Lucyd - Lyte Voyager Aviator Wireless Connectivity Audio Sunglasses - Voyager

The Lucyd Lyte Voyager Aviator Bluetooth Sunglasses offer a decent blend of style, functionality, and high-tech features that aim to provide an enhancing experience for the wearer. Out of the box, the product boasts a plethora of accessories including a cleaning cloth, soft case, hard case, magnetic charger for both sides, and a charging block – a thoughtful consideration indicating a thorough user-centric design approach. The instructions provided are straightforward and useful, covering essentials like operation for music, calls, voice assistant (compatible with Siri or Google), pairing, and charging. A significant measure of the product's quality is its simple yet solid build which exudes a feel of robustness. The glasses provide a good, secure fit for a medium-size head, though the adaptability to larger head sizes could be put to question. These sunglasses also have nice aesthetics, seamlessly combining contemporary trends with classic appeal. Connectivity-wise, the sunglasses excel. The Bluetooth reaches up to 100 feet, comfortably covering a 1300 sq ft apartment, and pairs easily with mobile devices. The estimated playtime is a substantial 12 hours on a single charge, highlighting practicality for day-long use. The speaker and microphone embedded in the arms produce clear sound, but the bass might leave audiophiles wanting. Despite this, the glasses allow an immersive yet safe sonic experience, keeping external sounds audible as well. Worth noting is the marginal sound leakage which might be noticeable by someone sitting right next to you. Taking these sunglasses on a run is a pleasantly surprising experience - they stay firm, even during prolonged physical activity. Furthermore, they connect easily to electronic devices like my Garmin watch. There are easy-to-operate buttons for volume control, play/pause, and track skipping embedded on each side - a testament to the thoughtful design to cater to active lifestyles. In terms of the visual aspect, the polarized sunglasses are highly effective at sun-blocking and allowing clear vision. The call quality is commendably clear, adding versatility to the glasses' functionality, making them suitable for various outdoor activities or driving. A noteworthy feature is the IP56 rating, indicating significant resistance against dust and water. This, along with the availability of Google assistant and chat GPT functions, scores significant points. The relevant mobile app, while offering a simple user interface, could stand to provide more features and settings for a fully-rounded experience. To sum it up, the Lucyd Lyte Voyager Aviator Bluetooth Sunglasses are a comprehensive, quality product. The strong build, ease of use, and multifunctionality overshadow the minor hiccups like slightly compromised sound quality, frames that might be a bit small for some, and a basic mobile application. They make a reliable, stylish, and high-tech accessory for anyone who wants to enhance their outdoor experience, or daily drive to work.

I'm always looking for the next thing to try for listening to music - and I love being outside so I thought these Smart Sunglasses would be a nice addition to my tech arsenal - and I was right! as the title says - they are a bit big and bulky, but I realize they Lucyd had to pack them full of batteries, chips and speakers - so I feel that is understandable. Sound quality is good for something so small. As you'd expect it's not a rich full sounding bass explosion, but definitely good enough to listen to while walking or spending time outdoors. I won't use these when mowing the yard as I want more in-ear style headphones that also serve somewhat as ear plugs. You can control volume, songs and more through "taps" on the left or right side of the glasses - so you'll have to memorize what they mean - or use the volume on your phone. The sunglasses part of this smart eyewear piece is great. Quality lenses with a gradient shading feature that I like more than I expected. Images are crisp and clean without distortion or waviness. You can change out the lenses with prescription lenses if needed. I can definitely see how smart eyewear will continue to enhance people daily lives - just grab the glasses and go! No more searching for the earbuds or wearing over the head headsets, it's all included in these smart shades! I plan to continue to use these for my solo outdoor activities going forward!

OK, I'll admit, I have no real use for these. The only sunglasses I usually wear are prescription ones when I drive. Otherwise I never wear glasses. But these seemed kind of neat, so I thought I'd play with them anyway. I like technology. Maybe I could use them when I'm walking or on my bicycle. First impression - not a fan of the fit - they're relatively small, very narrow, so they're tight on the side of my head. I don't have a weirdly large head - regular glasses, such as cheaters, fit OK. The flat folding case - honestly, it's a thing of beauty. I LOVE this case. It folds flat when empty, with a magnetic closure. When you use it for the glasses, it's like a piece of origami and opens up to hold the glasses in a triangular shaped case, again with the magnetic enclosure. Very nicely done indeed. Ships with a wall wart for charging and a cable with two proprietary magnetic charging ends. This is something I always ding things for in reviews. Proprietary cable means more of a pain if something happens - damaged cable, lost, whatever. I always prefer things that use standard USB. But I'm guessing there was no good way to get power and wires and sound transmission from one side to the other with the hinges for the arms... So this was likely their only option. Still would've preferred a USB plug though - there appears to be enough room for it. I rarely use my cell phone for calls, strangely enough. So I've never been into headgear for it. No Bluetooth microphones. I have a set of Air Pod Pros for music, but I've never once taken a call on them. About the only place I do use Bluetooth for phone calls is in my car via the onboard entertainment system. So I was curious how these would work. I was also curious about music playability. I love music. I'm a musician on top of other things, so music is important to me. These, with the open ear sound, I knew I was going to probably be disappointed with sound quality compared to ear pods (which I really don't like) or headphones (my preference if I have to use something to keep music private). But these DO afford me one thing that the pods don't - an ability to better hear your environment. When you're running or biking, I've never been a fan of music devices that totally plug your ear canal and render you defenseless to the environment since you can no longer hear things as well that you may need to hear. Build quality is actually outstanding. No wiggle at all on the arms, hinges are nice and solid and open and close easily but have no movement they should NOT have. They feel pretty solid. The instructions tell you to use the left touch button to turn on the right arm, and the right touch button to turn on the left arm. Clearly that's a mistake, each side turns itself on, not the opposite side. You need to turn on each side individually, and each button offers multiple results. One touch for volume up/down via the left/right button. Double touch to pause or play via either button. Triple touch for track forward/back skip, again each side doing one or the other. Not a fan of things like this, but I understand the simplicity for manufacturing to have a single user input source on each side. Oddly enough you have to power both sides on individually (unless you just removed it from the charger), but either side when held for 7 seconds powers off BOTH arms. Paired without issue on my phone, an older iPhone 13 Pro Max. Again, small. Not the most comfortable to wear. Arms are short - I wish they had been straight, not with the big curved part in the design that looks like where your ear should be. My ear is well behind that so it just looks odd. The product photos appear to maybe be photoshopped - measuring the distances don't equate to reality. The space between the icon on the side of the arm and the hinge and then that same space multiplied behind the icon to the curve for the ear aren't the same between the photo and what is in my hand. So the image has been manipulated to make the arms look longer. Music - even at full volume, it's really not going to cut it in any environment with even just a little ambient noise. Walking down a city street, I can see these being completely unusable. I have issues even on a bike just from wind noise. The controls at least work well. Single, double, triple tap of the buttons, it reads them well, so the controls are not frustrating. But placement is. I find I inadvertently hit buttons when I go to take them off or put them on. The voice assistant side of things worked fine. I was able to have it play music on my iPhone via name of song or artist. Phone calls are about the same as the music. Very low level and lost in ambient noise. These would be totally unusable for me, for example, while driving with a window down. As I said, even on my bicycle, they're difficult to use. But the people I talked to, as long as I was in a quiet environment, could hear me fine. But a quiet environment would likely be indoors, and I wouldn't be wearing sunglasses indoors. I'm struggling to find a use scenario where these would actually be beneficial.