Skullcandy partners with Bose for its new $99 ANC earbuds

The Method 360 ANC earbuds’ charging lawsuit uses a sliding plan and tin beryllium clipped to a container strap. | Image: Skullcandy

Skullcandy has made a sanction for itself successful caller years with well-featured budget earbuds that don’t dependable awful. Although its caller Method 360 ANC earbuds are launching with a “special $99.99 introductory price” (that volition yet spell up to $129.99) making them 1 of the brand’s astir costly offerings, the institution has partnered with Bose to assistance guarantee they’re Skullcandy’s astir comfy and best-sounding earbuds.

Like the Motorola Moto Buds Plus that debuted a twelvemonth ago, the Method 360 ANC diagnostic licensed exertion and audio tuning by Bose to present “Skullcandy’s astir precocious audio acquisition to date,” the institution said successful a property release. That includes 3 antithetic sizes of receptor gels and acceptable fins designed to comfortably support the earbuds successful spot portion efficaciously blocking retired unwanted sounds. 

Don’t expect audio and ANC show connected par with Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra earbuds, but you’ll beryllium perchance redeeming yourself adjacent to $200 by alternatively opting for Skullcandy’s latest.

While astir wireless earbuds see a charging lawsuit with a clamshell design, the Method 360 ANC’s charging lawsuit has a sliding plan – similar to the company’s Dime Evo earbuds – with an O-ring clip connected 1 extremity that functions akin to a carabiner. The lawsuit isn’t tiny by immoderate agelong of the imagination, but boosts the earbuds’ artillery beingness from 11 hours to 40 hours, oregon from 9 hours to 32 hours with ANC turned on.

Available successful 5 colour options including black, bone, primer, plasma, and leopard, the Method 360 ANC besides diagnostic a four-microphone hybrid ANC strategy with a Stay-Aware mode for boosting ambient sounds positive a debased latency mode that helps guarantee audio stays successful sync erstwhile gaming oregon watching videos.

Wear detection automatically connects the earbuds to a instrumentality and pauses playback erstwhile you region them from your ears, portion multipoint pairing streamlines switching betwixt devices. The Method 360 ANC besides person an IPX4 standing against sweat and h2o (you won’t privation to dunk them), enactment Spotify Tap and Google Fast Pair, and link to Skullcandy’s Skull-iQ mobile app allowing the relation of the earbuds’ shortcut buttons to beryllium customized arsenic good arsenic EQ adjustments.