Kiiroo’s New Pearl3 Vibrator: Where Innovation Meets Intimacy
Featuring a sleek ergonomic design, a powerful motor, and a greatly extended playtime
Whether used solo or paired with another Kiiroo toy, the Pearl3 vibrator delivers pleasure in a myriad of ways. Its design is sleek but effectively textured for maximum internal stimulation of your urethral sponge (the fabled g-spot) and/or external pleasuring of your vulva and clitoris. Its strong motor is relatively quiet.
You get a choice of pressure sensitive touch control and five stimulation patterns. And if you access the FeelConnect app, you can connect your Pearl3 to other Kiiroo toys, webcams sites, and adult VR games and videos. Plus, one two-hour charge delivers a full three hours of play (even in the shower)–and it comes in pastel pink or deep purple.
Unboxing and Using
The box contents are simple: a Pearl3 vibrator, a charging cord, and a simple set of instructions with a few pictures. You’ll want to charge it first of course. A blinking red light shows charging in process. A green light says your Pearl3 is ready to play.
For anything more complicated than solo play, you must go to the website for a PDF of its manual. Fortunately, solo use of the Pearl3 is relatively straightforward. You hit the universal control/power button once and you’re able to connect with the app via BlueTooth.
Press the power button again and you access its touch control feature. The Pearl3 responds to the strength or delicacy of your grasp or body responses. Press the power button again to access a sequence of five increasingly intense vibrations, both steady and intermittent.
Interactive Features
The Pearl3 can even connect with webcam sites, and adult VR games and videos. However, these features can only be accessed through the FeelConnect app.
The app controls
The controls section of the app, however, seems simpler than connecting with a partner or content. Located at the bottom of the app’s homepage, which includes home, friends, media, and control options” Control gives you a choice of Touch Control (from the app), Custom Patterns, Clap Control to create vibrations from noises (like a whip crack or a paddle?), and Device to Device so that one vibe can rule them all.
Touch Control. At right there are three oblong shapes which are used to control intensity but I couldn’t figure what I was supposed to move to get the thing going. Then I realized I was supposed to move the circle that had a zero on it. The higher I moved it on the screen, the higher the number.
Patterns. I moved my finger around on the phone screen to create something I called and saved as “Never Use It.” It was the most jagged, wonky vibration imaginable and I can see that making pleasing patterns is an art that takes practice.
Clap Control. I tried clapping) but the Pearl3 didn’t react, only staying silent and inert. In all honesty, I’m not sure what the point of this feature is.
Device to Device. I didn’t have a device to add, so I just looked at this option as it supposedly enables the user to add a main device and then the controlled device. I can see a lot of possibilities for this kind of partner play.
Downsides
The FeelConnect app is confusing. Let me give you an example. The home page gives you the choice of connecting to your partner or content. Then there are ads. Then there is another portion which says you can, one, control your partner’s device from a distance, two, make video calls and chat, and three, connect the Kiiroo device to the interactive content of your choosing
To connect with a partner via the Friends tab you need to first create a profile, which can be made visible or invisible. I passed for the moment as it seemed like too much trouble.
When I hit the connect with content option, I was asked to scan a QR code on the website where I want to connect. Okay, fair enough. But then I am also asked to give permission for the app to use my camera in order to scan the code. But my QR setting is already enabled on my phone! All that seemed again like too much trouble, especially as I didn’t have a website picked out.
User friendly for solo play, more difficult for interactive use
I played with the Kiiroo Pearl3 several times before writing this review. With its rather steep learning curve, it took awhile to get used to the controls and understand their potential. My biggest issue was having to go online to get the user’s manual. When I want to use a toy, I want to use the toy, not hunt through a website or app for instructions.
I also wasn’t thrilled with it at first—particularly as the g-spot stimulation feature means very little to me as a person with bladder prolapse. But once I began to enjoy penetration and the vulva stimulation aspects of its unique texture and vibration, I felt a lot happier with it and would consider it a top five toy in my collection.
I say Pearl3 is worth the money, especially if you and a partner or two can figure out the interactive aspects and make it really work for you.
Images: Kiiroo, and A.R.Marsh using VistaCreate
