Shokz
IP67 and a two-year warranty — the most durable thing on this site, and it needs a socket every eight hours.
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| Battery life | 4/10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelling | 0/10 | |
| Sound | 5/10 | |
| Comfort | 9/10 | |
| Calls | 7/10 | |
| Value | 5/10 |
The OpenRun is what people mean when they say bone conduction. Nothing touches your ear canal at all — the frame sits on your cheekbones and vibrates them. You hear traffic exactly as you would with nothing on.
Its two best numbers are the ones nobody else on this site publishes properly. IP67 is the strongest water rating here, and Shokz still tells you not to swim in them, which is the kind of qualification that makes the rest of the claim believable. Two years of warranty is the longest genuine cover on the site.
Its worst number is the battery: eight hours. The $26 clip-on above it does ten. If you run four times a week that is fine; if you wear headphones all day it is not, and there is no case to top them up from — you find a socket.
Two things the page does not tell you. How long a full charge takes: the «Battery Charge Time: 10 minutes» in the table is the quick charge from the bullet. And that the charger is a proprietary magnetic cable, so the USB-C lead in your bag is no use here.
Anything marked «—» is a figure the manufacturer doesn't publish. We don't fill those in by eye.
| Type | Open-ear |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Bone conduction, wraparound titanium frame |
| Active noise cancelling | No |
|---|---|
| Cancelling type | — |
| Transparency mode | No |
| Driver size | — |
| Driver type | Bone conduction, 8th generation |
| EQ in the app | — |
| Battery life, ANC off | 8 |
|---|---|
| Battery life WITH ANC | — |
| Total with the case | — |
| Fast charge | 10 min for 1.5 h |
| Wireless charging | No |
| Replaceable battery | No |
| Bluetooth version | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Codecs | — |
| Two devices at once | Yes |
| Latency | — |
| 2.4 GHz dongle included | No |
| Microphones | — |
| Weight | 26 |
|---|---|
| Water resistance (IP) | IP67 |
| Folds | No |
| Warranty | 2 |
| Battery Charge Time: 10 minutes | That is the quick charge, which the bullet says buys 1.5 hours. How long a full charge takes is not published anywhere on the page. |
|---|---|
| IP67, and it is in the bullets rather than the table | The table just says «Water Resistant». IP67 is the strongest rating on this site — and Shokz still writes «not suitable for swimming», because IP67 covers immersion in still water, not swimming strokes. |
| The charging cable is magnetic and proprietary | No USB-C. If you lose it you buy another one from Shokz, and you cannot charge these from the cable already in your bag. |
| This listing is a bundle | It ships with a Shokz sweat headband, and the price includes it. |
| Two-year warranty | The longest real warranty on this site. The only longer figure is the five years printed on a $26 pair of earbuds. |
| No driver size, because there is no driver in the usual sense | Bone conduction drives the cheekbone rather than the air. Comparing it to a 40 mm dynamic is meaningless, and neither number is on the page. |
A summary of the reviews published on Amazon.com as of 2026-09-08.
4.5 out of 5 from 26,960 ratings. Runners and cyclists dominate the sample and repeat the same two things: the awareness, and that they forget they are wearing them. The complaints are about bass, about the eight hours, and — consistently — about losing the magnetic charging cable.
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