

With just a thin blue wire connecting each ear speaker, these Sonar underwater headphones from H2O don’t have a sturdy headset like most of the other headphones on this list. Just remember to dry the headphones before charging.īluetooth can only work up to 4 inches underwater


Despite the almost £140/$149 price tag, if you’re predominately a swimmer, and not looking for headphones you can take calls on, for example, we think these are a real investment. We found them really comfortable to wear in the water - they’re best paired with a swimming cap and goggles - and they also stayed put on our ears (even when doing tumble turns). The other two rectangular buttons with a ‘+’ and a ‘–’ control the volume and also let you skip a song, too. There’s also a very tiny button tucked away with a small ‘M’ on - this is for putting songs on repeat or shuffle mode and also switching between ‘general’ and ‘swimming’ mode. The circular button in the middle is the power button - just press and hold it for three seconds and you’ll be greeted with a ‘Welcome to AfterShokz’ message, followed by ‘Battery high/Battery medium/Battery low/Charge me’, hold for another three seconds to turn it off.

To use the OpenMove, there are three small buttons on the righthand speaker. But you can at least create folders and organize the mp3 files. Adding music does feel a little old school, as you physically have to download any songs or audiobooks you want to listen to onto your computer and then drag and drop songs onto the OpenMove’s hard drive. Setting up the OpenSwim is fairly straightforward - you simply click the headset into the USB charging cradle, plug it into power and a small LED light pops on, turning red when it’s charging and blue when it’s fully charged. The packaging is pretty smart - and even comes with a swimming cap, swimming earplugs, and a small neoprene bag to store the headphones and USB charger.
