Review (2/5): Shifts beard length setting without warning
My T980 does almost everything perfectly: it holds a charge for weeks; its vacuum reduces the number of trimmed hairs around the sink by about 70%; it feels wonderful and it works quickly.
However, my T980 does NOT stay at the level I set it at. If I don't firmly grip the length setting wheel it will jump from, say, a 5 to a 3 -- as it did this morning -- embarrassing me either by giving me a patchy trim or by forcing me to shorten my beard length.
This problem doesn't seem to be a result of the way I'm, say, holding the trimmer -- I used the [[ASIN:B0001HYL0M T765]] for four years without having this problem -- but rather a flaw in the trimmer itself. From these reviews, it seems like only a few of the T980s have this problem; still, you might want to try the [[ASIN:B000FED5D0 T780]], which doesn't seem to have this problem -- I wish I had.
Update 3/12/08: Make me look like a fool once, shame on me; make me look like a fool twice, shame on you.
I've used this trimmer about 12 times since writing this review, and by a combination of duct tape, a pinch grip, and a good deal of vigilance I had been able to avoid too many embarrassing shifts in beard length.
...until this morning, when it shifted silently from a 5 (Late Winter Academic Beard) to 3 (Peach Fuzz) in mid-shave. Two options: shave my entire beard to a 3, which is inappropriate for my face type, or look deranged because half of my face is at 5 and half is at 3.
I threw my T980 in the garbage ten minutes ago.