Although Amazon managed to both beat the AirPods Pro to the market and substantially undercut Apple’s high-end true wireless earbuds with the $130 noise-cancelling Echo Buds a little over a year ago, these bad boys didn’t exactly prove incredibly successful.
The e-commerce giant was not ranked among the world’s top five TWS (true wireless stereo) vendors of Q2 2020, for instance, as the Echo Buds earned mixed reviews from both tech blogs and early adopters. The diminutive headphones still sit at a mediocre 3.9-star average score based on more than 13,000 Amazon customer ratings, which is a far cry from other Echo-branded devices new and old.
