Wonderful Bluetooth

After I Buy Accessorise Portable Bluetooth Wireless Speaker

I have tried a couple of these mini speakers, but this is my first Bluetooth connected one. They all seem to have similar sound quality... way more clarity and volume than a phone or tablet, but nothing like a $100+ Jawbone JAMBOX or similar product. As far as acoustics, this speaker is exactly what I had expected. Pairing is quick and easy, and now that my Nexus 7 has the 4.2.2 update, spotty playback is nonexistent. No problems with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone (CyanogenMod)either.

I have used this on numerous solo boarding/biking/hiking days. I just throw it in my backpack or cargo pocket and jam. Needless to say, it has taken a couple of hits, but to my surprise it has survived them all. It is also great for practical jokes. One of my personal favorites is to hide it in the faculty room refrigerator during lunch and play cat meow ringtones.

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After I Buy Mediabridge Computer Networking Cat5e Ethernet

The computer replaced our 6 year old Dell, so there's a huge difference in speed and functionality. Anything would have been an improvement, but we are happy with this one. Just to pass on the information....there is a button on the front that should open the 'Expansion Bay' door. It doesn't. The first time we pushed it, it got stuck so we assumed that it was broken. It felt like it wasn't connected to anything. HP India was baffled and had never heard of a problem like this so we started the return process, with great aggravation, having spent multiple hours moving stuff onto the computer and getting it set up. When the new one arrived, it had the same problem. The button didn't work. After a little research, we felt a quite foolish, finding that HP no longer uses the Expansion Bay, but continues to use the case, so the door isn't supposed to open and the button is indeed non-functional--and their support staff doesn't seem to have a clue. Oh well....it works and we didn't have to start over, but we are out another $20 for shipping. Lesson learned. May it spare you the hassle!

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Nice computer, nice value

After I Buy HP P7 1490 Pavilion Desktop

The computer replaced our 6 year old Dell, so there's a huge difference in speed and functionality. Anything would have been an improvement, but we are happy with this one. Just to pass on the information....there is a button on the front that should open the 'Expansion Bay' door. It doesn't. The first time we pushed it, it got stuck so we assumed that it was broken. It felt like it wasn't connected to anything. HP India was baffled and had never heard of a problem like this so we started the return process, with great aggravation, having spent multiple hours moving stuff onto the computer and getting it set up. When the new one arrived, it had the same problem. The button didn't work. After a little research, we felt a quite foolish, finding that HP no longer uses the Expansion Bay, but continues to use the case, so the door isn't supposed to open and the button is indeed non-functional--and their support staff doesn't seem to have a clue. Oh well....it works and we didn't have to start over, but we are out another $20 for shipping. Lesson learned. May it spare you the hassle!

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I love this case!

After I Buy Pong iPad 5 positions Leather like Case

I got to admit, I was expecting not to like this case, and was a little worried because I like to hold case in my lap or in book fashion and only review (on the less expensive no 4g version) didn't address this nor do any of the photos or YouTube videos. Well it works fine in book fashion, and the folding front cover is very good in landscape or vertical even on my lap (that surprised me). If you turn your iPad upside down (for what reason I have no idea) the case cover will flop loose. But in normal position it holds secure and activates on/off feature flawlessly. This case is very light weight around 10oz and very slim profile appx 9/16" thick with iPad installed. The New iPad slides into the back like it was born there, with all the correct holes/cutouts lining up just dandy. The cover is more leather like than 90% of the so called leather cases advertised and the back has a nice feel to it as well. I didn't notice any offensive smells like you get from pu leather and other faux leathers I've come across. Inside is a soft felt like lining that looks, feels, appears quality. I haven't tried the 4g or 3g on it yet, but I do notice it is faster than before while down loading using WI-FI. I'll post an update later when I give the cellular a try. So far it's recommended 5 stars from me. This case is very well built using nice quality materials.

Update: There is a very noticeable difference in download speed with this case in a hotel using their wi-fi connection we're staying in compared to my other leather case. I'm sold.

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Awesome but they only give you a free trial

Days After I Buy This Spotify Kindle Tablet Edition

This is an awesome music app! I downloaded the free trial app and was using it so much I purchased the premium service within a week. I love it. I use it with my MacBook Pro, my Kindle Fire and my Iphone 3GS. It works great on all of them. There is such a huge collection of music you can access that you will be exploring many new artists and digging deep into the discographies of your favorite artists for many, many hours, days and weeks. One of my favorite bands is The Rolling Stones and I found such a deep collection that I have been spending many hours listening to alternate cuts and recordings that I haven't ever heard before. Amazing! Do yourself a favor and give this app and service a try. An the best thing is that the premium service is free for 30 days!

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THIS DECK IS THE SH*T!!!

After I Buy JVC KW AV50 Touchscreen Receiver functional

I bought my original kindle fire right after the first one was announced. So about a year and a half ago, i think.

I love it and still use it frequently. It is perfect for travelling. I download video content before heading to the airport and I can watch it with my headphones to tune out the noise on the plane. I turn off wifi on the plane, to extend the battery life.

