Deterioration from Series 7

When selecting the number of stars this time I just let me lead times of the short description that appears when you click on the star. 2 stars stand for "do not like". And so it is ...

As a techie, I've tried all kinds of razors, but ultimately use for some time the predecessor of this one in the top version, so the Series 7 799cc model. ME were also all model developments to this improvement, but what Brown has now this thought reveals itself not really me.

First of all: Yes, he shaves well. To my mind, no worse, but no better than the Series 7. The larger has become shaving head I would tend to evaluate rather disturbing because useful, but so be it. The well-known Marketinggeschwafel sounds natural with each new generation as if the New now do everything again epochal better, but the informed (but certainly not the "average consumer") consumer knows the course classify. :) Since at this point - not surprisingly - has not really done anything, the good piece to the other qualities needed to be measured, and there is the weak point but then enormous ...

First of all the design: With Chrome Plated Plastic, which sometimes like to look like matte aluminum on the gephotoshopten advertising images, like for a certain clientele have their charm - seems to me something just incredibly cheap. That such a device is completely partial or almost metallic, you no longer even expect so today. But if plastic, then it should be touched at least dibasic. And plated with chrome plastic touches his holding per se is not high on. The large part of the reviewers here seem to see it that way. I do not know how many of the top version of the Series 7 and this here side by side could hold in your hand - I could. And everyone who the like a Saturn or MediaMarkt. near has, it can probably also. And for me, the Series 9 looks and feels in direct comparison a disaster. Even the top model of Remington feels better than this Blin-Bling-part.

The "cheaper" continues the display. Where its predecessor still had a stylish LCD with separate and differently colored segments for charging and health status, there is a one-digit 7-segment display with an additional bar up and down. The most extreme time, however, the display shows no number (as it suggests the advertising), but uses the 3 horizontal bars of the 7-segment display plus the two additional beams as a simple 5-stage charge level. That's worse by the "resolution" here than in the 799cc, where there are 6 bars. And it looks just simply somehow compared doof from. And most importantly, they had just expected a numeric display. The there is also - but only in the last 9 minutes of battery life. The probability that I these digits from 9 down to ever face would get if I did not consciously investing it goes to zero. What probably also applies to most of the other users. Instead of two additional beams you might also get a bit of space for two smaller full 7-segment displays and would then be able to realize a nice percentage display. And the multi-level hygiene display of its predecessor, about whose meaning you can certainly worthy of debate, there is no longer, only a simple display that says "Cleanse me now!".

The savings are continued at the cleaning station. The fact that the new cleaning station should be better because it airs for drying now instead heats, seems inconclusive me. To me it is said in the end honest matter. The quick cleaning program that there was the predecessor and where the drying phase accounted for, there is apparently no longer. For me it would now not really been a disadvantage, because it never happens that I need in a timely manner the razor again, after I put him in the station. Has also saved the 3-step level display - there is now only one lamp, and when the flashing, the cartridge needs to max. 3 additional passes to be changed. Even now that would be for me personally not really a problem, as I always have replacement cartridges on hand. But it is just another sign of the red pencil, which was recognized. Query the level in 3 stages, namely requires a slightly more complex sensor, as such if there has to be just a warning shortly before end.

Last but not least would be to mention the long-hair trimmer, its predecessor's pop me somehow better and valent occurs as the continuously open and just up to shifting slide on the back of the Series. 9

All in all, the Series 9 for me than 799cc owners a big disappointment. The device makes for my taste nothing technically better, but some a little worse, and he acts look and feel considerably cheaper. Interestingly, you could watch exactly the same reverse development seen during the last scion of Philips. The motorized part of the cleaning station, who was an eye-catcher, of course, was made redundant, as well as the trimmer, which it no longer is the same, and a model with a non-mechanical sensor key as it still gave it the predecessor to the RQ1295, there in the 9000 series even more. And an improvement in shaving performance belongs there as well as here in the realm of Marketingammenmärchen. One might think that the two had agreed to look at their respective 2014er Firsts times a little more on the cost ... :)

Conclusion: If in a shop where your "old" and new model can take next to each other in the hand. For anyone who keeps a little bit of haptics, the decision will then probably be quite easy.