Isn't practical, very poor usability and design, overall bad product
921763
I bought this headset to replace a 3 year old Motorola headset that had the plastic ear clip break. I use this with an IPhone 4S. Here are the things I really did not like about the Jawbone ERA:

* The touch feature (tap the headset) just doesn't work that great. You have to really hit it to get the it to pick up, to the point you're hurting your ear drum from the pressure.

* The only button on it tells you the battery life remaining when pressed. If you hold it down you will access Siri. Why wouldn't they make the most used function (activate Siri) the thing when the button is pressed? It's not a short hold either, 1-2 seconds until a beep occurs (not Siri's beep, more on that next). It says you can program it with a new app, but there is no way to change this functionality, only what happens when you HOLD the button. I'm constantly being told the battery life of the headset...completely useless information.

* When you do hold the button and access Siri, you'll hear a SERIES of beeps, all of which is just the headset telling you that it has recognized the button being held down. Some 3 seconds later (not exaggerating) you will finally hear the Siri been come on and you can talk to Siri. If you're adding it up, that is 1-2 seconds of holding the button, and 3 more seconds for Siri to come up, for a total of 5 seconds until you can use Siri!

* The power switch is very small, so you pretty much have to leave it on all the time. If you put it in your pocket, that means you're going to be pocket dialing and accessing Siri all the time (who knows what she's capable of!). And if you're thinking that you'll just shut it off in your pocket, then don't plan on answering a phone call with it. By the time you take it out of you pocket, find the little power switch (which takes fingernails to turn on), and get it to sync (which might not happen, read next section), you've missed the call.

* If you turn the device off and turn it back on, it's a 50/50 chance it'll pair back up with you phone. Half the time, it doesn't pair up and I have to shake the thing (literally, you have to shake it back and forth 4 times to activate pairing) to get it to try to pair, which sometimes doesn't work but that might be the fault of the IPhone.

* The main reason I bought the Jawbone ERA was because people said it had the best call quality. However, there have been a number of times where the audio was very broken. People on the other end don't have problems (which, going back and reading the reviews I read, this call quality for the OTHER person is what was so impressive).

* Installing drivers on Windows - this is a stretch because there are a lot other factors involved, but as soon as I plugged this thing into my laptop and installed the drivers, my USB mouse and keyboard that was hooked up stopped and required me to reboot my computer. The software runs through a web browser and the first time using it I had a lot of issues where syncing would stop at 4% and wouldn't get past it. Eventually (couple days later) I tried again and it worked.

I do not recommend this if you have an IPhone and like to use Siri. Actually, it's hard to recommend this to anyone. And just as a litmus test, here's what I got from the Motorola headset that made it 100% better: a call came in, I turned on the headset and it automatically picked up. There was one big button that when I hit it, it INSTANTLY activated Siri.

I will be gluing my old headset back together to use over the Jawbone ERROR. Just wish I didn't throw away the packaging so I could return it!
158194
Recently purchased this router and found it to be poorly designed for the money.
1) you  cannot turn it on or off without letting go with one hand which is a poor safety design. You should have a switch need the handle.
2) bit removal is difficult and primitive with the lock button. There are better designs for this. You need to remove the motor which is round and difficult to hold in place while you unscrew the collet ( and hold in the button at the same time). Fine if you have 3 hands!
3) The case is way too bulky and complicated. You need a PHd in boxology to figure out how to put the router back in.
1349031
A real piece of junk:  badly designed and executed.  It is very small, but it looked sort of cute, and I thought I would give it a chance as I have an Acer Ferrari laptop.

Was I ever wrong.  The Acer is a first-quality machine and this mouse is a low-quality product.  It did Plug 'n Play, but it stopped working within 24hrs.  Just stopped communicating with the computer.

Also, it took me a while to even figure out how to get the top off in order to access that battery compartment and the dongle.  Another bad design feature.

Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
1610418
This product is not good and here is why:

1) the part that goes into the vent barely holds the mount up. Expect it to fall off after 15 minutes of driving.
2) very difficult to open the mount to put an iphone in - it's like they didn't want it to open and close smoothly
3) much better options from other vendors available.

Because of this, I cannot recommend this product.
1488000
People prefer different inputs (mice, trackball, touchpads etc...) I think this one is impossible to use (even after a lot of practice) by anyone (but for the one reviewer who seems to enjoy using it to create a simulated touchscreen effect).
Bad design, not worth this or any other low price.  Useless.
872932
I wanted to like this headset, but it had so many problems that I returned it within a day. I opted for a&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Plantronics-Voyager-855-Bluetooth-Headset-Black/dp/B000UBNFT2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Plantronics Voyager 855 Bluetooth Headset (Black)</a>&nbsp;instead and it has proven much more practical and capable.

