1MORE ColorBuds True Wireless In-Ear Headphones Review

A Closer Look & Performance

Well, there’s no hiding the fact that we have the Spearmint Green model here is there? It’s not my first choice of colours, I must admit, although I do have a t-shirt somewhere that would match it rather well. They’re also available in Sakura Ping, Twilight Gold and Black. That being said, there aren’t enough quality headphones out there with a braver selection of colours, so it’s pretty cool to see these options.

The case is a really clean and simple design too, with minimal branding on the top where it just reads “1MORE”. Clean, simple, stylish.

It’s also very compact, and fairly lightweight too. The whole thing clocks in at just 40.3g and that’s WITH the headphones inside, it’s just 32.1g without them. There’s a small groove cut to allow for easier opening, and a tiny LED indicator there too for charging.

Around the back, it’s a small hinge, and the USB Type-C charging port. Again, it’s just a very simple and easy to use design.

It’s not too thick either, and could easily be stored in your jacket pocket without much fuss. However, it’s just as well suited to being kept in a handbag or backpack.

On the bottom, it has a tough rubber grip, so if you place it on a nice table or desk, it isn’t going to scratch up the surface.

The lid is held shut with a fairly strong magnetic lock. It doesn’t seem like it’ll just pull open in your bad. A firm pull gets it open, revealing those lovely minty looking headphones.

A small green indicator light on the front lets us know they’re charged. This will be red if the power level was low. Plus, there’s a small button in the middle you can hit to trigger a battery check update.

The buds lock into the dock with magnetic mounts too. Just drop them vaguely into the holes and they’ll snap into their mounts and start charging immediately. It’s super easy to use really. As you can see, there are three little pins in there to connect to the ear buds.

There’s a plastic film on the buds too, to stop them charging while they were in the retail box. Obviously, you’ll need to remove this or they’ll never charge. They were almost fully charged out of the box though, which is great.

As for the charging dock, it features a 410 mAh battery of its own, which the earbuds have 55 mAh batteries each. It takes just under 90 mins to charge the dock, and just over an hour to fully charge the headphones in the dock. That’s enough for 6 hours usage, or 22 hours usage of total charge cycles before it all goes flat. However, you get 2h ours charge for 15mins and get another 2 hours run time out of the headphones, which is great!

Everything is spearmint green on these funky little numbers. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the colour if I’m honest. However, they’re just different enough that they’re starting to grow on me. I quite like the gold ones myself, but that’s not too important. The colour match on the main body and the earbuds is great though, very uniform looking overall.

The backs of the buds have a more metallic pearl finish to them that diffused light thanks to is softer sandblasted finish. It does look pretty cool though. As you can likely tell, they are a closed-back design, but that’s pretty common for in-ear buds anyway.

As for the ergonomics, they’ve made a lot of changes here. A lot more of the earbud sides inside your ear this time. They’ve moved the drivers inward, and everything is very strangely shaped. However, I think they’re also the best fitting in-ears I’ve tested. I quite like the Creative Outlier Gold, they don’t look like they’re a good fit, but they are. However, I think these are even better. They sit low, deep and secure, and I’d say they’re the first set of True Wireless that I would wear to the gym… if I ever went. However, on my more rigorous walks and my jogging, they stayed in my ear better than any I’ve ever tested.

I think a lot of that comes down to that soft touch grip like coating, and their low weight and low centre of gravity. A really weird looking design, I’ll admit, but it works.

There are some clever infrared sensors on the inside here too. Simply remove them from your ears and they’ll pause your media for you. Put them back in and it’ll resume. It’s a simple yet really welcome feature, I like it!

You’ll see two pinholes on each earbud too. One on the side, one on the back. These are the ENC microphones. While not for the music, that would be ANC, these mute background noise from your microphone so when using them for calls, it rings through really clear.

It works well too, I used these for a call while out for a walk and traffic and wind noise was scrubbed from the mix really well.

As for the drivers themselves, they’re pretty decent, but lacked the wow factor of their more expensive models. Albeit, that’s no big surprise. They’re extremely clear and I think a little bright sounding. You can EQ a little of the treble down or add a little bass if that’s how you like your music. However, they favour clarity rather than raw thumping power. For listening to your playlist while out for a run, and making a lot of calls, they’re pretty fantastic.