Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SPHERO Mini review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SPHERO Mini is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Smart toys and gadgets category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £17.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SPHERO Mini. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sphero or alternative products in the Smart toys and gadgets category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SPHERO Mini
SPHERO Mini scores 8.7/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Smart toys and gadgets. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SPHERO Mini, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SPHERO Mini and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Smart toys and gadgets, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Smart toys and gadgets? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SPHERO Mini scores 9.7/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Smart toys and gadgets category was £399.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £7.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SPHERO Mini down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Smart toys and gadgets category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Smart toys and gadgets category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SPHERO Mini.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Smart toys and gadgets category. This was £95.69 from the 28 products we found in that category. So SPHERO Mini actually comes in below average at £17.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £399.99 and the least expensive, which was £7.99. In total we found that of the 28, 25 were more expensive and 2 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SPHERO Mini.
Prices of products from Sphero
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sphero. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sphero, which was £65.33 of the 6 products we found. So SPHERO Mini price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sphero was £17.99 with the most expensive coming in at £159.99.
Prices of products from Sphero and in the Smart toys and gadgets category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sphero that sit specifically within the Smart toys and gadgets category.
For this we found that the average price was £65.33, making SPHERO Mini at £17.99 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £159.99 with the lowest priced item being £17.99. In total there were 5 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SPHERO Mini
SPHERO Mini scores 8.1/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SPHERO Mini is.
Overall score
SPHERO Mini scores 8.8/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sphero so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SPHERO Mini by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SPHERO Mini
- Brand: Sphero
- Model Number: 10171225
- Robotic ball can be controlled with facial expressionsCustomisable LED lighting45 minutes battery life
- EAN: 817961020530
- Description: Top features: – The world’s first robotic ball driven by facial expression – Teach yourself to code and program with Javascript – Discover hours of fun with the Sphero Mini app – LED lights and interchangeable shells let you show your individuality Driven by facial expressionMeet the tiny app-enabled robot with tons of personality.The Sphero Mini has multiple driving modes including the newest feature, Face Drive, which will stun and amaze your friends and family. Using the latest facial detection technology you can manoeuvre the Mini by tilting your head, raising your eyebrows and opening your mouth. A great ice breaker that’s sure to get everyone talking.Teach yourself to codeDownload the Sphero Edu app to open up a world of possibilities. A great introduction to the basics of programming with JavaScript, you can get greater control over your Mini M001WRW to start performing some seriously impressive manoeuvres. The only limit is your imagination.Discover hours of funWith the Sphero Mini app, you can use the Mini as a controller to shoot through space, race a ship through a tunnel or spin it to knock down a polygon of bricks. With the included accessories you can make your own games – the traffic cones are perfect for a slalom course and with the bowling pins you can challenge your friends to see who’s the best shot. LED lights and interchangeable shellsWith interchangeable coloured shells, you’ll never get bored of the Sphero Mini. Switch them out to suit your mood and customise the lights through the app to make your Mini totally unique.
- Product ID: 21471449875
