FORGET THE IPHONE.....GET THIS!!!!
355721
If you want a decent phone and you'd rather not spend several hundred dollars on an iphone get this!!  It has a very large, clear, bright screen.  It's relatively fast.......it has 2 decent cameras....which other phones in this price range do NOT.......the stylus comes in very handy for those with clumsy fingers.........buy at least a 32 gb sd card with this phone, you will need it if you're going to download apps......the internal memory is limited and it comes with its share of bloatware that you cannot move to the SD card.  It's not that expensive to purchase an SD card and relatively easy to install.  It is well worth it considering the price of this phone; it really seems like it should be more expensive and I'm still trying to see if there's some catch to this.  However, I think I just did a really good job of comparison shopping and for my price range this was the best phone that I could get......and the reviews were right.......it is an excellent phone and I'm VERY satisfied.  Worth every penny!
25059
If you raised your hand, you are one of millions who have believed in the iPhone and not strayed to an Android or Windows 7 device. And, aren't there more companies producing phones?

David Pogue, is the master of these sort of books. The number of titles he's written for the Missing Manual series is staggering AND everyone is great! There is nothing that Pogue and O'Reilly get involved in that's subpar. Try one..you'll agree.

David Pogue and his Missing Manual series has been a blessing since his first title has come out. I have obtained almost all of them, and when I think of another subject, I check the O'Reilly webiste. I know Pogue has done a good job if I can find his name by a subject, or problem, I want help with.

The iPhone is a computer and Pogue breaks it done nicely. He covers the 4S in this title, too!

He covers everything you can imagine about the iPhone and does not disappoint you with with this one. The Missing Manual series is designed to be the User Booklet you use to get, but many now get packaged with the installation disks - or, not get at all!

I mean he doesn't leave anything out. If you buy this book and read it, you will master the iPhone computer and become the user you want. And, by just reading a single book - you will get more out of your device than the average user. And, for the kind of money you spent, don't you want that!
4404917
A lot of indept reviews.  Down and dirty, if you have a Blackberry phone you can use it to connect to your Playbook and don't need wi-fi.  You use your Blackberry as your wi-fi.  Can't beat it!  Its easy to do!  It also allows for wi-fi connection but how often are you on the road or away from wi-fi?  For me always!  On the metro, stuck in traffic....sitting in a store with the wife and kids.....Unless I'm at home or work and then I have a computer!

The ability to hook up to your phone is the seller for me.  Unless you have 4G and a wi-fi mobile hub on your smartphone?  I'd go this route.  As for functionality?  Its all in the other reviews.  Everything you could want and Blackberry backing you up.  Can't go wrong folks.  Forget Android.  You're either an Ipad, Iphone, Ipod junkie and believe that Steve Jobs was the Christ Child....or you don't follow the crowd and make your own decisions in life.  I highly recommend this product!!
3611384
We purchased this item last night along with our upgraded Iphone 4 (sans suri).  We have an online music streaming service and we can play music from the app on our phones directly to the Beat Box.  We also tested it with our son's 4G Ipod.  The bass is pumping and you can hear the full range of the music.  You can control the volume directly with your phone/ipod/ipad.  We have been wanting a device that could play music through our online music service and this one is PERFECT!!!  Funny though cause when we were done playing music, my husband began to play angry birds on his phone and the Beat Box was then playing sounds from the game, lol.
***UPDATE***  After 2 months of use, it stopped turning on.  Like it wasn't getting any power at all.  I kept my box and receipt.  The store I bought it from arranged for my replacement to be shipped because they were all out!!  The new one arrived after 3 days which is quicker than I expected.  So far so good on the new one.
***UPDATE 4-1-13***  After the replacement mentioned above, no further problems.  Remember when dealing with bluetooth items if your phone/device fails to connect, you might need to tell it to "forget" the device and add it back.  That is not hard to do at all and should work right away.  I am fairly sure this issue is NOT with the box but with Apple and the many many updates they send out for the phones/ipod/ipads.  I think it changes the phone/device's ability to connect to a bluetooth device sometimes.
363023
this thing is genius. i am not sure why everyone doesn't have one on their iPhone. it's so much more useful than i ever imagined. i would definitely recommend this product to anyone with a cell phone, tablet etc etc. it attaches easily, stays on perfectly and helps with holding on to the device for text etc, browsing etc. it also creates a perfect stand for your device to sit on a surface hands free. get one!
3414210
I used the iphone 2G, 3GS and iphone 4. Of course the last one had major issues with the dropped reception. I have been looking for an andriod phone to get me off Apple and iphone, but NO ONE could match the touch feeling of the iphone. Blackberry touch, you have to tap several times, even Motorola Atrix the response was not great and I returned it. Besides that in the Atrix email program, I could not see Html mail well. Then I heard that Samsung makes the screen that iphone uses and I had heard good feedback on the Galaxy series, that their touch was super. I decided to go with a Samsung product.

