I dare say that the glory Flypods 3 is the best TWS noise reduction earphone of 1000 yuan
Seriously, I was not optimistic about TWS earphones other than airpods before. In terms of user experience, apple basically has nothing to say. The only two things I'm not very satisfied with are the TWS earphones with little noise reduction effect and the high price. After the airpods Pro came out, the only unsatisfied part was the high price. That's why I tried non Apple TWS headphones, this time aiming for glory.
There have been many TWS earphones launched before glory, and my Flypods 3 was released at the end of November 2019. However, the real time to market is at the end of February 2020. Such a slow pace is also rare in the digital circle. These three months of polishing, on the contrary, made me more curious about this product.
Small appearance upgrade, more comfortable to wear
Let's just skip the box and look at the appearance. The storage box of glory Flypods 3 still adopts the round "capsule" shape, and the earphone placement part also continues the previous "oblique symmetry" design. Of course, I personally don't like those fancy colors. White suits me best.
The only problem that can't be solved in the whole industry is that the smooth and bright surface material is basically resistant to scratches within a week, and it's still painful to watch when using streaking every day.
The earphone compartment also uses magnetic absorption storage. Like the airpods series, even if you open the storage box vertically, you don't need to worry about the earphone falling down. If I have to mention a disadvantage to this storage box, the most unsatisfying thing for me is that it's not straightforward to close the lid, and there's no obvious feedback.
There are some slight changes in the earphone part. First, the "Golf Club" earphone is retained, but the earphone head is replaced with a new in ear design that is more ergonomic. There are two advantages. One is to wear more comfortable, the other is to make noise reduction more excellent. I actually feel more comfortable than before.
In addition to a pair of M-type silicone earplugs on the earphone, there are also 3 pairs of different earplugs as gifts. I think it has been done to this intimate degree. Even if your ear canal structure is naturally strange, these 4 pairs of earplugs are always suitable for you.
I'd like to talk about the wearing experience. The single ear wearing perception is very weak, and the weight is only 5.4G, so the experience is very close to the airpods pro.
One shot pairing operation is better with Huawei mobile phones
The reason that airpods have a good experience with iPhone is that the connection mode is very important. Open the cover and you can connect automatically.
It's the same with Flypods 3, but it's better to match with Huawei mobile phones. Only in emui 10 can you feel this kind of pleasure.
When connecting the mobile phone for the first time, open the headset compartment and press the pairing key for 2s to enter the pairing state. After this operation, you can open the cover and connect each time. Of course, the premise is to open the Bluetooth of the mobile phone. In addition, after connecting, the pop-up window on the phone can also display the power information of the glory Flypods 3 headset and the headset compartment. This experience is excellent.
As for the operation, I also mentioned that the operation interaction logic of glory Flypods 3 is very simple, and I used it for a day. First of all, the earphones on both sides support touch operation. The operation of the left and right ears is the same. Two taps with fingers can realize "music playing / pause", "call answering / ending", and then long press can "turn on / off" noise reduction.
Here's a point to explain. If you want to set the headset's functions, you only need to open Huawei's or glory's Smart Life app to set and upgrade the headset's firmware. But if you are not using Huawei mobile phones, you need to download the "Smart Life" app and manage the corresponding devices. It's also a more open way of implementation, at least more open than apple.
The sound quality is much better than I expected
The sound quality part really surprised me. I always thought that the TWS headphones below 1000 yuan may be more important when talking about the sound quality. After all, thank you for making the connection experience better. Glory Flypods 3 is a little bit of a change for me.
Most people use headphones to listen to music. I like to listen to folk songs and some popular songs in my office. This time, I didn't have the depth to do some fragment tests, but on some basic expressiveness, for example, the bass dive is very good, and the two highs didn't hear the problem of edge blasting. I used it to feel the most obvious for a while That is to say, the expressive power of human voice can be described as amazing, even compared with airpods pro.
After studying the configuration, the 10 mm large-scale dynamic unit of glory Flypods 3 basically proves its strength. Another experience is that the glory Flypods 3 supports smart wear detection. Like airpods, the music will pause automatically after the headset is removed.
Noise reduction and delay performance
I believe that most people have a strong demand for noise reduction. Apart from the sound quality, the biggest highlight of Flypods 3 is noise reduction.
According to the official introduction, it supports dual active noise reduction, and adopts "one ear FB mic pickup + external dual mic fusion noise reduction" three microphone call noise reduction. It's amazing. I use my real use scene to talk about my feelings.
I put on the glory Flypods 3 to take the bus test. After turning on the noise reduction, I can almost filter the engine noise. Then if I make a phone call on the bus, it will be a strong test for the headset. This not only tests the noise reduction effect of earphones, but also requires the earphones to have good reception and background noise processing ability. The actual measurement shows that the environmental sound has little impact and the noise reduction is no problem. The second is that the voice quality of the call is very clear, which is clearly isolated from the background, indicating that the noise processing is no problem.
What I want to say is that affected by the epidemic situation, although major companies have returned to work one after another, there are fewer people on the road, and noise reduction test may have some deviations, but considering that I had a very long-term use of airpods Pro before, the performance of glory Flypods 3 is also very good overall.
I always think that the noise reduction design must be done first in hardware design, then in software algorithm, Flypods 3 external double mic, plus the cooperation of ear canal mic, to achieve a better noise reduction performance.
In fact, for TWS earphones, delay is also a very important factor, especially when there are many people who need games. At present, the mainstream TWS headphones in the market are all Bluetooth 5.0, but they are also adjusted by different manufacturers.
In personal measurement, first of all, there is almost no delay in listening to songs, but there is still a slight delay in playing games. Take "peace elite" as an example, when you press the gun on your mobile phone, there is a gunshot coming out of the headset about half a second later. Compared with flagship TWS earphones such as airpods pro, the performance is satisfactory.
As for the endurance, according to official data, for the headset, the talk time of glory Flypods 3 is about 2.5 hours, and the listening time is about 3.5 hours. With the headset compartment, the talk time is up to 13 hours, and the listening time is up to 15 hours.
I personally measured, talked and listened to songs normally. The use of earphones is about 3 hours. The charging bin can also help the earphones to return blood 3 times. According to the extent of my personal use, the charging frequency limit is 5 days. There is a saying that the endurance performance can only be said to be moderate, which is enough for the daily commuting use of light users.
summary
Of course, there are other highlights of Flypods 3. For example, I like the type-C interface. Secondly, there are some personalized operations in the app, which will not be explained. On the whole, the glory Flypods 3 is a TWS headset that combines noise reduction and sound quality, and its performance is a little better than I expected.
In fact, so many mobile phone brands join the TWS headset camp, which is absolutely good for consumers. We can see more excellent products with beautiful prices. As a giant, glory has precisely positioned the market with Flypods 3. So far, it should be the strongest TWS noise reduction headset in a thousand yuan.