Boult Audio Airbass Propods Bluetooth Truly Wireless in Ear Earbuds with Mic with 24H Total Playtime, Type-C Fast Charging, Touch Controls, Ipx5 Sweatproof and Voice Assistant (White)

Full Review after 3 days of usageLooks: This one definitely wins over the other looks-wise. It looks better than others in the market and other models in Boult. The earbuds have a very premium feel to them and the finish is great both on the case as well as the earbuds. The magnet works very well on the box and for charging and they won't drop out of the box if you hold them upside down. The case has 4 led lights which indicate charging levels and status. There are also small LEDs on earphones as well but they only blink when they are not connected to anything and available to pair and thankfully never other than that. I dislike any sort of lights on the earpods itself but glad this is not a problem.Connectivity: They are available for pairing immediately as you take them out of the box. I haven't faced any connectivity issues so far. I have been using them with both my phone and laptop. So, when I take them out of the case and they have both options available like my phone and laptop, then they connect to the last device before they went in the case if only one device is available they connect directly to that. And as the description mentions, they are dual masters and can be used independently or together.Battery: The earbuds once fully charged offers just about 4 hours in continuous usage. However, they seem to last all day if you are using intermittently with breaks in between but have them on your ears. I haven't measured the exact time but they charge fairly quickly once inside the box. About 10-15 min is enough for them to last 2 hours. I noticed that the battery discharges quicker when you use them for calls rather than music or you connect to a laptop for watching a TV series or something but I guess that's true for any earbuds. Overall you get a little over 20-22 hours of usage with a fully charged case. The case takes about 1.5-2 hours to charge and uses a Type-C charger. I would like higher battery life, but they give as much as promised, so can't complain there.Usage: The touch quality is fine but super sensitive. Sometimes when I am adjusting my earphones or properly mounting them in the ear it switched on google assistant/Cortana. Also sometimes the call gets disconnected when you try and adjust the earphones so that's annoying. All the touch gestures work as they are supposed to and the triple tap, double-tap, everything works as shows in the pictures. The rubber tips on the earbuds are smaller than usual, not very small but smaller than the medium size tips of other brands but they provide replacement tips in the box in a bigger size so that's not an issue.Call/Music Quality: So, coming to the most important part, the music quality is satisfactory, its obviously not like Bose or any other premium brands but the quality is definitely as good as normal wired earphones in the same range. I used more expensive tws earbuds from boat before this and boult is a definite improvement at a lesser price. You can download any of the apps on play store to enhance music and though you can feel the improvement after using any app (but that's true for any earbuds you use), it is really not necessary and increasing the bass manually will drain the battery. So, for a normal user who is not very fixated on trying to get that studio-quality music but just a casual listener, these work just fine. Coming to the calls, the mic works well and the other person can hear you clearly. Though they mention passive noise cancellation, it hardly works. There is a difference with noise cancellation but not as much as you'd like.Impressive Points:The design of the earphonesSeamless connectivityCons:I would've preferred a better noise cancellation.The super-sensitive touch is annoying especially during calls if I touch it to adjust and it disconnects.So, overall I would rate them as 4.5/5 but I am going to give them 5 stars since 4 is not warranted.

27-Nov-2021: After spending lot of time and energy in follow-up, received replacement in August and come November the new pods failed again. They have now stopped charging. What a waste of time and money. Never ever buying a Boult product.19-Apr-2021: Rating reverted to 1 star (Can't makeit ZERO)!!! After 1 week of interactions with the support team I now realise why #Boult product are faulty. Pick-up was to happen on 12-Apr. Gave a reminder to Boult Support on 13-Apr and they raised a reverse pick-up ticket on 15-Apr. Received email on 17-Apr with my address mentioned as Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh while I stay in Maharashtra - hence called immediately on 17-Apr and I was assured that my address has been corrected. Today, 19-Apr, I receive a call from the pick-up guys from Fatehpur!!! I call the Boult Support again and explained them that they had erroneously mentioned wrong address. But the support team executive had the temerity to mention that the address was provided by me and that she had my details mentioned in her notebook...really!!!. God only knows what system they use for processing complaints!!!10-Apr: Received a pro-active call from Boult team for replacement of the defective product. Raised a support ticket for replacement of the product. Hoping for quick action. Increased the rating to 3 for the team's responsiveness.Reduced further to 1 star due to poor sound quality and continuous disturbance during phone calls. Only able to use it for listening to music.It's a decent product for the price point received. Comfortable to use for a couple of hours. Music quality is decent. Battery life is good. Overall meets expectations.Update: lot of static sound and also cracking noises during calls. Ok for hearing music.

I got this mainly for taking calls and causal usage (excluding gaming). After roughly a week of usage, here are my thoughts on it.Pros:- Given the AirPods like design, It offers a good fit for prolonged wearing.- Lightweight.- Sound profile: Regarding the bass, as advertised, there is "NO" such magic but the bass is boosted ever so slightly than other frequencies. The unit I got, it has more like a v-shaped profile so the mids are slightly lesser but nothing concerning at all. All genres especially EDM will have the slightly thump and mids ever so slightly muffled while the highs are leveled off to the same as the bass. that's being said, this all heavily depends on the seal that you get with the cones that come with these buds. The default ear tips installed has a slightly wider opening, depending on the ear shape, it may not be sufficient for proper seal so one may take it as underperforming buds. I switched to the other tip that it came with which as a narrower hole but has a wider cone to get the perfect fit and that really made a very huge difference (milage will vary for everyone) that one will really appreciate. The trick to getting a good seal with these is to inset the ear tip first in the canal holding the lower half of the bud and twist it to the direction of the lobes to secure it perfectly.- Call quality: Tried this in silent as well as in a mildly noisy environment with ambient traffic around during travel, the other person did not have any issues hearing. It for some reason does not work well with hangout calls properly over the phone but works perfectly with normal and WhatsApp calls. The voice is too weak over hangout even if you scream at the mic on the buds.- Touch controls as opposed to button press.- no de-sync or lags with receptions nor signal drops. (Great for binge-watching)- Ample loudness, given the size of the drivers.- Good battery life so far. With the case fully charged and almost 9 hours of calls and causal music, the case still indicated two LEDs at the end of one full day. (yet to test it properly)- Works in the mono mode (single bud) which is actually a boon for WFH scenarios.Cons:- These do not have the sensors on the bud to cut off the music when removed.- The touch is too sensitive at times.- There is a slight input lag with the response for touch.- The case has a very flimsy top feel and the pods themselves feel delicate to handle but they should be ok as long as its properly handled.