Creative Zen Air Pro

These didn’t have any pairing issues. They sound great. The noise canceling is really good as well as the ambient mode. The charging station is solid. The controls pretty simple. Very satisfied. I had Skullcandy wireless earbuds that were miserable because of pairing failure and over sensitive controls. These blew them out of the water. Great product.

I got these Zen Air Pro in July 2024 (currently Oct. 2024)... what a disaster! Some of the ugly stuff: 1) When it connects to my laptop, using Intel Bluetooth adapter, it always connect in low quality call mode, I have two connect two times in order for high quality mode to be picked up. 2) Sudden movements of the head (looking at a side, or moving the head upwards) makes the connection to drop for an instant, then it takes about 2s for both earbuds to sync, meanwhile sound is all over the place. Sometimes this happens out of nowhere, while looking directly at the laptop screen or just sitting and listening to music... random loss of connection between left/right earbuds, so some clicking takes place, very annoying! 3) Sometimes only the right earbud connects. 4) Touch controls don't always work, I have to keep the booklet at hand because most of the time it enters a random mode because the number/duration of taps doesn't get picket up correctly. I noticed that may reviewers said that there is a firmware update, I'm going to try to do that, but out of the box this has been a very unpleasant experience. I use it with my laptop and Android phone. Issues 2-4 are the same with both devices. Sound quality isn't a huge improvement over the Oontz earbuds that cost about half. I'm very sad! Also, my main purpose to buy this is to test LC3 codec, but maybe I'm missing firmware updates on my Intel adapter, I don't see it anywhere.

Had these for quite a while and decided to do my review. They are good. I live on a noisy section of freeway where people regularly couldn’t hear me on my other ear buds, the noise blocking was always being triggered and cut my voice up. These seem to be good for calls, which is what I’d hoped for and spent the 40$ on, which was 2x my usual budget. Lol but true. They have the multiple microphones and firmware and they seem to have that all down. And consequently, the ANC works well, too, so it is good for, eg, mowing the lawn, too. My issue, shared for feedback, is that after a couple months they stopped turning on and connecting together reliably, and now I regularly have to toggle bluetooth and take them in and out of the case to get both buds to play audio. And because I’m often doing this, the fact that the case is off balance and has a weak hinge comes into play: the case closes itself when i try to place or remove the buds from the case one-handed. Also, no single tap gesture? It’s nice never to tap it accidentally, but it makes one less control available to me. Overall good quality for the price I think and battery seems good after a few months. The pairing issue is the one that drives me crazy, and it wouldn’t be as annoying if the case stayed open.

While they solved the reconnection issues and the audio/mic quality is good for the price (in fact, I've initially replaced my 1 star review to a 4 star review), the feeling of very, very unpolished firmware/software is unacceptable. They're $50 now but I've paid full price ($80) for two of them, unacceptable for the current state and being poorly updated still. - Audio randomly cuts out when slightly moving the head, even being in front of the device, although it reconnects soon after - There's no way to know if firmware updates were released without connecting them on normal mode to a phone and loading the app, there should at least be a website with firmware dates and changelog, specially on an alpha-feeling device - LE mode, while it works, didn't allow me to select LC3 codec on either a Pixel 7a and a Galaxy Fold 5, and in both cases, it spams the "LE Audio connected/disconnected" playback at least 3 times before connecting - Sometimes they only display HSP profiles and codecs until reconnected - When I connect them on normal mode, the headphones never stop being discoverable so anyone can pair to them on LE mode (which means microphone access for anyone who connects without me knowing) how is this not a major issue? Should be fixed ASAP but after half a year with the devices, I already doubt it will

I bought mine for a friend. they work well.

I purchased these earbuds about 6 weeks ago because I have an older version of Zen Air earbuds that have been great. However, these earbuds loose connection with my phone frequenly while I am running. I will start out on a jog and they might be working, but within a few minutes they start cutting in and out. Very annoying and it is not very enjoyable to listen to music or a podcast when it drops in and out. Fortunately it is one ear or the other, rarely both. But I am not satisfied with the connection that they make and I would not purchase them again.

EDIT: So I am editing my review after prolonged usage of the earbuds. I still think they sound amazing for the price, but the battery life is really not as good as advertised. On a 100% charge, the earbuds last closer to 7-7.5hrs instead of the advertised 9. The charging case itself also seems to only be able to do 2 full charges. What's even more frustrating is that there's no indication when the case would be unable to charge the buds to 100%. There have been many times where I see two dots on the charging case before putting my earbuds in, but when I take them out, they're only 60% charged. The case still shows a single green dot instead of a clearer red dot or even a flashing green dot to indicate it's critically low. It just doesn't make for good user experience. If you want to ensure your buds are fully charged, you really have to baby it or keep it constantly plugged in. ========== Like many reviewers here, I was also running into issues with one earbud disconnecting by itself, but with the latest Firmware 1.0.240618.1601 update, this seems to have been resolved! I almost returned these because of that issue, but I am glad they were finally able to fix it using software because the earbuds themselves are quite nice. The sound quality is amazing for the price, but that's par for the course with Creative earbuds in my experience. They fit well in my ears and don't come loose easily. The charging case is small and compact, which is a great departure from the blocky bricks that they previously provided with their Outlier product line. i do wish the earbud battery life was longer though, I tend to prefer 15 hours but 9 hours is certainly not bad. I was not able to test out the LE Audio functionality as trying to purchase a LE Audio capable USB Bluetooth dongle for your PC is practically impossible at this point in time. It really feels like LE Audio needs more time to penetrate the market before you can expect LE Audio everywhere, which is a shame considering it was the sole reason why I bought these earbuds in the first place.

I like lots of their product. Great price and excellent product. This earphone are very good. You have to download their app and have equalizer and you can change between mode (noise canceling, ambient, off). The only hard thing is some time to take out the earphone from the case. For me it’s not an issue. I have 3 of these. They are great.

Flawless pairing with a Pixel 9a both in standard BT and BT LE. Nice small case although a bit fiddly to get the earbuds out. Responsive to tap commands on buds Sound quality ok for price Biggest drawback and reason I am returning is that the noise cancellation is near useless - barely muffled nearby conversations.

Los compré para poder emparejarlos con el detector de metales vanquish 560 por el codec LC3 pero después de varios intentos y seguir algunos tutoriales me rendí, el ANC es prácticamente inexistente, tiene buenos micrófonos para llamadas calidad del sonido le pondría un 8.5. Al final los estoy regresando a Amazon.

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They seem to have the same driver as the regular Zen Air but updated Bluetooth 5.3 LE etc. Very good sound quality overall. No issues. Completed a firmware update upon first opening. Great

Regalate in occasione di un 18esimo insieme ad altri regali. Il festeggiato le ha sicuramente apprezzate! Le ho provate e devo dire che l'audio risulta corposo, ma se si passa da delle aripods pro 2gen come le mie sicuramente si sente la differenza. La custodia di ricarica mi restituisce un certo senso di solidità che non mi aspettavo, così come gli auricolari. Se dovessi ricomprarle lo farei altre 1000 volte, a patto di avere un budget limitato. Quindi direi migliori auricolari budget se vuoi avere una qualità mediamente superiore senza aspettarti la qualità di auricolari di fascia premium.