I have been tempted to check out the 4G/LTE version that came out, but am really very content with just wifi. the 8GB capacity works fine for me. I've never had issues with running out of space. I mainly use it for games, a couple books, and videos, which I delete from the device after watching. I can always re-download them from my video library if i want to get them back.

overall, i love it.

Go get one!

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Very impressed with Amazon's service

After I Buy Kindle Color Multi touch Display Wi Fi

I bought my original kindle fire right after the first one was announced. So about a year and a half ago, i think.

I love it and still use it frequently. It is perfect for travelling. I download video content before heading to the airport and I can watch it with my headphones to tune out the noise on the plane. I turn off wifi on the plane, to extend the battery life.

I have been tempted to check out the 4G/LTE version that came out, but am really very content with just wifi. the 8GB capacity works fine for me. I've never had issues with running out of space. I mainly use it for games, a couple books, and videos, which I delete from the device after watching. I can always re-download them from my video library if i want to get them back.

overall, i love it.

Go get one!

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Daughter loves it

Why You Ned to Buy 7 Inch Android Jelly Bean DDR3

Many of the reviews submitted for this latest Kindle are from very experienced users who have provided excellent detailed comparisons between this Paperwhite model and previous versions of the Kindle. Many also have experience with the iPad, Nook, and other devices, and have provided comparisons to those products as well.

My background with respect to this product is different. The Kindle Paperwhite is my first e-book reader or tablet type device. I have held off dipping my toe into the water of digital reading although I do some on my iPhone and I use my computer extensively. The Paperwhite sounded attractive enough to me that I decided to finally give the Kindle a try. I wanted to see if I would find this to be a good alternative to printed books (of which I have more than I want to admit), or simply for convenience. I ordered it immediately once the ordering process opened, so my Kindle was delivered to me earlier this week.

From this perspective I therefore offer the following:

The Kindle is physically quite small and very comfortable to hold. It has a nice black finish and feels good in the hand. The back surface is rubberized. Appearance is elegant. It is very similar in height and width (but not depth, it is much thinner) to a paperback book and the size has clearly been selected to be the best for a book reader. And as other reviewers have commented, it looks like Amazon has found the "sweet spot" for this kind of product because it is very comfortable to hold in the hand.

Setting up and beginning to use has been easy and troublefree. It powered up, located and sync'd to my home network immediately once password was supplied. Connection to the Kindle store was essentially automatic since the unit came pre-loaded with my profile.

Display is very nice. The text is completely readable in all lighting situations that I have tried so far, and from any angle. The backlighting is very effective and satisfactory. The backlighting is not needed in bright sunlight (obviously), but the Kindle does not seem to sense ambient light and adjust backlighting automatically, so if you use it outdoors then I think you need to remember to turn down the backlighting in order to save some battery life. (Or maybe the draw on the batteries from the LED's is so little that you don't need to worry about it). The whiteness of the display is greatest when the backlighting is at maximum. When it is turned to minimum then the screen is more of a cream color. Many of the comments to this version of the Kindle have focused on the pros and cons of this new backlighted display. I do not find the LED's at the bottom of the screen noticeable at all. If you tilt the Kindle and look for them, you can see them. The slight shadowing at the very bottom of the screen that results from the position of the LED lights is only visible in certain combinations of ambient lighting and backlighting and is not at all distracting to me. When I have looked for it, the very small area of shadowing seems to always be just below the last line of text in a book anyway so I don't feel that it is serious. It is appropriate that the backlighting is receiving a lot of attention on this new model, and it was a big part of the reason for my own purchase as well. To me, overall I give the backlighting a score of 95, recognizing that the technology will likely improve and a couple of years from now there will certainly be a new model without this minor artifact.

Linking to the Amazon store and purchasing new titles is astonishingly easy. I purchased the two Lee Child Kindle short novels (Second Son (Kindle Single), and Deep Down: A Jack Reacher Story), and they were practically on my Kindle before I completed the purchase. It took me a short time to figure out how to "borrow" Kindle books for free (as an Amazon Prime member), since it appears that you can only do that from the Kindle itself (duh). (At first since I'm so used to purchasing from Amazon on my computer, I thought I needed to buy the books for the Kindle that way. You can do it, except I don't think that you can do the "borrow for free" from your computer, you have to do that from the Kindle).

Navigating through the options available on the Kindle is easy, although for a new user some time to read through the user's guide (pre-loaded on the Kindle) is needed. Everything is easy to learn and the basic touch screen techniques needed in order to read books are easily picked up and become automatic very quickly. All is controlled via the touch screen - the only "hard" switch is on-off.

Using the Kindle to read a book is simple and intuitive. Touch the page (or swipe) and it turns to the next page. Touch the left side of the screen (or swipe in reverse) to go back one page. Touch the top of the screen to display the menu bar. Saves your last page when you pause reading. Options for highlighting words or portions of text; ability to select words and look up in dictionary or online; as well as other more sophisticated capabilities that I haven't yet explored.

I wanted a simple and inexpensive e-book reader. This Kindle Paperwhite has many capabilities beyond what I need and I'm sure that as I get used to it, I will find myself taking advantage of them from time to time (web browsing, for example). It does not have audio capability nor was I looking for that. This Kindle does exactly what I want, it works well, and is very elegant and well made.

