Binding: Health and Beauty
Brand: Remington
EAN: 0074590504903
Feature: Flex & Pivot Technology: 3 Independent Flexing Heads contour to angles on the chin and jaw line. Neck pivots in all directions for difficult areas like the neck
Label: Remington
Manufacturer: Remington
Model: R7130
Publisher: Remington
Release Date: 2008-06-23
Studio: Remington
MPN: PCRT7130

• Flex & Pivot Technology: 3 Independent Flexing Heads contour to angles on the chin and jaw line. Neck pivots in all directions for difficult areas like the neck
• World's Only Rotary With Smooth Glide Teflon Rotary Heads
• LCD Screen displays battery life in minutes
• Cord/Cordless Rechargeable � 20 days of cordless shaving
• Rubber Grips/Washable

Features: Titanium Flex 360. Titanium Coated Blades. Flex & Pivot Action. Pop-Up Trimmer. Informative LCD Panel. Corded / Cordless. Washable. Rubberized Non-Slip Ergonomic Grip.

Customer Rating:
Summary: MY Husband's Pride and Joy
Comment: My husband has tried all kinds of electric Razors (Shick & Norelco), but this one is the best of all. He get a smooth close shave with Reminton R-7130 Flex 360, and it does not leave his face irritated. The Rem hugs every curve of his face. He had me order another one for his co-worker as a present.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better - But Not Quite There Yet
Comment: I was hoping that Remington had developed a razor that bested Norelco's rotary razor.

While they have made some good steps, they have a little way to go yet.

First the Pluses -

-The Remington has a much larger clippings capacity. While the Norelco rotaries require cleaning after every shave (and sometimes halfway through a shave if your beard is thick enough or the cutting efficiency drops like a rock) unless you have very short whiskers, the Remington can hold several shavings worth of clippings because the space is so large beneath the razor heads.

-Cleaning is easier in that you can clean the razor heads under running water instead of taking the heads apart. This is a very tedious task with the Norelco, since it is difficult to reassemble the parts when you have them all dusted off. With the Remington, you can just pop the head from the body with the release button, remove the head from the body completely since it is held by a small clip and then run the heads under a stream of water. When done, ensure they are dry and then slip the clip back in place and close the head, after brushing out any loose whiskers in the space below the heads of course.

- The pop up trimmer is better than the one on the Norelco. It has a more powerful clipping motion so it more easily clips mustaches, sideburns, around beards, etc. A small negative is that it does seem to want to close more easily than the Norelco's, which seems to have a stronger spring to maintain its position. But the Norelco doesn't have half the power that the Remington trimmer has. So once you get used to using the Remington, you will like it much more than the Norelco for trimming.

-The remaining time until recharge LCD display is great. It lets you know how many minutes of power are left before you have to recharge the shaver. The maximum running time is one hour and it counts down the remaining minutes in dark grey numerals on a medium grey display just below the power button. It is about 1/2 inch high by 3/4 inch wide so the numerals are easily read even without glasses for those with vision problems.

-Powerful cutting. This razor cuts my beard much more quickly than my Norelco does. Where my Norelco takes four or five strokes across my cheeks to get all of the whiskers cut off, this does it in one or two strokes, three at most. The Norelco is severely underpowered, which may be why it is so much quieter than the Remington is.

Now for the Negative points:

- The charging is via a simple cord that plugs into the bottom of the shaver. My Norelco shaver has a charging stand, so just setting the razor into the stand begins the recharging process. It has two LEDs, a green one telling you it is charging and a red one telling you that it needs to be recharged. But it doesn't give you clue about how much remaining time there is before you need to recharge it. While this isn't a major negative point against the Remington, it is a bit irritating unless you travel a lot, where the charging stand would then be a negative point for the Norelco.

- Noisy. This razor sounds like a grinder. When shaving, sometimes it sounds like the razor is grinding its own blades and maybe it is. I haven't removed the blades from the head to find out if it is doing so or not. Because it is new, maybe it is grinding away high spots on the cutting blades but after a number of shaves using it, the sound is getting worse, not better.

- The "Teflon" coating on the heads hasn't made the razor any less irritating to my skin. With my Norelco, after one or two shaves, the irritation was virtually gone while with the Remington it seems to be getting worse the more times I have used the shaver.

- The "Floating" heads are not floating enough. The Remington uses a concept where the entire platform the heads are mounted upon floats. So all three heads are still on the same plane, but the plane itself tilts to adjust to the angles of your face. The problem with this is that it works for wide planes like your cheeks and your throat areas. But when you get to your chin and jaw line, the angles are too sharp to allow the floating heads to effectively work.
The Norelco, on the other hand uses an individual head floating system where each head tilts independent of the other two. In addition, each head has its own individual platform that also tilts independently of the other two head platforms. This allows for an even greater float angle that if only the heads themselves floated. What this does is make for much better and closer cutting along the jaw line and the chin areas, while still performing fairly well on broad areas like the cheeks and neck (though not as well as the Remington if you have fairly flat cheeks).
So while the Norelco doesn't do as good of a job on those areas as the Remington does, it is far superior to the Remington on the chin and jaw areas.
The best of both worlds would be to incorporate the two concepts together, with the entire head mount tilting like it does with the Remington and yet having the individual heads and their individual platforms to independently tilt to allow for better and closer coverage of angular areas like the chin and jaw areas.
The Remington is closer to achieving this since it has the broad head platform already floating and the heads floating within that broad head platform. All that is needed is for them to make the last step of making the heads sit on individual head platforms set into the broad head platform they already have and they would end up with a better system than Norelco's.

