Urbanears Alby True Wirelss Headphones - Ultra Violet

I really like these headphone. The box feels really nice to hold with the little loop. The buds themselves are very light, and just sit on my ear. No pressure or anything, and I can even run with them no problem. Sweat/rain resistant too, IPX4. The setup is easy, pick them up, put them on, pair, and go. It takes about 5s from picking the bud, putting it in and getting sound. The sound is nice and crisp, but as these are open, the bass is not deep and that's expected.Each bud can be used separately, as in you can use just one, either one. Both have mics, and the only difference is the tap controls. Left has previous song, and right has next song. When using the call functionality only one bud acts as mic, usually the first one to pulled out. Mic quality is OK, as you would expect from this type of bud. The range is pretty good, I can walk about 10m from my phone with no interruptions in my apartment. There were no drops while biking or walking about.Charging is good, just drop them in the case and there is magnet that snaps them into place. From my use so far, I got ~4 hours of continues playback. Takes about 10-15min for 50% charge, and about 1h to 100%. The case takes about 1.5h to fully charge over USB-C, which means one charger for almost all devices I have. Only a USB-A to C cable is included. I suppose if you only have an older phone that is micro usb, and no other device that can charge over USB-A, then you will need a charger. The controls are "touch" based, but I think they are using the mic on the side of each bud to detect taps. Initially I found the control hit and miss, but if you tap the mic, and not to fast or to slow, it works consistently.The standout feature, ear detection, is both the strongest and weakest point. Auto playing and pausing when you put them in, or take them off is great. It works 80% of the time. However, sometimes the feature will trigger when I tilt my head, or while I'm biking. All in all these are great, wish there was a way of toggling wear-detection. There is no app.Update: been using these for a while. Besides the ear-detection woes from time to time, their noise cancellation gets confused. During a call the other person will hear an echo of their voice. Not always, but very frustrating when it happens. Besides that the little net on one of them fell out. Not sure where, hopefully not in my ear. I really wish Urbanears would put a little more effort in their products. They always seem to be one or two steps always from greatness.

These have to be the most frustrating earbuds I’ve ever bought. Actually getting them to pair in the first place takes split second precision and moving hands faster than a Times Square ‘find the lady’ grifter. Most times with the first pairing on a 2022 iPhone SE I could only get one to connect. Follow the convoluted incantations and I could factory reset them and eventually get them to both connect. But then we keep randomly getting Siri with just the merest of gentle brushes to the side of the buds. Once Siri starts, the buds disconnect. Very little seems to convince them to connect again.Sound quality is, well, adequate I suppose.Fit is fine for my tween daughter (who has small ears and can’t find silicon tip earbuds that fit).I’m going to chop these in for some AirPod 2nd gens. My mental health is worth the 2.5x cost increase. These things are just too useless and frustrating.

I have owned urbanears earphones and headphones for the last 8 years, several models and these are by far the worst value for money. The controls simply don’t work when you want to skip songs or change the volume - all that ends up happening is you activate voice control and music stops playing, then you need to fetch your phone out of your pocket to sort it out. Another thing that annoyed the life out of me is the simple fact my hair touching the earphones activates voice control too! They also don’t hold in your ears very well and I was always worried I’d drop them. All in all, a massive letdown and I’m returning them today.

I have brought headphones from a urban ears in the past. First of all they always look great... but that is about it. My latest purchase the Luma in ear wireless look great. They fit comfortably in the ear. But that is where the praise ends.The mains issues are as follows:The ear phones regularly fall out of sync and have issues connecting. This happens too often and can take a few too many tries to get it all sync again.The white case easily gets scuffed, and are hard to clean. Maybe go for a a dark colour then the off white colour that I have.The touch controls are erratic and not great for much. They are either too sensitive or not at all. It proves to be frustrating.I would say they look great, but the pair I have have the above problems that make this purchase a regrettable one.

Don’t get these. Eventually one ear will stop working and the help they have available is completely useless. They’ll tell you to restart headphones and reconnect and you’ll be left with only one working ear. Get AirPods instead.