soundcore V20i by Anker Open-Ear Headphones, Adjustable Ear Hooks, Ultra-Comfort, Snug Fit, Powerful Sound, Clear Calls, IP55, LED Lights, 36H Playtime, Bluetooth 5.4 Earbuds, Multipoint Connection

They’re ‘mostly’ great.
UPDATE: I am on the lookout for new buds. I stand by my review and still use these ear pieces happily. But sometimes I lounge on my sofa and the earpiece drops slightly away from my ear. It’s not held tight enough against my ear to stop it moving. That means the sound in my left ear (when lying on my left side) is slightly -but noticeably- quieter than my right ear. Vice versa for the right ear.It’s become a thing for me and I can’t ignore it and one night I had to tape it against my ear with micropore tape as the volume imbalance was doing my head in. Wish me luck in finding a better fitting pair.Right this is a fairly long review but if you want the short version check the title. For all the detail read on…I originally bought the Soundcore P40i buds. They were faulty so Soundcore refunded me no quibbles. Their customer service is fast and excellent.I decided to replace them with the V20i as I fancied a pair that had ear loops for when out walking or moving around. Buds do fall out after some time no matter how well fitting, as your skin releases moisture over time and the silicone pads can’t grip anything so the buds just slide out of your ears.So, unpacking the V20i is a simple task as there is a small instruction manual, a USB C cable and the ear pieces themselves in a case. The case is almost a centimetre shorter in height, but over double the length of the P40i case, but yet lighter. Also the V20i case does not have the rubbery feeling on the bottom that the P40i has. Not a big issue though. I fully charged everything before using as one of the issues with the P40i was they didn’t charge. No problems in charging these and when I took them out they at first appeared bulky, but that’s because I’m used to buds, whereas these are the open ear, air convection type of speakers. They must have been part charged as they came out at 40% hence leaving them to charge before using them. The app tells you the state of charge of the buds but not the case which is odd as the P40i showed you the state of charge of both buds and the case. It’s true that from flat,10-15 mins in the charging case is more than enough for 40% of charge, which can give you hours of use.One thing to note is that unlike the V40i which switch on as soon as you open the case, the P20i only switch on when you take them out of the case. You can tell they’re switching on and checking to connect to something as the small blue led’s flash a few times. You can change the brightness and function of the leds too but I didn’t bother, mine are just off. I can’t see them so what’s the point of them flashing to the music? Also you can just use one bud if you wish, but when I tried while on the phone my friend could not hear me with the right earpiece, only the left one. It says there are 4 mics, 2 on each bud, so I may have to do some more testing on that. (It might have just been the fitting on the ears was not quite right, as the mics are all on the end which presses against your ear).For fitting everyone is going to be different but I found that for me the ear loops were best placed outside of my spectacle ear loops. The reason is my glasses have quite hard arms so they did cause discomfort fairly quickly when they were on the outside. But the Soundcore loops are covered in a soft silicone or TPU or something, so they don’t cause any discomfort at all. In fact it’s true what some say, you forget you have them on. They feel secure though as I shook my head violently a few times and the earpieces never moved at all. They were a snug fit on L3 (they have 4 positions for the ear loop to be in so that they fit all ears.)The minute I put them in and played Taylor Swift’s All Too Well I knew these things were going to be great. These don’t have HearID installed, but I had run the hearing test in the p40i set so I used the same positions on the equaliser in the V20i. I tried a few of the presets but they weren’t very good, although gaming preset is indeed fabulous for gaming, which I tried for hours 🙂 During Taylor’s evermore era album I tweaked the equaliser a little and I am honestly astonished that the sound is so brilliant. The volume has to be up 1 notch higher than usual because they’re air convection, so I ran them at 78% and they were brilliant and plenty loud. The bass is beautiful.While playing music at about 85% I took them off my ears and held them about 20 cm away from me and I could not hear a thing. So I doubt if even a train passenger right beside me would hear them.I set all the button presses so that 1 touch in the left (1L) reduced volume and 1 touch on the right (1R) increased volume. Then 2L for rewind and 2R for fast forward. Press and hold for the left one for voice assistant but while there are buttons mentioned in the manual to control your phone answering and hanging up, in the app there is no feature for that. Again, not a massive issue, but slightly confusing.When I did make a call my friend assured me the audio was spot on, and while my microwave was beeping in the background she said she could hear it but it was not intrusive, unlike with my Jabra phone headset. When the microwave beeped I was pleased because with buds in you could very easily miss it, and definitely miss it if you were actively listening to music through them. With