I am very happy with my purchase and looking forward to many years of enjoyment.

(Update, 11/12/12: I agree with the other reviewers who do not like the personalized recommendations that automatically appear on the screen, and I am very happy to see that Amazon agrees and is planning an update to the software to make this optional at the users decision. That is a nice improvement and as always I'm very glad to see Amazon listening to user feedback and working to improve their products.)

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Finally, No Need For A Book Light!

After I Buy Kindle Paperwhite Resolution Display Built

Many of the reviews submitted for this latest Kindle are from very experienced users who have provided excellent detailed comparisons between this Paperwhite model and previous versions of the Kindle. Many also have experience with the iPad, Nook, and other devices, and have provided comparisons to those products as well.

My background with respect to this product is different. The Kindle Paperwhite is my first e-book reader or tablet type device. I have held off dipping my toe into the water of digital reading although I do some on my iPhone and I use my computer extensively. The Paperwhite sounded attractive enough to me that I decided to finally give the Kindle a try. I wanted to see if I would find this to be a good alternative to printed books (of which I have more than I want to admit), or simply for convenience. I ordered it immediately once the ordering process opened, so my Kindle was delivered to me earlier this week.

From this perspective I therefore offer the following:

The Kindle is physically quite small and very comfortable to hold. It has a nice black finish and feels good in the hand. The back surface is rubberized. Appearance is elegant. It is very similar in height and width (but not depth, it is much thinner) to a paperback book and the size has clearly been selected to be the best for a book reader. And as other reviewers have commented, it looks like Amazon has found the "sweet spot" for this kind of product because it is very comfortable to hold in the hand.

Setting up and beginning to use has been easy and troublefree. It powered up, located and sync'd to my home network immediately once password was supplied. Connection to the Kindle store was essentially automatic since the unit came pre-loaded with my profile.

Display is very nice. The text is completely readable in all lighting situations that I have tried so far, and from any angle. The backlighting is very effective and satisfactory. The backlighting is not needed in bright sunlight (obviously), but the Kindle does not seem to sense ambient light and adjust backlighting automatically, so if you use it outdoors then I think you need to remember to turn down the backlighting in order to save some battery life. (Or maybe the draw on the batteries from the LED's is so little that you don't need to worry about it). The whiteness of the display is greatest when the backlighting is at maximum. When it is turned to minimum then the screen is more of a cream color. Many of the comments to this version of the Kindle have focused on the pros and cons of this new backlighted display. I do not find the LED's at the bottom of the screen noticeable at all. If you tilt the Kindle and look for them, you can see them. The slight shadowing at the very bottom of the screen that results from the position of the LED lights is only visible in certain combinations of ambient lighting and backlighting and is not at all distracting to me. When I have looked for it, the very small area of shadowing seems to always be just below the last line of text in a book anyway so I don't feel that it is serious. It is appropriate that the backlighting is receiving a lot of attention on this new model, and it was a big part of the reason for my own purchase as well. To me, overall I give the backlighting a score of 95, recognizing that the technology will likely improve and a couple of years from now there will certainly be a new model without this minor artifact.

Linking to the Amazon store and purchasing new titles is astonishingly easy. I purchased the two Lee Child Kindle short novels (Second Son (Kindle Single), and Deep Down: A Jack Reacher Story), and they were practically on my Kindle before I completed the purchase. It took me a short time to figure out how to "borrow" Kindle books for free (as an Amazon Prime member), since it appears that you can only do that from the Kindle itself (duh). (At first since I'm so used to purchasing from Amazon on my computer, I thought I needed to buy the books for the Kindle that way. You can do it, except I don't think that you can do the "borrow for free" from your computer, you have to do that from the Kindle).

Navigating through the options available on the Kindle is easy, although for a new user some time to read through the user's guide (pre-loaded on the Kindle) is needed. Everything is easy to learn and the basic touch screen techniques needed in order to read books are easily picked up and become automatic very quickly. All is controlled via the touch screen - the only "hard" switch is on-off.

Using the Kindle to read a book is simple and intuitive. Touch the page (or swipe) and it turns to the next page. Touch the left side of the screen (or swipe in reverse) to go back one page. Touch the top of the screen to display the menu bar. Saves your last page when you pause reading. Options for highlighting words or portions of text; ability to select words and look up in dictionary or online; as well as other more sophisticated capabilities that I haven't yet explored.

I wanted a simple and inexpensive e-book reader. This Kindle Paperwhite has many capabilities beyond what I need and I'm sure that as I get used to it, I will find myself taking advantage of them from time to time (web browsing, for example). It does not have audio capability nor was I looking for that. This Kindle does exactly what I want, it works well, and is very elegant and well made.

I am very happy with my purchase and looking forward to many years of enjoyment.

(Update, 11/12/12: I agree with the other reviewers who do not like the personalized recommendations that automatically appear on the screen, and I am very happy to see that Amazon agrees and is planning an update to the software to make this optional at the users decision. That is a nice improvement and as always I'm very glad to see Amazon listening to user feedback and working to improve their products.)

