The perplexing thing about the Elite 75t is that apart from the buds’ sturdy seal, they are just about a fixer’s dream, including the charging case: The upper assembly of the case is made of some sort of rubberized plastic, meaning any prying you do won’t leave marks and the whole thing is held together with clips. Jabra even offers a full two-year warranty against water or dust damage, though you’ll have to download their app and probably jump through a few hoops to take advantage of it. Durable product design is important and we love to see it, but we’d definitely prefer that durability not come at the expense of repairability, as it does in this case. We should note here that this troublesome seal undoubtedly contributes to the Elite 75t’s IP55 rating, the highest official IP rating of any of the buds in this teardown blitz. The ironic use of modular componentry inside an epoxy fortress. The two halves of each bud use clips and light adhesive to stay together, and as long as you’re patient as you open them, they should clip back together during reassembly, leaving no cosmetic damage. The good(-ish) news is the battery is another Varta button-cell. Again, a soldered connection isn’t impossible to work around, but it does add significant complexity to any repair, especially in tight quarters like these. The motherboard folds around a plastic battery housing, but instead of using contact pins to suck the battery’s juice, Amazon opted to solder the battery in place-which is lazy, especially considering the ZIF cable they use elsewhere inside the bud, which indicates they have the design chops to implement a tiny disconnectable cable, they just chose not to use one here. Like the Galaxy Buds, the Echo Buds’ motherboard is folded around a plastic housing where the button-cell battery resides.īefore you get too excited, though: they may be built like our favorite buddies, but not in the ways that count.
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