- Honor Choice MouseBuds Pro: on the surface, a mouse
- Under the hood, it’s hiding two wireless earbuds
- The mouse itself boasts ‘enduring freshness’ for comfortable, all-day use
Once upon a time, a cute little household mouse saw a piece of cheese left out, and nibbled on it. Unfortunately, the owner had left an AirPod on the morceau de fromage, and so the rodent ate that too. For the rest of its life, every time it scurried past, the home owner heard snippets of Float On from the modest fella.
The moral of the story is “don’t feed earbuds to a mouse”, but apparently Honor hadn’t heard this unwritten — and, as far as we know, unspoken — rule (*note: don’t feed any tech to any animal, or yourself), because its unassuming new piece of productivity kit hides an unusual audio extra.
I’m talking about the Honor Choice MouseBuds Pro, released in China at the tail end of 2025 (sorry) and now available in other parts of the world. They go for £79.99 in the UK, which converts to about $100 (although Honor doesn’t currently sell its kit in the US) or AU$160 (but not listed on Honor’s Australian website).
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On the surface, it looks like a plain wireless mouse. Bland, even, albeit boasting an excimer “skin-like coating”, quiet buttons plus “enduring freshness” in the casework, but still… pretty much just a mouse.
However, if you open up the body of said mouse, you’ll be surprised to find two wireless earbuds nestled inside.
Squeaky clean earbuds
The Honor Choice MouseBuds Pro earbuds are open-fit style, with no removable tip to keep them in place, and the company’s listing doesn’t offer much info about them: no driver, frequency response, impedance. They do have ANC apparently, and dynamic drivers, but that’s all the website says.
The target audience for this kind of kit is likely office workers, who’ll need to jump into a private call at a moment’s notice, and users will find some easily-accessible earbuds that are already paired — so, pretty handy. Think of the extra work you can do in the seconds you’ll save: think of the productivity, the efficiency, the time optimization!
I imagine it’ll also be a popular product for people working in a coffee shop or cafe, who want to hear a voice note or join a meeting without rummaging around in their bag for your actual earbuds (although please don’t join work meetings in public coffee shops: it’s so annoying for the rest of us around you).
Apparently, the whole package (mouse and buds) lasts for 30 days of use, though it’s unclear how many hours of listening that factors in.
This isn’t the first hidden-earbuds tech we’ve ever seen. My mind goes to the Nokia 5710 XpressAudio, a feature phone which came with pre-paired earbuds which you could easily use to listen to a tune. From what I’ve heard, these buds didn’t sound particularly great, but then again, some earbuds is better than no earbuds, in your hour of need.
Unfortunately, I’m no expert on the best mouse, so I can’t tell you if this is a great little gem with a hidden secret, or a weird novelty. But I do review earbuds.
I hate to be pessimistic, after all Honor makes some fantastic earbuds — just see the Honor Earbuds Open for starters — but I worry that these buds won’t sound particularly great. The mouse isn’t a glorified charging case for some top-tier earbuds; the mouse is the point (with the earbuds a secondary extra). So pick them up if you need a hybrid 2-in-1 mouse with buds, but don’t buy them if you just want the best earbuds in an alternative case.
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