TOZO A1 Mini Wireless Earbuds Bluetooth 5.3 in Ear Light-Weight Headphones Built-in Microphone, IPX5 Waterproof, Immersive Premium Sound Long Distance Connection Headset with Charging Case, Black

I was on the fence about purchasing these, despite the astronomical amount of 5-star reviews… I bought these to replace my Tozo T10 earbuds, as they started failing (I put it off as long as I could!). I purchased them in early 2019, so that says something about the longevity vs. price. Verdict? Best $20 I’ve ever spent. If the A1 Mini aren’t the buds for you, seriously, go check out the T10 (356,867 reviews as I’m writing this).

These are smaller than the T10 model, but that’s okay! They’re comfortable and secure in the ear, and the sound quality is pretty good – I have only listened to podcasts with them so far; haven’t tried the quality with music. They’re not totally noise-cancelling, though. Honestly, the T10 has better noise cancellation. HOWEVER, I say that before I’ve changed the size of the bud cover (you know, that silicone part that goes in the ear). Maybe the size that’s on there is a little too small for my ears (thus, letting more noise get in), but I misplaced the box with the different sizes, so I’ll update again when I find them. The case is small and sleek, and also feels very secure. It makes a satisfying slap noise when you close them, and there’s resistance when you open the case (the magnet is strong!). I love that there’s the lighted front to tell you how much battery is left before you need to charge the case, too. Set up was stupid easy. Let them charge, put them in, let your device find them, DONE. They also connect quickly when you take them out of the case. That’s a huge bonus for me. I purchased the light green, and it’s a very soft mint color.

Overall, these are a GREAT buy and a super quality product. Really, any Tozo product that you purchase is going to most likely be really good. Like I said, this is my second pair in almost 4 years and they have served their purpose well (and took a heck of a beating in those years, too), and I certainly got my moneys’ worth.

Just received these wireless earbuds and the set-up was easy. The variety of sizing for the silicone bud covers is helpful as I have small ear canals. The controls are easy to figure out with the guide given. Music sounds great! Microphone works and calls are clear, and I come through clearly to the person I called. Overall, great buy and value for the money. So far, so good.

For the price, these earbuds are amazing. The audio quality is pretty good, and the shape of the earbuds fit great in my ears. Connecting to my phone is quick and easy. I’ve been using these earbuds for two years now and am currently on my second pair. The problem is that, because I use these earbuds quite frequently, the sound quality and volume will decrease dramatically after about a year. So when the earbuds were new, I could have my phone volume turned up about halfway and hear my music great, but now after a year I have to have my volume turned up all the way to hear. The volume of my first pair got so low that it was hard for me to hear, so I replaced them, and my current pair is also getting to the point where I’ll probably need new ones soon. After two pairs I’m going to upgrade to a more expensive, hopefully longer-lasting pair of earbuds, but these have worked . For the price, these earbuds wonderfully and are definitely worth the purchase.

UPDATE: My original review complained about the controls, which I found difficult to use initially. After several days, I’ve gotten better at tapping and holding, and am having greater success in controlling the output. In addition, I switched from Podcast Player to Pocket Casts (on a Samsung phone), and now I’m able to double-tap to go forwards and backwards in the same episode, which is what I really wanted. (I care much less about moving to the next/prior episode). My only remaining complaint is that whatever I was last playing still starts automatically the second I remove the earbuds from their case. I now just single tap one of them to pause the playback, and then try to screw them into my ears without accidentally starting them up again (and that’s hard).
However, I feel that for $16, this is now definitely worth 5 stars.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Let me start by saying that these are a good buy. For under $16, I wasn’t expecting deluxe earbuds. The sound is fine for podcasts, which is what I listen to.
What puzzles me is that everyone else is very happy with the controls, while I find them extremely difficult to use. I have them configured (via the Tozo app) so that one tap on either side should start or stop the podcast. Neither earbud reliably registers the tap every time. Double-tapping the right bud skips to the next episode, and that works OK most of the time. However, double-tapping the left bud, which should go to the previous episode, does not work at all (I’ve tried it from various places in my queue.). I had to disable triple-tapping on both sides–it’s supposed to activate the Voice Assistant–because the buds didn’t seem to distinguish between double- and triple-tapping. Long pressing the buds to change the volume is finicky as well. And there’s no tapping option to skip ahead or go back in the same episode.
After spending half an hour testing all the taps and experimenting with different configurations via the Tozo app to see if I could make the taps work better, I gave up, and decided just to use the phone’s podcast app for all these functions.
The other thing that’s weird is that when I take the buds out of their case, they immediately begin to play the podcast that I listened to most recently, EVEN if I exited the podcast and closed the podcast app (I use Podcast Player) on my phone. And EVEN though the podcast app is configured to not allow external devices to start playing. So by the time I get the earbuds out and screwed into my ears, I have to back up 30 seconds to catch what I just missed.
So those are my kvetches. Having said all that, they’re a good buy for the money. (I’ll update this review if they don’t last long). And I really appreciate the slick storage/charging case, and the fact that they came with multiple sizes of earbud tips.

