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hey what's up guys mkbhd here my go-to wireless earbuds for the past couple years have been jaybird blue buds these are jaybird freedom they were unveiled at CES earlier this year and they're supposed to be their most advanced Bluetooth earbuds yet and for 200 bucks they probably should be so it's a new design new tech essentially trying to make them the new best wireless earbuds you can buy so design is already pretty similar to the Jaber 2 X 2's but as you can see the earbud itself is now much smaller so think like the Klipsch x10 sort of design so it's essentially a hybrid between these two products it's taking the best of both worlds the best of the Klipsch x10 design is the size the design is so small even compared to other earbuds these are super light the whole thing is just 13 grams and when you're wearing them it almost feels like there's nothing in your ear which makes them of course super comfortable and they use a micro tapered earbud design which makes a nice seal like a normal ear bud but then it just goes like straight 90 degrees and comes down at the bottom of your ear so you can go over ear or under ear wingtips or no wingtips a foam tip or rubber tip whatever you want there's plenty of ways for them to be comfortable and then again the designs biggest advantage is the size so even the smallest of other ear buds do usually stick out the sides of your ears a little bit this design doesn't so that's what makes them helmet friendly or hat friendly etc basically you can wear whatever head where you want over your ears and it doesn't push up against the ear buds so that's unique to these now the best of the Jaber blue bud series is the tech for sure these are super high tech ear buds first of all wireless bluetooth 4.1 so you can have them paired to two devices at once which is pretty dope so you don't have to pair and unpair them over and over to switch devices and you get inline controls a microphone a charging indicator light and overall a high-end package as far as earbuds go it's just what you're used to from previous jaybird stuff now jaybird claims 8 hours of battery life from this much smaller design which would be amazing except it isn't eight hours so the battery has moved from the earbud to the controller since obviously there's no more space in the earbuds for batteries and it's actually a four hour battery life with the smaller battery here plus an additional four hours with the charging cradle that has a small battery built into it so this charging cradle that comes with the earbuds just kind of snaps into place and charges via those pins at a pretty decent rate and it can add an hour of playback time in 20 minutes of wireless charging so that's nice but also definitely make sure you don't lose it because it's required to charge the earbuds at all since that's where the only microUSB port lives so basically I don't really think it's fair to call this an eight hour battery life I mean I get it you can total eight hours but that's like claiming a smart phone has a three day battery life because you can attach this external battery you can use it while it's attached but most people probably won't actually do that so yeah I call it a four hour battery life but that's actually still pretty good considering they charge fast and you actually have a pretty good idea of how much battery you have left most of the time because it tells you every time you turn it on and it monitors the exact percentage in the jaybird app so now a low battery isn't a surprise anymore like it used to be and that is the killer feature the cherry on top is the j-bird my sound app basically you grab this app once on your iPhone or Android phone or whatever you have and you pair the earbuds this way instead of the normal Bluetooth menu and once it's paired the app knows everything about your headphones so what kind they are how much battery you have left and what sound signature you're using and you can actually change that sound signature of the earbuds on the fly there's a bunch of built-in presets to choose from you can find more presets to pick or you can customize and build your own and there's a built-in tool to get really granular and specific about how you want yours to sound so they already sound really good for any earbuds they're crisp and clean way better than you'd probably expect out of six millimeter drivers but if you decide you want say a little more bass or a little more mids or less treble or whatever you want you can adjust and color the sound with this app and it actually adjusts the firmware of the earbuds so any device or any app you listen to after a testing it in the my sound app will still use this sound so that's key so let's say you add a ton of bass you love bass you add a ton of bass on day one with the my sound app then you could pair it a week later to your iPad and fire up I don't know Apple music and it'll still have all that bass or connect it to a new smartphone a month later you get a new phone and you fire up Spotify or SoundCloud it will still have all that added bass that you like so that's really cool you get the fine tune control of how the earbuds sound and even if like you uninstall them my sound app the next day the adjusted sound follows your earbuds around until you change it again yourself and pro tip you actually get a live preview of the sound the second you change it so you can have some music playing in another app in the background and mess around with the sound signatures live until you find one you like so that's what you're looking at a pretty great hybrid package in the jaybird freedom overall do you have to get these no of course not in fact unlike smart phones or laptops something like headphones doesn't turn over and become obsolete or dead year after year so if you have a good wireless pair of earbuds now that sounds great then that works for you but if you're in the market for a new pair for working out or running or just walking to work like you just don't have one yet then yeah this would be just about the top notch pair you can get super small and light 30 foot wireless range sweat proof super durable and customizable sound like what more could you want so there you have it the jaybird freedom is definitely the complete package as far as high-tech wireless earbuds go thanks for watching this video and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace