For me personally pretty useless - prefer to wait for the next version or buy Roomba!

One thing first: I am almost ashamed already, an article which was rated almost across the board by positive (and has received already 46 reviews), to assess with only one star. So is often a discrepancy indeed due to the factor DAU. That's why I now away more or less engaged me of weeks intensively with the Braava and the device really given a chance - with niederschmetterndem result. "It's really you, not me!" - Meet here, so I think for once to. But for more equal.

My suspicion is that many owners of Braava cast their review after the first few weeks and there maybe a little are euphoric about the little robot that completely independently pursues his work apparently. Or the benefits of Braava perhaps subjectively a little nice to justify the rather expensive purchase. However, in the long run, I see no real benefit in Braava - at least not in comparison to a Vileda mop or similar cleaning device. Why is this so?

Now: The Braava doing as she was told. Scrub the floor back and forth, either dry or wet. But Sauber so I still get any ground - neither linoleum, laminate, stone or even wood. Tried everything, every time the same sad result.

It starts with the Navigation: Despite "Cube", a space is at most times wiped, but the way through the doors to the other rooms like the Braava not really find. Sometimes - yes, but that's more the exception. Say, you have the Braava umparken manually and start the program again from the beginning. Annoying - and time consuming.

For wiping result dryly goes like this. A couple of lint and hair he takes on. However, I still have a iRobot Roomba 780 here who does it all much better and more thoroughly. The Roomba flits over carpets as well as on smooth floors. And, even if the Roomba is certainly not perfect, it is far more than a toy and become indispensable - just a great relief for everyday life (so far should be noted:. IRobot has quite great products all the more surprised me, as a undercooked thing like take the Braava, which was bought by the way of an external company, so is not an in-house development. explains the cube that's the Roomba so not there.)

When wiping dry but the rough edges remain virtually untouched, and many areas remain traces hair and lint.

Wipe dry? Is it possible to forget. Totally ridiculous: As a slightly damp cloth without any real pressure will gently shuffled on the floor back and. Then you have a completely smeared floor and dirty corners and edges. In addition, the Braava has no "Go back home" function such as the Roomba. Totally ridiculous, because in the worst case, the part with a wet cloth will stop for a few hours on sensitive ground when you forget it.

Shoe abrasion or the like does not get the Braava course away - such as with as little pressure? For this he is thrilled about spots that he smeared a large area in the terminal (tried it on unwaxed floors ...). Power indeed quite when one considers sense that since one and the same cloth is placed over the entire floor - without a single intermediate cleaning. Had to have thought beforehand that something so can not work - but whether the many positive reviews makes you feel a sudden, the thing might have a magic cloth, which the riff just yet. And then still the factor hygiene ... as already written, the same cloth is hunted all over the bottom without a single intermediate cleaning. Then still slightly damp, and the bacteria are spread particularly well.

Then still charging, clean the towels, which put into operation, etc. - maybe even the filling of the "water tank". That takes all his time. And so we have arrived at the heart of the matter reached: At the same time I have 70-80qm cleaned manually. Qualitatively much better than it ever could create the Braava. Vileda's wiper, which can now be filled with Cleaning fluid - great zwsichendurch for short cleaning. And the thorough cleaning with bucket is also done quickly, It seeks to good quality - and a thousand times more hygienic than what the Braava hosted there.

Overall, therefore, no real time saver. While the Roomba does of course not completely clean, but enough - and if it is to be perfect, the Nachsaugzeit reduced to a minimum. However, if the Brava is through the room, sees's not really good - and reworked here takes just as long as if you made it yourself from home.

Should I therefore still be "stupid" to apply the thing just really - it may it please let me know. I'm quite eager to learn and fänd's class, I would not have put the money in the sand. For those interested, I hope, however, very pleased to have delivered a few helpful suggestions to consider buying better.

SUPPLEMENT September 15, 2014
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Thank you first to the many "votes" -Bewerter who probably understood that he does not go to me Produktverriss, but rather an unflinching practice report far from any initial euphoria. I'm a "techie" through and through and love electronic toys, and of iRobot Roomba I have also, I - have closed fully in my heart - despite some shortcomings. The contrast is so Braava Ungar that I really balk, only the hair ...

Meanwhile, I had to realize that when using a damp cleaning cloth no real contact with the ground is - no matter which of the two base plates I take, and even under the original span cloth brings little. In addition, the Braava developed the character, irregular cheerfully indulge whistle - and with the same sound that acknowledged that the Braava placed on the pallet (or taken from selbiger) is. The latter is definitely a malfunction. Unfortunately, I have the Braava at iRobot even bought (have indeed a "German" Internet shop, but apparently in London operate) that do not hold it for four weeks needed to respond to my request repair ... Not nice!