Let's start with why it is impractical. It hangs around your neck, with the control pod down on your chest. Needless to say, you look like a goon if you wear it outside of your shirt and it is very comfortable inside of your shirt. If you wear a jacket or sweatshirt it shouldn't be a problem. Extra impractical if you're running.

The actual headphones are not replaceable (though they are on other, cheaper Sony headsets). The wires are also not braided. Guess what's going to happen? Yes, your wires will fray naturally or be chewed on by a pet within a month and your $100 headset goes in the trash. Compare to the Voyager 855, which has a braided cord on its optional (and replaceable) headphone, and only costs around 30 bucks.

Which brings me to the price. Did I mention it was $100 for a product unlikely to last more than a few months unless treated with zealous care? If I'm going to need to replace my headphones every month, I'll stick with my cheapos, thank you very much.

The UI is maddening. It can connect to multiple devices, but to do so you must hold the menu button, navigate to the devices menu, the select a device. You do all this on a control pod whose buttons seem to have been designed to give you hand cramps.

The control pod itself is larger than most headsets, and even larger than some media players.

My second MAJOR problem is connectivity. I tried connecting it to two products: an iPod Touch 2g and a Sony Ericsson Walkman W580i phone. The iPod touch supports the fancy Bluetooth profiles that let you listen in stereo and control your music playback, while the phone doesn't.

The initial pairing on either product took an extremely long time and multiple attempts. Nine out of ten times it would time out and give up trying to pair. I followed all instructions meticulously and placed the devices at varying distances from the control pod.

If  getting it to pair was a matter of trial and error, getting it to connect was like winning the lottery. There was no rhyme or reason to how it decided to connect to my devices. I would press connect on my phone or iPod and wait. It would try to connect, then give up and say 'Not Connected'. I would then repeat this about ten times. Eventually, if I was lucky, I'd get a connection. That connection would work for about one minute before it spontaneously disconnected. I can't tell you anything about this product's sound quality or battery life because I couldn't keep it connected long enough to make a call or start a song.

The worst part of this is that I was using a Sony Ericsson phone! Even worse, I was at least able to get the iPod to connect for about a minute, if only once or twice. The phone never actually connected after it was paired. The same phone connects flawlessly and automatically with both a Garmin Nuvi GPS device and the Plantronics Voyager 855, as does the iPod.

I do not recommend this product to anyone. Even if you have no problems connecting the headset, it is still an impractical and expensive headset that will be a pain to use for the month you own it before a wire frays and you have to throw it away. Buy the Plantronics Voyager 855 instead.
4326734
I am not pleased with product. In fact, I have already returned it, but yet wanted to drop a note for future buyers.

The look, grip and ease to mount the cover is good.
However the area, that covers the Volume and Power buttons of the phone, is almost impossible to use unless you apply the heavy pressure at it. I am a techy guy if that makes any difference to support my point of view regarding usability. I would only imagine how annoying it can be for older people to even press those area.

So the usability is very poor and if you can't use the product properly then what's the point of buying it.
I wish the buttons areas of the phone would rather be uncovered. I would not recommend this product.
2938447
This is a real piece of junk. A poor design, poorly implemented, noisy, difficult to use, with long waits for customer service.  Lets consider the paper tray for starters. It slides out of the front, but it consists of two trays at once. On top of the paper tray is a kind of half tray for photos. So to refill the regular paper you have to take the tray out, then lift up the photo tray. It's all plastic junk, of course. I'm all for global trade, but whoever wrote the error messages for Brother was unclear on the concept. When it runs out of paper the message is "Re-install the paper tray correctly, or reload paper." The messages are on a screen smaller than a credit card, and prone to getting washed out when the lights are on. To read it you have to get right in front of the screen and kind of squint - which undoes the design purpose of a small footprint because you must be able to get to the front of the machine to tell why is it not working (again.) After a few weeks the printer began giving me false paper jam messages. I think that dust or something was obscuring a sensor somewhere. I tried 6 times to clear the "paper jam" with no success. The support line was off for the night, of course. Next day my assistant tried twice, and then the machine began printing again, for a bit. The engine that drives the machine is the one that is really clunky and noisy. It sounds like it is beating the paper and driving it through the printer in 2 or 3" pushes. Brother is replacing my printer under warranty with, get this, a refurbished printer - i.e. one that failed for someone else, and they've fixed it. I was on the phone with Support for about an hour before they finally threw in the towel and admitted that printing with a smudgy column and misaligned type was not good, and they couldn't fix it over the phone. Trying to feed envelopes into the rear feeder is tricky, to say the least, and it often takes two to get one usable one. I have a little Canon portable that i use on the road, and when the Brother breaks. I've had it for a couple of years and it works fine. . My next printer is a Canon.
1153699
Very poor design and bad instructions. Too cheap to bother returning so I just tossed it!
2514548
This is not a user friendly product and I have used it for a year. It has problems staying connected to my wifi and doesnt even have a good method to trouble shoot those issues. Sometimes it needs a probe plugged in other times no to set it in different modes, I wonder whats wrong with a switch?  I recently upgraded my router at home and haven't been able to get it to work again despite a few reset attempts. The corresponding app is also full of bugs and is a extermly basic. For the price they want for it one might  think it should be a prime price of equipment, but don't plan on it. I hate that I spent my money on this wifi thermometer please consider your own purchase carefully. Mine is in a landfill.
4043004
The ONLY good thing I can say about this product is that it does get your teeth clean.  Beyond that, it's basically another example of a great idea that is so poorly executed, that its price exceeds its value.  Whoever designed this item should be taken to the woodshed!  It's pretty clear that the designers did not actually use the product they designed.

