BeatsFlex Wireless Earbuds - Apple W1 Headphone Chip, Magnetic Earphones, Class 1 Bluetooth, 12 Hours of Listening Time, Built-in Microphone - Smoke Gray

I purchased the Beats Flex in Flame Blue in July 2024 and as of this review May 1, 2025, these earbuds are still working well! I am a heavy user with them and I am not gentle with them either. Only thing now is that they are showing signs of wear and tear and takes slightly longer to charge but the battery is amazing. The earbuds are comfortable and stay in my ear while at the gym. The flex part makes its easy to put inside any size bag. Sound is still clear and loud. It connects rather quickly. I plan on purchasing another color. I did get this on sale for about 40 dollars.

I love these headphones. They hold a charge for so long and it only takes about an hour to an hour and a half to fully charge them. The sound quality is great. They aren't hard to use, they come with different sizes for the earbuds. Somewhat waterproof (my 9 year old spilled some water on my fiancees pair and they still work fine). Connect through Bluetooth which is also pretty simple. Overall they are definitely worth the price.

I have never purchased BEATS products before. I figured I could get something just as good, for far less in price than just paying for a name. How wrong I was. Sometimes you do get what you pay for. First let me say these were so reasonable in price I thought they made a mistake and left the number 1 off in front of the 34. I honestly and absolutely can say without hesitation that these are AMAZING. Besides the price being phenomenal, the way they fit my ear and don’t bother me after a while is Great! I have fallen asleep with these on and have not been woken up by pain after having them in literally all day and night. I am not sure what the actual BEATS description said about the amount of time you have before having to charge them but in the past week I have had them, I have only charged them twice for an hour each time and got 30+ hours of use out of them. They also come with small, medium and large covers for the ear part, also in the same blue to match. For me since I have small ears I use the smallest ones and they fit snuggly and comfortably. The sound is far above any other ear buds, ear phone or any other device like this that I have ever tried. They give a clear cleans crisp sound, while shutting out the noises going on around you. I can finally sit in my recliner, either reading or listening to music and not hear what my husband has blasting on the TV because he is hard of hearing and quite honestly I miss all his commentaries he loves sharing with the TV. These are by far on my top 10 lists of OH MY GOODNESS WHY DIDN’T I TRY THIS SOONER. They are really great and come in nice choices of colors.

Update:Knocking a star off. Still a decent headset. Discovered a couple, to me, significant deficiencies, since my original review.1) Battery life is far lower than rated 12 hour. getting about 8, maybe. Mostly listening to podcasts.2) Lack of low battery warning. If there is one, I never heard it. The other earphones I have used all have clear warnings , usually stating '20% battery remaining' and such. I have not had any warning, and ran out of battery 2 times so far.3) the buttons on the neckband are really not logical, or marked what they do.4) battery indicator is on the other side of the neckband than the charging port. Not a big deal, just odd.5) no 'over top of ear' wire routing like others I have used. Just a preference.6) I miss having an add-on charged battery to greatly increase the use of the product without having to find a charging port. Not easy when out of the home/car.On the positive side, I have found the phone function and quality is very good. No complaints from anyone I have talked to about the sound quality on my end. Most headsets I have used were bad to very bad. These are very good.From a dead battery, I charged about 20 minutes, got about 20% battery (according to the app). I guess that is pretty good. Using the headset as i type. Battery is now 15% after about 25 minutes of use (podcast listening)Still don't like the neckband. Prefer over top of ear, tight around the head wire style with nothing on my neck.Still, the sound quality for music, when equalized using your music app, is very good. Sound and mic quality are very good for phone.The business end of this set is there.Original review below:Coming from an older pair of similar Jaybird headphones. Purchased these because they seemed similar.Seems a lot of review are doing pros and cons. Seems reasonable. Impressions below pros/cons.Pros:lightweightfits my earsfast chargingsimple controls (also a con)good sound..well..after using your music app's EQ to adjust to your hearing levelphone/mic seems very good.consdisposable product. No adding/changing batteries that I can see.during quiet songs, you can hear sound transmitted from your clothing, etc. Not terrible. Just something new and odd.non-intuitive simple controls (simple to learn, however)no app to fine tune the headphones to your hearing level and tones to your ears.out of the box, sound is flat and zero bass. using your music app like Amazon Prime Music, you can tune an equalizer and greatly improve the soundrelatively low volumenot crazy about feeling the cord on my earlobes and the band on my neck.Impressions:Not bad for the price. Initially, I thought they were horrible. Turned on the EQ in Amazon Prime Music, which fixed that ! Out of the box , the sound is unimpressive, to say the least. Not crazy about the semi-rigid band. I liked the all wire of the Jaybird, as you could have it conform to your head with no movement for a real nice fit, making you even forget you had them on. These, you always know you have them on, as you can feel them on your earlobe and on your neck.Even with the annoyances, will give it 5 stars. Will revisit the review if there is any significant updateNutshell, they are almost identical to a $15 set I have, in all respect except these do sound a lot better. Is it worth the price... ehhh I don't know. As I listen to music writing this, I am liking them a LOT less than my old Jaybird Freedom. The sound quality (after setting up the EQ) is better, however, but the neck band is getting more annoying