Here One Wireless Smart Earbuds

Product Description

Here One Wireless Smart Earbuds 3-in-1 Noise Cancelling & In Ear Bluetooth Earbuds - iPhone Bluetooth Compatible ONLY. Andriod app & Bluetooth Compatible. Any app that uses Bluetooth will work with the Here One's via the Bluetooth capability. [Read more]

Top Reviews

Here One, Nuheara IQbuds, and Bragi Headphone Comparison
by Hdash (3 out of 5 stars)
June 10, 2017

Both Here One and Nuheara IQbus offer similar features: completely wireless, active noise cancellation/sound augmentation, and recharging case. Bragi Headphone is a completely wireless headphone with only passive noise isolation and no rechargeable case at half the price of the other two. I prefer the Nuheara out of the three headphones because it has comparable battery life to Bragi and has the active noise cancellation feature. Here One offers similar features, but the battery life is not very good.

Some detail comparison:

Battery Life with Music Streaming (Nuheara and Here One can last longer if you only use the Sound Augmenting Feature without music streaming)

Bragi: 6 hours per charge

Nuheara: 4 hours per charge with 3 more charges from the case

Here One: 1.5 hours per charge with 3 more charges from the case

Active Noise Cancellation

Here One and Nuheara offer similar active noise cancellation capability. They are not as good as Bose QC 20, but much better than just having passive noise isolation from Bragi. Both headphones do a good job of reducing street noise and airplane noise (recording from Youtube).

Sound Augmentation

In addition to active noise cancellation, Here One and Nuheara also allow the user to control how much and what type of sounds from the outside world to reach the user. In theory, this is useful to reduce airplane engine noise, but then amplify human voices to talk to flight attendants or travelling companions. Unfortunately, even though this feature does work somewhat, neither headphones are that great at it. Here One is slight better at increasing the sound of a speaker over ambient noise, but in order to achieve this, it also increases ambient noise at similar frequencies as the human voice, so this can be distracting. Overall, using this feature on either headphones to increase a speaker's voice for a short conversation is nice, but anything longer than a minute and it can be distracting.

Headphone Controls

Here One and Nuheara has capacitive button on each headphone for control. Bragi has three physical buttons on the right side for control.

Bragi has pause/play, volume, bypass, and answer/reject call control using the buttons.

Here One has pause/play, bypass, siri/google now, and answer/reject call using either left or right earbuds.

Nuheara has pause/play and answer/reject call using left earbuds and audio augmentation mode control on the right earbuds. Nuheara also has siri/google now control using double tap on either earbuds.

I prefer the Nuheara for being able to cycle through different augmentation modes, so I can easily switch between Music (basically complete active noise cancellation) to Office or Plane (for quick conversations). Here One only allow the user to turn Smart Augmentation On or Off using the bypass control. This means I can only choose between reduced ambient sound or allowing all ambient sound in whereas Nuheara allows me to keep the ambient sound reduction on while still having a quick conversation but just amplifying human voices.

Bluetooth Connection

All three headphones have good bluetooth connection for indoor and outdoor although Bragi and Here One are slight better than Nuheara. Nuheara had little more drop outs than the other two, but it is still acceptable for everyday use.

Apps

Here One app is simpler to use than the Nuheara app although Here One app required more permissions. I am not sure why Here One needed location permission. Also, whenever I opened the Hear One app to check on the battery life of the earbuds while listening to music, it had to reconnect to the earbuds and the earbuds chimed to confirm the connection. This was a little annoying.

For the Nuheara app, there is couple of more setting you can modify for each Smart Augmentation Modes (e.g. SINC and EQ), but in the end, I just used the default settings. Bragi has no app which means connection to the phone is slight simpler. Also switching between phones and tablets are easier for Bragi because it just needs a bluetooth connection.

Fit

All three earbuds give you different size ear tips, but they have different approach.

Here One provides L, M, S silicone and foam tips for 6 total pairs.

Nuheara provides L, M, S, XS circular and oval silicone tips for 8 total pairs.

Bragi provides M, S silicone and one comply foam tips for 3 total pairs.

I found the Nuheara medium oval silicone tips to be most comfortable out of all three earbuds. Here One medium silicone tips are also fine but not as secure as the oval tips from Nuheara. Bragi medium silicone tips are ok, but does not offer much passive noise isolation. Bragi comply tips provided better passive noise isolation, but broke after 2 months of use.

Battery Case

Nuheara battery case has more LEDs to provide more information about the status of the charge of the case and the earbuds, but it is bigger than the Here One case although both cases are very compact. Bragi's case does not have a battery to recharge the earbuds. Also the Bragi case is two pieces that slide apart while Nuheara and Hear One cases snap open and shut.

Sound Quality

All three headphones are about the same in this aspect as far as I can tell.
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Here Ones, a completely new and amazing technology for hearing improvement! Especially for music...
by Hiland1 (5 out of 5 stars)
May 2, 2017

I am a 74 year old guy that has typical hearing issues such as high-frequency hearing loss, and trouble hearing voices of friends at the table in a crowded restaurant... Nothing different from many others my age. When I learned of Here One I thought that these new, innovative, and seemingly very-capable wireless earbuds could be helpful. I also love music of all kinds and want to be able to hear all of it when I am listening. Though I have always been an "early adopter" of new technology, little did I realize how great these small devices would be. When they arrived and I opened them, I was immediately pleased with the small, easy-to-carry box that would charge the earbuds when I was on-the-go.

