Unboxing and Review of the Oraimo freepods lite

At the start of this year I bought some random knock off samsung earpods, they were relatively cheap at 7,000 naira (at that time it was 9 dollars). They worked really well, and honestly I started to believe they may not be so fake. But then along the line it started to fall apart slowly. First the small silver piece at the bottom fell out, and then one day it fell and the pieces flew out. I managed to reassemble it, and it was working perfectly but then I noticed one ear was no longer staying perfectly in the case to charge. I had to start using a rubber band to hold it in place. This was when I realized I needed a change.

_{Old earpods}

This time I decided I had to go for branded earpods, cause usually they're the ones the public believe to be better. The most accessible and most popular gadget brand in Nigeria at the moment is Oraimo, so I headed to their website to find an affordable earpod and that's when I came across the freepods lite. It costs 11,700 (at this moment it is around 9.75 dollars. Inflation is crazy). I got mine at a discount, I think it was because it was a holiday or something.

IN THE BOX

There's not anything spectacular about the packaging. When you open the box you'll see the earpods in the case, the charging cable, and two extra sets of ear tips, one bigger and one smaller than the original one on the earpods.

Specs and features.

The earpods are plastic and are somewhat transparent as well as the top of the case. It has Ipx4 splash rating so that sweat and splashes won't spoil it, It can last upto 8 hours on its own, and with the charging case can go up to 40 hours, it has a 10 meters connection range, and it's good for calls. It has low latency mode for gaming. It also pairs with the oraimo sound app to help customize and adjust the sound according to how you want it, as well as change the touch controls. It doesn't have Active noise cancellation.

Things I like

At first I wasn't really a fan of the earpods' look, at least from what I saw online, but I bought it anyway because I preferred performance. Now that I've seen it in person though, it looks a lot better and I've actually fallen in love with the design. Who knew I wanted to be able to see the internal components of my earpods?

The battery life was the first thing that made me leap in its direction. I was already eyeing the oraimo riff 2 which was slightly higher in price, but then when I saw this one had a better battery I had to pick this one. So far it's been very good. I don't use earpods for insanely long periods at a stretch regularly, but I often found my previous earpods stayed for around two hours before alerting me to charge and at times it was annoying. The longest I've used this one at a stretch was 4 hours and when I checked the battery percentage it was still 70%. It is almost a week since I've bought it now and I've only charged the case twice (after unboxing it, and when I noticed the light turned yellow meaning it was around half battery). It also charged really fast.

Sound quality as well is really good. Though I must say that the difference between this and my knock off earpods is not very wide. I only noticed very slight differences in that regard.

The touch inputs are very responsive as well, and the fact you can customize them on the app is nice. Though I must say that the freedom of customization isn't enough in my opinion. You can only choose between different custom inputs already made. If only you could make your own custom input it'd have made it so much cooler.

Then the game mode. I noticed that when I played games and it wasn't on game mode it sounded off, but when it's on game mode it's quite good. I mostly played Call of duty mobile with it and it's nice. Though I'm yet to conclude how good it is. I'll do that once I play dancing line as that game latency shows a lot. I also noticed if I listen to music in game mode it makes weird sounds in intervals.

In terms of ear comfort, they're pretty comfortable, but then not comfortable enough to leave them in your ear when you're not listening to music. The mics are pretty good too, no one has complained of not being able to hear me during calls.

Things I don't like

There's only a few things I don't like and most of them are just personal preferences.

The first one being the fact that the earpods itself doesn't have any indicator on them. So unless you have it in your ear you can't tell what mode it's on. Also when you put it in the case, it doesn't show any special light that lets you know the earpods are charging. I feel it's not a big deal, but if the earpods were to have a charging issue it won't be noticed immediately.

Then the second one is that it starts to feel like it wants to fall out of my ear after a while and I have to readjust it. I had to switch from the default ear tip to the biggest one and though it reduced significantly it still happens. This one could just be my ear, but it is my observation.

Other than that it's been a good ride so far. I hope to enjoy it for a way longer time than my previous one.

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