these on the audio was just as good (possibly better) but I heard the microwave clearly, so situational awareness is not altered at all even with these on high volume. I believe it would be easy to hold a conversation with someone near to me even while playing music. I might have imagined it but I also think the sound from my friends phone (who only ever uses speaker phone) was clearer and easier to understand. Perhaps that’s because of the equaliser being set so carefully?I put the ear pieces in at 8am today, and was listening to news, podcasts and a film, and then music for most of the afternoon. Apart from a couple of hours when they were left on my desk out of the case, the batteries lasted right til 8pm. So they do indeed last a minimum of 9 hours possibly more. Lithium batteries often take 6 charge cycles before coming up to their true capacity. But tbh 9 hours is more than enough for me. I haven’t tested the case for charge capacity yet but I’ll add that info at a later date.One of the other issues with the P40i was the lag. It was very noticeable especially when watching music videos and films. I didn’t enjoy one film and had to take them out to finish watching as the lag was about a half a second which doesn’t sound much, but it’s a lot of time to be out of sync. I was pleased to see that the V20i has almost imperceptible lag. There is a lag there (obviously, they’re using wireless technology) but I did have to struggle to see it, so it’s not enough to spoil a music video or a film.It would have been nice to have the really handy phone stand in the case of the V20i, and there is also no case reset button in the case for the V20i. Neither of those is a deal breaker or maker though. They’re dust and sweat proof to IP55, so going to the gym with them is fine but not in the shower!They also have a find your device but of course if they are in the case, or have auto shut down due to non use, the find my device won’t work. I also loved the fact that it is lightning fast in connecting. If I pause my video and answer my phone, it switches almost instantly between the two devices. And the time it takes to hang up and restart the video, it has reconnected again with the video. Sweet.It says in the blurb it has ANC. Yet elsewhere it says no noise cancellation. I don’t think it can have noise cancellation due to being open ear, but whether it does or does not is irrelevant, because you want to be able to hear your environment anyway, that’s mostly the point of the open ear design.All I can say is they are excellent, great quality sound, easy to wear and operate, last bloomin ages and are small enough to put in a purse to carry with you.Very, very well worth the money, I can’t say enough highly about them. Highly recommended.

Review of Soundcore V20i by an average user runner.
I really enjoyed these earphones.Out of the box you have the earphones, case, usual forbiddingly short USB C cable and a handshake straight from Soundcore.Let me remind you right now that these are OPEN-EAR earphones! So, don’t be silly dropping comments about the fact they are not noise cancelling! Because, being able to listen to your surroundings is the main purpose of these earphones! With this being said, I simply love to have music hovering above my life while I’m doing things. It is like in the movies, when there is the protagonist doing something with an epic music playing in the background. This is how they feel like.They are comfortable, lightweight, but you would never forget you are wearing them.They have a hook shape with 4 adjustable positions, which makes them really comfy to wear, maintaining the position you put them on. They have a good grip on the ears and they barely wobble. Really comfortable to wear for running.They are water resistant, meaning you absolutely can’t soak them in water but they can get wet. So, you can regularly clean them up if they get sweaty or dirty. Surely, being open-ear means you won’t have issues with earwax shenanigans.As for any earphones’ microphone, you can use it for calls as long as the environment you are in is not too loud or too windy, delivering an average sound quality. Don’t rely on this to record your podcast or for the karaoke night.Yes, unfortunately with OPEN-EAR earphones you have to trade off sound quality for what is a different experience. Yet, I actually didn’t mind the sound as an average user runner, even though, especially coming from IN-EAR earphones, you can notice the difference, particularly outdoors. So, let me first say that indoors I had no issues whatsoever with sound and volume, unless, as you can imagine, there is a hoover moving around which would require you to put the volume up quite a bit. Outdoors, the volume is more than enough and the sound is enjoyable to be able to listen to music and podcasts. However, bear in mind that in situations of constant noise, as it could be a train or an aeroplane, although the volume would be still enough for music, I’m not sure it would be actually enough to listen to podcasts or videos.They also have fancy led lights you can customise as you wish through the app. A funny touch which could actually be useful while having a run or a walk in the darkness, to make everyone aware of your position.Battery life is just extreme. If stranded on a desert island, you would still be able to die before you drain the battery out. Dying in style, listening to your favourite songs. Such an epic death!The case is lightweight and not noticeable when in the pockets.

