There's a new contender for the title of best true wireless earbuds. Sneaking in just before CES 2022, Jabra has unveiled the Jabra Elite 4 Active noise-cancelling earbuds. As the name suggests they are for more active users who want to listen in the gym or during a run. At £119.99 they're considerably cheaper than Apple's AirPods 3, and from what we've heard of them, they are more than capable of keeping you musically satisfied outside of the gym.
Specs-wise, the Jabra Elite 4 Active are impressive for the price. There's active noise cancellation – something the AirPods lack – and IP57 dust and water resistance, HearThrough mode so you can hear your surroundings when you want to and up to 28 hours of playback.
Jabra Elite 4 Active: Price and availability
The Jabra Elite 4 Active is available to buy now in the UK at Amazon for £119.99. The buds are currently available in three colours: Black, Mint and Navy.
US and AUS price and availability TBC.
These Elites could be hard to beat
In our Jabra Elite 3 review we said that they were some of the best true wireless earbuds for the money, with find-my-earbuds and Alexa built in. What we didn't like was the lack of active noise cancelling and the lack of manual EQ – and those features are both in the Jabra Elite 4. Jabra always deliver excellent true wireless earbuds, and on paper, these one look like a better buy than the AirPods 3, especially if you intend to run and build your guns in them.
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Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).
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