Our Overall Score:
9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer 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: £49.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer. 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer
SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer scores 9.9/10 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer, 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer scores 8.9/10 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer.
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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer actually comes in below average at £49.99.
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, 14 were more expensive and 11 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer.
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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer at £49.99 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 3 items that were more expensive and 2 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer
SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer scores 8.3/10 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer is.
Overall score
SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer scores 9/10 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 SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SPHERO SPHERO BB-8 with Trainer
- Brand: Sphero
- Model Number: BB8
- Control your own BB-8 droid using your mobile device or let him explore on his ownControl your own BB-8 droid using your mobileSend out BB-8 to patrol on his own
- EAN: 817961020196
- Description: Top features: – Autonomous behaviour lets BB-8 to explore – Holographic simulation through the app – App-enabled droid-to-droid interaction Autonomous behaviourThe Sphero BB8 is your personal robot companion that moves just like the lovable droid. BB-8 can explore your home autonomously, or you can take the lead and control him from your smartphone or tablet. Simply download the app to an Android or iOS mobile device and connect using Bluetooth to get started.Send BB-8 out to patrol on his own, or watch him move around even while charging. He’ll roll from place to place just the same as he does in the movie, and he has all the same dome movements.Holographic simulationExplore the Star Wars galaxy with the app. Through the app, you’ll be able to learn more about the Star Wars galaxy, and even watch the films alongside BB-8. This is also where you’ll use the augmented reality Droid Trainer to better interact with your new best friend.App-enabled Droid-to-droid experienceControl BB-8 with your smart device, and you can introduce him to other Star Wars app-enabled droids by Sphero. If you or a friend own the Sphero R2-D2 or BB-9E droids, you can bring them together and let them get to know each other before the next movie happens. You can also invite the other droids to join in with you and BB-8 to watch the whole saga!
- Product ID: 21247251021