Skullcandy Indy Evo in-Ear Wireless Earbuds, 30 Hr Battery, Microphone, Works with iPhone Android and Bluetooth Devices - Black

The sound quality of these headphones was so surprising to me for that price tag. I had never heard a pair sound this clear at this price and am very impressed. I was just looking for a cheap pair of earbuds to beat on during yard work and easy to slip into the bag to bring anywhere and these have passed my expectations for sure. They sound like they’d be at least double the price, so they really punch above their weight! These have been very durable, have had them for 20 months now with no issues. The only connectivity issue I can think of is if I take the two buds out of the case at different times (like 2 seconds or more apart from each other), the second bud I take out will sometimes not connect. Only happens maybe 1 in 10 times for that specific scenario. A simple fix of just putting them both back in the case and taking them back out together will get them both working. Battery life is great and the case charges quickly. Haven’t timed any of it, but I’ve never had the buds die before putting them back in the case and I go a long time without having to recharge the case.

I bought these in 2021 and they are still going strong (as of October 2024)! I've had to reset them a handful of times, but that's mostly because I prefer to use one earbud while at work and they un-sync after a while. Sound quality is decent, especially for the price, and noise cancellation is pretty effective (hence the one earbud at work!). I am clumsy, so I drop them (A LOT) both in and out of the case, and I've had no issues at all. The charge will usually last through a normal work day, though I do have to switch earbuds on long days. I love these! I hope they never crap out, but I will be buying another pair if and when that day comes.

