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Aaron Rain
Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2025
Awesome little walkie talkies! These little guys worked great on a recent road trip where we had two vehicles and communicated using them! Someone needs to use the restroom, getting low on gas, giving directions to the other car, they came in super handy.We found the range to be very good even when we had some distance between the two cars and the batteries lasted the whole trip without needing to be recharged.We are planning on taking them with us on future ski trips as well just to communicate between parties doing different ski runs as we’re all not at the same skill level.The volume gets more than loud enough and at first I was worried it would be hard to match both units up on the same channel since there’s not labeling on the walkie talkies themselves but as you turn the dial they announce each channel very clearly so they ended up being very easy to use.The belt clips were tough to install as you have to compress the spring while simultaneously screwing in the little screws but once it was done the clips worked perfectly and have a nice firm tension , so much so I’m not going to worry about them clipped to the outside of a back back on our various adventures.We also didn’t experience any feedback or channel interference. I’d suggest getting the charging base if you can, we got just the walkie talkies and they are easy to charge with the provided usb-c cables but it would have been way more convenient to just drop each unit in its own stand for easier charging.Over all these are awesome for the price and we hope they will last a long time!
Charlie AR
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2025
These units are very light and compact so they won't be a burden to be carried along on hikes or put to use at athletic or community field events by novices. Time will tell how well they hold up. I am anticipating that their very light weight will be part of saving them from much impact damage if they were dropped.They would be good for volunteers for example that are unfamiliar with walkie talkies and shouldn't need to be tied up with lessons on their use. The claimed communications range of 2km is far more than I can imagine I would need. I volunteer at several outdoor sports in the summer where the maximum distance is maybe half a kilometer and typically less.The controls are not labeled. Built in audible voice announcements confirm ON/OFF, Channel number, Low Battery, etc. The volume of those announcements is independent of any level controlled by the volume knob, so even if the knob is turned all the way down, users will still hear the status voice clearly.The battery performance I got was about 15 hours before the low battery warning started. That was with operating the units mostly idle. I would transmit speech on one unit for a few sentences and then repeat that maybe every 15 to 30 minutes. I would think more frequent and longer actual speaking activity would bring down the battery life sooner. The low battery warning is a voice alert that is emitted about every 10 seconds. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, you will hear it clearly as long as the unit remains turned on even with the knob turned fully counterclockwise. After about 10 minutes of ignoring the alert the units were spent. I didn't see any flashing status lights for low level; just the voice alert.VOX mode was awkward at least for me. It seemed to miss the fact that I was speaking either softer or louder than the loudness I was speaking with on PTT (Push To Talk) mode. I reverted to PTT. Push properly in the center of the orange button. If you push on the extreme ends the rubber doesn't move in deep enough to press the inner switch. Also I would suggest keep the button down but wait about one second before speaking. When I pushed and began speaking at almost the same time the receiving unit was not getting the first second or so of the words. I needed to get my mouth very close to the walkie talkie for the receiving unit to play loud enough for the other person to hear me clearly.When that was done, the receiving unit's speaker generated a proper volume you can make out at arms length.Over a day of having them turned on I only picked up a few seconds of someone else speaking on the same channel. Leaving them on a desk near computers would sometimes create electronic interference noises but it was not consistently doing that and that's not really a thing when these are being used as intended.
Bee
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2025
Included with the pair of walkie-talkies are a couple of belt clips and pairs of screws that can be attached if you desire. You also get 2 detachable batteries and 2 USB-A to C charging cables.As far as controls go, you have the power knob, which turns the unit on and adjusts the volume, and a second knob, which switches the transmission channel among the 16 available.There isn’t any kind of display with these, so you have to listen to the voice prompts that announce what channels you are on when you switch them or turn the power on.The walkie-talkies have the standard “push to talk” functionality, where you hold the side button down to speak. Alternatively, you can activate the VoX function, which eliminates the need to hold the button down, and it will just automatically activate when it detects your voice. This can be a little finicky as it doesn’t seem to pick up your voice consistently unless you hold the walkie-talkie right up to your mouth and speak fairly loud, so you have to be conscious of that…even so, it seems as if the first couple of words often don’t get transmitted and are missed.You can also switch your walkie-talkie to monitor mode, where it will keep the channel open if you want to listen for any activity on that channel.On the opposite edge from the buttons, you have a cover that goes over a pair of ports for a microphone and headphones.That’s about everything the walkie-talkies offer out of the box, but the instructions refer to a number of options and settings that can be changed using software, including squelch level, VoX threshold, voice prompts, battery standby time, etc. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provide any more info beyond that.On the outside of the box it comes in there is a label with a website link to download the software but it does not work and takes you to an invalid “access denied” page that just displays some script. This is disappointing as there are options there that would be handy to adjust but cannot be accessed without this software, which does not appear to be available.I haven’t tested the max range but havent had any issues within a couple city blocks filled with residential houses/obstacles. The transmission quality remained clear and reliable throughout.The core functionality of these walkie talkies works well and are priced reasonably enough to be a good option as long as you don’t need many bells and whistles or adjustability.
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