What to choose if you have just decided to buy a robot vacuum cleaner

Sooner or later, everyone thinks about transferring some of their household responsibilities to technology.

For example, buy a dryer, multicooker,dishwasher or take a robot vacuum cleaner. Wouldn’t it be cool if during the working day a certain gadget activates on its own and does at least part of your routine tasks for you? Discuss

The problem is that sorting out the availableoptions are not easy. Judge for yourself: the category of robot vacuum cleaners opens on Yandex.Market with dubious inventions with a price of about two and a half thousand rubles (do not buy this) and ends somewhere in the region of one hundred and fifty (damn it) thousand for one device. The entry-level models will frankly make more noise than collect debris and dust on the floor, and the top models are endowed with a number of features that only a small number of buyers require. What to do in this situation?

A good plan is to look for vacuum cleaner brands thatevoke confidence. It is not worth aiming at the most budget models, as well as chasing the most expensive ones. For example, if your wish list is just daily maintenance cleaning, when the robot cleaner patrols the area and collects dust, hair and dirt, you might think about the new HONOR Robot Cleaner R1.

Robot vacuum cleaner appeared as part of the HONOR programChoice, that is, gadgets from third-party manufacturers that are produced with certain requirements for design, functionality and quality. So far, there are only a few such products, so each time you have to write about the same eyeliner for them, but over time, HONOR Choice will become a familiar thing, and everyone will know what to expect from these gadgets. Recently, we have already talked about the good and affordable HONOR Choice Earbuds X TWS headphones, now we have tested the second product from this series.

HONOR Choice Robot Cleaner R1 - good basea model for those who are looking for a robot vacuum cleaner for the first time, or have already managed to make sure that there is no need to pay crazy money for a gadget of this class and is looking for a replacement for a product that has served its purpose. I tell you what I'm talking about. Robot Cleaner R1 does not have a lidar capable of "seeing" the environment and building accurate maps of controlled territories. There is no self-cleaning function with dumping garbage into a separate container either. But let's be honest, both features are now the most expensive of all that can be found in robot vacuums. Are they necessary?

For example, you can definitely do without lidar inrooms with a simple layout, where there are no interior excesses that impede patency. Given the popularity of small apartments such as studios and euro-twos, it turns out that even without expensive options, the vacuum cleaner is able to cope with patrolling. And in the interiors now there is a fashion for minimalism, which also reduces the complexity of passing through the sections of the room. Finally, instead of overpaying for dumping garbage into a container (you still have to service it, just less often), it would be wiser to make sure that the selected robot model has a decent-sized dust container.

In terms of functionality, Robot Cleaner R1can collect dust and do wet cleaning of the premises, if you first change the container and pour water. The package includes the robot vacuum cleaner itself, two containers for dry and wet cleaning (the second one with a microfiber cloth), a charging station, a remote control without batteries, as well as a tool for cleaning and cutting hair, which can eventually wind around the brushes. There are no additional consumables in the kit, but they do not require frequent replacement, so you won’t have to think about buying them in the foreseeable future.

Of course, rely entirely onthis gadget is not worth it, after all, robots are created for supporting daily cleaning, and not as a replacement for a classic vacuum cleaner. After the purchase, we first advise you to walk around the apartment with a conventional vacuum cleaner, and after that it will be possible to issue the HONOR Choice Robot Cleaner R1 task. With automatic cleaning set up for every day or every other day, the house will become noticeably cleaner, including in the most problematic places - in the corners and near the baseboards. Wet should be done about once a week, after closing rooms from the robot where there are carpets and similar coverings in pile. Wet microfiber has nothing to do with them.

By the way, you can control the robot in different ways.The fastest and least functional is to press a button on the case and just send it to vacuum everything. There is also a remote control with the ability to directly control the movements, select the type of cleaning or return the robot to the base for recharging. But still, the most convenient way to interact is a mobile application. Probably, in order to encourage its use, the manufacturer did not include batteries for the remote control. On a smartphone, you can choose a regular cleaning schedule, monitor the success of past robot visits, force one of the available tasks to run, for example, cleaning the perimeter, the entire apartment, or a specific area.

Of the interesting features of HONOR Choice RobotCleaner R1 is also worth noting the small height and diameter of the case. This means that it easily penetrates under beds, wardrobes, cabinets and does an excellent job of getting between the legs of chairs. Dimensions are important parameters when choosing a robot vacuum cleaner. Finally, if we evaluate the quality of dry and wet cleaning, then Robot Cleaner R1 has no problems with this. The suction power is enough to effectively collect dust, debris and hair, it copes with navigation in space without any problems, the battery is enough even for spacious apartments, and the wet cleaning mode leaves behind a well-wiped floor without excess moisture. In general, HONOR turned out to be a quite high-quality basic model of a robot vacuum cleaner for those who just need to get an effective regular cleaning of the apartment and do not want to chase all sorts of bells and whistles.

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