Qubo Q600 air purifier review: A strong contender

Qubo Q600

You can’t escape it. You simply can’t. We are talking about the deteriorating air quality, particularly in Delhi-NCR. So much so that when it is “very bad”, most people have no choice but to carry on and say, “oh at least it is getting better”. While there seems to be no solution in sight, people in urban households have turned to air purifiers. With AQI levels regularly crossing hazardous thresholds, finding an effective air purifier is critical for maintaining a healthier indoor environment. Outside is a different story altogether. Qubo’s Q600 Smart Air Purifier claims to tackle bad air quality in a compact, little package. We tested the air purifier during some really bad air quality days and here’s how it performed:

Qubo Q600: How it looks 

The air purifier is rather compact and has a nice look to it. The Qubo Q600 smart air purifier minimalistic design with a unique squircle-shaped chassis. It’s made of plastic but feels sturdy and houses a cylindrical filter within. The outer shell is very similar to those we have seen on Philips and a few other purifiers — it is perforated on the sides. What this does is that it enables better air intake.

The top of the purifier has a grille, which is designed to release clean and purified air indoors. You also get an LED panel with touch controls, which can be a bit tricky to operate. A color display shows real-time PM2.5 particle levels for easy monitoring of air quality.

Qubo Q600: How it performs

Some air purifiers can be a bit difficult to set up. No such issues with the Qubo Q600 as setting it up was a breeze (no pun intended). All you need to do is just take out the filter from the back panel, remove the plastic cover, and push it back inside the chamber. It’s literally a plug and play device. But there’s an option to download the app if you want to customise — something we didn’t do, at least while setting up.

Before we get down to how it purified the air, let’s get some basics out of the way. You get an auto mode and you can also adjust the fan speed. Furthermore, there’s also QSense AI mode (surprise, surprise. AI is here as well). This mode automatically turns off the device when the air quality is good and turns it back on if pollution levels go up. If that’s not enough then you get a countdown mode. Which is basically a timer where you can set it to one hour, two hours, four hours or eight hours. That’s a pretty standard setting you must have seen in ACs and some air purifiers as well. The display panel is also a bit smart — in the sense it comes with colour coded indicators. There’s green, orange, and red which flashes depending on the indoor AQI.

In terms of purifying the air, the Qubo Q600 performs well and it was tested quite a bit. Day after day the AQI was quite bad and put it on auto mode to see how well it works. We had indoor PM2.5 around 160 but it also went to a whopping 410 PM2.5 as well. In the auto mode, with AQI around 170, the air purified kicked into top gear with highest speed. It takes a bit of time to drop to ‘green’ levels. For instance, with AQI around 230, it took about 15 minutes for the air purifier to bring it to 30. When the AQI levels were around 160 or so, then it takes about 10 minutes. The lowest AQI which we saw was close to 12 — which is really good performance for an air purifier.

The app is quite useful as it shows you daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights to see how well it’s doing. There are the usual operations to turn off the purifier from your phone and even automate it. It also works with Google Assistant as well as Amazon Alexa.

Qubo Q600 review: Should you buy it?

The one thing that certainly works in the Qubo Q600 is the compact size. It’s not an eyesore and quietly does job in a corner of a room. It has all the features you need, plus some extra ones that make it even more useful. There are smart features like the QSense AI mode and offers voice integration as well.

The Qubo Q600 is a reliable and efficient device that can help you fight indoor air pollution. Priced at Rs 12,990, it offers a lot of value and should be on your list if you are in the market for an air purifier.