Bose Wants to Be the Headphone King Again. Does This New Release Take the Crown?

Battery life is not great: 24 hours with ANC enabled is simply not long enough. I had to charge these midweek, every week. Yes, charging is quick, but compared to headphones like the Sony WH-1000XM4C (27 hours with ANC), Nothing Headphone (1) (35 hours with ANC), and Sonos Ace Ultra (also 35 hours with ANC), I noticed how fast the Bose ran out of juice.

I am baffled that these headphones don’t have wear detection. It sounds like a little thing; you can just hit pause before you take off your headphones, after all. But after testing so many headphones with wear detection, many of which are cheaper than these Bose, I was honestly shocked at the omission and thought I needed to change something with my settings, until I remembered: This is by design.

Call quality may be the most overtly bad thing about these headphones. My colleagues have...

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