Review ID: 33799

Review Text: Great Vacuum, but not Perfect. Great looking design, nice dark grey. Sports a distinct "D" shape and moves a relatively quick speed. Sound while vacuuming isn't exactly whisper quiet, but it's reasonable and quieter than most full-size vacuums. The charging base is relatively unassuming and tucks up against a wall without being too much of an eye sore. As far as the hardware is concerned it seems to work really well. It navigated my home and sucked up a startling amount of hair and dust. It worked great on both hard surfaces and carpet. Being able to manage it from my phone is a nice touch and at first use it seemed like the perfect robotic vacuum. Getting connected the first time seemed to take a couple attempts. Once it was set up, things seemed to work well. The first run took about 90 minutes and did a pretty great job mapping my home. It had to recharge itself once but resumed right where it left off. After the floor plan is created you can setup your "no go" zones, or boundaries where you don't want the Neato to go. Then you can setup a schedule and have the Neato do its thing. The Neato isn't perfect, from time to time it would return an error indicating that my base station had moved, and I would have to reset the unit and rebuild the floor plan. I'm not sure if this is common, but it does happen from time to time. A note should also be made regarding the unit's height - be weary of furniture that is exactly tall enough for the front of the unit to slide underneath, but not tall enough for the back of the unit. The unit would attempt to keep going as it would get jammed underneath my table and just eventually give up. Overall, the unit performs well and does a great job on pet hair and dust. I'm hoping a future firmware/software update will solve my reset issue - once that gets corrected, the Neato Botvac D4 will be one of the best in my book.

Gold Attribute: {'Color Category': 'black', 'Model Version': 'D4', 'Brand': 'neato robotics'}

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