Los audífonos tienen una calidad de sonido muy buena, la batería dura días literalmente he pasado más de una semana sin cargarlos (los uso unas 4 horas al día máximo).Los ganchos de seguridad tiene más resistencia de lo que aparentan y son bastante cómodos, llega un punto donde ni los notas.Es muy buen producto.

Ordered the Anker Soundcore Open Air V20i earbuds. They arrived a couple of days after ordering packaged well and in excellent condition.The earbuds were far better than I thought they would be, especially for the price and the lower star reviews I read before purchasing. The are extremely light and fit comfortably over my ears and rest very gently against the outside of my ears. I can hardly tell I have them on. I have issues wearing “in the ear” earbuds as my ear canals don’t play well with those and they are usually very uncomfortable for me to wear any amount of time. The sound quality is top notch (Anker Soundcore living up to the high standards I’ve come to know them for as I have several of their products and all of them are high quality). If you have the Soundcore app (I highly recommend downloading it) the controls are easy to set up and adjustments are easily made. There is a plethora of information for the earbuds on the app as well as all the instructions and technical data so you can discard the booklet that comes with the earbuds without worry.The earbuds hang on my ears and do not move no matter what I do. I have exercised in about every way possible whike wearing them and have sweated, a lot, and the earbuds did not budge, at all. They didn’t even slip and the sounds never changed. I’ve ran and walked in high wind environments and was able to adjust the volume to where I could still easily hear the music and what was going on around me. I’ve had my head at multiple positions and even jerked it around and the earbuds still didn’t move or need any adjustments.As for call quality, I couldn’t be more impressed! I have used them for several calls indoors and outdoors and while driving. In each environment the call quality has been top notch and crystal clear. The person on the other end have told me that they could hear me perfectly and not any background noise around me. I would assume if you were in a high noise environment that it would affect the quality but so far, I’ve been in slightly elevated background noise environments and the quality has been perfect. I made a call the other day while I was outside and the wind was blowing and gusting pretty decently and it didn’t affect the call quality at all. So far, I’ve been very impressed!The charging case is quite convenient. The earbuds sit in it well and shut themselves down and automatically charge when placed in the case. And they automatically turn on and are ready for use when you remove them from the case. I have used the earbuds everyday for over a week and they seem to do farily well on a charge and they charge quickly when placed back in the case. The case fits easily in my pocket as well and seems like it should protect the earbuds from most typical impacts. I wouldn’t recommend dropping the case with the buds in them as the lid doesn’t friction snap closed or use a clip to keep it closed. It just rests closed but with decent enough pressure to keep the lid from coming open unexpectedly. Overall, the case is probably a weak point mainly due to the lid not having locking/holding closure mechanism.In all, the Anker Soundcore Open Ear V20i earbuds have been the best Bluetooth earbuds I’ve owned so far and for the price you DEFINITELY can’t go wrong with these!