Last month in April 2020, I used them for almost 100 km of the walk which took me around 20 hours of music and audiobooks play. Along with that, I must have heard the live TV news channels for almost more than 30 hours or so using these earphones and lately I have watched several web series on the sleepless nights and the reviews of all of those are in the pipeline on my blog if not published till date. I really am in love with these earbuds from the stable of Huawei Electronics and various other electronic items I have received over the years in the goodies bags if you attend any of their launch events. I am going to post about all of them sooner than later and more focus is now on execution rather than thinking a lot.
There is an app called
AI Life by
Huawei that you can install them to keep you and your earbuds updated and personalize the various touch buttons along with the noise cancellation adjustments. The
QR code is supplied when you open the package along with various instruction manuals and warranty cards. I was not able to understand the circular button interface inside the app but
as you rotate the same, it adjusts the noise isolation inside the earbuds to create a more controlled environment as per your ear size. Also, the app helps you to update the Huawei FreeBuds3 to the latest firmware and no need of Huawei smartphone like the
Huawei FreeLace earphones which only gets updated when you are connected to a Huawei smartphone. The noise cancellation helps you to reduce up to 15dB ambient noise and though the generator volumes will go on as there is no silicon casing kind of setup which can completely isolate the external sound. My first opinion was to go back to the Huawei FreeLace earphones but the convenience to use
Huawei FreeBuds3 offers audio performance using it's highly sensitive 14.2mm dynamic driver, with is able to produce natural sound and brings clarity during the calls too. It also has a Bass-tube which produces the audio effects similar to listening to the music inside the studio. This feature really helps me go through a lot of audiobooks as the voice clarity holds the punch on each word and sentence spoken by the reader. Moreover the FreeBuds 3 picks up voice from your bone vibrations to enhance your voice quality during the phone calls. Each earbud has a 30mAh battery and the case is equipped with 410mAh battery. This gives the earbuds to go for around 4 hours in a single charge and case then can charge the whole unit at least 5 times to make them work for around 20 hours. But then the performance all depends on the volume levels and noise-cancellation being used. I was able to get more than 3.5 hours in a single charge. The overall case and earbuds can be fully charged quickly in about 90 minutes or so. I don't have any wireless charging (Qi Standard 2W) set up or any smartphone with reverse charging at the moment so I could not check how easily these can be charged using the power of wireless during these social distancing times.
The pebble-shaped earbuds are made of glossy plastic without any silicon casing which sometimes irritates your ears and you have to take them out for your ears to rest. The Huawei FreeBuds 3 comes in three colors - Carbon Black, Ceramic White, and Red. But the overall casing fits easily in your ears as the weight is very low around 4.5g each and the case is around 48 grams. The company calls the design of the earbud as Dolphin Bionic design. The earbuds have a touch-sensitive option by which you can pause/play the audio from the right earbud and the left one enables the Noise-Cancellation. These options you can change in the Huawei AI Life app as per your convenience and most used feature in your life. What I have observed that the touch also works when I was wearing Buff over my ears as it was extremely cold some days back in Johannesburg. This was something that really made me a fan of these earbuds. The design of earbuds and casing is such that you won't be able to put right earbuds into the left ear or vice versa and also inside the charging case it will go in its own slot.
Moreover these Huawei FreeBuds 3 are really intelligent in terms of automatic wearing detection and Pop-up and pair to your smartphone.
Huawei Kirin A1 chipset really enables all these kinds of advanced features in these earbuds. Kirin A1 is an ultra-low-power consuming processor that enables 5.1 Bluetooth connection and using Huawei Isochronous Dual Channel transmission technology and a class-leading 356MHz audio processor the FreeBuds3 brings music clarity like no other earbuds. I was afraid as I dropped each of the earbuds from my height of six feet to the ground in my walks but other than a small dent on the casing nothing has changed so the quality of these earbuds is great.
The retail price is around R3000 but you can get the same for around R2500 or so during the online sales on
Huawei Store and comes with a free wireless charger that I didn't receive from the company. There is nothing else I wanted in these earbuds which is not there and these really look great in their design and performance.
If you getting them when you are ordering any new Huawei Smartphone do go for the bundled deal as you won't regret your decision later. These are one of the best in the price range for sure. There is always a scope to improve the active noise cancellation as Huawei FreeBuds 3 needs to fight with the Sony's and Apple's of the world in this category of earbuds.
RATING 4.5/5
Sawubona!
