simply, and without westing your time in reading about this device: DON"T BUY IT.
933788
simply, and without westing your time in reading about this device: DON"T BUY IT. I have bought 5 of this and all have the same problem. it takes for ever to get charged and you can't tern it off so after the sun set the light on it use all the charge. you only can use it on day time and it won't fully charge your device. the material is very cheap and it's freakily light !! its like empty inside.
long story short its west of money.
3222806
Do not buy this device. You will regret it. It works for a couple of weeks and then stops. Don't even bother trying to call customer service. When they eventually do answer, they are no help at all.
4557360
This is my 1st single star.  Run, don't walk away from this device.  I believe they intended it to be plug-in easy so anyone could do it.  All I wanted was an extra drive for a lot of storage.  This device seemed intriguing because it pledged to be so much more than that.  However, it never worked.  I had to do several 40 second resets just to get to the settings.  I had to get to settings because the default DHCP was worthless.  I chose the native static IP to overcome DHCP disconnects that were constant.  They also had a power savings mode that caused the drive to turn off in the middle of the night as I was uploading 30,000 pictures.  I changed that.  The interface is nothing like a regular window file structure and is a pain to use.  This thing replicate pictures/videos/etc so that if you lose them on you local computer they are lost on this thing.  Crazy stupid.  Anyway I put up with it for 2 days and this morning the blue light that says the device is running was off.  I rebooted and reset to no avail.  Worthless.
850292
I'm sitting here looking at my Lyra right now, staring at a (frozen) screen that says "Loading", and mind you, this is after having already rebooted the device for the up-teenth time today.

And the kicker: I haven't even owned this device for ONE YEAR yet.

When it comes to MP3 players, this is easily the worst of the worst. There is only one word that can describe this piece of hardware... that word is "CRAPTASTIC". For those who need reasons, let me describe to you the problems I've run into so far:

1) Shoddy scroll wheel. You can tell it to scroll upward, or tell it to scroll downward... but whether the device actually SCROLLS in the direction you tell it to is anyone's guess and seems to be completely random. The hardware is, quite simply, not manufactured well at all... it almost feels sub-standard.

2) The software is worse. The device constantly loses profile of the songs you have on it. Every ten minutes or so, the device simply stops playing anything at all and will not do so again until you re-profile the contents or reboot the device. The device has behaved like this since I purchased it 9 months ago.

3) The device has recently taken to just freezing completely (and taking an extra long time to reboot afterward).

BUYER BEWARE strongly and do some research into this device if you're thinking about purchasing one. In fact, if there is one piece of advice I can give anyone who's looking into buying an MP3 player, that advice is STAY AWAY from RCA Lyras (in any form). Despite the price tag being about half that of an iPod, you manage to get even less than what you pay for it.

I will not buy another one of these devices, nor will I buy anything else from RCA if this is the standard I can expect they normally manufacture their hardware to.

Note: Please bear in mind I'm not normally a complainer, I'm actually the last one to write a bad review about anything normally... I've just seriously gotten so disgusted with this device, especially since I haven't even owned it for a single year yet and it's already failing this badly. "Buyer beware" indeed...
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We purchased this for our four year old, who has used our iPads and childrens' tablets.

Here is my advice - STAY AWAY.  It is SEVERELY flawed from both a hardware and software perspective.

The screen (older resistive touch screen) is utter garbage.  The screen "indents" when you press - and leaves a temporary halo.  This is not 2003, but 2014 we're talking about.

The device is slow - VERY slow.  Wi-Fi and general usage are on par with notebook computers from the 1990s.  It takes way too long for a 4-year old's attention span.  Or an adult's.

The machine froze twice - the first HOUR we had it running.  If this is the "honeymoon", I can't imagine what 10 years of marriage are like.

"Games" aren't what we thought.  Everything we wanted (or thought we wanted) were videos...  or eBooks.  Not games.  Bait-and-switch at its finest.  And expensive.  It's easy to spend $100 on complete garbage.

