Sony Xperia Ear Duo

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The product has a special design that allows users to listen to music while listening to the surrounding sounds, thereby keeping themselves safe in public and getting a whole new musical experience. Before officially being named Sony Xperia Ear Duo, this headset was also known as Xperia Ear Open Style.

As mentioned above, the main focus of the Sony Xperia Ear Duo is that it allows users to both listen to music and hear the surrounding sound. Thereby providing a rather strange audio experience that no other headset has ever provided grant (or have this idea). The headset is also compatible with virtual assistants such as Google Assistant, Siri, and LINE, or the new virtual assistant Assistant. At $279.99, Sony Xperia Ear Duo owns basic parameters, including a battery life of about 4 hours of continuous work, supports fast charging in 7 minutes for 1 hour of use, has a charging port. USB-C (separate cable), support Bluetooth 4.2 LE / SBC / AAC and IPX2 waterproof feature.

Main design and ease of use

The strange design of the Sony Xperia Ear Duo also comes with the “unlike” wearing style that Sony has forced users to follow. The Xperia Ear Duo is quite small and light (only about 10g), but it doesn’t make up for the strange wearing it requires. Many customers also complain that by the time they finish wearing the Sony Xperia Ear Duo in their ears, they’d rather wear a wired headset for less trouble.

The touch control of the headset can also make new users “struggle.” On the left earpiece is a control for playing music, stopping the music and the right earpiece controls the volume. You can also control the headset with gestures with operations such as turning your head left or right to receive or reject calls or skip songs while playing music. In general, these operations are quite easy to remember, so the user will “not worry” somewhat.

Listening pattern and overall sound quality

The Sony Xperia Ear Duo will not be a noise-canceling headset, but on the contrary, it allows ambient noises to enter your ears when listening to music. To help users not have to be too troublesome in adjusting the volume, the headset can automatically change the volume level depending on the noise intensity of the surrounding environment. That makes the music that the headphones emit can “mix” with the surrounding sound. You’ll be able to listen to music while working or sitting in public without worrying about missing important announcements.

The “music” you hear from the Sony Xperia Ear Duo will be the same as in a store or a shopping mall, meaning it “mixes” into the background noise and somewhat makes you feel like you’re inside one music video. You will be able to listen to music and chat with your friends or colleagues simultaneously, but this is also the weakness of the Xperia Ear Duo if it is used to listen to radio or podcasts because the announcer’s voice will be mixed in the sound environment. You will have a hard time discerning (or paying attention) to what they’re saying.

Smart features

The Sony Xperia Ear Duo has both Google Assistant and Siri integrated and can switch back and forth depending on whether you connect it to an Android or iOS device. Sony also integrated its virtual assistant to provide customers with an even new experience. The Sony Assistant virtual assistant will be able to read notifications based on the personal information you have provided to it (such as name, date of birth, address, or place of work). Of course, you’ll still be able to choose what you want an assistant to read, rather than letting it “read all.” The voice of the virtual assistant, in general, is also not very inspiring.

Battery life

The headset is advertised for about 4~5 hours of battery life depending on usage conditions and comes with a storage case cum portable charging box for necessary cases. Actual test results are slightly worse than the introduction, only from 3 hours when switching back and forth between listening to music, talking, and activating the features of the virtual assistant. However, the charging case of the Xperia Ear Duo will provide the device with about three more charges, meaning a total (in theory) you will have about 16 hours of continuous listening.

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