JBL Live Free 2 TWS - True wireless Noise Cancelling earbuds - Silver

My cheap set of earbuds broke, after four years of heavy usage. I decided to splurge, to spoil myself, and purchased these -- after all, JBL makes great speakers, it makes sense they'd made great earbuds, too. This is incorrect. The case is small and slippery. I fumble to get it in and out of my pocket, and once I do, it slips so easily from my hands that I've dropped them several times. There's barely any physical indicator where to open them, so I have to be physically looking at the case in order to open it. The plastic is cheap, and the hinge mechanism that keeps them together is loose. The earbuds are slippery, too, again, I've dropped them. I have no problems with low dexterity. Sometimes if I open the case, whip out an earbud, and close the case too fast, the earbud will remain in a purgatory of saying it's connected, but not playing any music, and not registering any controls like pushing once for start, twice for skip, etc. The sound quality is good, but not good enough to justify the price and the ongoing struggle. I ended up purchasing a second pair of earbuds, cheap, dupes of the old ones I had since the old ones had been discontinued. I found myself reaching for the cheap pair more often than the expensive pair. They're simply more trouble than they're worth. I will be returning these, disappointed and frustrated. I miss when companies cared about the products they sold, instead of caring all about the money. Also, using generative AI to prompt your users to leave good reviews is a bad business practice. Maybe JBL makes good speakers, but I certainly won't be purchasing them.

Useless. Can't even get them to connnect or reboot or anything. In the bin.