Review (3/5): Doesn't live up to its billing.
This shaver is a bit of a disappointment. Based on the price and the reviews, I was expecting a really GREAT shaver. I give it three stars for "mediocre." It's just OK, definitely not great.
Charging: At a full charge, it will get me through ONE shave. But the motor starts slowing down before I finish. I've had other shavers that would get me through three shaves so I could leave my charger at home for short weekend trips. I won't be able to do that with this shaver. I can't even use the trimmer on the same charge as shaving. The bigggest disappointment is the EXTREMELY short duration of motor run time per full charge.
Shaving: It takes a LONG time to shave your face with this thing. Combined with the short motor run time per charge, that's a real issue. If you have a lot of time and you really enjoy shaving, I guess you might not mind how long it takes. I'm usually in a hurry. It takes approximately 50% longer to shave my face with this shaver than it did with my old Braun.
The gel dispenser is kind of a novelty item. I usually pump the gel out onto my fingertips and spread it on my face that way because it's too time consuming and uncomfortable to spread it with the shaver. When I use up the gel that came with it, I'll probably just use something else after that. Don't buy it based on the gel pump. It's no biggie.
The pros of this thing are a very COMFORTABLE and QUIET shave, albeit time consuming.
Quality of Shave: The closeness of the shave is AS GOOD any electric shaver I've owned, but not appreciably any BETTER. Definitely not as close as a blade, but hopefully no one is THAT naive!
Trimmer: The trimmer angle is good. Actually, I like the trimmer other than the fact that I can't trim on the same charge as shaving.
I'll probably keep using this thing since I've already bought it. But if I had it to do over again, I'd choose something else.