Outstanding. Impressive. Forget Iphone.
Touch: the response is super, even better than the iphone. Yes even better.
HTML Email: Excellent, reads it very well.
Speed: Excellent processes requests very fast
battery: Wow! for the smartphones these days that barely last a day, I have gone 3 days so far and not needed a charge. Although, I have GPS turned off, Wifi turned off and power management fully on. I am not a heavy user, I just want my email, little browsing and a bit of phone. yet for me, the Atrix&iphone4 would last 2 days at best.
Screen: its very big and beautiful, which I like very very much. If you are into watching videos etc with your phone you will enjoy it.

I say drop your iphone and get this.
3508053
I have an iPhone 5 and this is the device that I used to write this review.

I am a tech/accessory junky and am always looking for devices like this.

I just received this little guy in the mail today and put it through the wringer.

First impression out of the box = exactly what I was expecting.

I couldn't wait to hook this baby up, so I went out to my car during work to install and give it a listen. Setup was easy, fit perfect next to my volume button. Plugged it into the cigarette port and audio port and was up and running in no time. You can tell that some thought was put into the cord length, as there isn't a bunch of excess and fits great.

Over the course of the day I was able to test nearly every aspect I could think of.
-The audio, THE AUDIO! Playing music through this adapter made my cars audio sound like a much better system than it really is. Haven't heard music in my car with such depth and clarity since I bought it.

I get into the car and it automatically connects and alerts you with an audible beep, from there I simply hit the button once and my music is up and running, two buttons on the top allow you to choose the previous/next song without a hitch.

-Siri works flawlessly, you can use the Bluetooth button just like you would the home button. Directions, commands, questions and phone calls all work just as good as putting the phone up to your ear.

Considering that this is day one and the product is already exceeding my expectations I am really looking forward to having this be a continuation of my bluetooth-ed life.

I will be back to provide more comments once I have a chance to really use it daily.

This is a must have for anyone that listens to music from their devices in the car.
4719720
Various models of smart phones are dying rapidly from bad batteries. There's an inexpensive solution. It doesn't matter what brand of smart phone you have there are similar versions of these and I can validate that they work on both the iPhone AND a Samsung....And NO I don't have stock in the company . Phones are outrageously expensive these days, purchasing this replacement phone case with a rechargeable battery inside it for $29-$50 depending on how powerful of a backup battery you want, it will be one of the best purchases a person has ever made. I have an iPhone 6 Plus and my friend has a Samsung Galaxy. I was worried about just how bulky it would be since it's holding a battery inside... It's better than perfect!! I switched from an Otterbox (which is more boxy not as sleek) and all I have to do with my low battery is push a tiny switch and my phone immediately starts charging, it gets to 100% in a short amount of time! Side note... my friend was constantly carrying around one of those external battery cases and always needing to run the charging cable between the two... very inconvenient!! This has changed his life, I'm not exaggerating... his job is all manual labor and there can't be cables sticking out while working... problem solved without purchasing a new phone. I hope this helps!!!
46252
Awesome little gadget.  It's not gonna blow you away with power but is overall very much worth the $$.  Compact, great sound quality - other than a bit distorted when music is 'cranked' but that's to be expected - connects easily and impeccably with my iPhone6, and even takes phone calls.  Highly recommended.
4961521
The iPhone 6 Plus is exactly what Apple has made it out to be, the largest evolution of the iPhone design since 2007. In my experience with the phone over the last 12 hours that evolution is mostly positive. Keep in mind that my prior phone was the iPhone 5 space gray; so the Touch ID and camera are both very new to me.

PROS:
-Battery: Holy god. The battery in the iphone 6 is the strongest battery life Apple has ever made in an iOS device. I have been toying with this non stop since I bought it.

