Skullcandy Indy Evo In-Ear Wireless Earbuds, 30 Hr Battery, Microphone, Works with iPhone Android and Bluetooth Devices – Black

Perfect
These fit my weird shaped ears perfectly and don’t give me any ear fatigue for a good while. I’ve done an 8 hour shift with them and only had mild discomfort around hour 6. The sound quality is unmatched for the price. This purchase was my third pair, I wore my first one out and my second pair got stolen. Battery life is great. It can be tricky pairing sometimes though.

Solid headphones with a few annoyances that you’ll need to learn to work around.
Been meaning to write this review for a while. Decided to finally do it because I actually would like a second pair, and I noticed all the 1-star reviews coming through. If you’re looking for complaints, please look at section #7.I have owned these headphones for about a year in the Mint Green variant. Since they were purchased in 2021, I cannot speak to the quality of newer units incase manufacturing has changed since then.1. Skullcandy as a brand.I have loved Skullcandy since I first saw them on the shelves. They have a designer feel, while still being within the general consumer price range and delivering adequate quality. One of my biggest pet peeves with them as a company has been product lifespan, as their wired headphones always seemed very fragile. Figured I’d take a chance on the wireless, and this is my first time owning bluetooth headphones.2. DesignThese look and feel awesome. I’ll get into the flaws at the bottom, but the things fit great and look great. The case and earbuds are quality; the plastic doesn’t feel cheap; the case hinges are great; the fit in the ears is fine (and you obviously get the different bud dampers and earpiece fittings that you’ll keep but never use). Case is a bit scuffed, and the shine has worn off, but they’ve suffered a year of being in my bookbag – so this is completely understandable.3. Sound QualityI am not an audiophile, so I can’t give you a full breakdown on how they “actually” sound. Quality has been great for music and podcasts, so nothing to complain about here. Heavy on the mids, but range feels dynamic enough. Provides 3 preset EQs that can be accessed through a triple-tap (Music, Podcast, Movie).4. Noise CancellationI’m getting older, so maybe it’s me. But these are really great at blocking out ambient noise. Even with nothing playing, if someone is speaking to me, I have to remove 1 earbud at least in order to have a conversation. The provided “Ambient Mode” is a nice to “cancel the cancellation” though you lose audio quality.5. BatteryI get about 8 hours of listening out of these which is very close to a full workday for me. Most of the time I get through the entire workday, sometimes I don’t and have to wait for a charge. As of the time of writing, the case holds enough “juice” to hold about 4-5 full charges (represented as lights on the case). I think this was higher when I initially purchased the headphones, but I could be mistaken. I have just noticed that I’m charging the case more often recently.6. ChargingThis is the part that I’m confused about. I have no clue how these things charge as fast as they do. I KNOW it has to break some safety law. A completely dead earbud can go from 0% to ~90% in about 10 minutes of charging time. 10 minutes for 7 hours of listening? No idea how.7. Design Flaws and Connectivity IssuesNow onto the main part of the review. I will try to be thorough, though I may miss some points.7.0 Bluetooth is a bad protocolMost consumers are familiar Bluetooth. It’s this weird “thing” that exists, that we use sometimes, but not all the time. Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way; Bluetooth and dependable connectivity are mutually exclusive concepts. The standard is out of control, it’s hard to find whitepapers on, and has many different flavors. This means that every implementation of Bluetooth is different and it’s never consistent. The Indy Evo has its own weird implementation, that can be frustrating if you don’t know the patterns or how to recognize what’s going on.7.1 General ConnectivityThere’s a weird bug that happens under certain conditions where the headphones will become disconnected from the device (you’ll notice this by the video/song pausing on your device). After about 5 seconds you’ll hear “Reconnected” announced via the headphone and whatever you were listening to will be at a different volume than it was when the initial disconnect happened. I’d almost chalk this up to being an Android issue though, as it NEVER happens while I’m at work (with no internet connection) and ALWAYS happens while I’m at home (where Android can do whatever it wants in the background).It’s annoying, but I recognize it happening at this point, so I know how to deal with it. I’m pretty sure this is Android restarting the Bluetooth service, as it seems to happen more often when my phone is running low on storage.7.2 Case Dying vs Removing HeadphonesThis is one that messed me up for a bit and I’m not sure that it’s a solvable problem. When you remove the earbuds from the case, it signals to the earbuds to turn on and to take precedence for any device (this is a Bluetooth thing as far as I can tell). So what happens when your charging case runs out of juice? That’s right, the earbuds turn on. This means if I’m driving (and my phone is connected through my car) and my earbuds are in my bookbag in the backseat, I lost audio in my car (because the headphones say “Hey, I’ll play that”). Now, luckily, my car can take precedence back by changing the volume from my steering wheel, which tells my phone “Hey, I’m the device in charge” and then the sound is passed back to my car’s system.This is a weird thing the first time you encounter it though, but I’m not sure what the solution is.7.3 Hinge magnet strengthAll our ears are different. Sometimes you’ll need to position the earpiece in a way that is not form-fitting for the case. Unfortunately, this can lead to the charging case not COMPLETELY closing, so after the initial closing (at this point you think your headphones are charging) it may get to a point where one (or neither) of the headphones are charging. They could fix this by making the case “fatter/wider” and making the earpiece reservoirs larger. There’s a tradeoff here though between how “flat” you make the carrying case and how forgiving it is.7.4 Earbuds disconnecting from one anotherThis is what most complaints are about. I can guarantee you. I have found that this ONLY HAPPENS when I fall asleep wearing one of the earbuds. I have tried to emulate it, but it only seems to happen in my sleep.I only keep 1 earbud in when I’m sleeping (side sleeper).MY GUESS, is that I am rolling onto the headphone in my sleep, throwing it through the pairing cycle mode, and this is disconnecting them. It has literally never happened while I have been awake/using the earbuds.(Quickly the “Re-Pairing Cycle is:)1. Disconnect BOTH earbuds through the phone/device.2. Turn off Bluetooth on the device.3. Power off left and right ear bud.4. ONE AT A TIME. Place AND HOLD your finger on the ear bud so that you see it go through each cycle. (On, Pairing, Off). Do this for left and right. NOT AT THE SAME TIME.5. Place and hold your finger on the earbuds so that they turn on at relatively the same time.6. You should see 3 blue flashes on each earbud. Almost like a SYN-ACK back and forth.7. After the third flash, you’ll see them both flash blue at the same time and then the left earbud will go into “Pairing Mode”.8. At this point, turn your bluetooth back on and accept BOTH requests to pair.You’ll get pretty good at this after a while.7.5 Right earbud acts as the “driver”The left and right earbud are NOT equivalent. If you get out of range of the right earbud, you will start hearing connectivity issues. However, once you are completely out of range, the left takes over as the driver and quality is fine. This leads me to think that left and right have different profiles (and 7.1 may be an issue of left/right passing off to one another).All-in-all good headphones. I like em and I’m buying another pair. Thanks for reading my thesis.

