Review (4/5): A great trimmer
I recently purchased this trimmer after going through many bargain basement off the shelf beard trimmers. Uneven cuts, poor battery life, hair spraying in all directions, all of you bearded gentlemen out there know the drill. This time I did a little research and got the Phillips Norelco T980 Turbo Vacuum Trimmer. The variable height cutting guard works well and the battery easily lasts a month on a charge for me. The vacuum works well in sucking up 95% of the trimmings and is easily cleaned. So far, the only issue is that the power control is a bit too easily activated when you are holding the unit in your hand, meaning that you can change your grip while trimming and accidentally turn the thing off. Also the power and turbo buttons are somewhat confusingly placed for my taste. What looks like a power button is the turbo button, so at first I picked the thing up and was stabbing at what I thought was the power button, and nothing was happening! I shifted my grip to look at the button at a different angle and, you guessed it, accidentally turned it on. Overall, a great trimmer, just watch you don't push the power switch too much!