else that they might get wet pretty impressive now are these going to be my favorite headphones ever time will tell I usually decide which headphones to wear as I'm walking out the door to the gym I do know that these headphones will hold their own against headphones that are four times the price so thank you wave port for setting these out to me and I will leave all of the related Kickstarter and product info down in the video description if you are interested in checking them out or curious and want more information thanks for watching hope see you around