CMF Clip Pro Review: An Affordable Challenger in the Clip-Style Earbuds Craze
It’s all about clips these days, and not just the kind you can’t escape on TikTok. Clip-style wireless earbuds are arguably just as trendy as bullsh*t social media marketing, and we’ve gotten a lot of big-name entrants to prove it. There’s Sony LinkBuds Clip, Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, JBL Soundgear Clips, Shokz OpenDots 2, and potentially one from Samsung in the works.
- ▪It’s all about clips these days, and not just the kind you can’t escape on TikTok.
- ▪Clip-style wireless earbuds are arguably just as trendy as bullsh*t social media marketing, and we’ve gotten a lot of big-name entrants to prove it.
- ▪There’s Sony LinkBuds Clip, Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, JBL Soundgear Clips, Shokz OpenDots 2, and potentially one from Samsung in the works.
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It’s all about clips these days, and not just the kind you can’t escape on TikTok. Clip-style wireless earbuds are arguably just as trendy as bullsh*t social media marketing, and we’ve gotten a lot of big-name entrants to prove it. There’s Sony LinkBuds Clip, Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, JBL Soundgear Clips, Shokz OpenDots 2, and potentially one from Samsung in the works. Though U.K.-based audio/mobile company Nothing doesn’t have a clip quite yet, CMF, its budget-conscious subsidiary, just launched its first in the category—the $99 CMF Clip Pro. In a lot of ways, it’s business as usual in the clip-style wireless earbuds playbook, but there are a few twists here that make it feel like a worthy addition to the open wireless earbuds universe.
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