Xsmall was and still remains a compromise machine, which I recommended for readers with a limited budget, it used to cost under £150/€200 on sales.
In reality, these are replacements for the really outdated Series 2000/2100, which originated from Saeco Xsmall and for one from the Series 3000. Let’s clarify once again, we have the basic coffee machines that are lower in the company’s model range than Philips Series 4000, Series 5000 and all Saeco ( read here about similarities of Philips and Saeco). The major feature about all these machines is the new platform In North America this model is called EP3221/44 in US and here is current prices: Plus, the panel has a separate temperature setting that can be changed at any time – 3 levels in total. cafe lungo), separately “long coffee” (this is just another programming cell), “americano” (special mode, the machine pours espresso first, and then it adds hot water from the same nozzles). Yes, you need to froth the milk manually, but here is the biggest choice of black coffee recipes: “espresso”, “coffee” (i.e.
Philips EP3221/40 is the flagship of the platform in this version with a manual cappuccino maker.Philips Series 3200 features four versions, but again in reality only two models:
It means that functionality is the same, only color is different.
The versions differ, as in the case above, only by the nuances of color. It’s important to note that there is no separate setting for the volume of milk, only the choice of the total volume of beverage. Beverage buttons: “espresso”, “coffee” (i.e.
There are two beverage buttons: “espresso” and “coffee” (cafe lungo), plus buttons for steam and hot water for the cappuccino maker. This is the most basic model with a manual panarello cappuccino maker and without an AquaClean water filter. In the US it also known as Philips Carina EP1220/04. Philips Series 1200 features the Philips EP1220 coffee machine. Because it can’t even deliver the hot water. Even if you need only black coffee options I think that this unit doesn’t deserve any attention. In Europe Philips launched even more simplified model – EP1000/00 without any frother at all. There are no prizes for guessing, even from the numerical designations of the series, that all this is the entrance level class of automatic ground coffee machines, divided into sublevels, depending on the availability of some additional function and/or recipe configuration. In May 2019, Philips, not only introduced a new coffee machine onto the market, but along with it a whole new platform that included, at the time of writing this review, 11 modifications to the 1200, 22 series.