I installed the app on my iPhone and completed the easy setup of my new, wireless earbuds, including the testing of my hearing frequencies, and knew that Doppler Labs was on to something big. As I began to use the earbuds for music and in other day-to-day circumstances I was stunned by the tremendous improvement in being able to hear sounds that I have not heard for years, especially music. I have had my Here Ones for about six weeks now and use them in various ways nearly every day. I couldn't be more pleased. They have exceeded my expectations by miles... They are exactly what I needed, since my hearing-loss is not too bad, and I didn't want to undertake the daily struggle of wearing hearing aids. They are perfect for me, and would be the ideal solution for many other people with similar hearing issues...if they only knew about them. It would be nice to have a way to demonstrate them to friends, but many are reluctant to put something in their ears that have already been worn by me. So, I guess they will have to be guided only by my enthusiasm and excitement, and of course, by my insistent-urging for them to buy a set and learn for themselves how this brand-new technology can change their lives. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of Here One, so keep up the good work, and I will go about my day enjoying this unique and very useful tool that helps keep me connected to the world around me.
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Hearing Aid Miracle
by Richard W. Middaugh (5 out of 5 stars)
August 30, 2017

This is a brilliant hearing device. I found it difficult to set up, but then I'm 88 years old, and probably not as swift as I once was. Believe me when I say it's worth working with until you have it enhancing your hearing as designed. You will not believe the quality of sound. I had a little trouble in masking the ambient background noise in restaurants. In experimenting I found a variable other than "Restaurant" that worked very effectively in muting that background noise for me. I have worn standard hearing aids for years, with great frustration at their poor quality and lack of alternative operational variables. I tell my friends I now have a hearing aid miracle on my hands.
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Not even close.
by me! (1 out of 5 stars)
July 8, 2017

I really like the idea of these earbuds despite the very short battery life. They performed almost as well as I had hoped. I did have some trouble getting them to seal in my ear with the 6 ear adapters provided. Unfortunately within a few weeks the right one stopped working. After going through all the trouble shooting I contacted Doppler Labs. Multiple emails later and going through the trouble shooting again and again, they conceded to send me a shipping label to return them so they could be replaced (which will take at least a couple of weeks). Any one of the issues these earbuds have by itself isn't a deal breaker but when you add in poor reliability that really does break the camels back. I probably will buy wireless in-ear Bose and keep these as backups. If I had it to do over again I'd buy the Bose and skip this mess.

Update, a few weeks after the first problem I received the replacement pair. Unfortunately this pair also is having some problems being detected in the case (same problem I had with the pair I returned). I'm really disappointed I'm outside the return window and stuck with a $300 glitch ball. I contacted tech support yet again, their suggestion, ship them back to replace them with yet another pair. Also from the time I shipped the first pair back to the time I received this new defective pair was over 2 weeks.
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Lots of potential, but still finicky. update: still not working well.
by Mark R Koenig (1 out of 5 stars)
June 5, 2017

There's a lot of potential here and as an early adopter one has to accept some glitches. However, this is not their first product and some of these should have been worked through.
1 - The "tap to bypass" feature is great in theory. In practice it is very finicky. Getting it to bypass usually takes several taps. I've read up on a bit on technique and I've gotten better, but it doesn't work consistently enough.
2 - They cut out as you walk and move around if the phone isn't direct enough to your ears. This is partially an issue with bluetooth. Or so that's how I understand it. Bluetooth does not travel through flesh (I want to say it's the water in us?) well. These blip a bit if you're walking with your phone in your pocket.
3 - They don't always pair right. Sometimes I need to put them back in the box and take them out to get it to work right. I know some people that have had to reset the pairing weekly.
4 - The app is slow to pair. When you open it it can take 5-10+ seconds to pair with the ear buds. One can work with this, but it's a pain.

Overall, wireless headphones and wireless earbuds specifically here, are awesome. For biking or walking or moving around they're great. I'm sure there cheaper options that take care of that part. The extra tech of these still needs work. Oh, and they do fit great. One of the main reasons I chose these over AirPods is that they don't fit my ears. These fit great.

update:

These are still finicky and they recently did an upgrade. Now the case does not stay connected so in the middle of listening they cutout. I can go back in and reconnect them, but it happens again. And the bypass feature stopped working. It pauses what's playing, but doesn't turn on the microphone on the outside.

Seems to require weekly hard reset. Not worth the $300.

Great concept. Poor execution.
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An expensive novelty that has its issues
by Ryan M. Lewkowicz (2 out of 5 stars)
August 2, 2017

So the product is kinda cool. If you're here, you probably already know, but you can amplify/modify the sound coming from the outside world into your ears. It's pretty cool really. The walk to work was nice, because along side my music, I could hear the world around me. Boosting the listen on it kinda made you feel like superman. It's the first pair of earbuds I've gotten that came with the foam. My left ear has never held buds well but it was not an issue with these. The battery life is short, but didn't really bother me.

