The best cheap Beats headphones sales and deals for May 2022

If you're looking to score a pair of cheap Beats headphones, then you've come to the right place. We're rounding up all the best Beats headphones sales and deals that are available online. Beats headphones are something of an institution when it comes to consumer audio tech and are absolutely up there with the very best brands when it comes to popularity. Acquired by Apple back in the heady days of 2014, the Beats brand has gone from strength to strength and now encompasses a wide range of over-ear headphones and in-ear earphones, including some of the best wireless headphones . For you Beats deals hunters, that means some fantastic cheap Beats Headphones sales on the older models, although the new ones are often for sale as well. There are Beats Headphone prices for everyone as well, thankfully, as prices range from just $45/£59 all the way to $249/£249.

Cheap Beats headphones prices: the options explained

On the over-ear and on-ear side of the Beats headphones range you'll find the Beats Solo Pro and Beats Studio 3 Wireless leading the charge with the best sound and highest price. The Beats Solo 3 Wireless is the most popular option, and also one of the more recent, with an on-ear slightly more compact design. Meanwhile, the Beats EP is a cheap Beats headphone option that goes for under $100. You can also still pick up a pair of Beats Pro headphones, made for DJs - though they're no longer listed on the Beats website.

Meanwhile, the Powerbeats Pro are the latest true wireless earbuds in the Beats in-ear headphone range, offering totally wireless listening with a sporty finish – think Apple Airpods but with better noise isolation and better sound.

They're backed up by the Powerbeats3 Wireless , the previous wireless option that connects the earphones behind your neck. The Powerbeats3 and the slightly newer Beats X, a more traditional style of wireless earbuds , are your best bet for cheap Beats headphone sales right now. However, at the bottom end, you also have the wired urBeats3 earphones, available with either 3.5mm or Lightning connector for an iPhone. This is where you'll find the best Beats headphones prices, but not necessarily the quality to back them up.

Beats headphones sales: choosing which to buy

If you're shopping the latest Beats headphones sales but aren't sure which ones to get or where to find the best Beats prices, you've come to the right place. We've compared every model still readily available - both the newest models and also the now slightly older and cheaper ones - to show you what each pair of Beats headphones does best to help you decide on a pair. You can also find deals on Beats headphones and more with our Memorial Day sales roundup.

The Powerbeats Pro were certainly worth the wait, especially if you've been waiting for the most exercise-friendly Beats headphones yet. Sure, we had the Powerbeats 3 back in 2016, but these are true-wireless, meaning there's no cable connecting the two earpieces here. The hook that reaches behind the ear feels better than ever and ensures your Beats stay in place during any activity.

In addition to that signature bass-heavy sound, you're getting surprisingly adept quality in mid-range clarity as well as superior noise-isolation to the AirPods. Make no mistake though, Beats are at their best with high-energy, big tunes. So, if you're hitting the gym, these are the Beats you want. They're not waterproof mind, so be careful if you go running in the rain.

We're loving the 9-hour battery and that can be boosted to around 24 hours thanks to the charging case that comes with the new Powerbeats Pro headphones. Running late? A five-minute quick charge gives you 90 minutes of playback. Nice.

Even better, the Powerbeats Pro see regular inclusion in cheap Beats headphones sales, making them a fantastic option for deal hunters in particular.

The newest Beats on the block are a fantastic addition to the series and a tempting purchase for anyone looking for a set of cans with decent noise-canceling tech.

Studier than the Solo 3 line and sporting a cool matte finish in each color, the Beats Solo Pro feel like the biggest step up in quality the series has seen in some time for its larger line of headphones. Beats work best with iPhones and pair fast thanks to modern chipsets and we're loving the hands-free Siri integration too which is a first on the Beats Solo Pro.

The active noise-cancelation brings Apple's Beats somewhat closer to the best offerings from Sony and Bose, although those two are still ahead by some distance. We do like the simple-one button access to the transparency mode here though. This optional feature allows some outside noise to come through, which can be handy in an office if you want to be aware of someone calling your name or making sure you're aware of traffic around you when walking or cycling.