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Wonderful Value for Money

Why You Ned to Buy Netgear NeoTV Streaming Player NTV300SL

I don't have any previous experience with NeoTVs and I don't have a Roku etc. I have a Lenovo T420, Netflix and a decent internet connection; I also have multiple android devices than are DLNA servers.

I wanted to be able to use my laptop on my 720p TV from bed without a cable and not have a whole other computer (or Wii) connected to the TV just to watch some Netflix.

Purchasing:
The device shipped when it said it would, arrived with all the contents and I was pleasantly surprised with how small the device was.

Setup:
I plugged it in with the A/V cables as I forgot my 'spare' HDMI cable recently found a use. Plugged in the power and pulled the small tab out the remote; a few clicks later through a pretty easy setup and I was watching an episode on Netflix. For the WiDi (Intel Wireless Display) I had to setup the Widi drivers on my T420 and once that was done (no reboot necessary) I was able to connect. The keyboard on the remote works well and I used it for entering passwords for Netflix and my wireless router.

Use:
The quality is iffy but I'm not on HDMI, I can only imagine it improving. The quality of Netflix is great despite using A/V and the remote is great in for quick searches. The menus are a bit laggy, about 1-2 seconds to go 'home' and about 1/2-1s lag on the remote worst case but my cable box is awful in terms of lag so I find it very bearable :-). I also buy video content on the Play store which is available on Youtube so that is a pretty nice bonus. I haven't tried the DLNA client or the USB/MicroSD functionality so I can't speak to the quality of those functions.

Overall:
The menu could be more responsive and I know some laptops will give issues connecting but that wasn't my experience. I don't use the full breadth of services so as I expand it's nice to know the device does huluplus etc. The value in terms of services it covers, the small size at 70USD is great.

Biggest plus: Number of features crammed into a small box for $70.
Biggest minus: Lag.

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Fast and easy

Days After I Buy This Canon Products MX922 Wireless Printer

Bought this Canon PIXMA MX922 from Amazon to replace a MP980 that decided to no longer feed paper from the bottom tray. Ordered it on the 19th and received it yesterday the 21st. Could not believe the fast arrival. This will be used with a new Dell XPS 8500 running Windows 8. Unpacked the unit right after arrival and started the set-up today. It took about 30 minutes and had no problem with it. Have not received the ink cartridges that I ordered Wednesday (Which are pretty pricey so do some looking around) so I cannot say how well it operates except for a couple prints I just made. Since the only inks I have now are the set-up ones supplied with the printer I cannot do much. At this time I would say I am pleased with this unit. The price was very good by a long wayCanon Office Products MX922 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner, Copier and Fax compared to other sellers of this same unit. It is a little larger than my MP980 which was large to begin with. Very well packed and although there was a small dent in the box it was in no way harmed as far as I can tell. I will update this if I run into any problems after I start using it.

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Fantastic value-for-money on a gaming PC

Great Deals Of CybertronPC GM2222D 5150 Escape Gaming

I ordered this PC as a Christmas present for my 12 yr old son. He loves to game and is really starting to get into it. I thought this would be a great starter gaming PC. The PC was shipped asap and delivered in perfect condition as is typical for Amazon Prime. On Christmas day I set it up in about 20 minutes and my son was in heaven! The speed was so much better than his previous PC and the graphics were fantastic on his new ASUS 24" HD monitor. He loaded up all his favorite games - Minecraft, Civilization V, Age of Empires III etc. and disappeared for 6 hours. He had a blast and the PC delivered flawlessly.

The following day was a different story - at about 4 PM EST the PC just died. It would not power up. I immediately called CybertronPC and spoke to Red in tech support. Red explained to me that they had received a bad batch of power supplies and offered me a couple of options to fix the issue. I opted to have them send me a new PC but that would take the approval of a manager. I was put on the phone with Lee Castor who expressed to me his apologies and told me they were out of stock on the 5150 that I had purchased but he had a couple of ideas for a possible solution and would call me back in 15 minutes. Sure enough my phone rang 15 minutes later and as it was closing time he would call me back in the morning. This was now Wednesday at 6:00 PM EST.

At 10 am on Thursday Lee calls me and lets me know they were able to grab a machine for me from some previously allocated stock. Not only that but they upgraded the power supply to 650 watts from 400 and the new machine was now Windows 8. To top it all off Lee had the machine shipped that day via UPS Next Day Air. In all my years of dealing with Tech companies I have NEVER had such outstanding service. These folks were truly compassionate and understood that I had a very unhappy 12 yr old on my hands and they really wanted to help.

Today is Friday the 28th and my new machine arrived as promised and all is well in the world. I will be buying many more machines from Lee Castor and his team at CybertronPC in the future. Great job guys - thank you for everything!

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After I Buy Kindle Paperwhite Touch light

Many of the reviews submitted for this latest Kindle are from very experienced users who have provided excellent detailed comparisons between this Paperwhite model and previous versions of the Kindle. Many also have experience with the iPad, Nook, and other devices, and have provided comparisons to those products as well.

