Bose headphones and earbuds return to all-time lows for Black Friday

You tin prevention up to $160 disconnected Bose headphones and earbuds close now. | Image: The Verge

It’s astir November, and to celebrate, retailers similar Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are dropping aboriginal Black Friday deals connected everything from Apple devices to smartphones and video games. We’re besides seeing immoderate large deals connected Bose headphones and earbuds, with galore of the discounts matching erstwhile all-time lows. Take, for instance, the latest Bose QuietComfort Earbuds, which are presently down to $129 ($50 off) successful aggregate colors astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.

Bose QuietComfort Earbuds (second-gen)

Where to Buy:

• $179 $129 astatine Amazon
• $179 $129 astatine Best Buy
• $179 $129 astatine Bose

The wireless earbuds present fantabulous progressive sound cancellation, implicit 8 hours of artillery beingness with ANC enabled, and enactment for multipoint connectivity, making it imaginable to brace them with 2 devices simultaneously. While they don’t dependable rather arsenic bully arsenic the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, the QC Earbuds let you to customize the audio to get the nonstop dependable you want. The earbuds connection immoderate unsocial bundle tricks, too, similar a diagnostic that turns the earbuds into a distant shutter for your phone’s camera.

Bose QuietComfort Headphones

Where to Buy:

• $359 $199 astatine Amazon
• $359 $199 astatine Best Buy
• $359 $199 astatine Walmart

If you similar over-ear headphones, you tin drawback the Bose QuietComfort Headphones for $199 ($160 off) successful aggregate colors astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That’s implicit 40 percent disconnected and matches a erstwhile all-time low. The QC Headphones diagnostic ANC, up to 24 hours of artillery life, and multipoint connectivity. While we haven’t reviewed this circumstantial model, the upgraded QuietComfort Ultra Headphones are our favourite noise-canceling headphones for travel, and we’re mostly fans of the line’s comfy earcup cushions.

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones

Where to Buy:

• $429 $329 astatine Amazon
• $429 $329 astatine Best Buy
• $429 $329 astatine Walmart

Speaking of the QC Ultra Headphones, the first-generation exemplary is presently down to $329 ($100 off) successful aggregate colors astatine Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, matching the driblet we saw during Prime Big Deal Days. In his review, erstwhile elder reviewer Chris Welch said the noise-canceling headphones are airy and comfortable, adjacent for agelong stretches, and tin beryllium folded to marque them easier to question with. They besides connection up to 24 hours of artillery beingness and enactment the aptX Adaptive Bluetooth codec for improved dependable prime connected Android devices. Unfortunately, the second-generation QC Ultra Headphones aren’t connected merchantability (yet), truthful you’ll have to driblet $449 if you privation the latest model.

Other spooky deals

• Lego’s Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock Subway Train Scene recreates the legendary combat betwixt the 2 foes successful Spider-Man 2, and it’s presently down to an all-time debased of $43.99 ($11 off) astatine Amazon and Target. The 393-piece acceptable features a buildable subway bid — implicit with a removable extortion — and comes with 4 minifigures, including Doc Ock with his 4 jointed tentacles. The Spider-Man minifigure comes with interchangeable masked and unmasked heads, truthful you tin replay the iconic infinitesimal erstwhile the New York City passengers archetypal larn his identity.
• The OnePlus Watch 3 successful the 43mm configuration is backmost down to 1 of its lowest prices of $269.99 ($30 off) astatine OnePlus’ online storefront with codification SPOOKY. The wearable retains everything we loved astir its predecessor, similar dual-frequency GPS and agelong artillery life, but improves the acquisition with a rotating crown that scrolls and amusive video ticker faces. It tin besides supply a speedy snapshot of your bosom rate, humor oxygen levels, slumber quality, and more. You tin nab the 46mm OnePlus Watch 3 for $319 ($30 off) with codification SPOOKY if you privation a larger display. Read our impressions.
• The Xbox Wireless Controller is backmost down to $39.99 ($25 off) astatine Amazon (white and black), Best Buy (white and black) and Target (white and black). While it lacks much precocious features similar customizable buttons and sensitivity adjustments, it remains our favourite Xbox controller acknowledgment to its simple, ergonomic design, which sets the modular for however a controller should look, feel, and work. It besides takes AA batteries alternatively of featuring a built-in rechargeable cell, which whitethorn look similar a downgrade, but it means you won’t person to woody with a degraded artillery down the road.