okay even this case is a spoiler my eyes kind of glanced at it as i sat down here
i don't know very much about this i don't want to know much about this this is a
product called the ear one earphones from a new
brand called nothing which was started by the founder of
oneplus after you know leaving oneplus and starting a new thing
this is nothing and i don't know what
they look like but now i guess i kind of know from the box
a little bit but first of all whoa i'm surprised that this
jesus is the box it's super slippery guys i wouldn't have expected to have a
shrink wrap on it i thought this guy is really
a salesman and marketing is his biggest thing and there's already so much hype
around this device so i just thought it'd be wrapped a little differently but let's let's check it out i'm excited to
unbox this getting kind of retro futurism
terminator vibes off of this especially that ominous red dot very hal
9000 kind of look there how do i open you ah
oh my god no no
this is an awful experience but i guess it's my fault
oh i'm supposed to okay
the plot stickings
did you hear that okay this is more
carl pays speed here it's this monolithic
alien box no marking on it whatsoever
come on okay here we go
oh and dry ice floats out of it
okay got a little tab here for me to pull on
that's also ceiling shut this case it's a clear case
i don't want to get too far into that yet though let's see what else is in here
earplugs s slash l small and large
they're plug they mean tips okay cable
type c and that's it
and then there's a little box of literature
nothing year one safety information warranty card i'm not reading that i'm
excited to look at this this is really cool i like the design they used just
looks really cool it's dark mode it's just line work and kind of uh space
invaders fun even this qr code literally looks like a space invader
look at that later let's look at these ear tips
these ear plugs okay so we have some silicone ear
tips there's two sizes small and large what if you're extra medium
and type c cable for charging
and it is white and it has a weird
transparent uh kind of rubber condom on top of a
braided cable i guess they wanted clear sleeving to kind of match the clear aesthetic of the
rest of the product which we haven't looked at quite yet but if they had just made it clear with wires going through
it might have looked cheap or something so they went from like a
hybrid where they've got this shrink wrap over top of braided
which i've never seen before i don't think it looks cool type a type c it's long enough but it's
not like it's going to be a feature of wired wired headphones you're wearing or
something like that good stuff now this
it's got a dimple what is that for is that for opening it's got a button on
the outside pro presumably for pairing or uh reset
oh i hit that and the light went green maybe that's tell me battery indicator and
you know that's a pretty good sound
that's not bad it's got like a squirkle kind of shape rounded corners
it looks like it wouldn't be too bad in your pocket i actually just want to try
that that's good yeah that's pretty cool if i was like riding a bike it's not going to
be too annoying i have a small inner pocket in these
ones and it doesn't fit in there i think this dot
this little dimples or divot is just for dimensionality it's a makes it a good fidget thing though
you're not gonna fling this thing across the room by accident it makes it look
cooler i like i like the design of the case it is a little ambiguous as to which way
it opens i guess that's the hinge so you know it opens that way and then
you put your finger on that part of it now here they are
themselves hmm they kind of look like airpods pros
they got the tips that go in the ear then they've got this white
bulb which has like a glossy plastic
ceramic kind of look to it now i had heard from a pro promotional
video that they had a clear element to them which they
do but i thought it was gonna be on the whole thing um it's just on the stem
on the stem it says nothing ear one
it's got a white dot it's got some like little reflective bits i don't know
if those are functional or just aesthetic uh then it has like a seam
where the it looks like this two these two pieces of plastic go together
it almost looks like there's a white line going through that seam
it could just be the edges of the plastic and the way the light hits it though and then on this side
you can see more actual traces and circuitry and stuff which is pretty cool
they definitely don't look cheap
i've seen lots of clear clear plastic devices where you can see the innards
and they kind of just look like it was something that was super cool in 1998
and then i was so basic that we don't bother doing it i don't think it says
left and right on them but you can see that one of them is has a red dot and
the other is a white dot i'm going to assume in this like right-handed privileged
world we live in that the red one is right i'm gonna put them in a twist i think
that'll be the way to do it
oh okay these have active noise cancelling
it's so convenient that there happens to be someone pressure washing some crap
outside because that is gone now i have no idea from
looking at these what the interface is gonna be like i wonder if that's that stem that's
gonna be capacitive okay when i took that out for a second
yeah now it's on ambient mode again and it's kind of uh
having some transparency so i can hear my own voice i put it back in
straight a and c okay let's
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at the link below okay what do you think john do you think i have to open the lid to pair
probably or do i hold this button down to pair
there's the app icon with the ominous red light and
it's weird that the ear one has parentheses in the name