Even when it works correctly, this device is clumsy to use because it requires two hands to turn it on and off or to adjust the water-jet intensity -- ESPECIALLY WITH WET HANDS, which is hard to avoid when cleaning one's teeth!  All, repeat, A L L of the outer surfaces are so slick that they are very difficult to grip securely.

The tool compartment just sits on top of the tank. It should have a snap-on connector because it falls off easily. Furthermore, it won't even hold all of the tools that come with the device.  One is always left over (not including the one on the hand wand) -- an amazing design oversight!

All but one of the tips use water so quickly that the tank is emptied before the job is done.

Even more amazing is that the tank ALSO just sits on top of the base with little more attachment than the friction of the water seal at the bottom.

The sound this device makes is far too loud for what it does and sounds like a grinder.

The final insult came when the device simply stopped working just barely after the warranty expired!  However, nothing short of returning for a full refund would be adequate -- for all the reasons given above.

Bottom line:  This product is very poorly designed and is not worth even HALF of what it costs.
3954770
This seemed like a nice thing to have for hotel rooms and my laptop.  Unfortunately it is poorly designed.

Very tricky to remove the covers and to get them back together.  In fact, the only documentation that comes with the unit is a series of twenty illustrations for doing just that!  There are ten steps "Before use HUB-249" and then ten more steps "After use HUB-249."  I'll bet the wire on the plug end breaks after a few attempts to get it back in the case.

When I did plug it into the USB2.0 port on my desktop, everything I tried plugging into it resulted in a "USB Hub Power Exceeded" error message (Windows XP Pro).  These were things I use when traveling, like an 8GB flash drive and a portable hard drive.

It does have a small jack on the side that is probably for a power supply, but no supply is included or mentioned in the documentation.

I will be returning this unit.
319544
The biggest flaw with this lock box is that you have to re-enter the code to close it. For some reason, even though I posted a sign about it, people cannot figure out how to close it. This is just a poor design; get ready to have guests leave it open for anyone to enter your house.

Besides that, it jammed in less than 2 years and is practically unusable. Once again, poorly designed product.
1774432
I tried to like this product.  I really did.

The screws that it came with did not hold in the dry wall and ripped out several times before I gave up on this towel rack.  There wasn't even anything on the rack when it ripped out of the wall, it's just not a very sturdy rack.  Now I have a nice ugly Spackle spot in the wall to cover the holes.  The three prongs that stick out are sharp and will poke you if you're not careful.  They are also very hard to move into different positions.

I wish I would have thought this through a little bit more because just looking at the product design, it's obvious that it would never have worked in my kitchen, which was the intention.  There just simply isn't enough space in the area for something like this to be sticking out of the wall, attacking people when they walk by.  Even in most bathrooms, I think this wouldn't work as well as it could.  It's also made out of a cheap material, something that isn't metal, for sure.

3 Chrome, Arm All Purpose Rack
Arms Spread Out For Rapid Drying
Ideal For Towels, Washcloths, Belts, Or Ties
Arms Are Hinged To Sturdy Die-cast Back plate
Very Easy To Install, And Includes Mounting Hardware

This is what Amazon lists under its product description of this rack.  At least 3 of those things are incorrect, at least for me, they're incorrect.

This product may work for some people but I just didn't care for it and really wish I wouldn't have bought it.  It was pretty much wasted money, even if it is only $6.00!
2399696
What a piece of crap! Poorly designed on/off button. The designers of this product should be canned. Returned it within days. I had to unplug the power cord and re-plug to turn it on. Took up to much space as well. Avoid this paper-weight.
3537134
The product is very poorly designed. It can not use the native resolution and uses very low resolution and grabs all the screen. The aesthetic is very poor and they need to use darker lines to separate each groups of 3 X 3 squares. The color of pre-determined numbers and your entry should be completely different from each other. This product is obsolete. Don't buy it.
1657347
Very poorly designed. Does not work well. Frustrating for kids and adults alike.