Melitta kettle

This is my third kettle in 3 years, I use it several times a day, and unfortunately that has not endured a long time no device.
The Melitta Aqua maker, bought at a local shop to 30 euro, I now valued initially after 2 days use, will possibly later Comments Add a comment.
The kettle is for the capacity of 1.5 to a maximum of 1.7 l quite high (with base well 25 cm), which does not bother me.
By pressing a button, the lid opens first time at an angle of
about 60 °; in order to fill it, one must be manually initially open it to continue on a 90 ° angle, but this is without any problems. I hope that this opening mechanism not soon occur, however, as it was in my previous kettle currently the case, I am optimistic.
The kettle boiled good five seconds strongly bubbly before it shuts down. Cold water boils in less than 4 minutes.
The blue LED light looks quite nice and through the large window you can see by quite well when the water is boiling hot.
The appearance is a matter of taste, really secondary for me, because personally I find white with black accents (and turned even the blue LED light) do not really fancy, but not bad either. Advantage of the white container is that you do not see the limescale as strong as with a black kettle.

Supplement: The spout is round, slightly wide, it comes to approximately 2 cm width, the hot water out for normal cups not really a problem, you may the kettle but not tilt too much, as everywhere else, even at the edge of the lid comes out of water.
The unit is relatively hot; if you pour water twice in succession and want to bring to a boil, that is a problem, because you have to attack the lid for complete opening and yes that is just too hot.
02.02.2012: After a week I have now also been problems with the opening mechanism:
The cover not always work reliably at your fingertips, but you can open it by hand

Supplement 09.08.2012
I use the kettle now somewhat rare, perhaps by my impression has it improved somewhat, but the problems with the opening mechanism have laid back and I have improved the rating from 3 to 4 stars, actually the best kettle, I've ever had, any quirks had any ....

Supplement November 2012:
After all, the kettle is still working reliably, the calcium deposits inside are ugly (stick anywhere, even on the plastic inner wall) but can be removed easily. Unfortunately, the device emits a lot of water vapor, until it finally shut down.

Addendum October 2013
The opening mechanism of the lid is completely broke down a few weeks ago, the cook still works flawlessly, I can replace the cover still manually with a little effort, but that's not even the point of a kettle. The lid has multiple daily opening and closing after less than 2 years and no longer participated. Nevertheless, this kettle has lasted longer than some others, but I wonder if I did not continue to bring my steel pot on the induction plate water to a boil, but takes almost 9 minutes. If anyone can recommend a nearly indestructible kettle, please report :-)