it just looks like when you save a second copy of a file with the same name
by tapping continue you're agreeing to our privacy policy god
damn it i have located the button
continue to hold the button until the light begins to blink
i would say that's blinking fine you can have my contacts whatever
all right meet ear one double tap to
play and pause triple tap for next
tap and hold switches between noise cancellation and transparency that's
fine slide on stem volume up and down i like
that a lot that is it see why isn't there just a
single tap sometimes i could see the argument of
like you don't want an accidental hit but i don't know man i should be able to
just customize it in the app and maybe you can i don't know uh i don't know what this is showing me
is this showing me some kind of tutorial here here oh and there's two options is this
a slider is it just binary there's light noise cancellation and
maximum noise cancellation maximum noise cancellation how does that
sound versus light you know when you have like
robaxes set and there's just like space in your head and you're kind of
speedy that's what maximum is like light is a lot
more chill and then there's an equalizer okay there's just presets
balanced more treble more bass and voice
let's just stay with balanced again i wish they could do this in software so
easily i just wish they gave us a graph with all the frequency responses and i can just move
sliders up it's not harder just give it to us
so that's the here what about touch okay i can actually customize this a bit
left ear triple tap i can make it the
next song or the previous song or make it do nothing tap and hold i can make it noise
cancellation or do nothing so you can't customize the double tap
action that is always going to be playing pause but you can make it so that triple tap
is next i would say on the right ear and then
triple tap is previous on the left here that makes logical
sense to me i think i would do that now what's this up here dude
device details earn ear detection automatically play audio when earbuds
are in and pause when when
when what it doesn't say it's just cut off
find my earbud ring earbuds now to help locate them let's see how loud that is
oh i mean how loud is that when they're in the couch though
i hear them
okay new firmware update available
oh boy what is this
i updated the firmware i guess i need to connect again but
there's a little bit of a clipping or text wrapping happening there
is this supposed to be a battery indicator it looks like that text is
kind of cut off as well and it also looks like i'm at one percent battery
hopefully that's on the case not the earbuds i want to just listen to these
things finally because guys these are 99
i'm pretty confident that this is probably the industrial design wise this
is probably the like coolest pair of headphones you can get or earphones you can get for 99. truly
wireless with a anc and they look like this that's that
venture capital baby subsidized let's see how they sound
though it sounds pretty smooth the song i'm
let's do as a cowbell cowbell's just like ringing out it's
pretty clear i gotta listen to something i know inside it out though
how a lot are we talking right now though here's the thing though everything sounds good
at medium to high volume these don't sound
awesome when they're loud i i'd say i'm at about 80
right now which is about as loud as i want to go they go loud enough but
oh they get distorted when they get that
high but lower down they sound pretty good
they don't sound overly bassy right now but let's put on something
bassy and see what's your go-to bass song
hold on i can't hear you in front of transparency hello
hello oh yeah okay all right i feel like it's only transparent on this one ear
wait can i do that on this year too no i
turned it off it's global it's global let me just do this pause
okay childish gambino bonfire childish
gambino bonfire hey this is explicit jono
i think it dropped but it doesn't go low enough for me to be like
wow i usually do california love i don't know why this became one of my
tr uh test tracks but now it is
wrong with that if you listen to this track there's a guy in the back going
and there's like uh you know the dj air horn point point
what predates the dj air horn is the is the dj whistle
like the rave whistle or hip hop whistle a lot of whistle in this song
that's really good i don't have to like press really hard or like drag it or
push it into my head i can just gently swipe it and it goes up and down
one two three
one two three the touch interface works
i haven't had any um what's the opposite of a false positive
a true negative no false negative i don't know
i haven't done the ones where i hit it and it does nothing that hasn't happened to me yet which is good because that's
fairly common and then you have to like get used to it
this is easy to use right away yeah okay i recommend these for all
genres of music they sound pretty good just don't go much louder than medium to
high as soon as you go quite loud they get distorted these are sweet for
99 bucks these are gonna be really popular i think this is a great uh entry point for this new brand the i
think he's gonna make a pretty big splash on the onto the scene i feel like
they're not gonna let many people down they live up to the hype for a 99 product um i think these are
gonna be pretty popular i like them i would use these if you like this video
you might like to watch me review the oneplus earbuds which i hated
i hated them check it out these are
better that's probably why the guy left he probably saw my video was like i can't
be associated with this company anymore i gotta start a new one i gotta make james happy i'm out of here
nothing year ones check them out