Jabra is perhaps the very first brand name that comes to mind when someone looks to buy headsets that, well, work at work. Jabra has a whole collection of such audio products with many overlapping in features and capabilities. The Evolve2 Buds joins them with a familiar configuration, adding to a series of Evolve2 audio products.

The Evolve2 Buds arrive in a rather elegant sustainable packaging. Flipping open the box, you'll first off see the case with the buds inside and a set of extra ear tips. The only other significant item here is a charging cable which you probably won't use, opting instead for your phone's cable and charger. The case is in a smooth premium plastic material which immediately shows up fingerprints, unfortunately. It looks more rectangular and wide than most cases. The reason for this is that there's a little space taken up inside by a little adaptor or dongle which connects to your laptop and boosts the Bluetooth range and connectivity so you can step away from the desk when you want to without losing your call. The adaptor sits between the two buds and you just need to lift it out and connect it to your laptop's USB-C slot.

As you open the case, its LED and the buds light up and with a long-press change colour in readiness to pair, which is done through Bluetooth settings in the usual painless way. There's a Jabra Sound+ companion app that you must download. Chances are you'll be led immediately to a firmware update, but there's a lot else besides to be configured using the app.

All the controls

As is typical for the more full-featured companion apps, Sound+ needs to first find your device. After that, you can get in to take two tests, one for fit and another for noise cancellation. With each of these you will be presented with a set of frequencies and must confirm hearing them. Once done, your profile is set and sound quality as well as noise suppression level will be tuned to your own hearing and what you're doing. From the app (in addition to presses on the buds themselves) you can manually choose noise cancellation category and level and you can fiddle with the equaliser. There are some pretty good presets such as Bass and Treble boost, Energise, Neutral etc. Also one for Speech, as this is a work-centric product. You can also create custom sound profiles and save them.

A lot of further control is possible through the app. You can set the actions to be triggered with the buttons on the buds (one for each) and choose to do things like activate mono mode. You can use one bud at a time, which is more comfortable for many people, and use multi-point pairing - useful for those who use two phones.

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