I picked up a compatible battery but haven’t taken the time to pull it apart yet. It does require soldering.
The company scrambled the model numbers and it’s not easy to figure out which are similar or even the same.
The obfuscation of product differences, release dates and nerfs to longevity are all over consumer goods.
I hope open product designs + micro hyper local manufacturing capability will deeply erode the power of companies creating these wasteful, capital-driven artifacts.
Its only smart-ish feature is the vibrating quadrant timer, it feels like it cleans more or less the same as my old Sonicare, it uses a normal AAA, and best of all it was like $30.
There's no real third-party ecosystem for heads yet, but I'll happily trade that for something that just works.
To me, it looks like they are charging more for increased inconvenience. What a crazy world
Maybe soniccare will be the high end model and Phillips will be the one with “special offers” aka making you listen to a jingle about mouthwash while brushing your teeth.
So what did you decide on?
Electric toothbrush marketing designations are out of control. When I was looking for one I found a website that went out of its way to identify which models were behind marketing wording and numbers and what their specs were (mainly: movements per minute and pulsations per minute). Companies love to rebrand the same models with different numbers based on how many additional brushes they put in the package but they rarely put those specs on their own websites. Anyway, oral b 2700 still looks good.
> is starting to shit the bed
Off-topic but... language, please ?
According to an ex-Sonicare senior engineer I work with, this is not actually what's important at all. The key thing they looked at (and still do look at) is the amplitude/travel distance of the bristle tips, and how that changes under load. It should stay strong under light load, but collapse under heavy load (so that when you mash the thing way too hard into your gums, power transfer stops and your gums don't get brutalized). It's a surprisingly delicate balance.
We recently had cause to look at a few of these devices (sorry for the vagueness, you know how it goes) and most of the non-Sonicare ones are pretty awful. The rotary Oral-B ones aren't bad at what they are, but they aren't the same. There is one Sonicare clone that really impressed though, and it's not expensive.
Isn't that what the pressure sensor is supposed to be for ?
Come on. Don't do that without naming it.
I thought the same until I tried a Sonicare. The cheap Oral B models feel more like power drills in comparison (and also started destroying my gums).