You'll see one of the higher Beats headphones prices attached to this particular set of cans, but for a 2019 model with such power as these it's easily worth it.

If you have a modern iPhone and want a pair of the best Beats headphones made specifically for Apple's latest range, you really should take a look at the Beats Solo 3 Wireless headphones. In addition to a fantastic wireless connection and punchy sound, you're getting a huge battery run-time. A single charge can last for up to 40 hours which could last you for an entire week's worth of commuting between charges.

The Solo 3 Wireless are the most popular over/on-ear headphones in the Beats range and are regularly featured in cheap Beats headphones sales. They're also available in a whole range of different color designs so there's plenty of scope to choose a color scheme that best represents your personality - whether that's jet black or blingy gold!

They fold neatly away in a bag and don't look massive on your head - although there are no noise cancelling options with this model - for that you'd need either the Beats Studio 3 Wireless or the newer Beats Solo Pro. If you're looking for cheap Beats headphones prices on a set of over-ear cans that don't feel outdated in their spec, the 2018 Solo 3 model is for you.

The newest Studio entry in the Beats headphones range is the Beats Studio 3 Wireless. Using an over-ear, closed back design, the Studio 3 is one of the best noise cancelling sets of headphones Beats has ever made. The battery has massively improved too, so you can enjoy music for up to 22 hours, or 40 with the active noise cancellation turned off. The Beats Studio3 Wireless headphones are a great match for users of modern iPhones missing 3.5mm jacks - you can pair them with any smartphone though thanks to the Bluetooth technology. The Studio 3 is available in multiple colors including: red, matte black, white, porcelain rose, blue and shadow grey. They are more expensive compared with the Solo 3 Wireless and they're bulkier and heavier too - so do make sure you're aware of this before you buy.

Long after their reveal alongside the iPhone 7, these eagerly awaited in-ear Beats headphones were finally released in February 2017. These wireless headphones are a perfect match for iPhone owners missing the 3.5mm port. We're particularly impressed by the quick charge feature that gives you two hours of playback from a single five-minute charge. Eight hours from a full charge isn't too shabby either.

There are two versions of the urBeats 3 in-ear headphones to look out for. One with a Lightning connection for modern iPhones and these ones with the traditional 3.5mm jack. It gets better too, as Beats have released a few newer in-ear options since the urBeats 3, meaning the prices has come tumbling down in recent months, making these the cheapest Beats on the market. They're not the best Beats on the market, although the bass performance is impressive from such small buds.

The earphones themselves are the same as the ones above, but they come with a Lightning connector on the end instead of a 3.5mm jack. This is ideal if you want something to use on a modern iPhone or MacBook as we're seeing those items ditch the old headphone port nowadays. The urBeats 3 with Lightning connector is one of the cheapest in the Beats range too, often with massive discounts compared to the original launch price. They do generally cost a touch more than the 3.5mm versions though.

The Beats Pro over-ear headphones aren't as appealing for day-to-day use as they used to be thanks to the latest Solo 3 and Studio 3 lines offering a better overall experience, usually for less money too. This model is consequently no longer in production. But if you're looking for some big, beefy, bassy Beats headphones to use as a DJ or for listening at home they excel in loud environments. The metal frames are incredibly durable too as the rest of the Beats line favour plastic designs.

Do you lead an active lifestyle that requires the lightweight feel of in-ear headphones without the massive cans on your head? Then the Beats headphones range has you covered for that, too, because not all models about that authentic studio design. With an improved 12-hour battery life, you're all set for multiple workouts packed with hours of adrenaline-pumping tunes.

If you'd prefer a true-wireless upgrade though, then you may want to consider the new PowerBeats Pro that we mentioned earlier in this article.

The Beats EP headphones are the cheapest on-ear headphones in the Beats by Dre lineup and are a fine place to start if you've had your eye on the colorful stylings for a while. They're wired via a 3.5mm jack, but at least you'll never have to worry about them running out of battery juice.

Top browser developers team up to try and solve these major issues

Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft, alongside Igalia and Bocoup, have come together to launch the Interop 2022 benchmark, an initiative that aims to improve cross- browser compatibility.

