Update at the bottom:
I had a pair of bose tenors for years that I loved (other than the battery life). Sadly, I have lost them. I'm now searching for a replacement. Cheaper than the cost of a date to McDonalds, these are more comfortable, lighter, and louder than the tenors. They also sound worse and feel cheaper. Like 1/4th the cost. Cheap enough you'd let your kid wear them at the beach and not care if they dumped them in the ocean. Cheap enough to buy a pair and leave in the car. Its only been 48 hours with them, so I'm not going to speak on the battery life yet, but it has significantly exceeded my lost aging tenors. The build quality is "fine", and they may even be repairable based on the physical seams on the arms. I do wonder if a person with a more robust head than mine might get skin irritation from the seams, but so far, I've been fine.
Good things:
– Buttons are more pronounced than the tenors, and harder to accidentally push
– Doesn't randomly trigger siri when your trying to answer a call or change songs
– Sits comfortably like normal sunglasses, instead of squeezing your head like the tenors
– Looks more like normal glasses
– More frame and lens options
– usbc charging
– Price
Not good or bad
– No app to "customize behaviors", which is fine, the bose tenor app was terrible and most of the settings, like disable siri, didn't actually work.
Bad things:
– Feels less premium
– Sound quality
– The black frames have a mat finish, and oils from your skin will make it look kind of shiny / dirty, which kind of makes you feel gross
Opinion:
Buy them. They don't sound amazing, but they are real cheap for the features, and sunglasses get broken and lost all the time.
Update:
I liked them enough to want a pair with clear lenses for using when it's dark or when I'm inside. Glasses also make me look smarter. I went back to this product page, clicked on the "clear lenses" option, and saw they were 20 dollars more, frowned, and then bought them anyways. I should have looked a bit more critically, the clear lens pair is a slightly different model. Similar comfort and weight and plastic finish, but different button placement. A little bit smaller and tighter and a bit more wrapping around the back of your head. Maybe 2-4% smaller? you would notice if they were both in front of you but not just by picking them up. The clear lenses are blue blocking and have this sort of iridescent blue hue, which is neat and slightly visible.
Overall I'd say they are incredibly similar, slightly louder, but that may be more of a unit to unit thing than a "model to model" thing. I think if you like one, you'd like the other.
Also, the more I wear them, the more I both pairs feel like you have to hold the buttons down too long to turn them on or off. Since wear them walking, I'm going by steps, but it closer to 5-6 steps to get them to turn on / off, and you really think they should be doing the thing by step 3-4.
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