I have had a few Phillips premium irons over the years, and love them for the most part. I use filtered water in them, and they are well looked after. They generally last 5-8 years and then have issues with the drip-stop system. It's a metal disc designed to 'buckle' with heat and function like a valve once the iron reaches a certain temperature, letting the water flow and become steam. After time this system fails, the iron leeks water at lower temperature as the water cannot turn in to steam before the heat builds up.... My latest iron (4875) has just reached the same point in its life and the water leaking (during warm up) is tripping the household earth leakage device (RCD)- granted only occasionally but annoying....

We have had a number of Philips irons since getting married almost 15 years ago. They always come highly recommended thru choice. We have had to replace 2 due to dropping them on the tiles (they aren't made of rubber lol), But the last 3 have slowly lost their heat after about 2 years and the one we have now has just stopped getting any heat at all and it would be barely 18 months old, the blue light comes on momentarily and then off, with no heat! For the price I am paying I expect a whole lot better and am thinking of another brand.
I really hope the 2 I bought at the same time as gifts for friends don't do the same thing.

We have had this iron for 12 months now and it irons our clothes really well. The ionic steam function is great, although it's a thirsty iron. Recently the temperature dial popped out and now the setting is stuck on high. We'll have to now arrange for the iron to be repaired.
The ionic steam function is great
The iron is a bit on the heavy side and the temperature dial broke off.

Had a Philps iron previously and it always worked really well. When that one would no longer steam during ironing I replaced it with this model and unfortunately from the very first day it leaked from the handle. I've now taken that one back and replaced it with the same model so hopefully better luck this time!
Easy to use and light
Leaked from the handle and the cord is shorter than the previous model I had!

I have persevered with this iron but for cotton business shirts it just doesn't do the job. No matter how hard I press they are never wrinkle free. Very disappointed considering the price. The only reason I am still using it is that I resent having to buy another one when I spent so much on this one.

My advice? Don't touch it, my old $30 one did a much better job, such a shame it stopped working and I bought this as a substitute!
Salesman sold it as the best iron ever so took his word for it.
Expensive, doesn't get wrinkles out well enough.

This iron is a replacement under warranty for a previous Phillips iron that lasted a few months. Myer said they wouldn't replace this one again, so it's going in the bin. It steamed OK for a few months then gradually lost output. Usage has been ironing for two plus my wife's dressmaking. She has just pointed out that after an hour's ironing it has used a 1/4 tank water and her cotton dresses are not properly ironed. Even I can see they still have creases in them. When first bought it would use a whole tank in that time. Irons just don't last more than a year these days; you're lucky if you get that long.

Expensive, poor steam output, not durable

Perfect, best iron I have ever used wife quoted.
The steam power is unbelievable (ionic steam). My wife actually doesn't hate ironing anymore.
Makes ironing easy
Expensive RRP was 159 got it for 122 from the Good Guys