First impressions:
Hi, Joe - I haven't had a chance to use it with the battery fully-charged yet. However, the battery arrived with a limited amount of charge on it (the indicator suggested about 25%), and having taken a LOT of pics of the cleaner looking shiny and new, I gave it a quick run round the house. That 25% charge lasted long enough for me to cover my living room, hall, first landing, dining room, middle landing, bathroom and one bedroom!
The brushbar bristles are soft, and strands of thread on the carpet sometimes takes a couple of passes to dislodge. It's not supposed to be a deep cleaner, obviously, but it devours surface litter with ease, and you can actually hear the buzz of the brush sweeping at the carpet.
After having run over the rooms I mentioned above, the dustcup was full. The bulk of the dirt was largely pet hair and surface debris, but finer dust and grit were hidden underneath:
