Completely happy with this shaver on 2012

I bought this shaver to replace my 5-year-old Philips HQ7830. Yes, this 8240 is a pretty good shaver. Compared to other shavers I've had in the past (Remington, Panasonic, Braun), it gives a reasonably smooth shave and has a good trimmer. It is fairly light and is comfortable to hold and maneuver. It is also much quieter than the old Philips it replaces.

However, this new shaver disappoints me in several ways: In careful side-by-side tests over a month, the new shaver with its fancy three-ring heads shaved me no better than the old one's single-ring "7 Series" heads that are 2-1/2 years old. In fact, I think it might be pulling my skin a little bit more, and I seem to have more ingrown beard hairs than before.

Also, the new shaver's lithium-ion battery doesn't last as long as the old nickel-cadmium battery of the old shaver (which I maintained very carefully). Worse yet, the new shaver's battery dies very suddenly, without warning -- there's no battery level light or gauge, and only a barely perceptible slowdown in blade speed shortly before it stops. If you're not with your charger and near an outlet, you're out of luck.

The old shaver sealed the motor spindles from water, so you could rinse the shaver and shake it out. The new one channels water down past the motor spindles and through the shaver body, so it drips out the bottom around the charger plug contacts. I worry about a potential short circuit when plugging in the charger when the shaver is wet, and also that the interior channels might eventually clog with hair residue and mineral deposits if water dries inside the machine. I hope the usually careful Philips engineers have thought about these issues.

In summary, I would recommend this shaver to someone buying their first Philips. But if you have an old Philips, consider keeping it. A new one might be no better, and maybe even worse. Used this shave for 5 months now, and I have to say I'm not happy with it.
If you let your hair to grow a little bit before shaving (say, over a weekend or 3-4 days vacation), you won't like shaving with it.

Neck area is a brutal challenge for this shave. It completely ignores tons of hair on the neck, and only scrubbing it with a side cutter (or whatever it's called) will more of less cut the hair about half-way.

Mustaches area, if you let the hair grow there for a couple of days, will be a pain to shave. And I mean "pain". From the very start, when blades on it were completely new, it would pinch and tear out the hair from the skin, which is quite painful. Right now every time I shave that area I can't help but anticipate the pain that always follows.

I will be throwing this thing away and returning back to a horizontal shave from Panasonic, which was way better.

My recommendation - look elsewhere, this thing shaves like a $10-dollar discount shaver from Ross.

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