Philips Norelco i9000 Shaver Review (2025): A Close Shave

You ne'er really expect your shaver to person an sentiment astir you. And yet present I was, receiving a failing people from Philips Norelco’s caller i9000 Prestige Ultra shaver, released this spring.

According to a telephone app paired to nan device, I had apparently been utilizing my shaver wrong. I'd pressed excessively daintily, whispering on my tegument excessively lightly for an optimal shave. My stats were, successful fact, downright abysmal. I had applied optimal unit conscionable 30 percent of nan time. By extension, I had astir apt been utilizing immoderate number of shavers incorrect for years, without knowing.

“Let’s effort again!” nan app admonished me, pinch dream successful its robot heart.

The i9000 Prestige Ultra is, connected nan look of it, thing I would not person expected. It is an AI-trained shaver, offering real-time feedback to guideline each personification to their perfect shave—both done an app and via a light-ring collar that glows orange, green, aliases purple depending connected really good you’re doing. Just arsenic a awesome book teaches you really to publication it, this shaver apparently teaches you really to shave pinch it.

My editor was skeptical. ”No shaver moreover needs an app, fto unsocial 1 pinch metrics and judgment,” she wrote erstwhile I described it.

Except, nan funny point is, I apparently needed nan help. Within a fewer days, I hadn’t conscionable received a hearty congratulations from my shaver for my “perfect” mobility and pressure. I besides had achieved immoderate of nan closest shaves I’ve ever gotten from an electrical device.

I’m not moreover judge whether I want to beryllium successful a narration pinch a quality barber, fto unsocial an AI shaver. But to paraphrase the immortal Rasheed Wallace, tegument don’t lie. And excavation was unbothered and soft to nan touch.

The Head Philips

The i9000 Prestige Ultra, arsenic its lengthy sanction implies, is Philips Norelco’s existent premium shaver. It offers nan grip, heft, and equilibrium of immoderate well-made tool, and combines each spot of exertion Philips tin propulsion astatine it. It’s priced accordingly, northbound of $300.