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This little bluetooth earbud is pretty much everything I want. It is very light, very small, has exceptional battery life, is easy to charge, can connect with multiple devices at once, switching between them on the fly, and doesn't hurt your ear because it is held in only by the rubber bud.PROS:Extremely SmallGood Bluetooth RangeLoudLong Battery Life (4+ Hours Easily)Wireless Charging (sort of)Two USB ChargersConnects with Multiple DevicesCONS:Sub-par Sound QualityCan Fall Out of EarHonestly, there is little more that I would want from this earbud. Does it fall out of your ear sometimes like others have been complaining? Yes, if you are walking or running, you'll probably have to push it back in with some frequency. That doesn't mean it comes flying out unexpectedly, it just shakes loose, just like most other earbuds, and that's why some designs have rubber attachments that wrap around your ears. However, I didn't buy that model, I bought this one, and having to push the bud back in from time-to-time is far less annoying than having to strap on a crazy hearing-aid style wrap-around, personally. Also, since it comes with three different sized rubber earbuds, it is moderately customizable to your ear.The "wireless charging" is awesome. How it works is the little USB chargers have two prongs in the center of an indentation that has a magnet behind it. The earbud sticks to the magnet and slides onto the prongs. If you practiced, you probably could throw it at the charger and have it start charging. I really can't stress how simple it is to attach, it's mildly magical. The magnet latches on and about a second later, the blue LED on the earbud turns and you know it is charging.Pairing it with a bluetooth device is simple: When the earbud is off, hold down the button for about 5 seconds. At about second 3 you'll hear a slightly accented voice say "Device On" and then at second 5 it says "Device Ready to Pair" (I may be paraphrasing here). At that point you need to tell your bluetooth source (be it your phone, or your laptop, GPS, car, whatever) to start searching for a bluetooth device, and it should find a GoNovate G8 and then pair up after about 5 seconds or so. Then the voice will say "Device Connected" and you may even see the G8's power bar on your bluetooth source's screen. I can confirm it does this with the iPhone 5s, but does not with the MacBook Pro, for whatever reason.You can have the G8 paired with multiple devices and run them simultaneously. HOWEVER: It will play audio from only ONE at a time. So you could be listening to music played by your computer, that would be interrupted when your phone gets a call, for example. Not as cool as playing both at the same time, but still useful.Basic operation of the G8 is pretty simple: Hold down the little button for 3 seconds to turn it, listening for the voice prompt. You can pause or play music by clicking the button briefly. You can answer calls by clicking the button, or deny them by holding the button for 2 seconds. Plus, like starting it, you shut it down by holding down the button for 3 seconds. That's it. Just 1 button with different hold times, and everything is identified using voice prompts.MY ONLY NEGATIVES:Firstly: The sound quality isn't great on this thing. I would describe it as a bit "muddy", with a lot of different tones bleeding into each other. High notes are reasonably crisp, but voices and anything pushing into the bass ranges tend to lose distinction. Personally, I use the G8 to listen to podcasts, which don't require great sound quality. Everything is easy to hear and understand, but you aren't going to want to listen to complicated orchestral pieces on it. The G8 is designed for convenience and portability, and at $18, it is really cheap. It's not exactly a surprise that it can't match my over-the-ear, Sony Studio Monitor Headphones. What is crazy about modern technology isn't that the G8 isn't as far away from those Sony's as the price would indicate. It's no masterpiece for sound quality, but it is sufficient, and that's a long, long ways away from cheap headphones of twenty-years ago, or even ten, or possible even five-years ago.Secondly: The original shipment arrived with a Flexible USB charger, and a non-adjustable Car USB charger. The Car USB charger worked perfectly, the Flexible USB Charger didn't fit the G8. So I contacted the seller and the immediately shipped me a second Car USB charger, which also works perfectly. I don't know if this is the case for all of the Flexible USB Chargers, but I must commend the seller (in this case: Ken from GoNovate) for rapidly responding and correcting the issue by providing a second Car USB charger for free. Now I have two chargers, as advertised, and they both charge the earbud perfectly.CONCLUSION:It is cheap. Its battery lasts a long time. It is very easy to use and setup. It doesn't hurt your ear. Charging it is very easy. It is cheap. The sound quality is good enough to not be annoying. It can be used by multiple devices. Plus: It is really quite cheap.

Amazing sound quality for a very small package. Comfortable enough, and small enough, for all day use and battery life to match. I typically wear it for ten hours a day (standby/audio/calls/Siri) and get well over the advertised five hours of audio play. I didn't except to use it for phone calls, Siri, or dictation but I do and all work extremely well. Call quality is better than the factory Bluetooth of my car (Sync in a 2010 Ford Fusion) and I switched off Sync in favor of using the GoNovate G8.The ONLY complaint I have is the volume being too high for some podcasts; I rarely use it beyond the lowest volume level. Music is fine for me at the lowest level but sound levels are inconsistent across podcasts (sometimes between episodes of the same podcast) and sometimes the lowest volume isn't low enough.For the price, $17, I expected to use it for a few weeks and buy a replacement as needed until I could purchase Apple's AirPods. Four weeks later, I'm still using the first G8 (haven't needed others) and I've postponed buying AirPods (I still plan to buy them but I'm no longer in a hurry).I've recommended the G8 to friends and coworkers and they love it too.While not a complaint, perspective buyers need to realize that the G8 does not let in outside noise. But, since the G8 is a single-ear earbud, I can hear outside noises and conversations perfectly well while using it. It just takes a little while to get accustomed to hearing from one ear.One of my favorite uses for the G8 is watching TV/movies on my iPad in bed while my wife watches something else or through the AppleTV while she sleeps. I assign the G8 as the outgoing sound source and watch without disturbing her.One last kudos to GoNovate. My G8 came with two magnetic charger and they are excellent; get the G8 near the charger and the magnet sucks it in. One of the chargers it came with was broken (the plastic housing was cracked) but GoNovate fast-shipped a replacement when I emailed asking how to request a replacement (zero conversation and zero hassle). Excellent customer service!

This is one of those items that you have to approach with lower expectations. It's cheap, which is probably why you're looking at it, so it's not the best. I bought this for the purpose of being able to listen to music and audiobooks in ONE ear without have an extra earbud dangling around. For that it's great. I've also used this while riding my motorcycle. It gets sufficiently loud to listen to an audio book while riding on the highway.The good:Small - easily fits in my ear, under a motorcycle helmet and into a pocket if I need to stash it quickly.Simple - to turn it on and enter pairing mode you just press and hold the home button until it says ready to pair.Battery life - it has enough battery life to get me through the day typically. The downside to the battery life will be below.Charger - it's proprietary but they include two which is a big bonus for me.Volume - plenty of volume, I end up using this at the bottom of the volume levels most of the time.The bad:Phone calls - it's very hit and miss on this depending on background noise. DO NOT rely on this for important calls.Charger - the charger is proprietary, which is standard these days. but since they include two it's ok.Battery life - as I mentioned above the battery life is decent. The bad part is when the battery gets low it announces "Battery Low" every 20 seconds.that is extremely annoying. I think every minute or so would be better.Storage case - somewhat excessive on the thickness but once again, it's cheap.Volume - it's almost too loud at minimum volume if you want to listen to it in bed when it's quiet.The weird:I swear the voice sounds like a Russian woman trying to speak English. I jokingly call it Svetlana