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FOUR STARS - It may not be the most audiophile choice, but fantastic call quality and long battery life make the Exfit BC-T90 versatile wireless earbuds for everyday use. The app is a great bonus.
Bluecom Exfit BCS-T90 specs:
Bluetooth 5.0 with AptX codec
IP4 waterproof rating (splash and sweat resistant)
8+- hours listening on a full charge
Charging case can charge earpieces fully 1,4 times
Comes with 3 sizes ear tips and USB-C cable
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Below this Exfit BCS-T90 review, you will find comparisons between the Exfit BCS-T90 vs Mpow X3, Fiil T1X, Edifier TWS200, and Enacfire E60 TWS.
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Design, comfort and battery life
The Exfit BCS-T90 has rather generic-looking earpieces, without any branding. They do have an original shape, with stems that corner a bit and follow the line of your cheeks. Their duo-tone design is also different from competitors, with a semi-shiny dark grey outside and rubber-like plastic on the inside. Above the stem, only a compact and round part of the earpieces go into your ears, making the BCS-T90 quite comfortable and snug-fitted.
The best thing about the earpieces is battery life. The earbuds offer up to 8 hours playtime on a single charge, dependent on your volume. That's an impressive score, especially for this price.
Happily, the USB-C powered-charging case is relatively compact. It isn't as tiny or light as cheapest models as the SoundPEATS TrueDot and Haylou GT1 Plus, but isn't much bigger either. It slides in pockets easily. With two LED-lights indicating the battery status, it can recharge the earpieces fully once before needing a recharge. That's not much - but as every charge gives you around 8 hours playtime, the Exfit battery still convinces.
Connectivity and controls
The Exfit BCS-T90 controls with touch panels on the round part of the earpieces. It responds fairly well to your touch, but you need to apply some 'pressure', so you won't activate the wrong functions too soon.
With a single tap, you play or pause music. You activate the voice assistant on your phone with a double-tap and skip to the next song with three taps on the right side. Tap the left side three times quickly to return a song.
Changing the volume is also possible: long-touch the right side to increase volume, do so on the left side to decrease it. Better even, you can change the controls via the Mate app.
Connectivity on the Exfit BCS-T90 is good. The Bluetooth 5.0 signal holds up to ten meters and also when you're walking or cycling with them. Unfortunately, it's impossible to swap between mono and stereo mode seamlessly: both earpieces will shut off if you put a single one in the charging case.
Calling and watching movies
The Exfit handles video playback well. Audio synchronizes flawlessly with video on both Android and iPhone, although it does lipsync a tiny bit better on the YouTube-app on Android than it does on iPhone. Like on almost all wireless earphones, there is a noticeable delay in sound effects when playing games.
The big treat here, however, is the call quality. Whereas your voice is a bit robotic on video calls, things starts to get real interesting when having an old-fashioned phone call.
Call quality on the Exfit BCS-T90 is simply outstanding. Like many wireless earphones with stem designs, it houses four microphones in total - two for recognizing sounds from your surroundings, two to focus on your voice. Not every earphone turns this into a success - but the T90 does.
Foremost, your voice sounds loud on the BCS-T90 - louder than almost all other wireless earphones tested on Scarbir.com. Your voice sounds a bit metallic, but comes through with great clarity. It rises above other people around you, even when there's a crowd nearby. Other sounds, such as engines, traffic, and background noise, are heavily reduced or even completely filtered out of the conversation. Only wind noises appear challenging for your calls - under other circumstances, calling with these is a breeze.
App support: MATE - Exfit Manager app
The Exfit BCS-T90 comes with an Android and iPhone app, which is easy to setup and doesn't require a user account. The app lets your update firmware, which comes highly recommended according to Exfit, as it improves connectivity and removes a slight hiss noise you can otherwise hear under the sound. It's a minutes-long process, but the app does guide you through it step by step.
The Exfit Mate app is a nice addition to these earbuds, not just by showing the battery status of both earpieces on its main screen. You can also quickly choose between four sound equalizers, of which Bass really gives the lows in the sound more weight without giving in to other frequencies. The Signature sound makes music a little mid-focused - more distant actually - and switching back and forth from Normal and Treble is also worth trying.
