ILIFE Robotic vacuums, Pearl White

The media could not be loaded. I always wanted to try one of these robot hoovers out, since I found out they were out. I managed to get one of these out and I want to share what it is like to you guys.When you receive the item, you get plenty of accessories with the hoover and also I did read the manual as I wanted to make sure I knew how to use it before messing around with it. I placed the docking station on a safe place according to the manual and attached 2 aaa batteries to the remote which is included. I did then the hoover it self and placed it on the charging station to charge for a couple of hours.*Using itYou can program the robot when to clean using the remote. You can set times each day when it can clean for example and it will still do it even If you were away. Once it was fully charged, I used the remote to start it up. I was really chuffed to see it clean my room pretty well actually. It was really smart on avoiding to hit walls, cabinets and other things in my room. It does a really good job on sucking in the dust however, don't expect it to suck all the hair stuck on the carpet. It did clean most spots that it was able to go to which was really impressive. Not once did it ever got stuck anywhere and when I told it to go home, it drove to the docking station to charge. Once you are done using it, just have a check If the on board bin is full and discard it and you will be impressed how much it has actually cleaned your room. On the top of the hoover, you can press the clean button for it to start cleaning and as mentioned, you can press the hatch to access the little bin box it has inside.*Do I have to watch it all the time?Not really however, It all depends on your home. For my room, it never got stuck and it did a really good job on cleaning it out and docked back to the station once It was done and the battery life is really good too. As mentioned, you can set times for it to clean and you got to watch out If you do have animals as they probably wouldn't like this. It does a really good job on avoiding falling in the stairs and even objects in the room. Even when it cleaned under my table, it was able to get out without any problems.*Is it loud?Not as much as a big hoover (obviously). It's cleaning power considering the size is really good. I can easily still do my work in my room while this is going on and I did not mind it at all.*Does it do a good job?Yes it does actually. Once I finished using it, I did check on the box inside the hoover to chuck out the dirt of the floor. It collected a lot of dust and I was really shocked that It was able to suck all of that considering it's size. I was really happy with the performance of this hoover on this test.*Is it made well?It has a mostly plastic construction however I do believe this is normal for all hoovers anyway and It is pretty durable to be honest. Even if it hits walls and objects, I am sure this hoover will last for years even If it is used for a lot. it has some good weight to it as well, so you can tell the motor and battery are top notch.Would I recommend one?YES!. It is such a brilliant thing to have and actually really useful For carpet or solid floors, it performs really well. It will do the odd clean and would keep your house mostly less dusty than If you just left it. It wouldn't replace the actual big hoover but it did a really good job in my room and it feels much cleaner than before For the price, it has loads of feature and is made really well, There is additional accessories when the ones you got for your hoover is out of use and you can just easily replace it with this. I am sure most people who get this will absolutely love it.

Great little unit when it worked for first few months, you wouldn’t have known I owned a large dog as my floor was so clean. The hoover now is completely useless.It charges fine and has been properly maintained. I had to get a new dust collector box as the catch snapped on the original one to which iLife sent out for free once they had confirmed my purchase.Once this was over it was back to the cleaning until the hoover just kept stopping a week or two later.Now the hoover just beeps and refuses to move.I found the iLife user manual and website pretty unhelpful as they could not advise on how to rectify the fault either other than suggesting I clean the hoover which I already did regularly as well as replacing the filter brushes etc every month.A real shame as this was a great little item initially but I would not recommend it after it breaking so quickly.

This is a superb value robotic hoover, I'm absolutely delighted with it.Have had an interest in robotics hoovers for a few years - thought it was a great technological idea, and my mum got one a couple of years ago. However, always think they struggle to justify the cost - some of the high end machines are best part of a grand, which even if they leave the place spotless, is simply not worth the money.This is brings robotic hoovers down to the affordable, while being very effective.Setup was very easy. There are extra functions on it, but you can pretty much plug in the charging dock, the vacuum clear, and click the clean button, and it'll just start working away.It works at a fairly random looking pattern - I wouldn't expect it look as if you had run a normal hoover over it right away, but the advantage is switching it on and letting it run while you're out/busy elsewhere, and just let it plug away while expending no effort. Approaching it like this, you'll come back and see very clear carpets, as will have gone over everywhere several times.Battery life seems to be very good, 1.5-2 hours each time I've used it. The dust compartment needs emptied fairly frequently, but again, if you can get in a mentality of running this more often than doing the hoovering as a normal chore, then it doesn't really matter, as you don't get the same build up.This is ably assisted by the planning mode, allowing you to schedule in when to kick off cleaning, so the robot can be busily hoovering away while you're at work.There are additional useful modes - in particular spot cleaning, and wall cleaning modes - that more expensive hoovers don't often have. I found the wall clean in particular great - with the brushes that flick out from the sides of the robot, it really scoops up a lot of detritus that is in against the wall very nicely.The robot looks pretty sleek, and is also lightweight and easy to move around, so brilliant for transporting between floors of a house as necessary.In summary, this is a superb piece of kit. Incredibly competitive in an emerging market, it's great to see this kind of quality and feature set delivered for such a low price - highly recommended.