sometimes it's almost unfortunate when a brand sponsors a video like LG sponsored
this one because the tonef free fp8 are hands down the most comfortable inear
wireless earphones that I have heard yet
not only that but they've got a super compact carrying case 24 hours of
battery life with the battery included in the case and they are super small
look how tiny these things are I mean next you're going to tell me they've got
some kind of bacteria killing Li in ins
side that destroys bacteria on the mesh inside the ear they got that
too well we're going to have to take a closer look at these aren't
we LG sent me a fancy package with a few
fun things inside we've got the fp5 fp8
and fp9 tonef free earbuds here to check
out they've all got active noise cancellation and they share the same
physical design but the fp9 have LG's
new plug and Wireless feature which is great for devices that don't have
Bluetooth or that have really janky Bluetooth implementations like uh
certain mobile game consoles that bug out if you try to connect Bluetooth
audio and a Bluetooth controller at the same time so all you have to do is plug
in a 3 and 1/2 mm to USBC cable and then
you can actually use your case to forward the audio to the earphones super
cool right that's actually great for things like plane treadmills like
there's any number of things that still use a 3 and half mm Jack but you don't
necessarily want to carry around two different pairs of headphones with you all the time the fp9 retail at $1.99 so
if you want a cheaper option you can check out the FP FS here you just won't
get the plug and wireless or their UV Nano feature we've mentioned that on the
channel before but now the UV light inside the case Works twice as fast
killing 99% of the bacteria on each ear mesh within just 5 minutes of charging
these ones also lack wireless charging that's available only on the fp8 so
Choose Wisely based on which features you care about the most as for which
feature I care about the most LG apparently sent a special version of the
fp8 these are so cool why are more
Electronics not translucent LG on behalf
of everyone watching this video I calling upon you now to sell these it
really makes do appreciate all the tech built into them so much better in terms
of colors LG's tone free lineup is available in white they're calling this
rose gold that's gold and black they
call that rose gold apparently but I don't buy it at this point I've already
hit most of the talking points that LG asked for in the sponsored video so
let's focus on what really matters inside you get small medium and large
medical grade ear tips uh the medium ones were the right size for me your
mileage may vary you get a a USBC charging cable charging is handled by
these three metal contacts on both sides and you just pop them in little
something like that they're magnetic so they should snap into place pretty
easily and since you're in here you can also see that these were developed in
collaboration with Meridian the high-end audio manufacturer that LG actually also
sponsored a tour of their facility a couple of years ago back when touring
facilities was a thing on the earbuds themselves is a total of three
microphones per earbud and these contri rute to a couple of features one is
apparently exceptional call Quality so we're going to go ahead and record a
call to plof who's sitting over there in a minute but another one is that the fp8
support active noise cancellation just like the top tier competitors that LG is
up against at this price point the mics are located here here
and right there they've also got proximity sensors in them so they can
detect if you take them out of your ears as well as touch sensitive buttons right
here that can be configured in L G's app to serve various functions hopefully the
setup procedure is pretty painless but it should be because I tried it once
before we started and it was like super easy connect prompts you to download the
app touch twice end call volume control
three times to play the next song and long press is ambient control colored
light indicator tells you how much battery life is left on your case hey oh
right that makes sense I closed it so it went away I was going through the user
manual let me have my fun time to put these in let's
try couple of different eqs I'm going to start with natural obviously that's
usually my preference let's just have them be noise blocking but not noise
cancelling by default touchpad lock oh
interesting well how do you unlock
it no it's just locked right
now now it's working so you can see I changed over to ambient mode there
noise cancelling mode huh so you've got different levels of noise cancellation
you know that kind of pressure feeling on your ears when you have noise
cancellation on I mean honestly it's not
especially noticeable to me on these anyway but you can decide if it's over
your your threshold then you can turn it down to low normally noise cancellation
doesn't do a great job of things like human conversation
but I
could I could hear it kind of like that like I could just barely make out little
bits of what Colin was saying game mode
whoa cool lower latency Whispering mode
hold the right earbud near the mouth to
speak softly on the phone okay we're going to have to try this okay I'm I'm
calling you hello can you hear me yeah I
can hear you uh how how am uh how am I doing you hear me all right yeah
PR okay let's uh let's give this whisper mode thing a shot here I have to take
out the right one and okay can you hear me all right yeah
you're still Whispering oh interesting I screwed this
up Andy uh the microphones I don't know there's four holes in the thing so I
don't know which three are microphones so there's the one here which I suspect
is to listen to like what makes it past
the earphones so that one's got to be a mic this one's got to be a mic but I
don't think this one is I think it's actually just another port for this one
okay what about now can you hear me better yeah I can hear you Whispering
it's a little better okay the point of this mode is supposed to be that you're
in like a a loud environment or busy environment where you want to have a
quiet conversation so what if there was some ambient
noise get get some crab Reef going in here
okay I've got the speaker like right my
head still hear me all right yeah I can still hear
you I'm having a harder time hearing you
hold
give I'm turning on I'm turning on my noise cancellation so I can hopefully
block a bit of
that okay so how would you describe the audio quality out of
10 or seven considering or seven yeah
whispering I mean a six under those circumstances is I consider to be kind
of a win yeah you clear right
up okay thanks proof I think that's good for now unfortunately it looks like
whisper mode is something you have to toggle manually right now it's in the
lab uh but maybe it's something that you
can uh use your buttons for if you
customize that oh customize touchpad functions here we go cool so touch three
times okay whisper mode on and off is not a thing that you can do but it would
be cool if you could LG if you guys are watching which I know for a fact you are
it'd be super cool if you could turn things like whisper mode on and off in
here rather than just having a limited number of functions they're ipx for
water resistant not the case though 5 minutes of charging gets you an hour of
battery but more importantly these sound great let's see
how easy it is to nail those touch controls
okay that's on and
off responsive so
far about a third of a second delay one
of the big things for me is I actually sleep with my earphones in so Comfort is
King for me um and you know I've settled
in terms of audio quality in order to have something that's really comfortable
but part of comfort is what they feel like when I'm up and about and part of
it is what they feel like when I am lying down um I've ever since I had kids
I've slept with noise cancelling earphones in or at least noise blocking
earphones in um just helps me sleep through better so let's see sorry this
is just a very important Benchmark because this is what ended up killing
the Sony wf1000xm fors for me is that
they're super comfortable under all circumstances but the touch sensors on
them were activated by my pillow constantly let me see if I can activate
a touch sensor here look this doesn't look like benchmarking but I assure you
it is nope
haven't managed to hit it and how do they do for a shake test here here let's
get this pillow out of here LTT
store.com ah oh I heard my neck
crack that's pretty good huh sorry I'm a
little I'm fine all right the last thing I'm apparently supposed to try is the
immersive audio mode that they worked on with LG I can pretty much guarantee that
I'll hate it because anything other than just the music in my ears is generally
not my preference you hear me okay uh
yeah I can now the ambient mode sounds really natural actually that's great
like I can converse with you just fine okay what about just passive noise
control hi Hi l oh yeah I can hear you I
can hear you reasonably well uh oh sure
I think I'd probably just leave it on high mode personally honestly you know
what lots of people do like playing around with different eqs and different
audio effects and stuff like that I don't personally find that these need
any eqing out of the box your mileage may vary as far as that goes but as far
as the like effects being applied a good
pair of earphones won't need them and I don't honestly think these need them oh
look at that there's a nice little custom EQ control love it and natural is
fine and it's fine for this video to be over so they're not cheap but as far as
being feature Rich goes there's not much else that I'd be asking for thanks LG
for sponsoring this video and sending these over that's it bye