One of the best advances in earbuds has been the outright elimination of cables in true wireless earbuds—or at least, the minimization of them to just a short one in other wireless earbuds. Another is good active noise cancelling, which makes wireless earbuds incredibly useful for travel

With a neckband headset, you’re still free to move around wirelessly from your device, while always staying close to your earbuds

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