Customer Ratings & Reviews

Buy these, if you need to be aware when you are outdoors. Shokz are the current best solution for outdoor awareness. You can pay more for other models but I found the OpenMove to be outstanding and unlike the more expensive models does not require a proprietary charger. As someone who is very active in the outdoors with walks, dog walks, and even jogging at times, I am a big believer in staying alert for cyclists, scooter-ists, and traffic. I have used a number of wireless earbuds on my walks in a variety of ways to stay alert. I have worn the one bud in one ear, worn the earbuds that do not seal in the ear, and used the transparency mode of earbuds that seal the ears. Each of these methods offered some effectiveness but had downsides. The one earbud made me feel like I was hearing limited on one side. The open earbuds were good (Jabra 45e) but with the sound right at the ear tended to overpower ambient surrounding sounds still. The Jabra 45e also tended to hurt my ear for some reason. I would rate the open ear buds the second best method still. Finally, I just don't find transparent method transparent enough and still find myself being surprised by people coming up on me. This brings me to the Shokz Open Move. I thought of the whole bone conduction technology as a gimmick. I also read of the poor sound quality so I never considered them. On a recent trip, I was in an airport and visited one of the headphone stores that had a display of the Shokz headphones to try. I tried them and to my surprise I really liked them. The airport with all of its crowd noise and announcements gave the perfect background to test the models. My ears were open and the music was clear and understandable, and frankly more than good enough. The vibrations were not annoying and the sound was clear. Shokz ran a sale shortly after I returned home and I picked up the basic model, the OpenMove on sale at BestBuy. I chose the OpenMove because bone conduction is not going to replace my Beats Fit Pro when I am seriously listening to music, so I did not need or expect audiophile music so did not see value in the upgrades. The second and truly just as big a reason, it charges by USB-C so no need for proprietary chargers. My OpenMove Shokz I use daily on my walks. The sound is fine for music and for podcasts or Sirius XM programming. I am the most aware of people, bikes, dogs, traffic, etc., than any other earbud solution. Here is the rationale for my score, 4 for sound quality because they do not seal the ears for immersion. But 5 for being open like I need when I am outdoors. 5 for Battery Life. I have never run out of battery after a week or so, I will charge them out of good habit. But I am usually out one to two hours a day although they might not be playing music or a podcast the whole time. 4 for connectivity. This is nuanced. The Shokz always connect immediately to my iPhone 13 Pro. I have never had an issue playing music or a podcast. What I have had is on a few incoming phone calls the call did not come through on the Shokz and instead answered on my phone. It has happened a few times and it has not dropped a call just shifted to the phone. Of all the different earbuds I have bought and tried, I now used these the most.

Overall, the OpenMove is a decent set of headphones, and I’m keeping the set simply because I prefer the bone conductive style of headphones, but I'm still disappointed in the sound quality. I previously owned a pair of the Trekz headphones (a previous model offered by Shokz) and was very satisfied with them. Unfortunately, the OpenMove just don't have the same audio quality as the Trekz. This model doesn't handle bass well at all and the audio gets distorted with music that has heavy bass. I also found that turning the set on and off is rather difficult; you have to press the power button just right to get the set to respond properly, otherwise it just tells you the power level repeatedly. I also found connectivity to be an issue at times; several times I found the audio cutting in and out when the device the headphones were connected to was within 5 feet.

The sound is reasonable, but set-up was not so easy. They keep disconnecting from my Garmin, so I'm constantly re-paring them. Not as easy as I'd hoped.

Good product, but I had to connect twice before it would work.

the wrost device ever... please do not purchase this cheap device if you connect with a device it doesnt conect to any other one never ever again, waist of money

Worked great for about 2 months, now it won’t connect to any of my devices .