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FreeClip: Huawei presents its first OpenEar headphones

Jan Johannsen
13.12.2023
Translation: machine translated

With the FreeClip, Huawei presents its first open-ear headphones. They do not have noise cancellation, as this design is all about hearing your surroundings.

The Huawei FreeClip are not stuck in your ear canal. They hang from your earlobe and hold their small speakers in front of your ear. The manufacturer refers to them as a "spherical acoustic element". Hidden behind the earlobe is a "bean-shaped element" which contains the battery, among other things. The speaker and bean are connected by the "C-bridge".

No fixed left-right assignment

The FreeClip has a battery life of eight hours, which is long for such small earphones. Together with the battery in the charging case, the runtime is up to 36 hours. A full charge, i.e. including the case, should take around 60 minutes via USB-C cable. Wirelessly, the charging time is extended to 150 minutes.

The earphones are IP54 water, dust and sweat resistant. They use Bluetooth 5.3 to connect to Android, iOS and Windows devices. They support the following codecs: L2HC, LC3, AAC, SBC.

The FreeClip is operated by touching various points, i.e. the audio element, the bean or the connector.

The recommended retail price for the Huawei FreeClip in Germany is 199 euros.

Cover photo: Huawei

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As a primary school pupil, I used to sit in a friend's living room with many of my classmates to play the Super NES. Now I get my hands on the latest technology and test it for you. In recent years at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, now at Digitec and Galaxus. 


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