True Wireless Stereo Earbuds 🎧

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Compatibility & Functionality tests

3x = three taps | 2x = two taps | 2s = hold 2 seconds

FP1 Fairphone OS 1.8.7 KolaNut | Android 4.2.2

App / Feature Works? L Skip back 3x Pause 2x R Skip next 3x
Pairing :white_check_mark:
Sound Recorder :white_check_mark:
Music :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
VLC :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
ANC 2s :white_check_mark:
Voicethrough 2s :white_check_mark:

FP2 Fairphone Open 21.10.0 | Android 9

App / Feature Works? L Skip back 3x Pause 2x R Skip next 3x
Pairing :white_check_mark:
Sound Recorder :no_entry_sign:
Simple Voice Recorder (F-Droid) :white_check_mark:
Music :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
VLC :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
ANC 2s :white_check_mark:
Voicethrough 2s :white_check_mark:

FP3 Murena /e/OS 0.19 | Android 10

App / Feature Works? L Skip back 3x Pause 2x R Skip next 3x
Pairing :white_check_mark:
Sound Recorder :no_entry_sign:
Simple Voice Recorder (“Apps”) :no_entry_sign:
Music :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
VLC :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark: :white_check_mark:
ANC 2s :white_check_mark:
Voicethrough 2s :white_check_mark:

As you can see, I have not been able to use the microphone to record my voice yet under /e/OS 0.19 on my FP3+. Still awaiting if it works for calls, but more optimistic there.

I cannot test the Voice Assistant functionality (needs a Google-certified OS, I guess), so I omitted that control (hold left earbud for 2 s) from the table.

As to ANC and Voicethrough, I really just confirm (not that easy to test by talking to yourself :stuck_out_tongue: ) that the controls result in audibly different modes – and I assume that those work completely independently of the device the earbuds are connected to.

UPDATE 18:47:
Just using them to listen to FLAC tracks played through VLC … from my early 2009 desktop computer.

UPDATE 18 Nov:
Easily worked with a Win10 tablet as well (plus made me figure out the unmentioned volume control, see below).

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