From the Settings, you can change between English and Korean voice prompts, add voice memos, and find your earbuds. The app makes the earpieces make louder and louder noises, so you should hear them near you. Best of all, you can change the autoplay/ resume functions (do you want to play or pause when you take one or two earpieces out of your ears?) and change the entire control scheme.
Wonderful!
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Sound quality of Exfit BCS-T90: crisp
Vocals play the main role in the BCS-T90 sound. Both male and female vocalists take a prominent role in music and are crisp.
However, they do lack the texture and details some more refined earphones at this price points have. Even though vocals sound forward, you'll rarely hear gasps or nuances in vocals that can be heard elsewhere. In podcasts and videos, it's easy to hear everything every presenter or actor says, but voices also strike as a bit flat.
This isn't only a problem of the elevated upper-mids and highs, but also with the rest of the sound.
On the lower end of the music, the bass delivers a nice and quick slam, but a track really needs to push the bass out of itself if you want to experience depth and texture. The bass-equalizer in the app gives the lows more body, without threatening the other frequencies - making it a recommended setting for many listeners.
Out of the box, the lower-mids have the same effect as the bass: drums and darker electronic tones can sound juicy when songs push them forward, but when songs don't - they appear a little shallow. In the mids, claps are emphasized, but guitars and piano play are a bit recessed - leaving the sound a bit bright and cold.
The Exfit sound has a nice airiness, with music feeling around you instead of close to your ears. Instruments and effects come from your left and right, and there's nice separation between frequencies and instruments.
The sound becomes more engaging when you turn the volume up, but at the higher levels the music also gets a bit of a crackle - a slight distortion over the lower-mids.
With its crispness and forward vocals and perhaps the added bass from the app, the Exfit BCS-T90 offers a clear sound - but it misses the dynamics and details of the best in class.
Bluecom Exfit BCS-T90 comparisons
Exfit BCS-T90 vs Fiil T1X
The Exfit BCS-T90 handles phone calls and video conferences better than the best-under-$100 TWS Fiil T1X, which starts to struggle more when you're outside. Battery life on the Exfit is also better… but that's pretty much where the pros stop. The T1X has a more balanced and warmer sound, with a more pronounced bass, lots more body and detail in the mids, and more nuances in vocals and highs. It also comes with sport-wings, and its app gives you more equalizer functionality and other options.
Exfit BCS-T90 vs Mpow X3
For around the same price of the BCS-T90, you can grab a pair of decent active noise cancelling earbuds from the Mpow-shelves. The BCS is better at handling phone calls under most circumstances, although the Mpow X3 blocks out more wind noise when you're calling. It offers around 1,5 hours battery life less, yet does feel lighter in your ears and sounds more engaging. The Mpow X3 ANC has better-defined bass and sub-bass and more forward upper-mids and vocals, resolving more detail than the Exfit does.
Exfit BCS-T90 vs Edifier TWS200
The $40 Edifier TWS200 was previously crowned the best wireless earphones under $100 for calling on Scarbir.com, but now seems heavy competition from the Exfit. While the BCS-T90 is more prone to wind noise, it reduces surrounding noises even better and always gives your voice plenty of volume and clarity, whereas the Edifier has trouble focusing on your voice if you're among other people and on the walk at the same time. Battery life on the Exfit is better as well - nearly 8 hours against 4,5. The Edifier has a slightly more balanced sound.
Exfit BCS-T90 vs Enacfire E60 TWS
If it's not call quality but long battery life that you're after, and you'd like the best sound quality, you should consider the Enacfire E60. Its earpieces are bigger than those on the Exfit, but stay tight and comfortable in your ears. Its battery has a respectable 7 instead of 8 hours, but most importantly: it treats you with a smooth, warmer sound, with more defined bass, presence of lower-mids, and better instrument placement. Even though vocals on the Exfit are clearer, the Enacfire presents a more pleasant sound.
Verdict
It may not be the most audiophile choice, but excellent call quality and long battery life make the Exfit BC-T90 versatile wireless earbuds for everyday use. The app is a great bonus.
FOUR stars - very good
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