Works best on hard floors--not enough oomph for carpet.
Let me start by saying--skip the smart phone app.  Mine crashed every 30 seconds (or less).  This comes with a remote and that should be all you need.<br /><br />I've never gotten one of these autonomous vacuum cleaners because I've always been a bit skeptical about how well they would actually clean the room.  The Hoover Quest 700 is my first one and I think my suspicions have been confirmed.  Oh, sure--it picks up dirt and crumbs and things, but it just doesn't do nearly as good of a job as our upright, manual vacuum (also a Hoover, in case you wanted to know).  The upright will fill up its canister on carpets that don't even look all that dirty in 10 minutes of vacuuming.  This Quest 700 scuttled around the floor for about that long and got some stuff, but compared to the upright, it was laughably little.  I also watched as it did its thing and noticed that it sometimes missed debris.  There was some paper (the shreds that are left after tearing a page out of a spiral notebook) on the floor that it passed over a few times before it finally got it all up.  Note that I even picked up with it missed and put it directly in its path and it still only got it about 75% of the time.  The upright would have gotten it in 1 swoop, no sweat.<br /><br />That's carpet.  It seemed to do pretty well on hard floors where it didn't have to work against all the carpet fibers.  I think that's where it got most of the stuff I emptied from its waste bin.  Oh, yeah--getting to and emptying its waste bin was more difficult that I would have expected.<br /><br />Yup--for carpets, I'd call this a toy.  It's something to keep the kids busy and happy while also picking up a few spare crumbs here and there.  When you really want to get the carpet clean, though, you will need some bigger guns.  As noted above, I've never tried a Roomba or other similar device, but I suspect I'd feel the same about it as well.  If your goal is to pick up cat hair from a wood floor, however, I'm sure this would do the trick quite nicely.<br /><br />On the plus side, it is very quiet (aside from all the beeping that came as a result of connecting and disconnecting from my phone).  The &#34;Spot clean&#34; function seemed to do the best job of really getting a particular area clean.  Just watching it do its thing naturally, I couldn't help but notice that it passed over the same few spots several times before ever getting other spots the first time.
Rating: 3 stars