Description
This is a renewed unit. The title ends “(Renewed),” the model number carries the suffix that denotes certified refurbished, and the sales rank places it 576th in Renewed Headphones. A renewed pair has been returned, inspected and resold, and its cosmetic condition, battery health and warranty terms differ from a sealed retail unit, none of which this page describes. The manufacturer description field, meanwhile, consists of exactly four words: “Built-In Tile Technology.” That is the entire description. Everything else below comes from the title, the five bullets and the specification table. We do not wear or measure the products covered on this site.
Who this is for
The Indy Evo is a sealed in-ear bud in True Black with a charging case, full media controls on each earpiece, and no active noise cancellation. The specification table records “Noise Control: None,” which is a plain and welcome statement rather than something buried. What you get instead is passive isolation from the seal, and three equalizer presets named in a bullet: Music, Movie and Podcast.
Two features stand out at this level. Either bud works alone with full controls, so a long day of calls does not end with both flat. And Tile tracking is built in, which means a lost bud can be located through the Tile network rather than being simply gone. Tile integration is rare in this catalog and it is the single most practical feature on the page. Note that using either bud alone changes how you locate sound, so it is not a substitute for real awareness outdoors.
The recommended uses field names cycling, running and exercising. With no cancellation running, the awareness risk here is lower than on a cancelling bud, but this is still a sealed design that blocks outside sound passively. For road riding, a design that leaves the ear canal open is the safer choice, and volume should stay low enough that traffic remains audible.
Connection, and three things not published
Bluetooth 5.0 is stated in the specification table, which is more than several listings here manage. That version number covers connection stability and power behavior and says nothing about sound quality.
No codec is named anywhere, so there is no basis on this page for any high resolution or lossless claim, and the listing does not attempt one. No driver size and no driver type are published either, which is unusual even at this price. Multipoint pairing is not mentioned, and neither is wear detection.
Battery: the total, the case, and a gap in between
The bullet gives one number: “30 Hours Total Battery + Rapid Charge.” The specification table gives a second: “Carrying Case Battery Average Life: 24 Hours.”
Put those together and the buds would account for roughly six hours, which is a plausible figure for a design with no cancellation hardware drawing current. But the listing never states a bud runtime, and we are not going to present arithmetic as a published specification. If the number matters to you, ask the seller directly for the hours you get in the ear before returning the buds to the case. Rapid charge is mentioned with no ratio attached, so there is no minutes to hours figure to hold anyone to, and no full charging time is published.
On a renewed unit the battery question carries extra weight. The cells in a returned product have already been through an unknown number of cycles, and this listing offers no battery health statement at all.
Water resistance: a real code, plainly stated
The bullet reads: “IP55 Sweat, Water and Dust Resistant.”
IP55 is a two part rating and both digits carry meaning. The 5 in the first position means dust protected, which is better than the X carried by every IPX rated product in this catalog and matters for anything that lives in a gym bag or a pocket. The 5 in the second position means protected against low pressure water jets from any direction, which covers heavy sweat and rain comfortably.
It is not an immersion rating. Do not swim in these and do not submerge them. No IP code covers seawater, chlorinated water, hot water or pressurized water, and the seals and adhesives that earn any rating degrade with age and impact, which is a sharper point on a unit whose history you cannot see. The separate specification field on this page says only “Water Resistant” with no code and should be read against the bullet.
Fit, and the specification rows to discard
No ear tip count is published. The components field lists only a charging case, and the earpiece shape is recorded as a rounded tip. On a sealed bud the tip is what decides both how much bass you perceive and how much outside noise the seal blocks, so a missing tip count is a real gap, and on a renewed unit it is worth confirming that the tips supplied are new.
Two rows should be discarded. The batteries field reads “1 Lithium Metal batteries required,” and lithium metal is a non-rechargeable chemistry. A pair of rechargeable earbuds with a charging case does not run on lithium metal cells, so that field is wrong. And the item weight of 0.05 kilograms, given again as 1.76 ounces, is the buds and case together rather than the buds alone, with the 7.28 by 4.61 by 1.38 inch dimensions describing the retail box. No bud weight is published.
One inconsistency worth noting for anyone ordering by appearance: the product color is True Black while the carrying case color field says white.
How it ranks, and the alternatives
Customer feedback sits at 4.0 out of 5 from 1,001 ratings, which is a solid sample and a fair result. The sales rank is given as 206,607th in Electronics, 576th in Renewed Headphones and 9,604th in the earbud and in-ear headphone group, which is deep and reflects the age of the design: the date first available is September 2020. The model number is S2IVW-N740-cr.
Within Skullcandy’s current range, our Skullcandy Rail ANC review covers the model that adds cancellation and multipoint, and our Skullcandy Sesh ANC Active review a cheaper cancelling option with an IP67 rating. For non-cancelling alternatives from the same brand, see our Skullcandy Dime 2 review and our Skullcandy Grind review. For the wider field, start from the true wireless earbud listings or the broader in-ear headphone listings.
Who should buy it and who should not
Buy it if you want Tile tracking, a dust rated IP55 shell and full controls on each bud at a renewed price, and you do not need cancellation. The published IP code and the plain admission that there is no cancellation are the two things this page gets right. Do not buy it expecting a bud runtime figure, because only the thirty hour total and the twenty four hour case reserve are published. Do not swim in an IP55 product. Do not expect a codec, a driver size or an ear tip count, because none is published. And ask the seller what battery health the renewed unit was tested to before ordering.
