These aren’t earbuds designed primarily for music lovers. Instead, the focus here is productivity: clearer calls, stable connectivity with laptops, and features that make long workdays filled with meetings a little easier. After using the Dell Pro Plus Earbuds for a few weeks, it becomes clear that Dell has built them more like a workplace tool than a lifestyle gadget.
And that approach shows up in almost every aspect of the experience.
Price and availability
The Dell Pro Plus Earbuds (EB525) are priced at Rs 16,099 in India and are available through Dell’s official store and authorised enterprise partners.
Dell Pro Plus Earbuds follow a very utilitarian design language.
Design and comfort
The Dell Pro Plus Earbuds follow a very utilitarian design language. Everything about them, from the matte-black finish to the chunky charging case, feels intentionally understated.
The case is slightly bulky and oblong, with a simple LED indicator on the front and a USB-C charging port along with a Bluetooth pairing button at the back. It’s not particularly stylish, but it feels sturdy and practical.Inside the case, Dell includes something you don’t usually see with TWS earbuds: a USB-C wireless audio receiver. This small dongle allows the earbuds to connect directly to laptops for more stable and lower-latency audio, which is particularly useful during video calls or meetings.
They are sold in a single black colour option, which is another signal of where Dell’s priorities are at. The earbuds are also certified for platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, which signals clearly that Dell is positioning them for professional and hybrid-work environments rather than purely entertainment use.
The earbuds themselves have slightly longer stems and house 11.6mm drivers. Despite that, they remain lightweight and fit securely in the ear. During extended meetings, they stayed comfortable, although after a few hours you are aware that you’re wearing them.
Performance and Connectivity
Connectivity is one of the strongest aspects of these earbuds. They support Bluetooth 5.3, with multi-host pairing for up to eight devices and the ability to stay connected to two devices simultaneously. In everyday use, switching between a laptop and a phone is seamless.
The bundled USB-C receiver also improves connection stability when paired with laptops, making these earbuds particularly convenient for people who spend a lot of time in virtual meetings.
Call performance is another highlight. Dell uses AI-powered noise cancellation, along with a Voice Processing Unit (VPU) and MEMS microphones, to isolate voices. In real-world use, voices sound clear and background noise is handled reasonably well, even in moderately noisy environments.
If your daily routine involves constant Teams or Zoom calls, these earbuds perform reliably.
Audio Performance
While the Dell Pro Plus Earbuds are designed with work in mind, they still offer a decent music listening experience. Sound quality is clean and balanced, with good clarity in the mids and highs. However, the soundstage feels somewhat narrow, and the overall tuning lacks the richness you might expect from earbuds that are built primarily for music.
The companion Dell Audio app includes an equaliser that allows users to tweak bass and treble, which helps tailor the sound profile slightly. Even so, music playback here feels more “functional” than immersive. For that matter, we also used the buds in our gym sessions, and as it turns out, thanks to the sturdier build of the buds and the longer stem, they stick on even during our HIIT training. Yes, however, they aren’t capable enough to cut out the supremely loud music in the gym. The earbuds feature adaptive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) along with a transparency mode.
ANC does a reasonable job of reducing office chatter and ambient noise. However, it struggles more with deeper low-frequency sounds and doesn’t quite match the noise-cancelling performance offered by premium earbuds.
Transparency mode, on the other hand, works well and allows you to hear surrounding sounds clearly without removing the earbuds.
Battery life
Battery life is another strong area. Dell claims up to 8 hours of listening time with ANC enabled, and up to 33 hours with the charging case. Fast charging is also supported; a 5-minute charge provides roughly one hour of playback.
In everyday use with around three to four hours of calls and music per day, the charging case typically lasted close to a week before needing to be plugged in again.
Verdict
The Dell Pro Plus Earbuds are clearly designed with a workplace in mind. They offer excellent call clarity, stable multi-device connectivity, and strong battery life, making them particularly useful for people who spend a large part of their day on meetings.
However, the average ANC, narrow soundstage, and plain design mean they don’t stand out as a music-first pair of earbuds. Moreover, with the pricing, it is very difficult to recommend them to even professional users who match the product use case.
This is purely because the spectrum leading up to 16,000 INR has a plethora of products, including headphones that will do the same or even better job. We see the enterprise market jumping on the product, though, with the work place modem being hybrid, companies can perhaps check into bundling up Dell laptops with them.
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