Excellent with minor quirks
347909
I purchased my NU Dolphin about a year ago and it's still going strong.  I mostly do lap swimming and spend 4-5 hours a week in the pool, all with my Dolphin.  Good sound quality, good function and very easy to use.

A couple of items that are less favorable.  The ear buds work well if you put them in dry.  Once they get water on the inside, the sounds goes downhill fast.  I strap the unit to my goggles and the length of the earphone cord makes it rather annoying. Shorter would be better for my situation.  The other issue I have with it, is the earphones are not a standard earphone jack, so it takes special earphones to operate.

In all, it's been a fantastic swim partner.
2272581
Overall, I really like this Laptop/Tablet because it combines the best features of both. I would give it 5 stars except for two bad design features described under negatives below.

Positives:
Unlike most convertibles, the keyboard pops off very easily but never when you don't want it to! Many other machines leave the keyboard permanently attached so that in tablet mode you have twice the weight and thickness and fragile keyboard keys on the bottom. In laptop mode, the hinge allows you to tilt the display to the desired angle and it is indistinguishable from a normal small laptop. It is also well balanced so it does not want to tip over backwards when used on a lap, unlike some others I tried (like the ones with a kickstand).

The display is beautiful, with greater than full HD resolution due to the 3:2 aspect ratio. This makes it more optimized to student and business use rather than watching widescreen movies. The full size keyboard is easy to type on and the touchpad works fairly well. Performance is snappy. I am getting about 6 hours battery life with non-stressing use. More is always better, but this is at the low end of acceptable. The Wi-Fi has both 2.4 and 5 GHz band support. It has no fan so is always silent, the back of the display near the power port gets warm but never hot enough to be uncomfortable. After updating windows and drivers but with no extra apps, I have about 80 GB left on the 128 GB drive.

Negatives:
I was hoping to add at least a 128 GB microSD card to supplement the main SSD. The specs do not list a maximum size, but others have reported that it may not work with anything larger than 32 GB. I can't image why HP would design such a limitation in a computer introduced in 2016.
The other negative is the USB-C charging port implementation. Despite being on the USB standards committee, HP apparently implemented a proprietary port design. It will not charge with anything other than the original HP power brick. Reports have also indicated that it will not charge with a USB-C hub attached with charging pass-through. This means no car chargers or aftermarket chargers/hubs/docking stations can be used.
3036440
Extremely well-built, made of a solid block of aluminum much like the Macbook Pro.

Mounting the Apple keyboard and Magic Trackpad is a simple drop-in affair, with adhesives. This is something that could have passed off as an Apple accessory, it's made that well, but with a couple of caveats.

There are two issues I have with it:

One, there isn't enough mounting surface to use the Magic Trackpad comfortably. The Trackpad has two "legs" on the bottom corners which need to be pressed down to click. The bottom mounting portion of the BulletTrain eXpress doesn't extend far enough, so the two "legs" are only partially contacted on the eXpress' mounting points. As a result, the Trackpad doesn't click very firmly and the feedback isn't the same as when you use it on a desk without the eXpress. If the bottom mounting point for the Trackpad were extended even slightly, the Trackpad "legs" would be sitting completely on a hard surface and this issue would be averted.

Two, the positioning of the Trackpad relative to the Wireless Keyboard is too close together. If you type with your palms on the surface of the eXpress, the inside of your palms will come into contact with the top edges of the Trackpad inadvertently, resulting in the cursor moving around at times when you're typing. It doesn't happen that often, but it happens enough to be an annoyance. If there was more spacing between the two devices, this problem could be averted.

These issues aside, using the BulletTrain eXpress is a delight - its light enough to use on your lap, which results in a laptop-like experience while you kick back on your couch/chair. If you have both the Wireless Keyboard and the Magic Trackpad and hate being tethered to your desk, this is a great little unit.

If the above 2 issues are resolved, I'd give it 5 stars.
448294
The only things I dislike about this unit is the noise the pump generates, and the complicated, picture-based user guide; otherwise, this unit is spectacular in every way.

