$50 Beats Flex Wireless Earphones Now Available in Two More Colors

The new colors are nice but I will stick to black as I prefer mine to be as unnoticeable as possible when I go out with them on.

The flex was the only Apple product I bought last year and I use them constantly all day every day. I love them, especially because of the battery life and the W1 chip and because they’re always around my neck ready to go. My broken beatsX that they replaced had a little bit better sound and build quality but also cost 3x more and had maybe half the battery life, and a terribly designed power button which ultimately failed. The flex is an upgrade or downgrade from the beatsX depending on what’s important to you. For me, definitely an upgrade. I would pay more for better audio quality, but it’s not a dealbreaker for me for my uses.

There are a couple software things though I really wish Apple would change. For one, allow Siri to make general inquiries like battery level without having to unlock the device that the headphones are connected to (but still locking more sensitive inquiries). Second, whenever you turn on the headphones, or while they’re on and you short press the power button, there is a pop up window on all your devices showing the battery level of the headphones, which is awesome, but LET THERE ALSO BE A “CONNECT” BUTTON IN THE POP UP WINDOW SO THAT YOU CAN QUICKLY CONNECT TO ANY DEVICE! The latter especially seems like such low hanging fruit, I don’t know why it’s not already implemented.

edit- also, sometimes you’ve been wearing the headphones around your neck for awhile and you don’t know if they’re on or off, and it’s cumbersome to take them off to see if the led light is on, so there should be a small beep sound when you short press the power button.

The wireless Bluetooth earphones have a cord between the two earpieces that drapes around the next ...

The next what?

How do they actually sound? My 0G airpods are totally dead and 50 bucks is way cheaper than airpods. Don't need anything that sounds great, but certainly don't want them if they are tinny garbage.

I was using Skullcandy Ink'd wireless earbuds and the Beats Flex sound is much better. Not tinny. About the same as Airpods with a touch more bottom. Not sure why anyone would call them bulky sine they are very lightweight. Very good sound for $50.

Ooh, I like that blue. Reminds me of the 5C!

And wanna add: no, they don't have ear detection, but you now what, I don't miss that. I have had AirPods pausing (did not happen TOO often, but it did happen) because they thought they were outside my ear when they were not. Sometimes "dumb" is good.
And I use the volume control and especially the skip forward/backwards function (can be customized via Overcast for example) all the time. Glad I bought them.

There’s a cool feature that does something similar. Just snap the magnetic heads together when you remove them from your ears and music will stop. Bring them back to the ears and it will start again with a short delay to allow time for you to put them in your ears.
“Magnetic earbuds and Auto-Pause keep your music on deck when you take the earphones out, and Auto-Play starts it back up when you put them back in.”

I take it not worth an upgrade from the X?

I tried the Flex as a potential replacement/upgrade for my X, that broke after 3,5yrs. The Flex feels significantly cheaper in the hand. And although I liked the less harsh trebles in the Flex, the sound stage is wider on the X. So you can't upgrade from X, because it's not an upgrade, its a downgrade imo.