I will get to the show stopper issues in a moment. What made it a 2 vs 3, but first I want to touch on general shortcomings and annoyances. On android, you have to allow access to your location before you can even pair the buds. They're earbuds. You don't need to know my location. "We can tune automatically given your surroundings!". One, I don't care. Two, it's not bad, but it's also not really that good. Even if I wanted my earbuds to auto adjust, the filters aren't really good enough to justify it. The other thing is I have to register them. Already annoying, but then they sent me junk mail. Really? Really really? Maybe I clicked a check box that said spam me. Maybe I should have used a fake email, but I didn't think the 300 dollar ear buds I just bought were going to whore me out to affiliates. I think I had to unsubscribe to like 3 different emails before I just started marking it all as spam. Then, overall sound quality. My 20 dollar anker sport buds have better bass. The anker mids and highs are almost as good. Overall 300 dollars is just a bit steep even in terms of overall quality, not even mentioning all the other issues.

So even with all that. They were still cool enough to be a 3 star. I wouldn't spend 300 on it, but they work and I was willing to live with my purchase. Like many others though, I'm having issues with bluetooth connectivity. For me it started after their most recent update (although it may be unrelated). I've tried 2 phones. A note 4, and an iphone 7. The buds just drop in and out constantly. On top of all the other crap it really killed it for me. I'm going to try to return them, but I don't know what that actually entails, I don't usually return stuff.
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What a disappointment
by Mary Elizabeth Gray (1 out of 5 stars)
April 2, 2018

I had low expectation for these when I bought them but decided to give them a shot. First impression was okay. They look and feel good- the packaging was well thought out- the charging case looks good and works well. They do allow outside sounds in (when you tell them to) and it sounds mostly natural even with music playing. This impressed me. The audio quality is not bad at all for the price- I played them next to my shure se250's and they weren't as good but close enough to have the convenience of a wire free experience. The battery life, however, sucks. I was even willing to look past that.

Only one day into owning them they started to malfunction. While listening to music they suddenly and painfully amplified the sound and distorted it into a mushy mess of noise. It was so loud it made me jump out of my skin. Since then they'll go back and forth between clear and obnoxiously noisy and unbearable. I can't figure out why it's happening or how to stop it. The company doesn't exist any more so there isn't anyone to ask for support from. I'm sending these back.
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Terrible Bluetooth Connection
by Shane G. Engelman (2 out of 5 stars)
July 10, 2017

Any reports or inference of Doppler Labs suggesting that the product would or could work as intended is misleading. I have a Google Pixel with the latest Android firmware and I can't get these things to pair unless they are 1) fully charged and 2) literally touching the phone. The Bluetooth connection is the most abysmal of any modern device I have ever experienced. When I did get it working, I would lose connection sporadically while it was in my left pocket. It was fine in my right pocket.

I was very hopeful for these, but they ended up disappointing.

These were released before they became a finished product. And mostly out of principle, I am doing something I have never done on Amazon before: return a (this) product.
'A real shame.
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Avoid- not ready for market, especially with Android.
by Amazon Customer (1 out of 5 stars)
July 7, 2017

In 25 years in info tech this is the most disappointing product I've owned. Shipping back tomorrow. Bluetooth connection drops beyond 18 inches on Nexus 6x. Advertised features are greyed out in current Android app. Conflicting support info on their support site. Can't find a support phone number on the site. Maybe if they had fewer pictures of their execs they'd have room for support.
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Best Sounding True Wireless earbuds plagued by bad battery.
by @gr8er1 (4 out of 5 stars)
August 19, 2018

Best Sounding True Wireless earbuds plagued by bad battery. The company that made these went out of business and no longer sell or support them. I hope/wish they use their tech in a reliable company's product such as Bose. The sound quality is a 5+ stars unfortunately the charging/battery life is a 1 star. If you can get them for around $100 try them out if you only listen to music via earphones for 30mins to an hour at a time. Also be prepared to be frustrated when the indicator on the charger says 100% green light and only to take them out of the case with minimum/no charge. (Battery lead connection issue?). Also there is a learning curve when you first connect them. You must charge the buds for at least 3 hours or 100% green indicator before connecting. You might also have to delete the Hear One app and re download it several times when first connecting. Once you get it connected you shouldn't have a problem again. If you are tech savvy and willing to deal with the battery/charging issue and short play life it might be worth a try for the great sound and noise cancellation quality. These were originally $300 and sound better than the B&O E8. And for whatever reason fit my ear canal perfectly out of the box. I am presently trying the B&O. The B&O players have exceptional battery life but I like the Hear One tech/sound better. I am using the Android App "Precise Volume" with the B&O E8, which I recommend to fine tune the volume level and bass/equalizer sound, to try to mimic the Hear One sound. I applaud Hear One for making the product, hence the higher than deserved rating for the product, but their tech will be better served if they contract with Bose or B&O etc..

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