It came with an 80% charge that i jumped to 100 in the 15 minutes it took to restore from iTunes. The phone has seen nonstop music playback, redditing, downloading, and I've maybe spent 20 minutes with the screen locked in 7 hours of use.  I am now down to 50% after use that would have surely depleted my iPhone 5. I'm excited to be able to use the phone for a day and a half on a single charge since I'm one of those that tends to forget to charge every night.

-Screen: The screen is the best iPhone screen ever made. It makes updated apps look crisp and sexy. Unupdated apps (or even screenshots from the lower ppi 6-) will be instantly noticeable in their inability to occupy the whole 5.5" screen space and fuzziness of text/photos. The landscape mode for the built in apps works fairly well, although I did feel cramped in landscape messages.

The Mail.app landscape mode, however, is the new way I will read my emails. I deleted the Gmail app and don't plan on even reading them on my laptop because it is so easy and streamlined in the new iOS. The Galaxy s5 does have that sexy 4k screen, so true sharpness and color contrast are still dominated there. However, this is the best screen on iOS right now.

-Camera: I didn't have the 5S so this camera blew me away. Compared to the 5 this thing is incredible. The focus pixels autofocus is also so fast I can barely notice it actually focusing. I just pan and the subject is in focus. Great for quick candids of the dog or fireworks.

-Touch ID: I didn't expect much from this feature from what I had been told from 5S users. It seemed like another feature--like Siri--that is a poor implementation of a good idea. So I was stoked to be surprised, it works. Really really well. It's wonderful to just press and hold the home button to login. My brain is still trying to grasp skipping the 4 digit pass key I have been using nonstop for 5 years. Beyond the login, ios 8 promised to enable Touch ID to allow you to verify online passwords saved in safari, or even purchasing items with Apple Pay. We'll have to wait and see how successful Apple Pay really is, but it won't fail because of Touch ID.

CONS:
-Stuttering: In my onslaught of use I have had a few built in apps (App Store, iTunes, camera) crash to the spring board. It didn't take longer than a second to reload the apps, but I'm not used to iOS having any stability concerns at all. iOS 8 on my iPhone 5 never presented such issues. In additon, the task switching has hanged for maybe a quarter second a handful of times. Hopefully they can just patch this in the coming days when the launch hysteria has calmed.

-Back: I have never preferred a case on my iPhones before. The natural design has always had the ease of use for the hand built in. The aluminum back of the Plus makes me very uncomfortable when I am using it one handed. I added a tiny case for some rubberized texture and that solved the issue. I just like being able to feel the nakedness of my phone right out of the box.

Conclusion:

This phone is an awesome upgrade that will be worth the extra 100 dollars if you desire the longer battery life, or the security screen. If you are just moving to the iOS system or to smartphones in general; I would probably recommend the smaller sizes.

I, personally, couldn't be happier with the product.
4389665
I made the switch from the iPhone and have been really amazed with performance of this phone. I didn't know if I could ditch the Apple hypnosis but I did and i've never been more happy. I'm comparing this phone to my iPhone  and not other android devices.

Pros:
BATTERY!!! If you are coming from apple you will be amazed at the battery life. I will no longer be a slave to my charger. I can go all day without charging and still have 45% battery. Husband had the S5 and we can't note any differences in battery between the two.
CAMERA. Takes awesome pics. Lots of good editing features that the iPhones DO NOT have. Still getting the hang of it but it is superior to iPhones.
The Rear buttons. Seems almost natural now to use them.
Graphics are good. I'm not into the specs much but it plays Frozen just fine ;)
Others have mentioned the screen being dim but mine has not had that issue. It will backlight when you have not touched it in so many seconds but a little flick will brighten it right up.
File Manager where downloaded items hang out.
Being able to expand the memory is awesome since I always like to have movies on there for the kids to watch.

Cons:
The voicemail system. You still have to dial out to get to them. Apple definitely had the edge considering the user friendliness of it.
Size. This could go either way because I was going to have to upgrade to the 6 anyways so I would be forced to have the bigger screen anyways but I don't like them.
The charging head. It only goes in one way and sometimes it feels like you have to really push it in hard. I feel like I may break it.

