BraunElectric Razor for Men, Series 7 7085cc 360 Flex Head Electric Shaver with Beard Trimmer, Rechargeable, Wet & Dry, 4in1 SmartCare Center with Clean & Renew Refill Cartridges, 6 Count, Pack of 1

So, I had high expectations for this device. I remember watching Braun commercials as a kid in the '80s and they presented themselves as something like the BMW of shaving devices , and appeared to have earned the right to make that claim. German engineering has historically meant tight tolerances, form following function, and endurance. So at 47 I decided I was going to plunk down nearly $200 on a device that appeared tailor made to my needs and was expecting a device with some heft and the aforementioned characteristics. The module that you hold in your hand with the on/off controls, motor, driver and battery has a nice slightly tacky rubber skin and nestles right in your hand, but once I started swapping out the shaving head, beard trimming head, buzzy chop your beard down to size head, I started to have some doubts. The receiver for these attachments and the top of the handheld module was made entirely of plastic with a couple plastic spindles that extended out of the top of the device and mated with the cutting attachment. The buzzy beard chopper worked Ok, and it was basically a couple of buzzing blades wrapped in some plastic protective shields, so they clearly weren't intended for precision shaving, but they knocked down my beard pretty well and made it shave ready, but when I added the beard trimming attachment that's when the problems started. Apart from the trimming blade itself the rest of the attachment was again made of plastic, and the clipper grabbed my beard four of five times within the first minute or two of it's first use, and gave me a good pinch on one of them, and at that moment I was glad I had held onto my Wahl peanut because the clipper on the Braun was not going to get the job done. When I finally got the beard chopped down close enough to use the foil shaving head I noted it was also mostly made of plastic, apart from the foil itself and the cutting blades, and much to my dismay the foil cutting head also tugged at my beard, also in a relatively painful fashion, so after testing all three cutting heads on the first test drive I reluctantly decided this device just wasn't going to get the job done. Given the articulating head I tried to give it a chance by exploring various angles of attack, but there was no angle that I could find that ended the grabbing and plucking problem, and by the time I had finished taking it for a test drive on just one side of my face it seemed crystal clear there were two factors creating a kind of synergistic failure. #1 was the quality of my beard, unlike the brown hair I am still lucky to have blanketing my entire head, the hair in my beard is almost entirely gray and anyone with gray hair in their beard knows they are almost as durable as the fibres in a brillo pad. The second factor was the sloppy engineering tolerances in the foil shaving attachment. In spite of the fact the foil shaving head has two foils each with its own cutting head, separated by a slight gap, the dual foil setup was incapable of delivering a clean shave even after moving it back and forth several times like a lawnmower moving back and forth along the same cutting path, but regardless of how many times I did this it just couldn't deliver a close shave. By contrast, my little $25-30 Panasonic wet drive battery powered shaver with only a single foil made quick work of cleaning up after the Braun. The foil on the Panasonic is also a complete hemispherical arc, whereas the foils on the Braun were formed in a kind of lazy arc something like if you tried to putt a golf ball at a hole ten feet away and the ball drifted maybe 4-6 inches to the right at the center of it's path of travel and then slowly drift left again and arrive at the hole in a straight line with the position of the ball when it was first struck, the takeaway from this being the foil only seemed to achieve flush contact with the skin at the apex of this arc, as such limiting the effective cutting surface of the foil to a narrow band down the middle representing 5-10% of the total surface area. I might not have the math here precise to six-sigma standards, and probably should have waited to seal the return box for the device until I finished this review, but I am hardwired for binary thinking the MBTI refers to as The Mechanic", and I held my face very close to a large mirror as I moved the razor back and forth as slowly as I could, as perfectly straight as I could, then switched to moving over a path like an ellipse so it would hit the hairs from every angle, then rotated it slowly like a Roomba confused about which direction to head in next, and even after all that, and 20 or 30 hairs that felt like they had been plucked by the coils of an Epilady, the left side of my face still looked like I tried to shave in the dark with a set of dull clippers with a cutting guard that appeared to rise and fall like the horses on a carousel because the hairs on his face ranged from long to short and then sloped backup to long again, or like a lawnmower than ran on shocks that would rise and fall like the pole running vertically through the aforementioned carousel horses. I am probably rambling now, but the first thing that comes to mind every time I reflect on my disappointment at it''s performance is the cutting heads that were each made almost entirely of plastic, and not the kind of polymers Glock uses to make every part of their high performance handguns except the barrel, but the kind of plastics those cheapo companies used to make the squirt guns you played with as a kid that came out of the bag with cracks in the seams that would leak water so fast you might get off 4 or 5 trigger pulls before the gun ran dry. If I haven't made it clear enough every one of the cutting head seems poorly constructed and flimsy, and even at 6'2" and 250# I can stomp on a lego and not damage it in the slightest, but I could probably stomp on all these attachments and the same time and they when I lifted my foot it would likely look like I stomped on some plastic oyster crackers. OaO.