My background with respect to this product is different. The Kindle Paperwhite is my first e-book reader or tablet type device. I have held off dipping my toe into the water of digital reading although I do some on my iPhone and I use my computer extensively. The Paperwhite sounded attractive enough to me that I decided to finally give the Kindle a try. I wanted to see if I would find this to be a good alternative to printed books (of which I have more than I want to admit), or simply for convenience. I ordered it immediately once the ordering process opened, so my Kindle was delivered to me earlier this week.

From this perspective I therefore offer the following:

The Kindle is physically quite small and very comfortable to hold. It has a nice black finish and feels good in the hand. The back surface is rubberized. Appearance is elegant. It is very similar in height and width (but not depth, it is much thinner) to a paperback book and the size has clearly been selected to be the best for a book reader. And as other reviewers have commented, it looks like Amazon has found the "sweet spot" for this kind of product because it is very comfortable to hold in the hand.

Setting up and beginning to use has been easy and troublefree. It powered up, located and sync'd to my home network immediately once password was supplied. Connection to the Kindle store was essentially automatic since the unit came pre-loaded with my profile.

Display is very nice. The text is completely readable in all lighting situations that I have tried so far, and from any angle. The backlighting is very effective and satisfactory. The backlighting is not needed in bright sunlight (obviously), but the Kindle does not seem to sense ambient light and adjust backlighting automatically, so if you use it outdoors then I think you need to remember to turn down the backlighting in order to save some battery life. (Or maybe the draw on the batteries from the LED's is so little that you don't need to worry about it). The whiteness of the display is greatest when the backlighting is at maximum. When it is turned to minimum then the screen is more of a cream color. Many of the comments to this version of the Kindle have focused on the pros and cons of this new backlighted display. I do not find the LED's at the bottom of the screen noticeable at all. If you tilt the Kindle and look for them, you can see them. The slight shadowing at the very bottom of the screen that results from the position of the LED lights is only visible in certain combinations of ambient lighting and backlighting and is not at all distracting to me. When I have looked for it, the very small area of shadowing seems to always be just below the last line of text in a book anyway so I don't feel that it is serious. It is appropriate that the backlighting is receiving a lot of attention on this new model, and it was a big part of the reason for my own purchase as well. To me, overall I give the backlighting a score of 95, recognizing that the technology will likely improve and a couple of years from now there will certainly be a new model without this minor artifact.

Linking to the Amazon store and purchasing new titles is astonishingly easy. I purchased the two Lee Child Kindle short novels (Second Son (Kindle Single), and Deep Down: A Jack Reacher Story), and they were practically on my Kindle before I completed the purchase. It took me a short time to figure out how to "borrow" Kindle books for free (as an Amazon Prime member), since it appears that you can only do that from the Kindle itself (duh). (At first since I'm so used to purchasing from Amazon on my computer, I thought I needed to buy the books for the Kindle that way. You can do it, except I don't think that you can do the "borrow for free" from your computer, you have to do that from the Kindle).

Navigating through the options available on the Kindle is easy, although for a new user some time to read through the user's guide (pre-loaded on the Kindle) is needed. Everything is easy to learn and the basic touch screen techniques needed in order to read books are easily picked up and become automatic very quickly. All is controlled via the touch screen - the only "hard" switch is on-off.

Using the Kindle to read a book is simple and intuitive. Touch the page (or swipe) and it turns to the next page. Touch the left side of the screen (or swipe in reverse) to go back one page. Touch the top of the screen to display the menu bar. Saves your last page when you pause reading. Options for highlighting words or portions of text; ability to select words and look up in dictionary or online; as well as other more sophisticated capabilities that I haven't yet explored.

I wanted a simple and inexpensive e-book reader. This Kindle Paperwhite has many capabilities beyond what I need and I'm sure that as I get used to it, I will find myself taking advantage of them from time to time (web browsing, for example). It does not have audio capability nor was I looking for that. This Kindle does exactly what I want, it works well, and is very elegant and well made.

I am very happy with my purchase and looking forward to many years of enjoyment.

(Update, 11/12/12: I agree with the other reviewers who do not like the personalized recommendations that automatically appear on the screen, and I am very happy to see that Amazon agrees and is planning an update to the software to make this optional at the users decision. That is a nice improvement and as always I'm very glad to see Amazon listening to user feedback and working to improve their products.)

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Love it!

Days After I Buy This Lenovo 59346799 A2107 7 Inch Tablet

We like the Kindle but wanted something about the same size and slightly more general purpose. Paying way north of $300 to Apple just to browse, shop and listen to online music seemed not a good value. We are more of Kindle readers, Web Shoppers and not much of the "Apps" folks.

Works well, been a week so far, the Android and Google marketplaces take some navigating and getting used to. Battery life seems fine. Cameras are good. Music is decent.

Display - if you have an IPad, you may find it slightly less in resolution, but we haven't tried to change it. We have both, but the kids understand the price and value points.

Bottomline: We were torn between Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and this, and went with this since we wanted more flexibility and have had great experiences with Lenovo in the past.

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Easy installation and excellent performance!

