HONOR CHOICE Earbuds S7

Design, comfort and battery life

The Honor S7 has a rather unique egg-like charging box. The case is nice and compact, scratch resistant and has a sturdy case lid.

A single LED-light on the front of the case indicates the remaining case battery. It could be green for quite a while: the case can recharge the earbuds four time fully before needing new power via USB-C.

The earbuds are easy to pick out of the case and just as easy to hang in your ears. The big mound on the earpieces provides a comfortable and snug enough fit.

You may or may not like it, but the shiny metallic-plastic finish definitely draws attention. These look more expensive than they are.

Battery life is good. The Honor S7 provides 7,5 hours of playtime on a single charge. That’s the score with Active Noise Cancelling off. It gets around 5 hours per charge with ANC on.

As the earbuds are IP54 waterproof rated, they should withstand dust, sweat and rainfall.

Controls, connectivity and app support

The Honor S7 controls by pinching the stem. A single-tap triggers play/pause, a double-tap skips a song, and a triple returns a song on either earbud. Holding the stems lets you switch between Active Noise Cancelling on and off.

You can activate volume controls on the earbuds via the Honor AI Space app on iPhone and Android, but only at the cost of the ANC switching.

Unfortunately, the double-taps and triple-taps aren’t always easy to trigger. The feedback feels a bit wonky.

Music automatically pauses when you take an earbud out, and resumes playing once you put it back in again. It works well, but you can also turn the function off via the app – that’s great.

Standard connectivity is good: the Honor S7 has a reliable Bluetooth connection up to 10 meters away from your device.

 The Honor S7 also has dual-device multipoint connection. You can connect it up to two devices at the same time. Switching between devices works well: pause on one device, play on the other – or automatically when you get a phone call.