OpenSwim(formerly Xtrainerz) Swimming MP3 Headphones, Open-Ear Bone Conduction Headset, IP68 Waterproof, 4 GB Memory, MP3 Player For Swimming, Surfing, Running【No Bluetooth】（Sapphire Blue）

Fantastic makes my swim more pleasurable. Sound quality is excellent. Light weight and easy to wear. MP3 not blue tooth (that doesn’t work under water) Bit of a faff downloading,but ultimately worth it. Best bit of kit,bar the swimming costume obviously! Buttons a bit fiddly,easy ,once you get the hang of it.

I've had it for four weeks, swam around 30 km and biked a few too. It been a huge motivation boost as it makes both activities such a pleasure. It leaves the ear canal open so you can maintain some situational awareness, which is good for cycling. Great sound quality, although a small number of songs aren't perfect under water - very bass heavy music may become more so under water (too much for me) and you might miss some higher frequency melodies in classical for example, but I'd say 95%+ of pop, rock and dance are great. Strokes where your head is in and out of the water, like breast-stroke, also effect the consistency of transmission which is fine for most music but might make spoken word difficult to follow (I haven't tried spoken word). There's a remarkable amount of control with so few buttons, with the ability to switch between folders easily, so I have one with about 1000 tunes to shuffle, and one with my latest albums. Its rock solid on my head - you really can just forget its there and enjoy. It seems really well made with no loose, flexible bits that would break easily and the two year warranty provides additional reassurance. Battery life is as advertised - I estimate around 8 hours. Overall - its amazing and my best buy for ages. I really look forward to swimming now and I'll be down the pool tonight.

The awesome: These things are witchcraft. When swimming, with the 'speakers' pressed against the top of your jaw/cheek next to your ear rather than in your ear - the sound hits your brain perfectly as if you had proper headphones in. But you maintain a general awareness of other sound as your ears aren't blocked. It is the weirdest thing - but it works astonishingly well. These have been a real game changer for me in keeping me swimming longer - boredom is my enement. The not so good: If listening on them is like going into the future, getting music to listen to on to them is like going back in time. Think how you got music onto an ipod in 2010, and that is what you need to do with these. Drag and drop MP3 files from a playlist on a music media manager software, onto a folder for this. If like me you have long since moved to streaming services - this wasn't at all straightforward. And getting Audiobooks or podcasts easily in the right format to listen to on this offline, isn't straightforward either - I just gave up. As it happens though I have transferred from my old huge MP3 library, about 100 songs I rate as 5 stars, each of which is upbeat, and I just have these on as a single playlist set to shuffle, and I find this is honestly all I will ever need for my swims. Also note, that whilst the sound is AMAZING when in the water it is a little tinny out of it- so, I wouldn't use it to replace my normal buds for anything other than swimming, and perhaps cycling where you want the peripheral hearing too. I nearly knocked off a star for the niggle of getting music on, as it really is faff. However, now I am set up these have brought such a new lease of life and joy to my swimming, that they deserve to be praised! I really am happy with my purchase.

Sound quality is good considering you’re under water.

OK, I swim a lot. Daily, in fact. I do laps and swim long distances in my local 25m pool. However, swimming and excercise gets boring because I've got nothing to engage my mind. The Shokz have stepped in and solved this problem. They're brilliant in the water and work well as a source for audio books while I swim. My process is to wear the Shokz with ear plugs and it makes the audiobook nice and clear to listen to. The Shokz sit over my ears perfectly and are tight against my head, making good contact. Absolutely love them! The battery life is plenty for what I need and I make sure to upload audiobooks in a single file so there's not worries with the tracks being out of order (there's no controls apart from on/off, volume up/down) which is fine. Once I turn it on, the audiobook starts from where I left off and away I go! Great investment for a swimmer or athlete who wants to keep themselves entertained during long exercise sessions.

This is a 'like for like" replacement for previous pair of headphones. The original ones were used on a fairly regular basis before physically breaking after about 3.5 years. The only reason I bought the same pair again is that I found the newer supposedly better models were difficult to operate in water when you rely on touch rather than sight to navigate the buttons. Also, the new models come with ridiculously small buttons the ones on this device are easy to identify. The device DOES NOT support Bluetooth mode which the others do by DEFAULT. Bluetooth doesn't work in water so you would always have press two buttons to reset them back to use the local storage. With this basic model you simply switch them on and they are "good to go". This model has the really useful "repeat" track function which the newer models don't have. If only ShokZ would make a newer product based on this model but with more than 4GB storage capacity and a more competitive price. I have bought this item again out of desperation and frustration. Do Shokz ever consult users to find out what they really want rather than making products they think we want?