Why You Ned to Buy Cisco Linksys Refurbished Wireless N Extender

I had hear a lot of horror stories about extenders and repeater that didn't work. I was looking for a solution that would make my life easy and avoid the arduous task of running wire from one end of my house to the other. This little gizmo has been a life saver. I am getting full signal strength throughout my house in areas that prior to installing this were just one bar areas at times and others dead spots.

My wife works from home some days and uses our home office which happens to be at the opposite end of the house where I keep my router. She regularly engages in meetings and international video conferences that last, in some cases, hours. This device just facilitates that. I get no more complaints from her about signal drops or disconnected sessions. I own the Belkin N-600 and it works beautifully with this extender. I now have the same download speeds on wireless computers going through the extender as I have on the ones going through the router wirelessly also.

I own a Drobo 5N and that is strictly an ethernet/network storage system. No USB, Firewire or SATA. I am forced to go through ethernet or wifi to store data on it. This extender works great with it. I have every computer in the house backing up over the air to this NAS (Networked Area Storage) and the extender multiplies my network signal with no hickups.

I also store all our movies and basically, our entire iTunes library with movies, podcasts, music, etc. We use Apple TV's through out the house and the rooms that this extender services now have uninterrupted streaming with the native sound and video quality.

Oh, did I mention that it supports b/g and n. I have two networks in my house. I use the N network for big data transfers and video and the b/g for low bandwidth stuff like: FaceBook, internet surfing, etc.

I am very pleased with the performance of this extender. I have already recommended it and my father-in-law now owns one too.

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love it!

Days After I Buy This Disney Channel Kindle Tablet Edition

This product is good as advertised. Everything worked outside of the box with the preloaded operating system. The only bad thing about it is the crappy OS it comes preloaded. I could install xubuntu afterwards with minimum installing effort, thanks to instructions here: [...] (everything but the bluetooth works with current version 12.10, and apparently bluetooth will be fixed on 13.04).

Look and feel: Its really nice, the whole black is good to avoid unnecessary flashyness, and its incredibly lightweight (comparable to carrying a book with a few hundred pages). The charger is not really heavy either.

Multimedia: was really good, good screen, good webcam, good mic. Speakers were of course not premium, but for me it was even a little better than macbook air's, so I'm guessing is top of the line for a slim computer. Even with heavily reduced brightness (20%) to increase battery time the screen is pretty clear (much better than other laptop's I've used that with 50% reduced brightness are already annoying to look at). I like that the glass of the screen seems to produce little or no reflection compared to other monitors I've tried.

Speed: This was great, with windows it booted and finsihed loading everything from complete shutdown in about 10 secodns, reduced to 2 or 3 with linux. Going to slepp and coming back from sleep mode is instantaneous in both OSs. All ports worked.

I/O flip: I'm only annoyed by it in a non-rational thought that its going to break. To this day it worked perfectly, it is kind of noisy when it opens/closes, but probably comparable to opening/closing a dvd player's tray, nothing serius.

Fans: Then fans can get noisy (more than with mac's ultrabook) but usually it only lasts for a minute or less and then goes back to being quite when heavy processing is over. I do not play games or do any other intense-processing stuff, so I do not know if such thing will make it noisier longer. But even when installing the processor usage went up to 90% several times and only at some specific points the fans were loud. Even less frequently it gets hot, but MUCH less than my previous HP HDX 16 laptop which was a huge computer with plenty of ventilation. Of course it would be nicer if the computer had constant temperature and no noise at all, but this works great for my taste. Take into account it got way better with linux on than the couple of hours I tried it with the preloaded windows system, which of course was to be expected due to windows' ridicuolously heavy usage of the processor just to load the start menu and stuff.

Battery was estimated at 6+ hours on windows and is lasting 4.5 hours with linux (which is supposed to have worse performance with power management).

Ports: HDMI works perfectly, USB is fast (cannot say about USB 3.0 because I haven't tried any device, but USB 2.0 flashdrives seem fast).

Keyboard and touchpad are good, multitouch works perfectly in both OSs. The keyboard is not as confortable as a bigger laptop's or a regular desktop keyboard, but I don't think its possible to do a lot better on a slim ultrabook. After only a week of using it I'm already confortable typing it for several hours at work and I think I would probably get completely used to it in a month or two (I still use my old laptop when I'm working from home to avoid packing/unpacking all the time).

Did not try thunderbolt port with either OS.

Overall: I'm pretty pleased so far, would recommend the laptop, especially to linux users which sometimes may have a hard time finding drivers and making everything work.

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What a wonderful addition to the Who Universe!

After I Buy Doctor Who Season Part

This product is good as advertised. Everything worked outside of the box with the preloaded operating system. The only bad thing about it is the crappy OS it comes preloaded. I could install xubuntu afterwards with minimum installing effort, thanks to instructions here: [...] (everything but the bluetooth works with current version 12.10, and apparently bluetooth will be fixed on 13.04).

Look and feel: Its really nice, the whole black is good to avoid unnecessary flashyness, and its incredibly lightweight (comparable to carrying a book with a few hundred pages). The charger is not really heavy either.

