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The Bose Frames are already available for $200, which are designed to both pump music directly into your ear and work with augmented reality apps to deliver walking instructions and more. The idea behind the Bose Frames is to offer wireless audio without completely obscuring your ears while providing your eyes some sun protection. But whether you should drop that money on them depends how badly you need to hear your surroundings and your music at the same time.
That's what makes the Bose Frames intriguing. They're not only sunglasses but also Bluetooth headphones built into a pair of shades. There's a speaker on each arm that plays music right at your ear, as well as two along the underside of each arm that push out inverse audio to cancel out what you're playing and, theoretically at least, prevent you from annoying everyone around you with your 300th Ariana Grande song in a row. There's also a pair of microphones on board so you can take calls or talk to Siri or Google Assistant.
Pros
- Convenient hands-free wireless audio
- Can take phone calls
- Helpful Siri or Google Assistant integration
- Light
Cons
- No bass whatsoever
- Not loud enough
- Mediocre battery life
- AR and gesture navigation not yet live
Sound
The Bose Frames sound as great as they look, at least when you’re comparing them to the headphones that came with your smartphone. They’re perfect for spoken word audio, like podcasts, and can handle the most cacophonous music without getting muddy or drowning out less prominent sounds, even if the bass lacks any substantial punch. After using them for a few weeks and blasting more than the recommended amount of Rick James, it’s safe to say these sound great when you’re walking around, chatting it up with your neighbors while simultaneously tapping your toes. I was able to squeeze close to four hours of music out of them, which isn’t too bad considering you probably won’t be wearing these for hours straight.
Control
To control your music or digital assistant, there's a button on the underside of the right arm. Most people I showed the Frames to assumed there was a touch-sensitive panel on the arm. They're wrong -- there's only the button. It offers basic controls: Press once to play, pause music or answer calls. Press twice to skip tracks and three times to go back, and hold down to trigger the voice assistant. The button feels a little sharp and is quite small so trying to double or triple click was sometimes tricky. I also wish there were volume controls on the device. I hated having to whip out my phone anytime I wanted to turn the volume up or down.
Changing the volume is something I did pretty often, too, given how easily the Frame's speakers were overpowered by environmental noise. In a car or on New York streets, I usually set the device at 80 percent and can hear my Top 40 hits pretty well. But I have to set it to max on the train, and if we go through a tunnel or I walk past some construction on the streets, I basically can't hear the music at all.
The good news is that in general I didn't need to go as loud as 100 percent. The bad news is that when I did, people about an arm's length away would start being able to hear the embarrassing recordings of my singing lessons that I was playing. This sound leakage doesn't happen until you push the volume up past about 80 percent, though, and it happens with many other regular headphones too.
Battery
The Frames only offer mediocre battery life though. It's rated to endure about three hours of nonstop playback or 12 hours of standby. I could get through about two hours of music (with breaks in between) before needing a charge, but I was able to go days on standby without plugging the Frames in. That's shorter than the four-hour runtime Sony promises for the Xperia and the 3 hours for the Tweetie Glasses.
Alternative to Bose Frames - Tweetie Head-gesture Control Audio Glasses
Tweetie Glasses is the first Bone Conduction Audio Glasses equipped with head gesture control. It enable you listen to music, radio, navigation & make calls through your glasses with open-ear design.
- Switch songs by moving your head left and right
- Adjust volume by turning your head up and down
- Accept, decline & hang up phone call by shaking your head
- Real-time navigation
- Bluetooth connection
- Open-ear design
- .....
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