"For the first time ever, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers," says Google's developer team in a blog post .

The goal, as explained by Mozilla developers in their own blog post , is to find common pain points between the main browsers for developers and users, with the goal of fixing them. The result is a public score for each browser.

The initiative started back in 2019, when Google, Mozilla, and others began to a program to understand pain points for web developers . From there, each browser maker had a clearer idea of what was wrong and how to fix it.

Given that each browser has its own core constituency (and all are used by high numbers of people across different platforms), making the experience more unified makes a lot of sense.

Interop 2022

The Interop 2022 initiative will focus on 15 areas, including cascade layers, colour spaces and CSS colour functions, new viewport units, scrolling, subgrid, and the

Taken together, these represent the biggest pain points for developers and, ultimately, the main reasons that things look weird or don't work on each browser for the end user.

"The goal of these multi-year interoperability efforts, in the form of Compat 2021, Interop 2022 and much more, is to fully acknowledge and address the pain points developers have experienced through for many years," says Google.

"And it's not a one-browser effort but rather a strong collaboration between all major browser vendors and friends for improving the web platform across the board."

You can read more from Apple and Microsoft about their participation.

The iPhone 14 really should get this flashy feature from Honor

Apple isn't known for being wildly experimental with its smartphone features - it's not exactly ZTE or Huawei in that regard - but a new feature that Honor has shown off on a smartphone has me convinced that the iPhone 14 would be amazing with this one extra.

We saw the Honor 60 series debut last year, but a new version called 'Honor Code' has just been announced via Chinese social media network Weibo . This is ostensibly the Honor 60 Pro, except plastered on its back there's a patterned version of Honor's logo... which glows when you've received a notification.

That's right, the notification LED light is officially back in 2022, in a much classier way. This feature of older phones let you know when a notification had arrived, or you had a call coming (or a few other things), with an LED light that glowed depending on what was arriving.

Using electrochromic glass ( also seen in this OnePlus phone with a color-changing back ), the H, O, N and R letters light up to alert you of notifications, as well as calls and alarms, and it can flicker in different rhythms too. It seems pretty subtle, but it should be useful if you've got your phone flipped face-down so you don't see invasive notifications popping up all the time, but still want to know what's going on.

There's no reason to believe this phone is going on sale outside China - many Chinese tech companies debut special versions of their phones like this that only sell in the home country - but we live in hope.

However, we'd like to see this feature not just in an Honor phone, but in an iPhone.

Think about it - the design works perfectly. iPhones have the Apple logo on the back, and on MacBooks and certain other gadgets from the company, this has been built with a light in it. Surely the same thing could be done for iPhones.

This could have soft lights under it in a few different colors, so you could program it for different types of notifications - blue for Twitter, green for WhatsApp, red for Instagram - or to flicker in different patterns depending on the urgency of the alert.

If you got a message, you could see the little glow to know someone is trying to contact you, without having the whole message jump up on your screen to distract you from whatever you were doing.

The notification LED was a fairly popular feature that lots of brands used, though it was quite rudimentary in its execution, and a soft glowing Apple logo could be a far superior alternative. That's especially if it used something like this electrochromic glass which often looks more subtle than an actual LED light.

Analysis: not quite gaming phones

Having light-up rear panels isn't technically new, as certain gaming phones have LED strips on the rear which, amongst other things, can be set to glow in different colors or rhythms when notifications come in.

There's a key difference here though: some could consider vibrant LED strips on the back of a smartphone a little gauche - it's not quite as subtle or gentle as a soft 'Honor' logo or Apple symbol.

A little glowing apple on the back of an iPhone, that lit up in different soft hues depending on the type of notification, would be a gentle way of reminding you that you've got a notification, without announcing it to the world.

It could also work well in dark places like when you're watching a movie at home, or are in bed - a warm glow surrounding your phone is a lot more calming than an electric shock of color.

We're not at all expecting Apple to debut an electrochromic notification logo on the back of the iPhone 14. The company doesn't embrace weird features like that. But I work for a tech website, I'm allowed to live in hope.