Do not purchase based on sound quality, malfunctioning bluetooth and tile alert volume.
This AirPods that has connectivity issues with Bluetooth on my iPhone. When you try to connect it it shows up as two different Bluetooth entities, one will connect and one will not and then it will only stay connected and reconnect to the phone for about one week before everything must to be deleted and re-synced. Even with the adjustable earbuds it is huge for my ears and I am a 35-year-old adult, it is very painful to wear one at the gym or jogging. The one through 10 touch option for controls as nearly impossible to use when someone is calling you and you have the earbuds in. They sound it’s very poor connected to their old or wired headsets or even compared to the wired Apple headphones that used to come with iPhones. When reading reviews I saw this was supposed to have a good sound quality however it does not sound any better than it $10 set of headphones from Walmart. I am disappointed that I bought sets for myself and for all of my children for Christmas. I definitely should have gone with a Bose, jbl or AirPod option. We only went this route because of the tile application as my son lost his first set of AirPods. That said, the tile application is basically useless because the noise that place is so quiet and so low that you can barely hear it when there is no other sound in a room. My son lost his AirPods on a bus on the way home from school and this tile earbud it’s so quiet that if he did drop it he would never be able to find it either which defeats the purpose entirely. Compared to a normal tile for your keys, this time alert sound volume would be at a one versus a normal tile at a ten. One of the sets we purchased was the over ear and only one side would even charge out of the box and because it was purchased directly from Skullcandy even though it is defective they will not accept a return on that item because it was purchased at the beginning of December and was not open until Christmas it was past their 15 day allowance. I am very disappointed that I wasted so much money on multiple sets of these for the holidays. Please if you are looking for a good earbud set do not go this route, especially if tile location is one of your concerns.

Have been using mine for last 2 months and so far so good. The battery lasts pretty much as advertised and coupled with the case, it can go anywhere from 3-5 days (for me) without charging. Obviously that will depend on usage but overall I’m happy with these headphone.Also, the wingtips are awesome! I finally have a pair of earbuds that don’t keep falling off.

Voy a empezar con esto.Llevo ya 7 meses con los audífonos y en ningún momento tuve problemas con el audio, la batería o el puerto de carga, tampoco me dieron problema con que uno se sincronizara y el otro no.Si tuve un problema con que se desconectaran pero supe que a se debe, si usas los audífonos a la vez que compartes tu ubicación en tiempo real entonces tienen fallas, se apagan o se desconectan pero solo en ese caso.Puntos buenos:La calidad de Audio es excelente, su ecualizador ayuda mucho y el modo ambiente es útil pero la verdad yo los quiero para no escuchar a nadie a mi alrededor y sin tener que subir el volumen al tope cumplen con eso, sonido muy claro y con buenos bajos.Son muy cómodos, soy de orejas grandes y por lo tanto a mí me resultaron sumamente cómodos, no se me salen o se aflojan tampoco es necesario tenerlos hasta el tímpano pues tienen una forma que ayuda a la supresión de ruido.La batería dura muchísimo es más fácil que se acabe la batería de la cajita que de los audífonos y eso por qué los recarga en cuando los guardas.Si son resistentes al agua, me tocó un lluvia y por probar no los guarde los use aún en el aguacero y sobrevivieron sin detalles.Puntos negativos:En cuanto a las características de los Audífonos solo que se desconectan con la ubicación en tiempo real.Otro punto que no tiene nada que ver con los audífonos pero me llama la atención es que en ningún lado encontré un case para protegerlos sin embargo no los tengo todo el tiempo conmigo pues van en la mochila casi siempre.En general mi experiencia es buena muy cómodos, una calidad de Audio super chida hasta ahora son los audífonos que más tiempo me han durado sin fallar.¡Los recomiendo por completo!