It seems to be a good phone and i'm glad I wasn't disappointed with the purchase.
714746
This Is Great!!! Works just fine. I can now leave my phone, ipad, or anything to charge overnight or when I'm gone without worrying about it overcharging!!!  Love it.
4742367
Ok where do I start!!!! This gadgets is really handy got it yesterday n put it on my phone this morning n I love it!!!! Wanted to leave a review early this morning I was so excited about how flexible (like a sling shot) but yet reliable holding my phone without falling. You don't have to put it around your neck, I twisted the long rubbery strap around my wrist. I recommend u get this u won't ever have to worry about dropping ur phone ever again.
4380041
much better than iphone, has a lot of advanced functions, love it so much!! the only thing is it doesn't have alarm clock while the cell phone is shutted down.
1827482
I am a total Apple gadget chump.  I have like 9 iPods and Mini, TV, multiple macs etc.  I have hated iTunes forever but have been using it longer than forever.  I have an iPad or two as well.  Either way....my business and other issues required that I get in sync with Microsoft and I purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro so I can write on my presentation slides and minimize weight and space since I travel for a living.  I decided to not adopt iTunes but to go totally MS on this machine (except for Gmail).  Well...this device was purchased to sync and by my anti-iTunes (Steve is dead....I lost interest in Apple for obvious reasons).  This device is beautiful.  It is solid, it is designed to deliver.  It feels good, responds perfectly, sounds awesome and the bluetooth headset is awesome.  I have several others that don't begin to compare.  The video, photos and all that extra stuff is great too.  The sync is is automatic and the machine just delivers.  Outstanding in this post-Jobs world.  I just purchased the Sony helmet-cam system as well and that is great.  Wow...this is a great ALTERNATIVE to iPod (I still have my 9)....Love this device...good job Sony.
763305
Amazing! Everything about this phone surpasses all of the previous versions in the S serious. Being unable to open the back and replace memory card isn't a problem for me at all. However, the battery is small and causes the phone to run hot while I use it and try to charge it simultaneously.

The speakers are loud, the headphones fit all ears, the camera is portrait worthy and the fingerprint scanner is on point. What not to love about this phone?!!!!

If you're looking for a all purpose phone, this is for you. It blows iPhone out of the competition.
61602
If you own any Apple device that uses lightning cable to charge,you must've went through the lightening cable hunting expedition at night,when it is really dark,and you have to rely only on your sense of touch,to fit the end of the cable into the phone! Well, a gadget like this one,will eliminate that frustration for you.

The charge station/stand
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This QI wireless charger,will work with any device that uses that technology,and unfortunately Apple products lack such technology!! Being a die hard Apple fan(no haters please) was so excited when I was approached by the manufacturer to test this complementary sample and give my opinion about it! You'll notice when you unpack this gadget,that it can also be used as stand for an iPhone or an iPad besides being a charger! As you can see in my pictures bellow,I did manage to use it with an iPhone as well as with an iPad mini. The stand itself is sturdy enough to hold even a full size iPad,as it is made out of silicone and heavy duty plastic. Having the three coil built into the device,will for sure minimize the dead charging spots on the pad.in other words no need to get your device positioned or aligned up in a certain way in order to keep it charging! The coils will allow you to charge in both horizontal and vertical positions!

Functionality/Use:
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Not much science to operating this gadget! If you already own a device that uses the QI technology,you already know what needs to be done! However for the rest of my fellow Apple devices owners,you need to stick the included patch to the back of your iDevice while connecting the lightning cable end to your phone! It can be a bit tricky when using certain phone cases,although in my case,I did not have a major issue,except for a little area of the cable connecting the patch sticking out!! Again,it all depends on the type of case you use with your phone! Giving the real benefit of using a wireless charger it outweighs this minute cosmetic issue!! Once the charger is plugged into a USB charging source,you're good to go,by laying your device against the pad,while enjoying wireless charging. Although this gadget is designed to charge smaller devices such phones,I also managed to charge an Apple iPad mini while using the charger as a stand!

Final Thoughts:
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Giving the decent quality and the affordable price tag of this gadget,I have no reason not to recommend it further especially to my fellow Apple iDevice owners !Still,if you're a skeptical person and not sure whether to trust other people's reviews or not! With Amazon's 30 day return policy, you have four weeks to try it out yourself, before returning it for any reason, with no questions asked, and in most cases Amazon will pay for the return shipping, in other words, it is a win, win situation!! With that said, I hope you find my humble opinion helpful in making or breaking your buying decision, if so please return the favor by hitting the YES button bellow while you're at it :)