-Quality. I couldn't believe it but in the middle of shaving, a drive shaft for one of the floating heads actually fell off! They are plastic drive shafts and they are mounted in thin plastic mounts. I don't know for sure what happened but I assume that when the platform tilted too far in one direction it put enough side force on the shaft to dislodge it from its setting. It may not have been completely aligned after the last time I cleaned it, but because the shafts are so long because of the larger capacity for clippings the shafts mat not have seated correctly in all three heads. It was very easy to put in back into the setting, but if you were doing your shaving over the sink you have to hope the shaft foesn't fall down the drain! Too easy, which is probably why it threw the shaft in the first place. Either the plastic is too soft or too thin to tolerate much side force before dislodging.
This has never happened in well over 20 years of using Norelco rotary razors. Norelco uses drive shafts that are about three times as thick as the ones Remington uses and are not easy to remove at all. This bothers me in that we are talking about shafts that are about 1/2 to 5/8 inch long and about 3/8 inch thick on the Norelco and about 1/8 (or perhaps 3/16 or maybe 5/32) inch thick in the Remington, while the Remington shafts are twice as long which allows for more distortion since the whole platform the heads sit on is so flexible. That is the trade off for having a higher capacity to store clippings. So Remington should not have decreased the diameter of the shafts so they are so much thinner than those that Norelco uses. I believe if Remington used shafts as wide as Norelco's, this problem wouldn't occur.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great if you use an electric! Wouldn't make me change though...
Comment: I've been shaving for over 20 plus years now... and not once have I purchased an electric razor. I received this one for free, so I figured why not. This electric razor gets the job done! It gets all the stubble and then some. My face feels almost as smooth as a razor and cream shave. Easy to use, easy to clean, and I would definitely consider this as my electric razor of choice. As I stated in the title though... this unit would not make me change the way I've been shaving. I am happy with traditional shaving cream and razor.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Manual razor guy pleasantly surprised
Comment: A long, long time ago, when I was fresh out of college, my cousin sold Remington shavers and got me one for insider price. It was the old-fashioned straight-line kind. I tried it once and it irritated my skin so much that I never tried it again. I've stuck with sensitive-skin products like Edge and the various generations of Gillette multiblade hand razors since.

When I read about this new Remington, with its Teflon coating, I decided to try electric shaving again. I was a little hesitant at first, but when the Remington got here I decided to go for it. First of all, it's a good size and weight for my hand, which is maybe a little larger than normal. It balances well and so it's easy to control its movement.

Surprisingly, the shaver came charged for 60 minutes of use (even though they tell you to charge it for 24 hours before using). I really like the LCD readout that shows you how many minutes of charge are left.

I have to admit I was a little nervous about putting it to my face, after the bad experience from decades ago. I took my first shave very gently and wasn't concerned with how close a shave I could get. This really helped me get a feel for how to move the rotary blades around my face and neck. Two days later I tried it again, and this time I tried to go for a gentle but close shave. I got a better feel for the circular motion and found that I didn't have to press nearly as hard as I thought to get a decent shave. It helped a lot to do as they advised: pull your skin tight as you move along so that your hairs stand up as much as possible.

Bottom line: By my third try I got a good close shave and only the slightest irritation--and that was around the moustache area where it is indeed much more difficult to maneuver. I have to agree with other posters here that this is one area that needs improvement. The Teflon seems to make the shave palatable even for my sensitive skin. I felt no hair pulling at all and a fairly smooth ride across my face. I still have a ways to go in my "technique" to get a quick, smooth shave, but I really think this newfangled gadget is going to do the trick.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Quiet, smooth shaving, cordless razor
Comment: The Remington R-7130 Flex 360 LCD cordless razor has a head made of Teflon so it feels smoother and it also pivots, so you can shave anywhere around your face very easily. You even get great results around the neck area. The final result is a smooth, close cut and this is remarkable considering you don't feel like you just had a shave. My mother-in-law was very pleased to see her son looking so clean shaven!

This is a rechargeable dry shave razor with three shaving heads that rotate in all directions adjusting to the contours of the face and neck. There is a large digital LCD that shows the remaining minutes of shave time - really handy and an improvement on the razor this replaced.

The sleek design makes it easy to hold, and it is very quiet. Oh, and it is also easy to clean (just rinse the head assembly with warm water).

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