On the outside of each earbud are the control buttons. Like I mentioned above, I have done all sorts of workouts with them and they remained in place, even upside-down on my inversion table, surprisingly well. While many other earbuds are engineered to jam into your ear, the BackBeats wear very non-intrusively yet still stay securely on your ear. They sit just inside your ear, with the funnel going into your ear canal, with the back fin holding everything in place. The fit and feel of the BackBeat FIT 3100’s is, without a doubt, not the norm these days. Plantronics is definitely bucking today’s sport-centric earbud trend of smaller, very snug fitting, passive sound isolation designs that you jam deep into your ears. But the earloop gives them a much larger form-factor than many other brands. The earbuds themselves are about the same size as many of the others. Like its case, the BackBeat FIT 3100’s are the largest earbuds I have used in a long time (aka years). It is also larger than the JayBird RUN True case as well (couldn’t find those for these comparison pics). Here you can see it next to the Jabra Elite Active 65t and Elite Sport cases. The BackBeat FIT 3100’s case is relatively large compared to other truly wireless earbuds on the market. Up to 1 hour of listening time with a 15-minute charge Up to 5 hours (earbuds only) and up to 10 additional hours with charge case If your earbuds run out of power and you want to use them on the fly, a quick 15 minute charge gives an hour of listening, long enough for most runs, commutes, phone calls, YouTube videos, etc. The storage case has an internal battery with two additional charges before the earbuds + case need to be recharged. Though I used a longer cable I had lying around when using a wall plug. Plantronics promises 5 hours of use before needing to be recharge. Plantronics includes a pretty short/puny charging cable meant to connect to the side of a laptop. The case is powered by a microUSB charging port on the back. The center button and four small LEDs are meant to let you know when it needs to be recharged, is charging, or fully powered up. It is meant to not only charge the FIT 3100 earbuds but store, transport, and protect them as well. The charging case is medium-sized, black, and well made, with the shape of a pillbox/MiFi device. There is also a soft rubber wing that goes over each speaker that helps hold the earbud within the outer part of your ear and also focuses/funnels the sound into the inner portion of your ear canal. Plantronics has used this combination of design elements for awhile now. Each earbud has a hard rubber hook the wraps around the top of ear. They’re held securely in place by a combination of several design choices. The BackBeat FIT 3100’s are well made from hard plastic, rubber, and metal. These bluetooth 5.0 earbuds are designed to fit just inside your ear with very little noise isolation allowing ambient sounds (aka traffic) in for better situational awareness. The Plantronics BackBeat FIT 3100’s are completely cordless, hardened against moisture/sweat, and are meant for runners, bikers, and other (outdoor) sports enthusiasts. Thus far I have ran, done elliptical, stairs, weightlifting, pushups, and even chopped firewood with them several times each at a minimum. In this case, Plantronics have created a somewhat larger, retro-design in their first attempt at a totally wireless set of sport headphones…the BackBeat FIT 3100 True Wireless Sport headphones that are “built for the outdoors”.įor this review, I have been using the BackBeat FIT 3100 True Wireless Sport headphones exclusively for a couple of weeks. They have become smaller, lighter, better fitting, and more secure…all the while sounding better and better along the way. In the past few years, totally wireless earbuds have become the norm rather than the exception. Typically these early “wireless” earbuds were pretty big, relatively bulky, ill-fitting, and needed a cord connecting the two to power and communicate with each other. REVIEW – Bluetooth sport-centric headphones have been around for years. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you.
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