The Tronsmart Spunky Beats Misses what makes Wireless Earbuds Great
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Truly wireless earbuds have been growing in popularity in recent years. Much of the hype for bluetooth earbuds after the Xiaomi Mi AirDots. It becomes easy to understand where that popularity for a product like the Redmi AirDots Or Xiaomi Mi Airdots comes from. With the recent release of the Tronsmart Spunky Beats however, it has become evident that some companies simply don’t understand the very appeal with this product category or what makes great bluetooth earbuds great, and what makes mediocre bluetooth earbuds….mediocre.
What Makes Wireless Earbuds Great?
To understand what makes the Tronsmart Spunky Beats a bad pair of earbuds, it is first important to understand what makes wireless earbuds great. After over a year of reviewing these products, we have nailed the appeal of this type of product into a few categories: Convenience, Design and lastly, Usability.
On the Convenience front, truly wireless earbuds must deliver an easy to access audio experience that can be easily portable. It’s important to recognise that users are giving up in a lot of areas when choosing wireless earbuds over their wired counterparts: Battery life, ease of loss and in some cases, audio quality. For this reason, successful pairs of truly wireless earbuds need to be compact - and that comes in both the ear pieces themselves and the carrying case.
As for design - it is pretty self-explanatory. Having unfashionable, or clunky ear pieces makes for an audio experience that often times feels as if it is bringing you down rather than creating the boundless freedom that the concept is known for. On the carrying case side of things, a case needs to strike a balance between size, features and battery life, as lacking any of these features creates a clearly unbalance experience.
Usability, though the last feature we are mentioning, is often what makes or breaks a pair of wireless earbuds. With this category, we make reference to the features packed into a pair of earbuds such as touch controls, charging methods and of course, audio quality itself.
Where the Tronsmart Goes Wrong
the touch panel is making contact with the earl, registering a touch
Having identified all that makes a truly wireless pair of earbuds good, now we can identify what makes the Tronsmart Spunky Beats bad: inconvenience of use, poor design and its unusable features - but what’s perhaps worst about these heavy words, is that they all come down to one very poor decision: making the headphones too small. Headphones being too small isn’t something that is unique to the Tronsmart Spunky Beat, but the Tronsmart Spunky Beat is the only pair of headphones that we have tested, that have powered themselves off due to size.
By going on the small end, the Tronsmarts are easy to lose, and are aided poorly by a carrying case that - whilst making the device more portable - give it no real substance. Another aspect to consider about the size of the Tronsmart Spunky Beat that most reviewers won’t notice, the shape of the Tronsmart Spunky Beat means that the headphone doesn’t st in the case correctly. What’s more, by being so incredibly small, the earbuds’ area for touch controls, an important part of this sort of device’s usability, is simply too limiting to be truly usable. What’s worse is that with other user’s sharing their concerns of the Tronsmart Spunky Beats having poor quality control, it leads me to believe that the touch control and touch input of the Tronsmart Spunky Beats could vary greatly.
This brings us to a question that we beg this product’s designers to ask themselves: Why would someone spend the extra money on a wireless pair when it does not include this sort of product’s main selling point: convenience? The main reason our pair of Tronsmart Spunky Beats has been left relatively unused is because of their inconsistent touch response.
As we’ve stated before, consumers are not interested in wireless earbuds because of battery improvements (wired headphones need not be charged and don’t consume as much from your phone’s battery), or even audio quality (despite being very similar, wired headphones can offer more audiophile qualities) - it’s purely for convenience. Want bluetooth headphones with great battery life, incredible microphone performance, and good sound? There are a plethora of neckband headphones such as the QCY L1 which Mitchell uses daily and reviewed here. and with that principle out the window, we feel as if the Tronsmart Spunky Beats simply misses the mark entirely.