I think Bose Soundwear is a fantastic product. I’ve had these now for well over three months and I must confess they were an impulse buy when I first spotted them. That said, their future use became apparent to me when I first tried them in the shop. I find I’m using them (all the time) for my private listening but mainly when I also need to interact with the world around me. They are not a ‘personal space’ headphone replacement, so if that’s your intended use I’d suggest you forget it and stick to your trusty headphones. Instead, I find they allow you to properly multi-task so you can do stuff, AS WELL as listen to sound. I don’t think you’d (want to) wear them ‘out’ on the street or in company. In fact, the only time I wear them ‘out’ is when I’m riding my cycle. The rest of the time - I wear them when working around the house. When working with tablets or the computer. When working in the garden and to make and receive calls at home, in the car or on my bike. The quality is exactly what you’d expect from Bose. In effect, Soundwear has created its own listening niche thereby doing away with my home stereo speakers, portable speakers, when using my phone and at least 50% of my former headphone use.

I held off buying the first version of the QC35 and bought the QC35 II these headphones are excellent. Comfortable for all day wear, use them in the office to drown out the background noise and chatter to focus on my work. The noise cancellation is very good and I literally cannot hear the guy next to me talking. The quality of the sound is also the best I have heard, personally. Bass is good and not overpowering. Voice quality is clear and you can hear every word. The connectivity to the iPhone was painless and connected instantly with Bluetooth and the supporting Bose app. So far the battery life is again very good. I put these headphones on at 6.30 am and used them for the commute to work, then throughout the day at my desk in long periods and the commute home. Total usage 50%. So would get 2 days of fairly high use before recharge, though charging time is fairly short. If I were to have any moan is that when in the gym they slip off when say doing bench presses, so would use in ear for exercising. I would highly recommend these headphones you won’t be disappointed.

As a bit of a Bose junkie I have a bunch of stuff, including the QC20i which are a tough act to follow. The sound touch app too which is pretty useful. So my expectations are high when i get new Goodies from bose. The Quiet Control 30’s need a remote control mechanism to make them easy to use, and this is it! I was a little perturbed by some of the reviews but I am guessing it was a user issue. This is an easy app which is perfect for the new kit. Connection and disconnection is simple, sharing devices, music and control simultaneously with my iPad and iPhone works a treat. Just a couple of pokes at the screen and everything is as you like it. If i could find a failing it would be the that there is no access to media content from the app which is a little disappointing, so developers can we have a an interface with music and video content control? This would make this app perfect. Functionally this application does what it should it controls the device.

Bose have done it again. They produce amazing hardware, but their software had serious problems at times. I’ve had to live through it with multiple speakers of different models and versions (I have bought a lot of Bose over the years) their firmware upgrades bricking very expensive speakers, the SoundTouch app was a fiasco and more recently the Connect+ App is unable to use party mode or steel mode after a few months.If you are trying to manage more than one speaker, it appears it will eventually get very confused and be unable to pair in party or stereo mode. You will be asked to forget and reconnect your device(s) ad infinitum. I was surprisingly enjoying this Connect+ App and delighted to see that Bose appeared to have finally managed to develop proper software. But no. I am a loyal fan of their equipment, but the software is horrendous. I think they must recognise by now that they should probably try and outsource the development, or insource it. But get a new team or define better standards than those currently in place. The software will be the slow erosion and demise of the brand. Software rating is a very generous and frustrating two stars.