They don't match up to some of the very best earbuds on the market, or to premium over-ear headphones of course, but they do a good impression of more expensive hardware (a lot like the OnePlus Nord, actually). It's crisp and sharp and loud, and you can give your ears a good blasting in terms of volume without losing the details of the songs that you're listening to. Music sounds really good through the OnePlus Buds.

As soon as you pop the earbud(s) back in, the music carries on (at least during our testing with YouTube Music and a OnePlus Nord). The OnePlus Buds borrow a few tricks from the AirPods: they'll automatically stop the audio if you take one or both of them out of your ears for example, and this works really well.

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With a OnePlus phone, you can also customise the touch controls (a double-tap skips tracks by default), and take advantage of the gaming mode to reduce the audio-visual latency between phone and earbuds.

Head into the Bluetooth menu on your OnePlus phone and you can see the battery levels of the left earbud, the right earbud and the charging case, update the firmware on the earbuds, and even get them to make a sound if you've lost them down the back of the sofa. The first time you connect, your OnePlus phone will look for a firmware update for the Buds as well.

We tested the Buds with a OnePlus Nord phone, and if your phone is switched on then it'll recognise the earbuds as soon as you open up the charging case (which automatically puts it into pairing mode). During our testing, the OnePlus Buds fitted snugly in our ears, and felt stable and secure even with a bit of head movement in time to the music.Īs we've already mentioned, setup couldn't really be easier. Unlike competing products from the likes of Google and Samsung, these earbuds don't sit right down in your ear – in fact they stick out relatively far, though not so much that you're going to be attracting strange looks on your travels.

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