Been meaning to write this review for a while. Decided to finally do it because I actually would like a second pair, and I noticed all the 1-star reviews coming through. If you're looking for complaints, please look at section #7. I have owned these headphones for about a year in the Mint Green variant. Since they were purchased in 2021, I cannot speak to the quality of newer units incase manufacturing has changed since then. 1. Skullcandy as a brand. I have loved Skullcandy since I first saw them on the shelves. They have a designer feel, while still being within the general consumer price range and delivering adequate quality. One of my biggest pet peeves with them as a company has been product lifespan, as their wired headphones always seemed very fragile. Figured I'd take a chance on the wireless, and this is my first time owning bluetooth headphones. 2. Design These look and feel awesome. I'll get into the flaws at the bottom, but the things fit great and look great. The case and earbuds are quality; the plastic doesn't feel cheap; the case hinges are great; the fit in the ears is fine (and you obviously get the different bud dampers and earpiece fittings that you'll keep but never use). Case is a bit scuffed, and the shine has worn off, but they've suffered a year of being in my bookbag - so this is completely understandable. 3. Sound Quality I am not an audiophile, so I can't give you a full breakdown on how they "actually" sound. Quality has been great for music and podcasts, so nothing to complain about here. Heavy on the mids, but range feels dynamic enough. Provides 3 preset EQs that can be accessed through a triple-tap (Music, Podcast, Movie). 4. Noise Cancellation I'm getting older, so maybe it's me. But these are really great at blocking out ambient noise. Even with nothing playing, if someone is speaking to me, I have to remove 1 earbud at least in order to have a conversation. The provided "Ambient Mode" is a nice to "cancel the cancellation" though you lose audio quality. 5. Battery I get about 8 hours of listening out of these which is very close to a full workday for me. Most of the time I get through the entire workday, sometimes I don't and have to wait for a charge. As of the time of writing, the case holds enough "juice" to hold about 4-5 full charges (represented as lights on the case). I think this was higher when I initially purchased the headphones, but I could be mistaken. I have just noticed that I'm charging the case more often recently. 6. Charging This is the part that I'm confused about. I have no clue how these things charge as fast as they do. I KNOW it has to break some safety law. A completely dead earbud can go from 0% to ~90% in about 10 minutes of charging time. 10 minutes for 7 hours of listening? No idea how. 7. Design Flaws and Connectivity Issues Now onto the main part of the review. I will try to be thorough, though I may miss some points. 7.0 Bluetooth is a bad protocol Most consumers are familiar Bluetooth. It's this weird "thing" that exists, that we use sometimes, but not all the time. Let's go ahead and get this out of the way; Bluetooth and dependable connectivity are mutually exclusive concepts. The standard is out of control, it's hard to find whitepapers on, and has many different flavors. This means that every implementation of Bluetooth is different and it's never consistent. The Indy Evo has its own weird implementation, that can be frustrating if you don't know the patterns or how to recognize what's going on. 7.1 General Connectivity There's a weird bug that happens under certain conditions where the headphones will become disconnected from the device (you'll notice this by the video/song pausing on your device). After about 5 seconds you'll hear "Reconnected" announced via the headphone and whatever you were listening to will be at a different volume than it was when the initial disconnect happened. I'd almost chalk this up to being an Android issue though, as it NEVER happens while I'm at work (with no internet connection) and ALWAYS happens while I'm at home (where Android can do whatever it wants in the background). It's annoying, but I recognize it happening at this point, so I know how to deal with it. I'm pretty sure this is Android restarting the Bluetooth service, as it seems to happen more often when my phone is running low on storage. 7.2 Case Dying vs Removing Headphones This is one that messed me up for a bit and I'm not sure that it's a solvable problem. When you remove the earbuds from the case, it signals to the earbuds to turn on and to take precedence for any device (this is a Bluetooth thing as far as I can tell). So what happens when your charging case runs out of juice? That's right, the earbuds turn on. This means if I'm driving (and my phone is connected through my car) and my earbuds are in my bookbag in the backseat, I lost audio in my car (because the headphones say "Hey, I'll play that"). Now, luckily, my car can take precedence back by changing the volume from my steering wheel, which tells my phone "Hey, I'm the device in charge" and then the sound is passed back to my car's system. This is a weird thing the first time you encounter it though, but I'm not sure what the solution is. 7.3 Hinge magnet strength All our ears are different. Sometimes you'll need to position the earpiece in a way that is not form-fitting for the case. Unfortunately, this can lead to the charging case not COMPLETELY closing, so after the initial closing (at this point you think your headphones are charging) it may get to a point where one (or neither) of the headphones are charging. They could fix this by making the case "fatter/wider" and making the earpiece reservoirs larger. There's a tradeoff here though between how "flat" you make the carrying case and how forgiving it is. 7.4 Earbuds disconnecting from one another This is what most complaints are about. I can guarantee you. I have found that this ONLY HAPPENS when I fall asleep wearing one of the earbuds. I have tried to emulate it, but it only seems to happen in my sleep. I only keep 1 earbud in when I'm sleeping (side sleeper). MY GUESS, is that I am rolling onto the headphone in my sleep, throwing it through the pairing cycle mode, and this is disconnecting them. It has literally never happened while I have been awake/using the earbuds. (Quickly the "Re-Pairing Cycle is:) 1. Disconnect BOTH earbuds through the phone/device. 2. Turn off Bluetooth on the device. 3. Power off left and right ear bud. 4. ONE AT A TIME. Place AND HOLD your finger on the ear bud so that you see it go through each cycle. (On, Pairing, Off). Do this for left and right. NOT AT THE SAME TIME. 5. Place and hold your finger on the earbuds so that they turn on at relatively the same time. 6. You should see 3 blue flashes on each earbud. Almost like a SYN-ACK back and forth. 7. After the third flash, you'll see them both flash blue at the same time and then the left earbud will go into "Pairing Mode". 8. At this point, turn your bluetooth back on and accept BOTH requests to pair. You'll get pretty good at this after a while. 7.5 Right earbud acts as the "driver" The left and right earbud are NOT equivalent. If you get out of range of the right earbud, you will start hearing connectivity issues. However, once you are completely out of range, the left takes over as the driver and quality is fine. This leads me to think that left and right have different profiles (and 7.1 may be an issue of left/right passing off to one another). All-in-all good headphones. I like em and I'm buying another pair. Thanks for reading my thesis.

I've just had these for a half a day and got them in the other day and been using them and they are awesome they actually stay in my ear it's very hard for me to find earbuds like this to keep in my ears because they are so different but these actually stay in place they cancel the noise very very well I was listening to a YouTube video and a buddy was at my house watching a movie and holy crap I could hear the YouTube video clearly and I cannot even hear the movie that was playing and we had it very very loud with the sound system so it noise canceling is a 100% Plus on these they also have a ambient mode so you can hear the outside while you're listening to music podcast YouTube or whatever you want to do so you can hear your surroundings I really couldn't beat the price either I mean for 50 bucks you know holy crap they actually yeah they work it's it's excellent so I will update more when I go back to work because I work in an engine room on a boat and we'll see how they actually work with my ear muffs and what the noise of the engines roaring all the time. And another big selling point for this was that they are true wireless earbuds I can use either one I can control either one all the same that was the biggest selling point because sometimes I can only have one earbud in at a time. The only thing that can make them really better would be longer battery life from what the factory is saying and the longer battery life on the charging case I know that's a step up in the price and all that for better batteries and stuff but I mean that's the biggest downfall yeah do wish that they have better battery life and I wish the lid was a little bit tighter on the closer or a little bit better more powerful magnet to close the lid shut so they don't open very easily in your pocket but they won't fall out you have to pull them out of the out of the socket so that's a plus but I just want to see lid had a little bit better tighter fitting closer. But overall I mean for the half a day that I had it and I've used it 50 bucks you can't go wrong with these I'll probably end up buying me another two or three four pairs just to have around the house and leave one of my car you know to keep charged up for when I go to work or whatever if I forget one I got it so yeah that's but I'll probably end up buying this for a buddy of mine for headset he's been wanting a newer headset and so yeah I'll re-update this audio here in the next month or two and see what happens so y'all know...

