Oral B Guide Alexa, the luxury smart health connected toothbrush that talks
Oral B Guide Alexa the luxury smart health connected toothbrush that talks to advise and entertain you is it worth the investment?
Oral B Guide Alexa, the luxury smart health connected toothbrush that talks
Price: 229 € | Orabl B (group Procter & Gamble – USA since 1837)
The all-new Oral-B Guide from Procter & Gamble is an oral hygiene solution with a voice-activated toothbrush that promises to support you for more efficient brushing. But, she does a lot more if you’re willing to break your Passbook A for her.
The idea is topair a speaker with Alexa voice assistant with a smart toothbrush to make going into the bathroom more fun. The Oral B Guide becomes your oral coach.
Indeed, according to Carlos De Jesus, senior vice president of P&G, North America, only 20% of people brush their teeth properly. Let’s assume that you (and I) are among the 74% of French people who brush their teeth at least twice a day (after a meal and without snacking between), we have room for improvement.
Design and quality of the Oral B Guide Alexa
The Oral-B Guide is a compact 2-in-1 device designed for the bathroom and integrating the Alexa system. It uses a single outlet to limit the bulk. You benefit from a mini speaker with a 360 degree broadcast sound.
Its design is also designed to resist splashing water.
The base has 4 LEDs which change color depending on your actions:
- White light represents 30 seconds in each quadrant of your mouth (to arrive at a total of 2 minutes),
- It turns red if you brush your teeth too hard,
- And finally green when you have reached the recommended two minutes of washing.
Features: brushing tips + all the possibilities of Amazon Alexa
A powerful electric toothbrush
The brush head is oscillating and rotating, it promises like most electric toothbrushes to remove 100% more plaque than manual brushing.
Initially, you can choose from the 6 brushing modes of the Oral-B Guide:
- Daily cleaning,
- Gum Care,
- Gentle for sensitive people (to be combined with very soft bristles)
- Bleaching,
- Tongue cleaning (ideal mode to remove any odors)
- and Pro clean.
A smart health connected dental coach
The goal is toimprove your dental hygiene habits and track your progress over time. In fact, the charging base smart health connected to your Wifi offers a service comparable to fitness tracker. It collects information during your teeth washing sessions.
Oral-B Guide guides you as you brush your teeth and provides you with intelligent, real-time feedback on the optimal brushing frequency, duration, coverage and pressure.
You will need to add the free Oral-B skill from your Amazon account, then you will access the special smart health connected toothbrush voice commands:
- “Alexa, how’s my brushing?” “
- “Ask Oral-B to start my brushing timer. “
- “Alexa, ask Oral-B to start the brush timer. “
- “Ask Oral-B to whiten teeth”
Note: To my knowledge the skill is only available in English and German.
In addition, you access your data from your smartphone thanks to the‘Oral-B Connect app. But, you can also receive a summary by email or synchronize data with Apple Health.
- Download the app for Android phone on Google play
- The version for iPhone or iPad on itunes.
All Alexa voice assistant services
With built-in Alexa, you can, as with an Amazon Echo speaker, take advantage of the various daily aids:
- Listen to music,
- Consult the news,
- Check the weather forecast where the traffic road to get to work,
- know your appointments or receive your alerts,
- control smart health connected devices in your health home like lighting.
- But also, order products on Amazon, for example “Alexa, order replacement Oral-B brush heads”.
Price and availability Oral B Guide
The Oral B Guide Alexa system is marketed in the USA at $ 229, so we should find it quickly here, for the modest sum of € 229. The price of 10 dental appointments. So for this price you are entitled to:
- The Oral-B electric toothbrush and its Oral-B brush
- Its charging base to plug into a standard electrical outlet
- Alexa voice assistant,
- and a quick start guide.
The best electric toothbrushes 2020 toothbrush:
- I do not recommend 360 ° automatic toothbrushes, if the concept is attractive, they do not wash the teeth properly.
- The basic electric toothbrush Fairywill with 5 washing modes, less than 20 € (the one I use in comparison to other smart health connected dental products).
- If you prefer well-known brands as an entry-level electric model, the excellent Philips Sonicare ProtectiveClean 4300 around 49 € (promo).
- I recommend (full Review to come at the start of the school year), the smart health connected version with color touchscreen, theOclean X Pro at 59 €.
- Philips Sonicare 9100 Diamond Clean, design very similar to the Oclean, without touch screen, but smartphone application and above all a very original glass for recharging (sold at 189 €).
Oral-B Guide Alexa First Notice
Oral-B Guides Alexa the smart health connected toothbrush with vocal and light coach
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Design – 8.8 / 10 -
Features – 9.1 / 10 -
Connectivity – 9.5 / 10 -
Audio – 5.5 / 10 -
Brushing efficiency – 9.5 / 10 -
Quality / Price Ratio – 3/10
7.6 / 10
Oral-B Review Alexa Guide
For simplicity, I find that the price is exaggerated for a system well done, but in the end complicated to solve a relatively simple problem of insufficient brushing time and poor technique.
Currently, a Oral-B Pro 2 costs € 39 and a speaker Amazon Echo Dot 3 between 54 € and 59 €. Or a total of 100 euros, with a much more powerful speaker. The integration and connection of its two products in one would therefore be worth 120 euros! For me the correct price is below the 120 € mark. Very high prices compared to theOclean X Pro.
Now, I recognize that the software part and the performance monitoring as a tooth scrubber bring a fun and motivating aspect. The device is aProven by the American Dental Association (ADA) (strict lab tests to meet dental standards approved by ADA and American National Standards Institute).
After that, we can also be sensitive to the brand Indeed Oral-B is the world leader in the brushing market, which represents more than 5 billion dollars. Owned by the Procter & Gamble company, the brand includes manual and electric toothbrushes for children and adults, oral irrigators and interdental products, such as dental floss.
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