In summary, buy an iPad Mini.  If you can't afford it, save up another year.  And buy some books for your kids.
3549458
I read all the rating before i buy. But after i bought it, i regret as well. As other ppl said, it is very simple and tou can just google it. No need pay for it. It is wasting money.
2674780
This thing basically sucks. I thought I'd love having a small computer to bring around. I thought I would be able to do without an actual laptop, I mean it's not THAT much different if I'm just surfing the web and checking emails, right? WRONG. Please listen to people who tell you that this is not a replacement for your actual laptop or desktop computer. You will be ridiculously disappointed. I kept this thing for one month, and that one month was miserable. This is child-grade technology here, folks. Get it for your middle schooler but don't expect to be able to use it for work purposes or anything involving productivity.
2740546
I am looking for a device that I can speak into and it translates like a recorder...This proclaimed to be like that and it is not at all. I do not need it for travel, I need it for someone living in my home.
488666
Don't buy this piece of junk. It can only "scan" one page at a time, and it does a horrible job. Not only that, but the software was designed by an idiot.

Steps to make it actually work.

1. Buy
2. Unbox
3. Go to their website
4. Download a tool to download the other tools (If you are confused about which you need, good luck, they won't help. The box just says to go download stuff).
5. Get confused and try to find the user guide it downloaded. Search through the folders they created, it's the one that ends in US for English.
6. Download the Button Manager which is what they say you need to scan.
7. Try to scan your multi-page document.
8. Realize it will make it a bunch of one page PDFs.
9. Get pissed.
10. Look for other tools from them to download.
11. Realize that the "quick user guide" says that it doesn't have instructions under the how to use page.
12. Look for better instructions.
13. Try not to smash the thing so that you can return it.
14. Return it ASAP and get something better.

Whoever tried to make this simple wasn't smart enough to do it. Instead of simplifying, they just spread out the information and tools across a lot of software. Simple only works if the useful stuff is easy to get to. This fails miserably, and I can't wait to never support this company again.
900672
A total bust. Can I give this less than one star - and get my money back?
1944388
I bought this item for it's obvious purpose, charged it up, pressed the bluetooth button, and sat for hours trying to get it to pair, or even be recognised. Being somewhat of a techno geek, I decided to try get my other bluetooth devices to a: find the iPhone - they all did, and b: find the keyboard, none did. Did one better, took out my RF detector (i'm a geek) and tried to detect anything coming from the keyboard. In it's supposedly discoverable mode, it transmitted nothing, when I pressed the space bar, it transmitted nothing. I turned on my laptop bluetooth keyboard, and pressed the space bar, it transmitted a pulsing signal for one second. I put it in to discoverable mode, it transmitted a steady signal for three minutes.

Therefore the only conclusion is that the keyboard item here described does not perform as it alleges to. There was no RF transmission at all. Needless to say, it is on it's way back to amazon. I will not be buying anything else from a company that supplies defective electronics.  Were it possible to create a level of dissatisfaction, I would have to give the item,and the company selling it, a negative five points, sort of - *****  I would strongly suggest that anyone wishing to have a sliding keyboard case for an iPhone 4 or 4s avoid this one completely.  My research suggests that it fails far more often than otherwise. It would also appear that the other vendor's products claiming to do the same service as this item, have very similar failure rates, including those priced in excess of $50.

I will, however, continue to research a solution, as the virtual keyboard on the iPhone is not suitable for the large hands that are attached to my arms.. :)
728762
This is not a tablet!
This is not an Android! I should have sent it back when we discovered you had to buy a separate charger...Which also sucks!
Without a doubt the most over hyped useless device ever designed.  I am ashamed to have given this as a gift to my wife.  Amazon is screwing anyone who purchases a Kindle for any reason.

My Canon EOS camera can be set up to play music more efficiently on my Wi-Fi that this can.
An I-Pad, I-Phone or any android phone can be used out of the box to run moving map back up flight weather, where performing the same on a FireHD would cost over $1500, plus an annual subscription.

I have an HP iPAQ purchased in 2003 that has more functionality than this useless waste of plastic, silicone and solder.
Amazon has so butchered the android operating system that most apps won't let you download them since they don't work on a Kindle.  All so that Amazon controls and capitalize on anything you purchase. This device is the epitome of rationale for anti-trust legislation. For years I have preferred Amazon to any other distribution system.  Unless I need it now, I would buy it through Amazon. But the Kindle Fire is proof that the company has lost their focus. Jeff Bezos has become a celebrity CEO and the Kindle Fire is as useful as most celebrities in a political discussion. If this is any indication of the efficacy of his planned drone delivery service. It may be safer to give up flying now.

