Enter the Endurance Zone with JBL’s first open-ear sports buds

JBL wants you to hit the road (or the weights) with its long-lasting, water resistant headphones

A young woman with dark hair lifting weights in a gym while wearing JBL Endurance Zone headphones
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JBL's new Endurance Zone headphones are open-ear buds with long battery life, dynamic bass and a very competitive price.

Available from July, they'll cost £119.99 (about $163 / €140 / AU$251).

JBL has launched its first ever pair of open-ear sports headphones, the JBL Endurance Zone.

Competing with some of the best running headphones, and designed for casual exercisers and gym rats alike, the new pair have an open-ear hook design for comfort and situational awareness. The idea is that you can still hear your training partner or the sound of an oncoming bus, while enjoying a suitably motivational soundtrack.

JBL says that it's carefully positioned the driver as close as possible to the ear canal to deliver the best possible audio quality and minimal sound leakage for those around you.

There's also Active Bass Boost to adjust the bass levels according to playback volume so it's never too much or too little.

A product shot of the JBL Endurance Zone headphones in purple against a white background

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JBL Endurance Zone: key features and pricing

The Endurance Zone headphones are IP68 rated for water and dust resistance, and battery life is up to 32 hours including the charging case. It's a respectable 8 hours from the buds alone.

There's also fast charging to deliver up to three hours of playback from 10 minutes of charging and in a nice touch, there's a lanyard loop so you can easily attach the charging case to your kit bag.

The ear hook is made from high grade liquid silicone with a split design for comfort and lighter weight, and the buds contain dual beamforming mics on each side for clear voice calls.

A young man with black hair, black t-shirt, black shorts and orange running shoes does a leg stretch on a white road bridge while wearing white JBL Endurance Zone headphones

Oooh! Big stretch!

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The JBL Headphones App delivers the usual customisation, including changing the touch controls. It also enables you to use the Apple Watch-style PulseDry feature. This ejects moisture from the driver by creating a pulsing vibration to move water droplets away.

The JBL Endurance Zone earbuds will be available from July 2025 in five colour options: Black/Grey, Black/Lime, Purple/Grape, Blue/White and White/Orange.

The RRP is £119.99 (about $163 / €140 / AU$251), which makes them very competitive against the likes of the Beats PowerBeats 2 Pro.

Carrie Marshall
Carrie Marshall

Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).

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