Soundcore P40i by Anker, Noise Cancelling Wireless Earbuds, Adaptive Noise Cancelling to Environments, Heavy Bass, 60H Playtime, 2-in-1 Case and Phone Stand, IPX5, Wireless Charging, Bluetooth 5.3

I owned the Soundcore P3i's for a couple years prior to this, and after one finally got run over by a car and crushed, I decided to try these out. I have now had these for about a year, and am very happy with them.Negatives:- They don't stay in my ears as well as the P3i's (although that may just be me).- I put earbuds in my pockets loose often, and I'm always bumping the touch controls.- Sound out of the box is meh. Switching to the acoustic profile in the app made them sound great, though.- Passive noise cancelling is meh. That's also fine, though, as it is not advertised.Positives:- Comfortable.- Sound is GREAT for the price point once you go into the app.- Active noise cancelling works as expected.- Bluetooth range is good. They only start cutting out if I walk all the way across the house.- Call quality is good.- Battery life is good. I usually have one in at a time, but even with both, they've never died on me inconveniently.- Definitely water-resistant! I have accidentally dropped them in water and gotten rained on many times.- Durable!The last point is the reason I'm leaving this review. Last night, I accidentally dropped one in hot pork fat while I was cooking. I thought that was definitely the end of these earbuds, so I just washed it with soap and water and prayed. I let it dry overnight, and I just tried it out--it still works! How!? It's maybe ever so slightly quieter than the other one, but the sound quality is unaffected. I'm going to leave it out for a bit longer and check on it again tomorrow.I'm not mad about having spent $50 on these, but if you can get them on sale, they're definitely worth the money.

Unsurprisingly, Anker has done it again. These Bluetooth earbuds are absolutely incredible. I own over 30 Anker/Soundcore products and I swear by them. Amongst these products are two (well used) pairs of Soundcore Life P3’s. I love them because of the sound quality, volume level, size, and battery life. While browsing anker’s products, I happened upon these Soundcore Life P40i Bluetooth earbuds and I was immediately interested. Knowing the great quality of all of my previously purchased Anker products and, considering these P40i’s were on sale, I figured I couldn’t go wrong. Boy was I correct. These earbuds are amazing. Unlike other brands of earbuds I’ve tried, these things get loud; not loud to the point that you’ll hurt your ears or be unable to withstand it, but loud enough that you won’t be wishing you could turn them up more. The smart noise cancellation feature is really neat. I’m in construction so the noise levels vary greatly from day to day. The smart noise cancellation keeps up by changing the type of ANC. It’s really cool. Another feature I like and one that differs from the Life P3’s is the small little nub located on the earbuds’ “touch-control” zone. It’s very convenient. In addition, there’s an audible beep when you successfully tap for touch control which has absolutely zero delay. This is great to me because it confirms whether or not you actually touched the earbud. I posted a few side by side photos of these Soundcore P40i’s and one pair of my Soundcore Life P3’s because I wanted to know the size difference in the earbuds and the case and couldn’t find any reviews mentioning it or information elsewhere mentioning it. In case anyone is interested, the P40i’s case is a little bit smaller and the earbuds’ themselves are slightly shorter. It’s great because the P40i’s are EVEN MORE compact. The battery life of these is the best; bar none. 10h per earbud per charge. I have yet to hear the “battery low” alert. The addition of the phone stand clip within the case is ingenious and a new feature that I love. I watch lots of movies and tv shows on my phone. Now, rather than holding my phone, I can put it in the P40i’s case in front of me. It’s a small feature but works wonders for my use. Lastly, the sound quality of these earbuds is insane. There are enough preset EQ options to make everybody happy but it doesn’t stop there. You can go through the soundcore app to do a hearing test and create an EQ catered to your specific level of hearing. In addition, once you’ve completed the hearing IQ, you can tweak your custom EQ setting even further by adding a preset EQ on top of it, or manually altering it yourself. I’d by 10 pairs of these if I could. For anyone out there that’s even considering these earbuds as an option, just buy them already. You will NOT be disappointed. That’s a guarantee. Great job Anker/Soundcore!

