magic bullet Portable Blender MBPB50100 Silver, 16 oz

I love this blender. It’s so easy to use and clean. One charge lasts for several drinks. I use it for smoothies and iced coffee drinks. Noise level is fine. It’s just a 30 second blend. I haven’t tried to blend ice. There’s no smell at all. After use, I spray a bit of dish soap in and warm water. Blend for a few seconds, take apart, rinse all parts and air dry. I’ve had zero leakage issues. Takes up very little space on counter or in cabinet.

This item has worked well for the last six months. A month ago it started to be finicky about charging and only got worse with time. It totally died after seven months from purchase date. I still recommend this unit if you can tolerate replacing it a couple of times a year. The price today is $37+ so it would cost you $74 per year to use this and throw two of them away assuming that it lasts 5-6 months. I have elected to go back to my main Ninja blender for my needs.

I was planning for a trip to asia, and I wanted to be able to make protein smoothies while traveling... to allow for decent mini-meals if and when I ever needed them. Traveling can be challenging sometimes with food, and having a travel sized blender to make protein smoothies is one of my precautions I take... it gives me a bit more control over my diet.Anyways, this one looked great, ordered it, when it arrived it was compact yet clearly allows for a decent sized smoothie. It was weigth-y enough so it seemed solid... I felt confident it was the right choice.Flash forward 2 week traveling (about about 10 uses only). The blender quit working. Not only did it quit working but... it keeps teasing me. The light will flash blue ('working').... I'll load it up, press the button again, surprise, red light will pop back on ('not working').Basically I'll test it before loading it, it will seem to work fine, then load it: 'something wrong'... nothing more annoying than to chop up fruit, add all the ingredients, just to find out, it was tricking you and its not planning on working after all.If you look at the design, you will notice the power charger port is places exactly where water might get in... the instructions say do wash with water... I did my best not to get water in the badly placed power port... but Im assuming a few drops got in? or some other malfunction.My opinion is, the design with the power port exactly where water might get in, is such a bad design that, no one should buy this product. This is inherently a product meant to be use, full time, with liquids... and only charge once and a while (while not in use)... they could have put the charging port anywhere... and also, added a rubber cap, or some other barrier ... but no, the designer and quality control people thought adding a water sensitive, rarely used detail (charging will only be happening once and a while) needs to be basically exactly where all the liquid will be also.I paid about $42 including shipping. A nice price.. but the wasted time, mental energy, and frustration is not worth it... especially when you see the silly design flaw which is just asking for problems.If you read through the reviews you will find peppered throughout, the common complaint that it just 'quit working'. Im pretty sure, most had the same issue I did which is, despite being careful with cleaning the blender... a drop of water or 2 snuck in to the charging port (which again, is exactly... exactly in the wrong spot to keep it working.. or right spot for dripping water slip in)...IF you buy this blender, it will almost definitely just quit working some random day... and you will have to start checking if its really broken,,, messing around with it... the light will turn blue (working), but then will turn red (broken)... etc etc... then you will have to throw it out, and start over again.Find another brand which doesnt have this really stupid unnecessary design flaw... and ... it will probably just keep working.. as most products usually do.Because Im traveling now, my options are much worse, because where Im at, if I can find a mini-blender, it will probably be low quality... ie I will just use it well traveling and then throw it out and by a new one when Im back in USA... so, I will end up spending $42 (this blender) + $40 (guessing price of random mini blender avaibale where I am, which will be crap) + $45 (new blender when back home .. obv different brand) = $125 (roughly) total... all in for some small inexpensive little blender.the money isnt that big of a deal... it just having to mess around with this stuff, while traveling... which I find frustrating.... knowing that its most likely this extremely stupid design flaw which is the problem.

It's an excellent smoothy-making appliance, and I am very satisfied with its practical utility for both culinary applications and drinking needs. Keep up the good work in improving on that awesome product, while carefully observing that, optimal materialization of a corresponding affinity between the purposive design of coordinated appliance components, arrangement and assembly of its integrated parts, and the quality of its actual operationally intended and expected performance, is obtained from a consistent regimen of "progressively refined coordination," between all the adopted, affirmed, and practiced, manufacturing processes, totality of which, aimed at achieving a particularly completed end-product or specifically finished project. This definitive optimal materialized "Product Embodiment," operations of which, to climax into "dynamic system equilibrium," resulting from its well-attuned symbiotic and well-coordinated synergistic operations. The mutually attuned assembly of its components for well-integrated and collectively achieved performance, will be beneficially harvested, from its comprehensive operational activities that collectively yield, through commonly activated relations, the highest level of excellence in the quality of its actual performance. As a final result, all of which, to climax from its well-planned design, integrated structural arrangement, exceptional compatibility of its parts and components for operational integrity, and its user-friendly utilization procedures, will fulfill all consumer desires and wants, for optimal excellence in quality of workmanship and for the highest level of integrity that is embedded within the expressed claims in its manufacturer's advertised proclamations, regarding both its purposely intended purchase by the customer and its anticipated expected excellent functionality, as validly proven and correspondingly corroborated, by the satisfactory efficiency of its optimum operational performance, consecutively and continually accumulated, from its extremely rewarding, useful, purposive, and delicious operational nutritional applications. Thank you. Sincerely, Leo.*