If you're looking for an alternative to in-ear buds, but don't want to go with full-sized over-the-headphones the Plantronics Backbeat 500 pack a pleasing punch to the ear. The Backbeat 500 got your back with good beats for barely any green.
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Good budget headphones are hard to come by but the Plantronics BackBeat 500 FIT are a great value. The P2i water-repellent coating can handle a literal downpour, and their small footprint makes it easy to forget that you're wearing...
Plantronics Backbeat Fit 500 is an on-the-ear sports headphone designed for sweaty athletes who love music over grunts.I say grunts because these on-the-ear memory foam phones provide a reasonable level of noise isolation without clamping too heavily on...
Lightweight and feature-packed, the BackBeat 500s are a respectable budget offering – but the odd design and lack of decent mid/treble performance stops them being the best in this...
If you're looking for an alternative to in-ear buds, but don't want to go with full-sized over-the-headphones the Plantronics Backbeat 500 pack a pleasing punch to the ear. The Backbeat 500 got your back with good beats for barely any green.
Plantronics may be best known for their communication headsets, but if the BackBeat 500 wireless headphones are any indication of the direction they are headed, then it's time to start paying attention to their whole line of headphones. Sure the styling...
If price has always been an issue for you when considering wireless headphones, this under $100 model should make it easier to consider without worrying that you're getting “a cheap pair of headphones.”Grade 4 stars (out of five)Join the Network World...
The $79 Plantronics BackBeat 500 is a handsome and well built headphone; a nice example of what can be done by a quality manufacturer even at this low price. Comfort is quite good, but you may have to bend the aluminum adjustment arms a bit to get there...
The BackBeat 500 headphones are great entry-level, bluetooth on-ear headphones. For $80 you get decent sound, sturdy-enough build, connectivity, and amazing Plantronics-styled battery life. If you're willing to shell out some more bucks, you can go...
I am not an on-ear headphones person so it's difficult for me to review them objectively without saying how much I dislike the idea and pressure they exert on my ears. Oddly, that's not the case with the BackBeat 500, the newest release from...
It was already happening but Apple removing the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7 advanced the case for wireless headphones significantly. Plantronics set out to make a pair of affordable wireless? headphones that didn't make you compromise. The...