Best swimming companion!

Works great under water

Amazon nie pisze prawdy ! Nie ma polaczenia bluetooth. Tylko mp3. Nie warto za taka kase odtwarzacz mp3 ? Sa inne opcje w o wiele lepszej cenie.

Durante muchos años práctico natación. Mis anteriores auriculares acuáticos fueron los excelentes "Sony Walkman NWWS413". Han sido 7 largos años de chapuzones y aventuras, pero me empieza a fallar la batería, no se cargan. En un primer momento, pensé en comprar otro cargador, pero finalmente adquirí los auriculares acuaticos "Tayogo" pero más malos que un dolor, diseño, material, bluetooth (pa qué, estoy en el agua). Tengo otros Tayogo de conducción ósea y son buenos, pero el modelo acuático hace "glub" en seguida. Los devolví a la media hora de abrir la caja (gracias Amazon). Adquirí ShokzOpenSwim, haciendo un gasto elevado que para nada tenía planeado. Pero necesitaba mi música para motivarme nadando. Son caros, recaros, pero de verdad que valen cada euro. El bañador hecho trizas pero con mi musiquita. La primera sesión piscinera el nivel de excitación al escuchar los Beasties Boys: Intergalactic, Ratahamatta de Sepultura, Chemical Brothers bajo el agua. Madre mía, como se escucha el bombo, la percusión, pueden hacer que tus pezones se pongan tan de punta que puedas cortar cristales, como me ha pasado a mí. El diseño es perfecto, robusto, ligero. Los controles también son sencillos, simples de entender y ejecutar. Pensaba que no tenía la opcion de "cambiar carpeta" y si que la tiene. El volumen es muy potente, sobre todo si cuando vas a nadar te pones tapones. Tienes que buscar un equilibrio entre volumen y tapones. No tiene cosas superfluas como otros modelos auriculares acuáticos como "Bluetooth" (en el agua difícilmente mantendrá la señal). Son maravillosos, antes nadaba media hora, con estos cascos estoy hora y media todo loco escuchando los Queens Stone age bajo el agua sin tener que tomar suplementes raros o químicos, solo con el music power. Solamente espero que superen la barrera de los siete años de mis Sony Walkman NWWS413 y que le den una patada a la obsolescencia. Si amas la música y te gusta nadar, pero te resulta aburrido, ¡este es tu aparatejo! ACTUALIZADO 17/09/2023 (no hay nada perfecto) : Después de 3 meses y medio usándolo casi cada día, durante la reproducción empieza a hablar la "Audrey" a decirte "high" o lo que sea cada rato. Lo he formateado y parece que ya no lo hace de momento. La batería ni por asomo dura 8 horas. Dura entre 2-3 horas. Van genial pero demasiado caros para que empiecen a fallar a los pocos meses. Los auriculares Sony que he mencionado antes duraron 7 años. Estos a los 3 meses... a ver lo que duran... ACTUALIZADO 05/10/2023: Funcionan perfectos, no ha vuelto a tener ningún fallo. Sigo enamorado muy fuerte de este aparatejo. Me hace sentir como si estuviera en un videoclip mientras nado. Amor fuerte y del bueno.

Son fantásticos. PROS: Calidad del sonido, tanto dentro como fuera del agua (modo swim). Es mejor que los Sony. Se puede nadar con ellos en mar y en agua dulce o piscina, con los tapones puestos se escucha mucho mejor. Los 4 gb son suficientes para unas 1.000 canciones. Las orejas van libres por lo que no se pierde la consciencia del ambiente que nos rodea. El packaging venía con un set de tapones para nadar y pinza de nariz y una funda de silicona con agujeros, que Sony no facilita. Pesan poco y los dispositivos de conducción ósea se ajustan bien al pabellón auditivo y permanecen quietos. CONS: Para nadar la diadema me queda algo grande y al tratar de sujetarla con el gorro no queda cómoda. La batería dura algo menos de las 8 horas que comentan. Por otro lado, por poner alguna pega, creo que la diadema hubiera estado mejor si en vez de ser rígida hubiera sido flexible como en el modelo de Sony, se ajustaría mejor a la cabeza. La funda en vez de silicona podía ser rígida. Ya he tenido una experiencia con unos sony rotos por llevarlos sueltos. Más caros que los Sony, unos 50 euros según proveedores, pero merece la pena. Certificación IPX68