I upgraded from an older series 7 Braun shaver to the 7085 shaver. The shave is much improved and love that the foil stays on the face during the entire shave. It moves over the chin, neck and face with ease and stays flush. This provides a nice close shave without any nicks. The attachments are nice and several were included which are great for sideburn trimming, beard trimming and stubble trimming. Its a little bit of an effort to remove the foil and snap on the other attachments and I miss the pop up trimmer on my old shaver but they all perform well. The cleaning system is a little different and in order to charge the shaver while in the smart care unit, you have to also clean it. The old system didn't require this. Not a big deal as the shaver will last a long time between charges so you can just let it sit in the smart care system and just clean when you need to and get a charge. Now the bad part which is the instructions. There are pictures without much explanations so you have to try decipher what it means. I did figure it out as there is an info button on the shaver and when you press this it runs through the battery status, foil status and cleaning status. I did a chat with with customer service and high bars on each of these are good (full charge, good foil, and clean unit) whereas a low bar/no bar means its time for a charge, the foil needs to be changed and/or the shaver needs to be cleaned. It is a wet/dry shaver so you can shave with soap/water if you want and you can also just clean the shaver/foil under soap and water if you want. So this is a nice feature and can reduce how often you run it through the smart care cleaner. So all in all I am happy with it and the shaver is a nice upgrade.

This Braun is replacing my old series 5 electric razor. Luckily I did not pitch the series 5 because I have to pull it out each time to trim my sideburns, or around my ears. This new Braun's trimmer head cannot get close enough to cut sideburn whiskers. It appears to be a design flaw because the plastic on the two sides sticks out much further than the razor cutting portion.

I GAVE IT A 3 CAUSE I JUST RECEIVED IT LAST NITE AND STILL CHARGING,BUT MY OLD ONE,DIFFARENT MODEL WAS TERRIBLE,HARDLY USED IT AND IT DONT WORK AT ALL,TRYS TO PULL HAIR OUT. E MAILED THEM AND NO REPLY,AND CUSTOMER SERVICE VERY POOR.HOPE THIS ONE MUCH BETTER yes,days later,after trying out the new one,works very well. really like it. to bad the first one really dissapointed me

It was a bit slower to use than I expected. The quality seems OK and yes the documentation is not very good. About 6 months in and it still works like new. The cleaning LCD segments still show full after 6 months so I'm not sure what those are supposed to do. I'm pretty sure I could have gotten an equivalent shave for much less. So lesson learned - spending an extra hundred dollars doesn't get you much more, if any.

I have used a Series 3 and was satisfied with it. I decided to upgrade to the series 7. I am very satisfied with this product. I take it with me when traveling in the provided case. The cleaner is very convenient. It shaves very well with zero irritation. It leaves a clean face. I recommend this to anyone.

Fácil de usar y de calidad

Smooth shaveVery bulky with all of those fancy attachmentsDefinitely not for travel (compare to 3 series)

Easy to operate, clean shaven.

Que no lastimay que rasura bien

Mis 2 rasuradoras previas eran la Braun serie 3, y dudé muchísimo el comprar algo tan costoso, ya q a los 2 años dejaban de funcionar; ahora creo tendré que comprar los repuestos mejor.La barba de 1 día la rasura al ras en seco, con solo pasarla 3 veces sobre la misma área; deja el mismo resultado que ponerse fomentos calientes y usar rastrillo nuevo, pero sin irritar; En la regadera igual.No sé cómo lo hace, pero abre el poro y te afeita excelente, sin irritación. Me disminuyó el tiempo dedicado a la rasurada a 1-2 min.Respecto al ruido, es silenciosa. Se recarga en 0.5 hr, y dura 3 semanas. Hasta ahora puedo decir que vale cada centavo.Además la compre a meses sin intereses, lo que me descapitalizó menos

É o barbeador elétrico mais eficiente que já usei. O melhor para quem tem barba serrada e pele fina. Adorei.

This is my second Braun shaver, my first one lasted years and still keep it as spare, this new one has great battery life, it won’t give you a super clean shave like a razor but good enough, can’t beat German quality