Been going back and forth between the two for a week, figured I'd put down what I actually noticed.
Sound first. Ozlo is doing something right here, and it makes sense given the Bose background behind the team.
The tuning hits in a familiar way, vocals come through fuller and the detail retrieval is noticeably cleaner. Somnipods3 is solid but sitting next to Ozlo the gap is real.
I know connectivity stability comes up a lot in Ozlo discussions. Haven't run into it myself over the past week so I'm not really the right person to weigh in on that one.
What I have noticed is that it rarely connects on its own out of the case.
Most of the time I have to manually pull up bluetooth or the app to get it going, which is fine during the day but kind of a problem if you're woken up by noise in the middle of the night and just want to put them in fast.
Where Somnipods pulls ahead is noise isolation. Ozlo has no active noise cancellation at all, so if your environment is the issue that gap matters more than the sound quality difference.
Somnipods3 isn't going to block everything out tbh, but it's doing actual work that passive isolation alone can't.
Fit and form is where they split the most.
Ozlo feels more like a compact sport earbud than something built specifically for sleep.
Somnipods3 reads differently from the moment you open the case, the buds and case share the same fine matte coating and the whole thing just feels like something you'd want on your nightstand.