The glasses have touch controls on both sides of the frame, allowing you to control your audio without taking your phone from your pocket. The case doesn’t have its own battery, so you will need to have access to a power outlet to charge the glasses. There is definitely more detail than with bone-conduction earphones but once you get into a noisier environment you will lose a little of that as your audio competes with the ambient noise in the background. If you are expecting the sound quality to rival your over-ear or earbud-style headphones, you may be disappointed. The automatic pause was a handy feature, so you don’t miss out if you need to lift the glasses briefly. You don’t have to sacrifice much on the audio front, although if you are a fan of bass-heavy music you might find these a little weak on that front. Because the glasses leave your ears free, you can wear them while cycling or running and still be aware of what is going on around you. Two in one: you can wear sunglasses and not have to bother with headphones. They seemed to pick up fingerprints quite easily, so do keep a cloth handy unless you want to peer through a smudged mess. The leather-look case plugs into a USB-C cable to charge, so it will not only protect your glasses but also keep them powered up. When you raise the sunglasses from your face, the audio will automatically pause and then resume within a matter of seconds once you drop them back to your nose.Ĭharging is easy: you simply pop the sunglasses into the case. The swipe controls worked much better, particularly for the volume controls. The tap controls were a bit hit-and-miss at times I found myself tapping frantically along the edge of the frame to pause a track. You can also activate your phone’s digital assistant.
You can use the glasses to control your audio too, with a series of taps and swipes on the frame to play and pause your tracks, skip to the next song or control the volume.
The audio is surprisingly clear and retains a lot of the detail even though the speakers are small. That’s not a problem for the wearer though. If you’ve ever stood beside someone blaring music at 7am on a Monday and had to suffer the tinny sound leak, you can rest assured that, although these are not perfectly silent to the outside world, listeners would have to strain to distinguish any words unless you really crank up the volume. There is less sound leak from these glasses than there is from some in-ear buds. Is it as good as my noise-cancelling headphones? No, but it certainly beats the bone-conduction option.
They seem like a good idea, especially if you need to have a good idea of what’s going on around you, but the sound quality may not live up to what you expect.īecause they are semi-open speakers instead, you eliminate the excessive vibration at low or high frequencies, and you don’t lose as much detail in the sound. I have mixed results with bone-conduction headphones. They work via semi-open speakers instead of bone-conduction technology, which was a bonus for me.