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Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer without Bottle
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Manufacturer: Philips Avent
Find all by Philips Avent
Model#: SCF260/.33
Weight: lbs
Height: 9.40" | | Width: 5.50"
Length: 5.90"
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Average Rating: 1 out of 5 Stars
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Retail Price: $59.99
Online Sale Price: $55.00
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Features:- Warms frozen or chilled food and liquid
- Automatically calculates cycle time required
- Easy to use 2-button operation
- Interactive digital display, auto-shut off and sound alerts
- Fast warms in as little as 1 minute 50 seconds
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User Submitted Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer without Bottle Reviews
November 10, 2008
iQ = mentally retarded
I don't normally post product reviews, but I found the Philips Avent iQ Bottle Warmer to be so insanely frustrating to use that I am compelled to warn others about its bad design.
This product violates the basic rule of product design that interface buttons should only have one function. On the iQ, it has only 2 buttons to control several unrelated functions. Either the marketing department thought that having only 2 buttons looked cool or the accounting department is being overzealous in cost cutting.
Moreover, instead of giving the user a useful error message when something is wrong, all the lights on the front of the bottle warmer blink inexplicably. The bottle warmer will not operate until the user (a tired parent in the middle of the night with a screaming baby), pulls out the manual to troubleshoot the device.
I first thought the iQ was broken because you have to hold down the power button for 10 seconds to start it. After managing to turn it on, you have to push the same power button several times to cycle through the modes (as indicated by tiny hard to read lights). You have to set it each time because the iQ will not remember what mode you last used.
You then have to repeatedly push the other button to select the amount of fluid to be heated. If you pass your desired setting, you have to start the process all over gain. After repeatedly mashing the second button, you have to push and hold that same button to start the bottle warmer.
Most annoyingly, the bottle warmer interface will blink at you when there is a problem. The warmer will not start, and there isn't an error light indicating the specific problem. Not enough water added? Angry blinking. Lid not completely closed? Same blinking. Warmer needs descaling? Blink blink blink.
With a crying baby on my shoulder in the middle of the night, I have found it hard not to throw the iQ through the window in a fit of rage. Many times I have resorted to heating bottles under running tap water. I have no idea how the designers of this product expected the parents of newborns to master this device. Clearly they don't have children of their own.
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