Huawei’s FreeClip 2 is back in new colours. Alongside the Pura 90 Plus and the Enjoy 100 series at its Double Eleven launch event in China, the company introduced a dual-colour edition of its open-ear earbuds. The hardware is unchanged. The change is in the look.
There are three colour combinations: red and yellow, blue and yellow, and red and blue. Every version ships with a yellow charging case and three swappable accessory rings, so buyers can mix the shades however they like. It’s a playful release, and it shows where Huawei thinks this product category is going. Open-ear earbuds are increasingly sold as something you wear and show off, not as hardware you hide.
Under the paint, this is the standard FreeClip 2. It keeps the C-bridge design that clips around the ear instead of sitting inside it. The bridge uses liquid silicone over memory metal, and Huawei says the fit is 25% softer than the original FreeClip. Each bud weighs about 5.1g and carries an IP57 rating. Either bud fits either ear, because the earbuds work out which side they’re on by themselves. That small convenience still matters when you’re fumbling with them on the way out the door.
Audio comes from a 10.8mm dual-diaphragm driver. Huawei claims it doubles both volume and bass output compared with the first-generation model. That is a meaningful claim, because quiet sound and thin low end have long been the main weaknesses of open-ear designs, which leave the ear canal open by design. The earbuds also have Huawei’s third-generation audio chip, which includes an NPU. The company says it delivers ten times the computing power of the original FreeClip and uses it for adaptive volume, voice enhancement and spatial audio. Huawei says head-tracking latency is 40% lower. The AI features include voice assistant wake-up, head-gesture controls and real-time translation, and NearLink precise find helps locate a lost case.
Huawei rates battery life at up to nine hours per charge and 38 hours with the 537mAh case. It says a 10-minute top-up adds about three hours of playback.
In China, the dual-colour FreeClip 2 costs CNY 1,299 (around $195), with an early discount bringing it to CNY 1,249. That price puts it in the same conversation as open-ear rivals from Bose and Shokz, and those brands mostly stick to restrained colours. There’s no word yet on whether these colourways will be sold outside China. The standard FreeClip 2 has already reached global markets, so the bigger question is whether Huawei thinks bold colours can sell an open-ear earbud beyond its home market.