Multimedia: was really good, good screen, good webcam, good mic. Speakers were of course not premium, but for me it was even a little better than macbook air's, so I'm guessing is top of the line for a slim computer. Even with heavily reduced brightness (20%) to increase battery time the screen is pretty clear (much better than other laptop's I've used that with 50% reduced brightness are already annoying to look at). I like that the glass of the screen seems to produce little or no reflection compared to other monitors I've tried.

Speed: This was great, with windows it booted and finsihed loading everything from complete shutdown in about 10 secodns, reduced to 2 or 3 with linux. Going to slepp and coming back from sleep mode is instantaneous in both OSs. All ports worked.

I/O flip: I'm only annoyed by it in a non-rational thought that its going to break. To this day it worked perfectly, it is kind of noisy when it opens/closes, but probably comparable to opening/closing a dvd player's tray, nothing serius.

Fans: Then fans can get noisy (more than with mac's ultrabook) but usually it only lasts for a minute or less and then goes back to being quite when heavy processing is over. I do not play games or do any other intense-processing stuff, so I do not know if such thing will make it noisier longer. But even when installing the processor usage went up to 90% several times and only at some specific points the fans were loud. Even less frequently it gets hot, but MUCH less than my previous HP HDX 16 laptop which was a huge computer with plenty of ventilation. Of course it would be nicer if the computer had constant temperature and no noise at all, but this works great for my taste. Take into account it got way better with linux on than the couple of hours I tried it with the preloaded windows system, which of course was to be expected due to windows' ridicuolously heavy usage of the processor just to load the start menu and stuff.

Battery was estimated at 6+ hours on windows and is lasting 4.5 hours with linux (which is supposed to have worse performance with power management).

Ports: HDMI works perfectly, USB is fast (cannot say about USB 3.0 because I haven't tried any device, but USB 2.0 flashdrives seem fast).

Keyboard and touchpad are good, multitouch works perfectly in both OSs. The keyboard is not as confortable as a bigger laptop's or a regular desktop keyboard, but I don't think its possible to do a lot better on a slim ultrabook. After only a week of using it I'm already confortable typing it for several hours at work and I think I would probably get completely used to it in a month or two (I still use my old laptop when I'm working from home to avoid packing/unpacking all the time).

Did not try thunderbolt port with either OS.

Overall: I'm pretty pleased so far, would recommend the laptop, especially to linux users which sometimes may have a hard time finding drivers and making everything work.

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The S5 fits my needs

After I Buy Acer S5 391 9880 13 3 Inch Display Ultrabook

This product is good as advertised. Everything worked outside of the box with the preloaded operating system. The only bad thing about it is the crappy OS it comes preloaded. I could install xubuntu afterwards with minimum installing effort, thanks to instructions here: [...] (everything but the bluetooth works with current version 12.10, and apparently bluetooth will be fixed on 13.04).

Look and feel: Its really nice, the whole black is good to avoid unnecessary flashyness, and its incredibly lightweight (comparable to carrying a book with a few hundred pages). The charger is not really heavy either.

Multimedia: was really good, good screen, good webcam, good mic. Speakers were of course not premium, but for me it was even a little better than macbook air's, so I'm guessing is top of the line for a slim computer. Even with heavily reduced brightness (20%) to increase battery time the screen is pretty clear (much better than other laptop's I've used that with 50% reduced brightness are already annoying to look at). I like that the glass of the screen seems to produce little or no reflection compared to other monitors I've tried.

Speed: This was great, with windows it booted and finsihed loading everything from complete shutdown in about 10 secodns, reduced to 2 or 3 with linux. Going to slepp and coming back from sleep mode is instantaneous in both OSs. All ports worked.

I/O flip: I'm only annoyed by it in a non-rational thought that its going to break. To this day it worked perfectly, it is kind of noisy when it opens/closes, but probably comparable to opening/closing a dvd player's tray, nothing serius.

Fans: Then fans can get noisy (more than with mac's ultrabook) but usually it only lasts for a minute or less and then goes back to being quite when heavy processing is over. I do not play games or do any other intense-processing stuff, so I do not know if such thing will make it noisier longer. But even when installing the processor usage went up to 90% several times and only at some specific points the fans were loud. Even less frequently it gets hot, but MUCH less than my previous HP HDX 16 laptop which was a huge computer with plenty of ventilation. Of course it would be nicer if the computer had constant temperature and no noise at all, but this works great for my taste. Take into account it got way better with linux on than the couple of hours I tried it with the preloaded windows system, which of course was to be expected due to windows' ridicuolously heavy usage of the processor just to load the start menu and stuff.

Battery was estimated at 6+ hours on windows and is lasting 4.5 hours with linux (which is supposed to have worse performance with power management).

Ports: HDMI works perfectly, USB is fast (cannot say about USB 3.0 because I haven't tried any device, but USB 2.0 flashdrives seem fast).

Keyboard and touchpad are good, multitouch works perfectly in both OSs. The keyboard is not as confortable as a bigger laptop's or a regular desktop keyboard, but I don't think its possible to do a lot better on a slim ultrabook. After only a week of using it I'm already confortable typing it for several hours at work and I think I would probably get completely used to it in a month or two (I still use my old laptop when I'm working from home to avoid packing/unpacking all the time).

Did not try thunderbolt port with either OS.

