A single earpiece (aka Bluetooth headsets) that sticks to your ears just works for calls. Bluetooth earbuds offer stereo sound for both calls and listening to music. While picking a Bluetooth headset is an easy task, picking a pair of Bluetooth earbuds for phone calls is trickier.
So What Are the Best?
The neckband bluetooth earbuds are the winner in this category because of their long battery life, solid Bluetooth connection and high quality calls. Some true wireless earbuds are also in our top list though their battery life is shorter, only 5 hours for calls.
Though you also have other choices for true wireless earbuds, regular Bluetooth earbuds.
1 Anker Liberty Air 2 – If you don’t like the wire dangling
Having long stem like Airpods allows the mic placed close to user’s mouth so it captures the voice better. The Air 2 are comfortable and block out the noise. All these combined it delivers a good call quality.
The Anker Soundcore Life P2 however have a better call quality than the Air 2. The Life P2 features CVC 8.0 Noise Reduction, adding more clarity and background noise reduction capacity.
2 OnePlus Bullets Wireless 2 – Call performance is stellar
The form factor – neckbank is always great for anyone who often has to take calls, once the call ends you just let them dangle down.
The Bullets Wireless 2 get 10 hours of talk time in just 10 minutes of charging. And if not for calls, it offers clear sound, strong bass.
3Jabra Elite 25e – Around the neck Bluetooth headphones
The Jabra Elite 25e is a solid Bluetooth headphone. The call quality is good with the mic is placed on the right neckband and the earbuds are noise-isolating – you will hear the caller’s voice more clearly than un-sealed headsets.
4BeatsX – hybrid neckband and Bluetooth earbuds
BeatsX are rated as best wireless earbuds for iphone X, for the phone calls they never miss the ranking.
5Bose QuietControl 30 – neckband bluetooth headphones with Active noise cancelling feature
The noise cancelling feature is a plus for calls.
6 Apple Airpods – True wireless earbuds with Apple’s W1 Bluetooth chip
If you have a iPhone, the Airpods would be a Bluetooth headset for it. This pair only work great if you make phone calls in quite places, because earpods are unsealed earbuds they aren’t good at noise-isolating.
The Airpods come with an nifty charing case, once the earbud pops out of the case, they will automatically pair with your phones and ready for a quality calls.
7Sennheiser HD1 – Quality, authentic leather neckband
8Jabra Elite 65t – the true wireless experience
Last but not least is the Plantronics Voyager UC, weigh over its price tag 300$ you have business-grade call quality.
Also consider…
Jabra Halo Smart – Another neckband option for phone calls
AfterShokz Trekz Air – Bone conduction headphones with headband
If you work in an open space, where sometimes you need to hear what your co-workers speak to you, then a Bone conduction Bluetooth earbuds are the best option. Because this type of headphones won’t fit into your ear canals they fit on the back of your ear instead and well while you are on phone you still get the idea what your co-workers talks about.
The sound for calls is crystal clear and bright, though for music it may not hit the low-ends you would love.
While AfterShokz Trekz Air are great for calls, if you are a business man its seems not to be a good pick because of sturdy design.
Airpods Pro: Apple redesigned the Airpods technically with Active Noise Cancelling feature. Airpods Pro offers better call performance than Airpods – with three microphones, one of which is to filter out the background noise such as wind noises and the noise isolating design with eartips ensures users have a clear voice from callers.
1MORE DUAL ANC BT Neckband Headphones (Model: 1MORE E1004BA) with ANC they cancel out the noise so you will hear better caller’s voice. Quick charging is a plus and the dual drives have better sound than any sets in this post.
The headphone also offer wired-listening mode (Type C to 3.5mm Cable you plug into your phones) just in case you hear the pop – the battery is low, use the cable to continue listening.
Plantronics Voyager 6200 UC, the company lists the product as “Business-Ready Bluetooth Neckband Headset with Earbuds” that I think it’s ready for call while your are listening to music. The call performance is good, and it vibrates when a you get a call you can also hear your own voice
What defines a great pair of Bluetooth earbuds for phones calls?
- Mic noise cancelling technology: this integrated tech enables the ability of filtering out the ambient noise of the mic, so once you talk the mic only captures your voice, the caller won’t hear any other noises. Whether you’re at metro station airports, busy streets background sound such as people taking, windy sound will be suppressed. Qualcomm® applied their cVc™noise cancellation tech in their Bluetooth chipset.
- Sound quality: if Bluetooth earbuds sounded good for listening to music so do they for the calls
- Noise-isolation is also important: if the earbuds don’t seal in the ear, the sound leaks and you won’t hear clearly especially in noisy places such as open space offices.
- Comfort and battery life: If you often make calls, wearing earbuds comfortably is a big deal, and they won’t turn of while you are on calls.
Other than phone calls, you may take calls on Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack, Skype or IP. That’s when the call quality is varied – either better or worse.
True wireless vs neckband earbuds which one have better call performance. I lean toward to Anker, they are better – no cable, weightless and good sound.