Revamp Progloss 4000 hair dryer review

The Revamp Progloss 4000 has a high-quality look, with a matt black rubberised finish and ice blue accents. It’s not heavy and it’s easy to use, although it has a number of handy settings and features. It comes with a removable concentrator nozzle, to direct the flow of air.

Price and availability

The Revamp Progloss 4000 costs £99.99 and you can currently and Amazon in the UK. It’s likely to become more widely available in the future.

Performance

The Progloss 4000 is a 2100W appliance. The high wattage gives you an indication that it’s powered by a decent motor and that means it’ll dry your hair quickly.

I’ve had my hairdryer for years now. Well, I thought: why not? It dries hair, doesn’t it – and what more could a hairdryer do? Except that it takes so long to dry and it’s so noisy that quite often I just leave it in the drawer and wander around letting my head air dry.

If you’re in a similar situation and you’ve been hanging onto your old hairdryer for ages, it may be time to upgrade. The tech has come a long way in recent times. A good quality new device could make life much easier and work wonders on your hair.

Revamp’s Progloss 4000 isn’t cheap but it’s a great option if you want to get up to date in terms of what hairdryers can do. It dries quickly and left my hair noticeably silkier and shinier than using my elderly hairdryer.

How does it do that? Hair styling is tough on hair and most styling tools (including hair dryers, straighteners and curling wands) aim to minimise their effect on your tresses. Whatever the marketing materials may say, they can’t improve its condition. But by using good appliances, controlling the temperature and adding some heat protecting spray, you can protect the condition and improve the appearance of even damaged hair.

The Progloss 4000 features two technologies that Revamp claims help to smooth and protect hair. The first is the ionic jet that shoots negatively charged ions at the hair strands. Water droplets have a positive charge and the negative ions break them apart, helping to dry your hair more quickly, which in turn helps to protect the strands from frizz.

Ionic technology is also what’s used by the Dyson Supersonic hairdryer, although its take on the tech will set you back £299.99. But if you’re feeling flush, you can read our review to find out more.

Second, like all of the Revamp Progloss range, the hairdryer is infused with keratin, Argan oil and coconut oil. I have questions about this. What exactly does infused mean? Does the hairdryer essentially blow oils at your hair? How long does the infusion last for? Unfortunately, it’s hard to find out more from the product information.

What I can say is that this hairdryer could make a real difference to your hair styling results, although whether that’s from the ionic jet or the oils, I don’t know.

Features

The Progloss 4000 has two speed settings: medium and a sort of blow-your-head-off option. The first is quiet, effective and should be adequate for most circumstances. The second is a lot noisier and could, I suppose, be used in a crisis if you need to dry your hair in under two minutes.

It also has three heat settings, and obviously, you should keep the heat as low as possible. I found that the lowest setting was fine for everyday use.

The concentrator nozzle will allow you to precision dry for better styling results. Click it on to the dryer and you can rotate it 360° during use.

For quick, all-over drying, remove the nozzle and use Advanced Care. This is an oscillation function that allows you to diffuse the heat widely for fast drying and protect your hair by not focusing too much in one spot. There are three settings and if you set it to strong, the hair dryer shudders distractingly in your hand but the gentle setting is effective.  

Finally, it also has a cool air button for setting your style.

Verdict

With new functionality added every few months to everything from hair dryers to electric toothbrushes, it’s hard to know how much you should spend on an appliance or which features are worth paying for.

The Progloss 4000 certainly has every feature you could ask for. But unlike some appliances, all of its functions are useful and nothing feels like a pointless add-on. If you style your hair a lot, you’ll probably make use of everything.

You can certainly get a good hair dryer now for under £50 but if you want a deluxe, fully-featured model, we reckon you’d be very happy with this one. 

To see which other hair dryers we rate highly, have a look at our round-up of the best we’ve tested.

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Apple AirTags (2020) release date, pricing, features and spec rumours

When will Apple AirTags be released?

Following just over a year of leaks and rumours, Apple is expected to lift the lid on the AirTags at its iPhone 12 launch event on 13 October. Of course, Apple hasn’t confirmed this explicitly, but looking closely at the invite, the central circle looks near-identical to the AirTags renders doing the rounds online.

It also from the ever-accurate Ming-Chi Kuo, who claimed back in February that Apple planned to put ultra-wideband chips into production between April and September 2020.

So, with that said, we expect the AirTags to be announced on 13 October and go on sale soon after.

How much will AirTags cost?

There’s currently no word on how much the AirTags will cost when they’re eventually released, but we can look at the competition – after all, if Apple wants to be competitive in a market full of trackers from the likes of Tile, it’ll have to match up in price. Tile’s most recent and $34.99 in the US, so we could be looking at a similar price for the AirTags.

That being said, Apple does have a reputation for developing existing technology and improving it, and it’s entirely possible that the technology inside, and the integration with iOS, could elevate the value of Apple’s tracker above that of the competition. It can’t be too expensive though – after all, these things are designed to be lost.  

AirTags features and spec rumours

Apple has yet to confirm the existence of AirTags officially, but Apple’s upcoming tracker has been the subject of plenty of leaks – including some from Apple itself.

The exact functionality is still pretty vague at this point, but most rumours suggest that AirTags are a Tile-like device that you attach to valuable items like your keys, and you’re then able to track them via an app if you misplace them.

Apple has the long-established Find My functionality built into pretty much every product it makes, and AirTags allow Apple to expand that to valuable non-Apple items that you might lose track of.

With that being said, it should come as no surprise that keen coders have within the iOS 14 Find My app code, and have even provided a basic idea of how it’ll work: per the code suggestion, you’ll get an alert on your iPhone when you walk too far away from an AirTag and it’ll begin bleeping too – unless you’re at home, where you’ll have to manually toggle the audible alert.

Other rumours suggest to help you find your items. Simply walk around with your iPhone and when you’re near your item, a balloon icon will appear on-screen to indicate exactly where your item is – that’s how it’ll work when you’re in range, anyway.

But what happens if you’ve left your keys on the bus? You’ll be out of range pretty fast, after all. That’s where rumours suggest Apple will utilise other iPhones to find your AirTag. It’s said to work in a similar way to Tile’s current offering, using nearby smartphones to pinpoint the location of your item.

Tile’s offering is limited because it requires users to have the app installed and running in the background, but the assumption is that any iPhone could potentially relay AirTag location data to the owner. It’s not confirmed of course, but it’d be a huge benefit over just about every other tracker on the market right now.   

According to Apple leaker Jon Prosser, the AirTags will also work by utilising ultra-wideband tech – also known as UWB – to provide impressively precise location monitoring. The leaker also showcased renders of the upcoming AirTags apparently based on videos of the real tracker that he’d seen.

As seen in the mock-ups, the AirTags are essentially a white disk with a central metal plate on one side, and it’s apparently not much bigger than a bottlecap, although that is hard to verify at this point.

With only days until the rumoured announcement, it’s likely that we’ll find out more about Apple AirTags very soon.


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