Overall: I'm pretty pleased so far, would recommend the laptop, especially to linux users which sometimes may have a hard time finding drivers and making everything work.

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Life-Changing Gadget 2.0 Video Review!

After I Buy Fitbit Wireless Activity Sleep Tracker

I bought two: one for myself and one as a gift. Both Fitbits are being used with the iPhone 4s via the free app which works perfectly (as well as syncing with desktops). Syncing with the phone is especially useful for extended travel away from your computer. My personal dashboard on the Fitbit website boast loads of info-graphics that help me stay motivated and shake me out of denial around how much activity really happens in a day. Tracking sleep has been insightful, too. I've used pedometers for years, and nothing comes close to this thing. Email support from the company has been prompt, and there is a large Fitbit community to help with questions if you just Google them. Sadly, at the time of this review, Amazon has this item back-ordered, but if you don't get it somewhere else it will be worth the wait. Highly recommended.

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Getting More for Less

After I Buy LG 440G Prepaid Minutes Tracfone

I've had three tracfones in the last year and a half, always wanting to try something a little newer and nicer. The first, a Samsung 245g flip phone has a screen just too small to use for anything beyond short and simple texts. Next up was the LG840g. Nice touchscreen operation, but I found the onscreen keyboard a bit awkward, and felt like I needed to carry it a holster rather than my front pocket. The new LG440G is a good compromise. It is a bit larger, when closed, than the Samsung, but with a considerably larger and sharper screen, making texts and emails much easier to read. The 3g connection downloads emails fairly quickly so you don't burn a lot of minutes checking messages. Call quality is fine, and the signal strength is about average, meaning spotty in my home; just something I have to live with, I guess! All in all, I am very happy with my twenty dollar investment. The phone and the Tracfone prepaid costs fit my needs very well. I cannot see myself ever returning to a traditional carrier.

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Great on all Apple devices!!!

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Several reviews state you need a USB connection for scanning. That is only true for push scanning (where printer is remote from PC) where you scan at the printer and push the results to the PC. If you at the PC you invoke EPSON scanning software and you can do all your scanning wirelessly. In addition this software has three modes; home, office, professional. In pro mode you have lots of picture modification parms including dust removal and restoration like digital ice.

I have this epson and a canon laser AIO and this one is like a swiss army knife compared to the Canon which I use only now for fast BW printing..............highly recommended especially for Apple product and Chrome users who can print from Iphone/Ipad locally or from remote locations to the printer using google cloud print; you can use Epson email print also. The dual paper feed with photo paper in one and regular copy paper in the others is great feature too or any other kind of mixed print media. Fax also allows for color faxing.

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Why You Ned to Buy Epson WorkForce Smartphone Compatible C11CB92201

Several reviews state you need a USB connection for scanning. That is only true for push scanning (where printer is remote from PC) where you scan at the printer and push the results to the PC. If you at the PC you invoke EPSON scanning software and you can do all your scanning wirelessly. In addition this software has three modes; home, office, professional. In pro mode you have lots of picture modification parms including dust removal and restoration like digital ice.

I have this epson and a canon laser AIO and this one is like a swiss army knife compared to the Canon which I use only now for fast BW printing..............highly recommended especially for Apple product and Chrome users who can print from Iphone/Ipad locally or from remote locations to the printer using google cloud print; you can use Epson email print also. The dual paper feed with photo paper in one and regular copy paper in the others is great feature too or any other kind of mixed print media. Fax also allows for color faxing.

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Great Upgrade from my Wireless G Router

Great Deals Of TP LINK TL WDR3500 Wireless Router 300Mbps

I've had this running 16 hours a day for a week with no problems. The signal in the dual 2.4/5GHz mode is ample for my small two-story house. The performance is no different than with the wired connection. There's no interference with other devices (antenna for broadcast TV, wireless headphones). The unit runs barely warm. Looks sleek. Well priced for its performance.

Set-up notes

The printed instructions don't include assembly, but it's self-explanatory from the photo of the assembled unit--just screw on the two antennas (no screws required).

To configure the router, which you have to do before you use it, you need two ethernet cables, one of which is included. You probably have another connecting your modem to your computer or previous router.

If the computer that was used to set up your modem is still handy, use it to configure the router. (If you don't have that computer anymore, just go ahead, you probably won't have any trouble. If you do have trouble with the MAC address [MAC has nothing to do with Apple in this case], you may have to get help from your internet service provider.)

If you don't have a player for the included mini-CD or don't run Windows, you have to configure the router online. The printed instructions for that worked fine for me (using an old Mac PowerBook with OS 10.3.9), with a couple hiccups:

-- Step 3 says to select Auto-Detect on the online menu, but that didn't take me to the correct next page. Instead I had to select Dynamic IP and continue to step 4. If selecting Auto-Detect doesn't work for you, just back up to the page where you selected it, select Dynamic IP instead, and continue.

-- At the end of the process, the website asked for the website username and password again (not to be confused with the network name and password), but you don't need to enter them; the set-up is done at that point and you can leave the website.

If you create a new network password during the configuration process and forget it, you can press the reset button and configure the router again to create another password.

The whole set-up process takes only a few minutes.

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