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Mildly Infuriating

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Edit: see comments for clarifications.

I am probably late on this one, but god damn this is one nasty trick by Philips.

Context; I recently decided to upgrade my shaver, from a Philips One Blade to Philips an all-in-one-trimmer-7000. As you can see on the pictures below, they changed the charger for the adapter by maybe 1–2 millimetres, just so the old charger could not be used by the old charger. Now, this normally isn't a big deal, but with the new trimmer, the charger is USB-A only. Where's the previous one had the plug on it instead. To me this is mildly infuriating as I know need to get an extra adapter just to charge my shaver in the bathroom. They had the exact same design for the chargers, yet changed it just slightly so they wouldn't be able to be reused? Why... Philips... why?

Edit: many good points in the comments! I don't know how to manually check the voltage, but seems like folks figured it out in the comments too. Should have just been USB-C!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I lost the cable of a baby bliss trimmer. They have proprietary plugs that are about the same price as the trimmer. Moved away from them when ASAP...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Also very environmentally unfriendly. Shame on you, Philips!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The battery died on my old shaver. Because I can't leave well enough alone, I decided to see if I could replace it. Spent so much time tracking down the battery model number and looking for a replacement only to find out it's a standard triple a. It's identity was obfuscated by the stupid labeling. Soldered it in and bam, razor still works for several years.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If one of them is 5V then I have no idea why they didn't use Type B or Micro USB.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Type B or Micro USB is the worst cable ever created. Change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

B is fine, just a bit big. Agree on micro though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I literally won't buy a product that uses micro USB. It's the only.standard cable I have used where I've had both cables and the connector on the device fail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mini USB is much less popular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Doesn't break as often as Micro USB so I hate it slightly less. :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just on a regularly occurring basis. They were always the failure point in my devices.

Absolutely garbage durability.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Absolutely garbage durability.

That's why I also mentioned Type B

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How is USB-C worse than either of them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of pins, hard to solder, requires higher precision in PCB manufacturing. Type B has better mechanical properties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure most people here are talking about the usage side of things. If we were to go by effort to implement the connector, let's just go back to serial ports

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