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oh no another Kickstarter project that Linus backed way back in holy crap March 2014 with an estimated delivery date of January 2015 alrighty then well at least they delivered something which is more than a lot of Kickstarter's ever do this finally is the - from braggy which raised over three million dollars on the promise of being the world's first truly Wireless in-ear headphones let's see how they did shall we Tunnel Bear is the easy-to-use VPN service that lets you use the web as if you're in one of 20 different countries learn more and tried tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description I give braggy full marks for packaging and presentation but companies that create successful Kickstarter campaigns are usually good at that stuff even if they suck at everything else the dash comes in an attractive box that opens up to reveal a charming booklet style Quick Start Guide that's built right into it then small compartments containing the small medium and large fit sleeves the extra small is pre-installed the magnetic charger cradle with the earphones pre-installed in it a sliding aluminum cover that fit very snugly over the charger with a clever slit to peek at the charge indicator lights on the earphones that can be activated by shaking them and finally a clip to keep from losing your earphones along with a USB cable cool and it gets cooler actually when you put them in your ear they start automagically talking to you hi I'm the - explaining that the right side is for communication in music while the left is for activity tracking then they tell you to hold the right side until you hear the pairing sound which I never heard but when I fired up my iPhone it showed up in the listing connected in a couple of seconds making it a very cool and seamless experience out of the box and the goodness continues their Android app is well rated at over 4 stars with 5,000 downloads but it's the iOS one that I ended up using which was good as well when you open it up there's a slick animation for how to insert the earphones correctly and instructions for connecting the app to the dash by holding the left ear phone for a few seconds one frustrating thing is you have to avoid using the earphones with any other apps in order to get the full functionality of the braggy app so you can't make changes on the fly while you're listening to music then you have to eject them from the braggy app once you're finished configuring not knowing this caused a glitch or a couple of times where even after ejecting I could control music playback supposedly but I actually here anything without refreshing the earphones by putting them into the charging cable weird anyway from inside the app you can select running cycling and swimming for the activity tracker you can also do it through the touch sensitive interface on the Left earbud by the way but activity tracker stuff isn't really my thing so that won't be a big focus for this video it is sick however that the earphones are waterproof to one meter something I actually didn't know until they arrived and I read it on the box though in my defense I did back this thing like two years ago of course being able to wear them while running or swimming would count for nothing if they didn't stay in and stay comfortable and I've got to give braggy a lot of points here I was fully expecting the dash to be unreasonably heavy and uncomfortable due to their completely self-contained design battery drivers touch interface motion sensor microphones it's all in there and they managed to make them fit well enough and be light enough that any of these activities were no problem for me in spite of my extra small size ear canals great job guys there are a couple of more app things I should cover before moving on there are gestures right now nodding and shaking your head to accept or reject a call neither of which worked in my testing but your mileage may vary with more gestures to come and each ear phone has a regrettably non configurable but surprising range of functions that you can access by tapping double tapping swiping holding and long holding including a transparency mode that sounds cool in theory allowing the Dash's microphone to pass surrounding sounds through to you with the speakers so you can hear them better but in practice makes very little difference since the microphone is not that sensitive to ambient noise and the earphones passive noise isolation is not a strong point of the product in the first place with or without music I could hardly tell the difference between the two modes Calibos the - Enzo Java microphone for phone calls isn't supposed to ambient noise let you judge for yourself well that works you know the audio recording just wasn't a weather courtroom when you're listening to now call to Brenda's iPhone for comparison sake you've got a few other microphones what you're listening to right now is being recorded on the iPhone 6s built-in mic what you're listening to now is being recorded on the j-bird Levi's ex also a wireless earphone well not actively completely Wireless I guess and this finally is being recorded on the horse party microphone cable that's available for the sennheiser idat headphones that I use as my daily drivers battery life was frankly nothing impressive at around a few hours per charge at best and I suspect most people will find themselves carrying around the charging case but there's good news here another thing I forgot the case has its own battery that charges up the earphones a few times so you only have to plug it in via microUSB once per day all right Linus you tease when are you going to get to the meat and potatoes of this how do they sound there okay actually better than okay surprisingly okay well-rounded pleasing sound signature with solid not overpowering bass and reasonable clarity in the highs okay I mean no they are not comparable to a similarly priced wired IEM like my daily driver ie 80s they have a shockingly high noise floor they don't get very loud and they're just plain not as good but considering all the additional functionality I'd have given sound quality a great score if the Bluetooth connectivity wasn't so shockingly bad across my time with the - the first time I had my signal cut out I initially thought I had bumped the earphone causing it to pause while scratching an itch but it turned out that with my phone on the bed next to me even putting my hands near my ears caused the signal to cut out momentarily line of sight range is a pathetic five meters but I found that having my head between my phone and the right earphone caused issues even at that distance and it gets worse with my phone in my pocket and I'm a short dude right leaning backwards is enough to cause the signal to crackle momentarily or even drop for up to a second at a time any body of water and we're made of water folks is enough to screw up the connectivity which means final conclusion time that in spite of all the positive things I had to say about this product in spite of all its innovative features and clever design elements I simply cannot recommend it even at half the price at $300 especially it's not enough to be a really cool touch controlled 4 gig in your mp3 player oh yeah you don't have to use bluetooth it does have 4 gigs of storage but the wireless connectivity also has to work sorry braggy better luck next time I hope that you survive long enough to bring a dash to to market to take on the slew of similar products that have already started popping up between your Kickstarter campaign and now because I mostly really like what you've done here so let's say you're building a mobile app and you're looking for a solution that unlike today's product doesn't get 90% of the way there and then fall flat on his face maybe you want to check out Braintree their code for easy online payments led to you ad payments to your mobile app very simply with the Braintree V zero SDK which is one small snippet of code you can be all set up in less than 10 minutes and they even have support staff to walk you through the process over the phone if you need them - 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