OnePlus Nord Buds
so with its latest launch oneplus has been very much a friend of anyone who wants to top up on their tech but is also unfortunately rather skinned and these plays in the affordable devices are all part of oneplus nord family it's got a couple of cheapy node smartphones
and also the oneplus node buds which cost under 50 quid but do the basics really really well these compact water resistant true wireless earbuds boast full touch controls you've got some impressive 12.4 mil titanium drivers packed in there and excellent battery life just don't expect any kind of flare like active noise cancellation for that 49 pound price tag i've had the oneplus nord buds stuffed inside of my head for the last week or so using them as my full-time true wireless earbuds is my in-depth review and for more on the latest and greatest tech please do poke and ding that notifications bell cheers so first up design and certainly do not expect any wildly vibrant color options from the oneplus nord buds you've basically got this black slate option otherwise white marble and one of the things i like about the design of these buds is they're pretty compact they do have stems unfortunately dangling down but they are only very short they're certainly not drooping down all the way to your chin area like some of them seem to you've got a selection of differently sized silicon tips to stick on the ends you can find the perfect snug fit for your lug holes and i found that the compact lightweight design the fact those stems don't dangle too much means
OnePlus Nord Buds Review
that these OnePlus Nord buds don't move around they don't shift about when you are walking and wearing them at the same time and again the fact that they aren't oversized and they are rather lightweight they only weigh 5 grams each
roughly means that they're also very comfortable to rock in your ears all afternoon long until eventually the usual ear fatigue sets in and a particularly great part of the design of the oneplus nord buds is the ip55 water resistance as well because these things have been drizzled on an awful lot these
last few days in fact i got caught in a particularly torrential downpour just a few days ago coming back from a google
event thankfully they survived no problems whatsoever and that water resistance also extends to sweat yum so if you're going to be rocking them down the gym or whether you're pounding the pavement or whatever then no worries now
if you happen to rock a oneplus branded smartphone well good news you've got the
quick connect feature with one plus node buds as well so just open up the case and immediately the two will begin to pair up you just gotta hit done and that's it and there's also no need to download a separate app in order to control and customize the oneplus node buds all you've got to do is head into the bluetooth settings and then select the nord buds and then hit up earbud functions and from within here you can check the battery life play around with the audio presets mess around with the touch controls and you've also got a quick start guide and occasionally useful find my earbuds feature if they tend to scroll themselves away down the
back of the sofa but don't worry yourself if you don't have a oneplus branded smartphone all you need to do is download the hey melody app from likes of the google play store and you'll be able to once again customize the touch controls and all that good stuff son let's move on to the controls and sadly there's no sensors in the one plus node buds to detect when one of them or both
of them have been plucked from your log
calls to therefore pause whatever you're listening to you will have to manually pause and then resume your content however these little circular doohickeys up towards the top end of the stem aren't just for sure they are actually touch sensitive panels now the touch controls are pretty simple and straightforward but they do work really really well just a quick tap of either of the OnePlus Nord buds will pause and then resume
your audio your podcast your music whatever double tap will skip you forward a track and a triple tap will skip you back a track and while some earbuds you've got to spend some time with them to really get used to how the touch controls worked i found here on the oneplus nord buds they were perfectly intuitive i just you know stuck them on my ears and immediately got on with them absolutely fine perfectly responsive as i mentioned before you can customize the touch controls though only to a sort of minor degree i set it up so basically a double tap of the left bud would skip me back a track and a double top of the right bud would skip me forwards and then just deactivated the triple tap just to save time you can also set it up so a long press v the bird will activate your smartphone assistant for instance but I just left that turned off suddenly there's no way of tweaking the volume up
or down uh with any of the touch controls you will have to do that via your smartphone instead those dinky stems do actually come in kind of handy because it means you can pluck one of the nord buds from your local have a quick chat with someone without accidentally fumbling those touch controls and skipping tracks and all kinds of carnage now it's perhaps unshockingly kind of difficult to find a pair of true wireless earbuds under 50 quid that supports active noise cancellation and the oneplus nord buds
OnePlus Nord buds Specific
are no different no NC here whatsoever although oneplus does reckon they come packing some noise canceling algorithms
although frankly i'm thinking that these algorithms have probably buggered off for an extended tea break because they seem to do nafal the one ball lake for me using these things as my true alice earbuds for the past week or so has been
the fact that they don't cut down on any
of the external camera gold on whatsoever you don't even really get some proper noise isolation just from the silicon bud being stuffed inside of your locals so even when i'm wearing these certainly if i'm not listening to any podcaster music i can hear absolutely everything going on around me
and when i head outside you know hitting
the high street or in stores or bars or restaurants or anything like that as long as i'm blaring really loud metal music then that's fine i can't hear anything else i'm in my own little piece bubble but as soon as i try sticking on a podcast or an audio book suddenly all that noise is coming at me again and i find that certainly if i'm walking down
a high street for instance with traffic going by me i have to turn the volume up
really loud to hear what is going on because sometimes the vocals and everything are drowned out so if you are out and about quite a lot or you're looking for true wireless earbuds to keep you occupied while you're traveling then i would say perhaps look elsewhere i have reviewed some earbuds from the likes of xiaomi for instance which do support noise cancellation only cost about sort of 20 or 30 quid more than this so it's probably worth bumping up your budget just to save your locals if nothing else however where i was really impressed with the oneplus nord buds was
the audio quality each of these buds comes packing a 12.4 mil titanium driver the same as oneplus more premium buds
pro so certainly at this sort of price point the audio quality is fantastic you know you've got the full range on sure the highs and the lows don't overpower one another and when you're listening to more complex tracks you can generally make out each individual element sadly you don't get a full-on equalizer option with the node buds you can't manually tweak the audio output if you have a particular preference for the lowers the highs you do get a small number of presets i wasn't a massive fan of the base preset but i did quite like the bold one that just made everything sound
a bit more beefy and certainly no complaints with the volume here these things can hit almost 100 decibels on the maximum volume so they will absolutely blast your eardrums to bits you've got support for the likes of aac dolby atmos support as well as you get that proper surround sound effect with supported contents that's all great to see and i had no issues at all watching a bit of netflix or youtube any of the video streaming services while wearing
these the video and the audio always perfectly synced and if you're planning on making any actual phone calls with
oneplus nord buds well i thought that my
voice generally comes through quite cleanly crisply and clearly if i'm in a quiet environment like i'm right now but as soon as there's any traffic noise or anything as i'm now simulating using my smartphone i found that this does tend to make my voice more sort of muffled and soft and a little bit harder to understand even though the traffic noises are mostly cut out i'm guessing that's that pesky algorithm in action on the battery life front oneplus reckons you get around seven hours of use on a single charge from the oneplus nord buds and i found it in my testing that was pretty much bang on so between seven and
seven and a half hours is what i tended to get and certainly one of the better results out there especially again at this sort of budget price point and when you do find that the OnePlus Nord buds or drain if you do need to recharge just shove them back inside the rather bulky case and you should get just over three full recharges from this thing before the case itself also needs a charge up via type c USB and this never happened to me but if you do somehow manage to fully drain the oneplus node buds and you still want to wear them for even longer well no worries just chuck them in the case for 10 minutes or so that will give you around four to five hours of full-on playback and that's some crazy fast charging right there and it does take around an hour in total to fully charge them up but seriously if you just want to get an extra few hours out of this thing no worries of course you can tell just from the case itself that these are budget buds because it is rather plasticky and not very attractive and also rather huge and awkwardly shaped as
well so very much not comfortable to slip inside of the jeans i found that at least one of these sharp corners would always be digging into my prostate at any given moment anyhow that is my full
frank in-depth review of the oneplus nord buds i have to use them as my true wireless earbuds for a full week and as i say it's kind of a shame that they don't really help to block out any of the crap going on all around you because if they did i would have absolutely no problem heartily recommending then the battery life is fantastic audio quality really good for this price as well i quite like the the design as well but if you're not gonna be listening to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts while you're
out and about and you're not really too
bothered about havin