I don’t understand! I bought a newer version of these ear buds just a couple days ago, yet when I came to review them it brought me into my old review of over a year ago? What’s up with that Amazon? Anyway, as you can see below this paragraph is my year-ish ago review. These newer ear buds are far better then the older ones. They have great sound, easy to pair with all my devices (including my gaming PC), and the touch/tap commands are easy to follow – they don’t always work, but they’re easy to follow. For example, it comes with them set in a “bell/beep” type setting for indicating things like connecting, power low warning, etc. The instructions say to tap three times to get it to set to voice prompts (which I prefer, as the first time they ran down on power it was apparently sending me odd beep sounds. I paid the beeps no attention because I thought the beeps were coming from my game. I only figured it out after the buds shut off). So I tapped three times on the right bud – nothing, I tapped three times on the left – still nothing. I tapped 3 times again on the right and heard a beep. Since the instructions don’t appear to say what the beeps mean, I have no idea if I was successful. Including even a brief mention of what the beeps mean would get nearly a five star review from me. As it is, I’ll just have to wait and see if voice prompts are even possible with these. Just a suggestion, since the previous two types of these ear buds came with voice prompts already set, you might consider making these newer ones also come with voice prompts already set so you don’t unnecessarily confuse and thus annoy your repeat customers. Over all, for the price (was on sale for around $15 U.S.) these are pretty good little buds – not the best for sure, but well worth even the normal $30ish they ask at the time of this review.

OLD UPDATE: I finally found the brand I had been looking for and bought a second set. The quality is great and the battery life is about eight hours. Even so, this isn’t about those ear buds, it’s about these TOZO buds. Not long after I left my original review the company reached out to me and presented an offer to make up for my opinion of their ear buds. (My previous review below included only three stars, I would like to note that I know how this update might look considering what follows, but I assure you I am not bought, I speak my real mind in truth. That’s just how I was raised. In any case, just read on and decide for yourselves.) They really like their product and wanted a second Chance to get a better opinion from me. Perhaps the pair of ear buds I originally got from them were just a bad set, I don’t know. Anyway, they offered to replace the set I bought for free, also they offered a different set for free if I didn’t want to try the first set again. I thanked them for the offer, but I found the original brand I’d been looking for (as noted below/above) and didn’t need any more ear buds. However, about a week later they again reached out with the same offer adding that they really just wanted to make things right because they work hard to make sure all their customers are satisfied with their products. In truth, it seems their customer care services are very motivated, they do go out of their way to satisfy their customers. By my wife’s suggestion I took them up on their offer for a different pair, the TOZO model T9. Instead of being small and hiding in the ear, these have a tail that resembles some Apple brand buds. Once I received them I charged them up and tried them out. They were much better than the first ones I bought, sound quality was very clear, I could even understand the voice in the buds telling me when they were connected. Most impressive though was the length of time the batteries appeared to last, I started using them about 12:30 p.m., and they finally ran out of juice at around 10:30 p.m. That was with non stop use! So I would like to add two things here. First, this company really prides itself on taking care of their customers. Second, I am especially glad my wife talked me into taking them up on their offer, because these second set of ear buds really met the great reviews that convinced me to try these in the first place.

(Previous review:)
I had bought a different pair for about the same price as these and was so impressed that I decided to buy a second pair. Since I couldn’t find the ones I was looking for I decided to try these based on so many positive reviews. After receiving these, charged them up, set them up, used them for roughly four hours and the right ear bud ran out of power fallowed shortly by the left one. The other brand I used might have spoiled me a bit since they easily last a full eight hours before needing recharged. These also do not have the sound quality as my other pair even though they both were under $20. Finally, the announcer on this pair that tells you when you’ve hooked up to a Bluetooth connection, or when the ear buds need recharged is really hard for me to understand. Sorry but the accent is simply too distorted to make out clearly. I’ll use these as an backup set for now, but I’m really going to look harder to find the brand I originally purchased since, for about the same price, they are far superior in every way.

Your milage may be better than mine, but I won’t be buying these again.