In the old days you could at least get some value from a terrible book as backup in the outhouse.
3494873
In the months I've owed this device I've spent more time setting it up, re-setting it up, re-re-re-installing the desktop and calling customer service than reading. The problems are not the reader as much as the the software. What a time waster.
1923429
Garbage device
First of all everyone complaining about disk not loading it's a boot disk. It's not a driver. The disk is for "testing your wifi password strength" witch means hacking your neighbors wifi. The devise is a plug and play wifi card/ antenna. The one I bought  worked for about 20 minutes then cut out and now won't connect to a router that is 6" away. There is a reason this device is only $25. It's a cheep piece of Chinese crap that probably sends all activity to a server in china to steal any info transmitted over it.  Buyer beware!
57952
Do not under any circumstances purchase this device.

It appears to be yet another randomly generated product that its parent company has absolutely no intention of supporting. It is virtually impossible to find accessories for this device, to the point at which Asus themselves refuse to even sell additional power cables for it for those of us who travel frequently with laptops and don't want to have to rely on hauling the one that comes with the device around with us.

This product was spawned from the T100 product line and apparently abandoned immediately after birth, and should not be purchased by anyone who considers themselves in even the slightest way a power user.
416814
Okay, so, I can't really be too upset about this one. I mean, it was only $20. But that's why I'm writing this review - to protect you, future potential owner of this piece of crap, from wasting $20. This mp3 player is one of the lowest-quality Chinese knockoffs I have ever seen in my life.

Pros:
+Sound quality was fine... for about a week.
+Battery life was acceptable.
+Synced with Windows Media Player with no problems.

"Gee," you might be thinking, "Those are the only things I really care about anyway. What's the big deal?"

Cons:
-Menu is completely inscrutable. Buttons that have one function on one screen do the exact opposite on another screen. The big center button TURNS OFF THE DEVICE on some screens.
-No Shuffle functionality to speak of. Or, if there is shuffle, I couldn't find it and neither could Google. That's how bad the menus are.
-Buttons are shaped like an ipod clickwheel, but they're just normal buttons.
-Pressing "back" doesn't go back to the beginning of the current song no matter how long it has been playing.
-What I thought was the "lock" toggle on the bottom turns out to just be a power switch. There is no way to lock it.
-Instructions that came with the thing are in broken english and refer to a version of the device that wasn't included. Features that are mentioned are completely missing and button labels don't match the actual ones on the device.
-Construction quality is awful. The chrome paint on the plastic back was already chipping away when it arrived. The plastic guard over the LCD screen started warping after one day.
-Screen is completely unreadable with even a small amount of sunlight.
-After a week of light use, the headphone jack started getting loose. Now it only plays sound out of one channel unless I apply constant downwards pressure on the jack. This was the deal-breaker for me.

I can't be too angry about buying a Chinese knockoff and finding out that it's a piece of crap. I'm mostly just disappointed in myself for falling for it. I have no idea where these 4-5 star reviews are coming from (though several of them mention they were given it for free in exchange for a review, so....)

Don't be like me. Don't buy this piece of crap. Not for $20, not for $10, and God help you if you even think about buying it for full price.
1141468
I have used PC's since 1982 - and though my primary pc is a powerbook - I work with an organization that is PC only.  So to be able to connect from home - I must use a PC.  At a little more than $300 this cute little guy seemed like a good idea.

Acer has a great reputation - I've had wonderful luck with them in the past.  So I had an easy choice.

Careful.  It has a trackpad from hell.  Imagine every few sentences having it pull down the "right click" menu.  Imagine actually only about 2 hours of use time.  Imagine a flawed operating system, that is further corrupted by a printing menu that decides to pop up for no apparent reason.  What about all the automated marketing messages the cute little fellow sends you?  Norton's marketing demon lives in the machine as well threatening viruses if you don't buy.

So here's how I really feel - it is perhaps the worse IT experience I've ever had.  Burdensome.  I will find a substitute - or perhaps will use a different keyboard plugged in with a mouse before I give up all together.  Before you buy this miserable little machine - use it for twenty minutes - try a display copy at a local retail store.  Type a short note.  You too will be ready to throw it across the store in no time.

How does stuff like this get designed.  It is a horrendous user experience.