I bought these specifically for making hands-free calls when driving. My older car is not very quiet, especially when I'm going over 40mph. My Plantronics (bought by Polycom which changed their name to Poly which got bought by HP, I believe) Voyager Legend was the last bluetooth headset that actually did this well. Unfortunately, after Plantronics was bought, even buying the old Voyager Legend directly from the company yielded lower reliability/longevity. So, I sought out a new option for making calls, especially in my car.These earbuds worked pretty well. Most people could understand me when I was driving at speed (45+mph), but my Dad couldn't until I slowed to 25mph or less. That's significant to me, so I'm going to return them. But, it is worth mentioning that these earbuds' microphone noise cancellation did work better than my *1.5 yr old* Plantronics Voyager Legend headset (its quality failed after 1-1.5yrs). Also, the microphone noise cancellation worked WAY better than my Bose QuietComfort earbuds (which sound great and cancel noise wonderfully for listening, but do nothing for the microphone quality) ever did. My Skullcandy ANC earbuds worked a little better than the Bose QuietComfort2 earbuds, but that's not saying much.Also, total lack of any mute ability from the headset is a huge miss, in my opinion. The single button's functions are easily programmable (through the app) for single-/double-/triple-/long-press for listening to media, but the functions are hardcoded for calls. And, regardless, the mute functionality was nowhere to be found. I found it difficult to avoid contacting the touch button, accidentally, when pushing the earbuds back in or putting them in my ears. Thankfully, the single-press does nothing, by default, so it never caused any issues.Otherwise, I really need to give a nod to the app quality. Soundcore/Anker is a Chinese company, so my expectation of the usability was low. However, the app actually works remarkably well and is very intuitive and usable compared to other headset vendors' apps (Poly, Bose, and Skullcandy)! I was most impressed with the ability to connect to 2 devices at a time. I often connected to my cell phone and my work laptop. When I wanted to switch to my phone and my personal laptop, I simply told the app that I wanted to add another device and it was crazy easy! I can easily select in the app which 1 or 2 devices I wanted to be connected to. It takes a fraction of a second to open the audio channel for either device so I would miss the first half or so of a notification sound (e.g. a ding), but calls and listening to media was *super* reliable since the audio channel stays open. This is a huge improvement over my Plantronics Voyager Legend which was very unreliable when connecting to multiple devices, and sometimes failed to even stay connected to a single device.These Soundcore earbuds were very slightly uncomfortable to wear and tended to fall out of my ears, several times, when walking. I could wear them for a few hours, but really noticed the discomfort after an hour or so. I only owned them for a week or so, but they fell out of my ears multiple times when walking. I did try one step larger earbuds in an effort to secure them in my head, but they were uncomfortable and apparently the medium earbuds were closer to the right size. There's a slight possibility that the small ones would go into my ear better, but that isn't the main issue, so they're still getting returned as soon as I have a few minutes to spare at home.Sound quality was pretty good and I enjoyed listening to videos and music through them. Especially considering the price, I would say these delivered very well in this area. They do pretty well at cancelling surrounding noises for my listening benefit. I can select "Noise Cancellation", "Normal", or "Transparency Mode" via the app. My coworkers don't entirely disappear in "Noise Cancellation" mode like they do with my Bose QuietComfort earbuds, but for less than 1/3 the price, I would say that's not a fair comparison. They did work very well when my coworkers were getting noisy/chatty in an open office atmosphere. Most of my coworkers seemed to disappear and the really noisy ones were much quieter. I was able to play soft music to drown out the noisiest ones.All in all, I'm going to buy the Poly (Plantronics) Voyager Legend, again, and hopefully I'll get another year or so out of it and hopefully, by then, there will be a better option on the market (maybe the Voyager Legend 50 by then?). Based on the past 3 Voyager Legend headsets that I've bought, I expect comfort to last for a few hours and call quality to be great, as long as I can stay connected to my phone before and during the call. 🫤Would I recommend these earbuds? Yes for listening and noise cancellation while listening, and probably for calls, unless you need superb call quality in a relatively noisy environment. My car isn't horribly loud (maybe it's louder than I think?) but it's enough to frustrate the person I'm talking to when the noise got louder. Most people I talked to were fine with it, even when I was driving faster (55mph), but if I can't talk to my Dad, then these missed the mark.