It features contour friendly flex heads but the actual shaving head does not pivot for shaving tricky angles of the face and neck that is why I had to do more effort for the accomplished shaves. The angular shape of the heads are useful for shaving hairs very comfortably and easily, but some user may feel uncomfortable for the lengthy edges and corners. The shaver may feel bulkier than the older ones since it has a fat girth and long body. This has a longer handle than older versions with angular shaped body instead of rounded.
#Philips razor series
The new Philips Series 5000 shaver comes in a mostly matte finished appearance. There is a lock icon in the LED display on the shaver to be sure about the travel lock when active and inactive. It’s very easy to activate and deactivate the travel lock with a single press and 3 second holding of the power button. Travel lock keeps the shaver secured from unintentional turning on from accidental press or outer hit. The Philips Series 5000 shavers come with travel lock mechanism. Therefore, it’s not a good choice for you if you shave your beards occasionally and needs trimming most of the time.īut it’s not an issue if you already have a separate trimmer or intend to buy a separate trimmer for trimming longer hairs. The popup trimmer is only for precision trimming.
#Philips razor professional
If you want to trim off the longer hairs for a stubble to operate the shaver for close shaves, you need to take support from a separate trimmer or a professional beard trimmer. The pop-up trimmer is handy for shaping the sideburns and mustaches but not good for trimming lengthy hairs. The new Philips Series 5000 shaver Philips Norelco 5300 comes with a popup trimmer instead of the older SmartClick trimmer. It’s better than suddenly turning off at the middle of the shave though. However, the new battery doesn’t provide exactly 60 minutes power of shave I found.īecause I could hardly shave with the new shaver at the last 5-10 minutes of the battery power whereas it slows down at the last period.
#Philips razor full
On the other hand, the older Series 5000 shaver provides 40 minutes of performance with a full charge. There is also a 5 minute quick charging option in the shaver that is handy for making urgent shaves when the battery power is empty and I’m on the go. The rechargeable battery provides 60 minutes of cordless performance with a full charge. Philips Norelco enlarged the rechargeable batteries in their new shavers and the Philips Series 5000 new shaver comes with an improved Lithium-ion battery. The shaver head doesn’t swivel like the older pivoting head but the independent flexible heads of the new Series 5000 shaver simply follow the contours and shaves off.īut I had to make some more wrist works with the new shaver for shaving tricky areas for its bulky and non-pivoting head.
#Philips razor skin
Philips Norelco a new 360° flexible shaving head technology in the Series 5 shaver that softly flexes on the face and adapts to the skin contact very intimately. I observed the SKinProtect blades provide more shaving comfort than the older multi-precision blades of the Philips 5000 shaver. Philips Norelco is pretty serious about the shaving comfort of their shavers and that is why they are implementing newer technologies to improve the shaving ease. The shaver comes with 45 rounded skinprotect blades that create 90,000 cross-cutting actions per minute. The manufacturer engineered the shaver blades to provide sharper cutting efficiency along with comfortable and irritation free glides.
Philips Norelco used new SkinProtect blades technology in the new 5000 series shaver. Moreover, the corners of the angular head may feel inconvenient for some regular rounder head users. Personally, I like the new angular shape that feels smarter and user friendly than the older shape.īut sometimes it feels awkward while making precision shaves since the head is a bit more elongated outside of the blades. The rounded head in the older Philips Series 5000 S5203/81 shaver looks like the typical rotary heads that maybe a better choice for some users. The new Philips Series 5000 shaver S5588 comes in a new angular shaped head instead of older rounded heads.