- Huawei Freearc is here, boasting IP57-dust and water-ingress protection
- It’s Huawei’s second Open-Ear option after Freeclip but the company’s first ‘shell’ design
- They are affordable – and there is an extra savings if you buy now
My most important problem when I consider open earplugs? In fact, there are two things: Something that will survive a particularly sweaty/rainfall attempt to improve my (ABYSMALE) 5K personal best, and something that doesn’t fall out of my ear during the aforementioned attempt.
While the brand new one beats Powerbeats Pro 2 definitely claimed to have sorted the latter under their warmly expected 11th February arrival notice, their IPX4 rating will not necessarily tackle the former. Oh and they’ll come in on $ 249 / £ 249 / AU $ 399. Would you like something that costs only £ 99 – or £ 75 if you shop quickly – and offer IP57 protection, which means you actually could drop one in the pool, let it soar in a meter of water for up to 30 minutes and still expect music after you have you fished it out? Meet Huawei Freearc.
Open earplugs are large in 2025 – and this set doesn’t break (the bank)
Is Huawei Freearc some of the best open ear -headphones I’ve seen? Well, I haven’t had a chance to test them fully yet, but on paper there is a terrible mass to celebrate, especially for this money.
The sports-focused open-ear category is growing incredibly fast, and I predict Huawei has done well to price them so competitively. According to Huawei, a company that boasts headphones is the fastest growing product in the sound industry with a growth speed of 600% year by year.
This is the Chinese tech specialist’s second knife by going to an open ear after December 2023 cube-like freeclip. But this is the first time Huaweis tried a shell -like design that slides over your outer ear so drivers slip in near Your ear canal but don’t cover it – Think Shokz Openfit Air or Oladance. Huawei tells me that its engineers worked unusually hard on the new “140-degree optimal triangle design” that marries a delicate gravitational balance and data from over 10,000 auricle curves, in something Huawei calls a “C-Bridge Design”. This ‘C’ essentially constitutes 8.3 g of liquid-silicone rubber covering a 0.7 mm titanium nickel wire, with a 17 x 12 mm driver unit with high sensitivity at one end and a battery pack at the other (behind the ear ).
Leave your phone in your gym
Another big selling point for me here is the double antenna design for stability at long intervals. Even if you only get SBC and AAC-Codec support from Bluetooth 5.2 chipset (so no higher resolution codecs like LDAC or APTX) is your quoted range 100 m indoors or 400 m outdoors, which means you can leave your phone In your bag by running tracks – or in the closet at the gym. And it’s a huge bonus if you, like me, would rather not call your smartphone around during training.
There is also an AI algorithm for the double microphones that help eliminate windy winds and surrounding noise during calls, and your battery life is a very competitive seven hours on, or 28 with the case. Did I mention that they support on-ear sliding touch movements for volume as well?
Huawei Freearc is available for pre -order from today (February 18) in your choice of black, gray or green. In the end, they will be priced at £ 99.99-but pre-order them now and you get £ 25 discount until March 3, only in a Huawei store. The full product line is officially launched on March 4 with a launch offer of £ 20 discount when they hit shelves until April 1. I am still waiting for official American and Australian prices where it is available, but I have to say, predict a big hit for these prices …
