Depending on how you work, you might have a pair of earphones for work and a pair for everything else. The latest from EPOS aims to kill two birds with the one truly wireless stone.
One of the more annoying aspects of work is knowing that not all hardware may play nicely with your work-provided laptop and gear.
If you use a MacBook for your day job logged in using a different account from one you’re using in your real life, a pair of AirPods won’t always play nicely across those devices. And while Bluetooth multipoint can help you stay connected to two devices at once — your personal phone and your work-provided computer — that’s not always the case.
The simple truth is that some of us just have several pairs of earphones, typically for work and everything else. You might have a pair you use in the office, and you might have another pair you use when you’re on the train home.
But EPOS looks to fix that with an approach built for work and everything else, building a pair of truly wireless noise cancelling earbuds that not only work on Bluetooth, but come with a USB-C dongle to let them work with meeting apps such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.
The Adapt E1 are compact earbuds with support for active noise cancellation built from research of half a million ear scans to make a more comfortable pair of earphones.
Designed for work and play, they’re a little bit different from your conventional pair of earphones. They aim to keep going with up to 6 hours of talk time or 14 hours of listening, with a good two more charges in the case for up to 50 hours in total.
There’s support for IPX5 water resistance, an app to tweak things and a variety of earphone tips, but the main point could be how the technology is split: use them with your phone over Bluetooth, or simply connect them to your work computer using the Type C dongle.
Pricing is where things get a little interesting, because EPOS hasn’t specifically cited an Australian price for the Adapt E1. The US price is listed as $219 USD, and locally, we’re seeing prices between $249 and $299, suggesting Australian pricing will be somewhere there. However, it does mean that a pair of earbuds for work and play could be fairly well priced, handy if you need one pair that covers both.
