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 the device, I had seemingly 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 the time. By extension, I had astir apt been utilizing immoderate fig of shavers incorrect for years, without knowing.

“Let’s effort again!” the app admonished me, with anticipation successful its robot heart.

The i9000 Prestige Ultra is, connected the look of it, thing I would not person expected. It is an AI-trained shaver, offering real-time feedback to usher each idiosyncratic to their perfect shave—both done an app and via a light-ring collar that glows orange, green, oregon purple depending connected however good you’re doing. Just arsenic a large publication teaches you however to work it, this shaver seemingly teaches you however to shave with it.

My exertion was skeptical. ”No shaver adjacent needs an app, fto unsocial 1 with metrics and judgment,” she wrote erstwhile I described it.

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

I’m not adjacent definite whether I privation to beryllium successful a narration with a quality barber, fto unsocial an AI shaver. But to paraphrase the immortal Rasheed Wallace, tegument don’t lie. And excavation was unbothered and creaseless to the touch.

The Head Philips

The i9000 Prestige Ultra, arsenic its lengthy sanction implies, is Philips Norelco’s existent premium shaver. It offers the 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.