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I just went through this too, and I ended up with a Philips One.

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.

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I bought the simplest one. No app, no 1000 "different" vibration patterns, no charging glass, no nothing.

To me, it looks like they are charging more for increased inconvenience. What a crazy world

Also, consider the Kids model. It's the real deal, just with a kid-friendly sticker on it (designed to be interchangeable by kids, so easy to remove). It's got the full-featured, full-power previous(?) generation Sonicare resonant motor, no NFC, no stupid "pressure sensor" button, and no BS. If you can stand that sticker!

Expect that to change as Phillips bought SonicCare in 2020.

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.

Philips has owned Sonicare for as long as I can remember, at least 15-20 years. My toothbrush is actually branded “Philips One by Sonicare,” but I won’t pretend to know what their strategy is with that.

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