My long term review of The Handy 2: This thing will rip your dick off in a good way, but will it last?

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Finally have tested and had replacements sent and tested to give my full review of the Handy 2 https://www.thehandy.com/

Hope you enjoy!

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I have reviewed a lot of male sex toys.

Too many? Probably.

Enough that I can confidently say I have stuck my privates into more electronics than most people have plugged into their surge protector? Absolutely.

From the Real Touch, to the Fleshlight Launch, to Vorze, to The Handy 1, to sleeves, open-ended experiments, dream sleeves, browser syncing, AI syncing, VR content, scripts, and enough silicone tunnels to make a plumber question my life choices, I have been chasing one very specific thing:

A machine that does not just move.

A machine that understands the assignment.

The original Handy was the first male sex toy in years that made me feel like the industry was actually moving forward instead of just shoving a Fleshlight into a large plastic coffin and calling it innovation. It was small. It was simple. It was fast. It worked with scripts. It could sync to videos. It could be controlled remotely. It was not perfect, but it felt like the start of something real.

And now we have The Handy 2 Pro.

Holy shit.

This thing is insane.

Not “Oh wow, they added a battery and called it a sequel” insane.

Not “Look, we rounded the corners and made the app prettier” insane.

I mean this thing is a tiny jackhammer built by people who apparently looked at the original Handy and said, “What if this could rip the soul out of a man with more accuracy, more speed, more stroke length, less noise, and a dot matrix screen like a horny little robot from the future?”

Because that is basically what happened.

The Handy 2 Pro is, mechanically, the best product Handy has ever made. No question. When it comes to raw power, speed, stroke length, accuracy, and actually feeling like it can keep up with the kind of scripts the community has been building for years, this is not just an upgrade. This is the device finally catching up to the fantasy.

The original Handy was already fast. It was already one of the only devices that made synced content feel like more than a novelty. But the Handy 2 Pro takes that foundation and basically gives it a gym membership, a Red Bull, and a complete lack of self-preservation.

This thing moves.

And not just fast in that cheap “buzzing plastic motor trying its best” way. It moves smoothly. It moves with confidence. It moves like it knows exactly what part of your body it is about to ruin and it has accepted its purpose in life.

This Is The One You Buy

Let me get this out of the way immediately.

If you are buying a Handy 2, buy the Pro.

The standard Handy 2 exists. I am sure it does things. I am sure it will make some people happy. I am sure there is a world where someone buys it, enjoys it, and writes a perfectly reasonable review about how it is nice.

This is not that world.

Continue reading the full article here: https://craftingworlds.com/the-handy-2-pro-review-the-best-mechanical-masturbator-just-got-absolutely-unhinged/

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I have nothing against the device other than it’s price and it’s many failures design wise even on this forum people are on their 2nd and 3rd units which have died. To make it worse the company behind the product will not make a public statement addressing just how bad this design flaw is I can’t recommend the device with it’s issues and at it’s price point I’d sooner recommend someone get a mirabot.

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I’ve got the original Handy and have been waiting to pull the trigger on its successor. The price point hurts a bit, but it seems like the improvements are probably worth the extra…plus they occasionally run some ~30% discount sales (like they currently have for Memorial Day). Now I just have to decide…do I go with the Base model, or the Pro model? :thinking:

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Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed review.

As one of the founders, reading something like this really gives me energy. It is a good reminder of why we put so much work into these products, and it honestly makes me want to push a little harder to keep improving them.

The last period has been quite intense on our side. We have had some charging-related issues, and even if it affects less than 3% of users, people who spend this kind of money should of course expect their device to work properly. When it does not, I fully understand that they are vocal about it.

When you spend a lot of time reading mostly the negative feedback, it can become easy to forget that there are also many happy customers using the product every day. So it is really nice to read this side of the story as well.

I also hear you on the other issues you mentioned. Those are things we are looking into, and hopefully we can improve them in the next batches.

Again, thank you for the review. Feedback like this really does help motivate us to keep building better products.

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I don’t think the base model is much of an improvement over the original if you are going to get a handy 2 it would have to be the pro model but don’t expect it to not die within a couple of months is my warning to you

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This was solved, which was mentioned in their announcement on Discord.

To our community,

This letter addresses manufacturing and fulfillment issues with a few of the delivered Handy 2’s, our latest
device. Whether you own the Handy, are considering buying one, or are new to our community, we want
you to understand what happened and how we’re fixing it.
We owe you a direct answer about the charging problems affecting this small % of Handy 2 units, and an
apology for the frustration this has caused. Here it is.
What we found
Our engineering team has identified two separate charging issues that are affecting our units. They don’t
impact every device (less than 3%), but they affect enough customers that we owe you a straightforward
explanation and a clear plan to make it right:

• Charging Integrated Circuit “IC” manufacturing defect: On affected units, the charging IC on
the board has vias (holes) in the solder pads. During manufacturing, solder paste can flow
through these vias, leaving pins with poor connections. A unit can work fine when it leaves our
factory, then fail weeks or months later as the connection degrades with use. This is a design and
manufacturing problem on our side.

• Insufficient input voltage support: Our charging system requires a minimum of 5.1V input.
Many chargers, including standard Apple chargers and USB ports on computers, fall back to 5V
when they don’t recognize our device’s power delivery profile, leaving the unit unable to charge.

The fix is a USB-C PD charger that delivers 9V or more; those allow the higher voltage
automatically and charge the device reliably. We should have caught this before shipping.
Both issues are on us. No excuses. We apologize.

What this means for you
If your Handy 2 won’t charge, it’s likely one of these two problems. Issue 2 is easy to work around, using
a USB-C PD charger rated for 9V or higher. Issue 1 requires a replacement. Neither is something you
should have to debug yourself.

What we’ve done

Both issues are fixed in current production. The charging circuit has been redesigned to prevent
degradation, and the power system now works with standard chargers. Units with the fix are now rolling
out.

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Hopefully this is true they say less than 3% but I do not believe in that number. The chances of people getting replacements that fail should be low but it has been seen a lot on this forum. If people are getting replacements those replacements should not be failing. They need to streamline the process of getting replacements as well because people are waiting.

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i’m guessing there are a lot of people who buy it, use it a couple of times and forget about, the failure rate with power users must be way higher.

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Exactly if the company behind the handy 2 actually tested the devices they would have known this was an issue.

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You’re welcome. We have spoken before and your passion for this project has always been unfounded. The mechanics of the Handy 2 are miles ahead of everything else but it got wrapped up in a package that felt more marketable than functional this time from the confusing buttons to the screws to the materials themselves and now sadly some battery problems (I’ve not had the battery issue after many uses but I do not dismiss them. Just cause it doesn’t happen to me and such) but the point is handy needs to find the balance between “cool design” and “this goes on your pee pee and should do all the work without the worry of the above.

Engineering you all are geniuses. How ya got it faster and quieter is beyond me. But presentation is actually hindering it. I stick to my review. This thing is the best mechanically engineered tiny sex toy jack hammer out there. It just needs the same treatment to everything around the internals and all accessories.

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Read my review I tell you exactly the model :wink:
But I’ll tell ya here too. The Pro. The regular imo shouldn’t have been made. I’m sure it has its place somewhere. But in wanting the best sex toy or an upgrade over the1 the non pro model doesn’t fit.