I normally enjoy skullcandys products, but this one has hands down been the worst experience I have had with any product of this kind. Lets start off with the initial problems right out of the box. 1. The left earbud would not turn on even when trying to manually turn it on. 2. The left and right earbud had spotty charging at times. 3. The case had spotty charging even with the included chord. 4. The included chord barley worked, even between different charging boxes. Now for the problems that came not even one full day later! 1. The case would not hold a charge and drained while on the charger to 0%. 2. The right earbud would not fully charge above 60%. 3. The right earbuds controls did not work properly Over all my experience with this product has been downright awful, the sound quality while the right earbud worked was half decent, the price was low (Probably for a good reason), and the feel was not great but it didn't fall out of my ear. Normally, with skullcandy from my experience, the quality is good while having some issues with wear and tear after a couple months of daily use, these however couldn't even handle a single day of use. Take your money elsewhere or better yet wait a little bit and get something better. I'm returning them asap and using the money to get something better.

These are... okay. They sound all right and the batteries last a long time. Complaints I have are that they often don't disconnect from your phone after you put them in the case. Also, the rubber earpieces easily slide around on the plastic and either come off of the earpiece or make it difficult to close the door on the case which is annoying. You have to realign them almost every time you put them away.

Indeed it is a bit frustrating to pair the earbuds, but should be no problem after fully charging them where as I found the problem of 1 fully charged and the other not being charged 1% before syncing both earbuds that’s where I believe everyone struggled pairing the earbuds. The sound quality is 8/10 but after adjusting EQ on my phone setting 9.5/10. Skullcandy still lives up to its potential and I’m glad I bought these! I wanted the Indy fuels, but I feel I would get the same results! I will post another review after taking them for a 5k run and will let you know of its battery life. The Overall quality & build & size of these earbuds are 10/10.

So like other comments and reviews the only complaint I have is the charging box doesn’t close all the way with the headphones in them, and I have the smallest covers and buds on them, but it doesn’t make a difference to them charging so it’s fine I don’t really care. I got these on sale for 40$ for Black Friday definitely worth the price. The sound is incredible and the noise canceling is great even though these aren’t ANC. The extra 5$ for the protection was worth it as well as they cover everything even if it’s your fault for the breakage or anything. So at 45$ plus tax these were definitely worth it. As most others have said here movie mode is definitely the best sounding and has the best bass/noise cancelation. I didn’t have any issues pairing it to my iPhone but the Skullcandy app definitely helped a bit for me to understand what to do and also tells you what mode you have them on and how much battery they have left. I also have the tile app downloaded for if I lose them. The touch sensors are a bit annoying but it’ll just be something I have to get used to since I only just unboxed and started using them. 5/5 stars definitely because of price. But I doubt I would’ve ever bought them at their original price of 80$. If you plan on buying these I’d wait until they have some kind of sale. And they are not worth getting off the Skullcandy website itself, gives you no option for a protection plan past the 2-year warranty that I doubt covers replacement if it’s your fault (I’m not certain though) and it charges 10$ minimum for shipping. Love the Skullcandy brand for awhile now but was definitely more cost affective to order off of amazon. 10/10 would buy again. Love these! Just wish the cool Strada tri-color version was on sale as well! Sadly they were not. I love the mint green though! I’m not sure how great the battery life is but so far it seems quite acceptable. As they were at 70% right out the box and the charging case was 75% charged as well. I’ve been using them for about an hour at full volume listening to music and they’ve only gone down to 50%. 4.9/5 stars overall! Very happy customer. Only issue seems to be the charging case not closing all the way but there’s no like clip option it just closes. Oh well. Still very happy with them.