The unit is compact, moreso in its narrow footprint, than in its depth, but it's quite small compared to many kitchen appliances.

The removable water container is easy to take over to my refrigerator water dispenser to fill, and it goes back on as easily as it comes off. I need only set the drain plug over the machine's intake, and tilt the container forward until its two little alignment clips go into their slot.

A removable capsule bin and drip tray assembly slides out of the front of the unit. It holds few pods, but I empty it regularly, so that I may rinse the tray of the coffee that comes out of the used pods before it gets funky.

Loading capsules may seem unclear at first for anyone looking for a defined slot to stick the pods, as when looking down into it they appear as if they would fall through, but it's a sleek easy-loading system. When pods are dropped in, it is best to drop with the flat end of the cap higher than its opposing end, and the pod will drop, then stop on its own at the point to which it should go where it needs to go when the bar is brought back down.

The Inissia has two buttons, espresso and lungo. Despite the instructions, I have been able to figure out its basic use. Touching either button, while unit is off, causes both buttons to flash off and on while it heats up. Once the lights remain on, it is ready to make espresso. Though it powers off automatically, I know that pressing both buttons for a full second will power the unit off. That is all that is required to enjoy spectacular coffee from the Inissia.

The energy saving option powers down after nine minutes, but it can be changed to thirty minutes if you can figure out the steps from the pictures. My best guess is that, while off, press both buttons for a full second, then hold down espresso for three seconds, such that it illuminates steadily. Then, for nine minutes, press espresso one time, or for a thirty minute shutoff, press espresso two times, followed by holding down lungo for three seconds. I haven't bothered switching the shutoff time, as there are series of pictures to decipher for this process, as well as for the processes of programming the water volume, whatever that is for, emptying the system, and descaling, for example.

This machine includes a pack of sixteen different coffee pods to sample. It also comes with a menu that shows which color pods represent which flavors. Some of the colors look so much like other similar colors, that even having sampled the coffee, I still question which I just enjoyed, so reordering may not be such a simple task if there is a particular coffee pod you prefer. I enjoyed all of the flavors, and I plan to reorder a variety pack, so I'm still exploring. Just know that this is one of the things to consider when using the Nespresso system.

I love my Inissia, and all of the coffee I've made with it. I have been enjoying third-party pods from Aldecoa that seem to work about as well as the genuine pods, though the crema from the genuine pods seems to have a consistency about them that is slightly superior to that produced by third party pods...it could be that particular flavor though. Still, it is nice to have options.

If I had to do it all over again, I absolutely would do it again. I am so happy with its red finish, it just looks wonderful, and expresses the intensity of the pleasure it is ready to brew.

My regular coffee pot has been lonely, because of my Inissia. I hit up the coffeepot on occasion, to shake things up, but the quality of the espresso that this machine can make is tremendous. This is a 5.3 pound, 19 bar of pressure beauty, and I am absolutely pleased with its performance. I was certainly content with its affordable price.
3252467
I bought this as a long overdue upgrade from an N600. I was really interested in the mobile app, but many of the other features have been unexpectedly fantastic. The on-screen GUI is GREAT, and I've really enjoyed using Pandora. The sound is fantastic and there are lots of well-integrated ports. I only have two (fairly minor) dings: First, it seems that you have to have zone 1 on to use some of the functionality of the system (e.g., netradio bookmarks, change pandora stations) on zone 2. Second, the receiver is a little strange about detecting AV inputs: I might have an input device and the receiver on and set to that input with no audio. But if I turn off the receiver and turn it back on, it will then detect the input properly and choose it. Odd. But overall, a great purchase.
4837446
I am very pleased with the overall performance from something slightly bigger than a deck of cards.

One very helpful feature that may be overlooked from an 'advanced' filtering perspective. Pressing the Bandwidth button changes the DSP filter from between 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1 kHz bandwidth. 1 kHz sounds very bottomy and has no highs present ... UNLESS you move off frequency. For example, if I have a signal on 11.500 but it is being interfered with either a tone, source of noise, or even a stronger signal to ONE side of that frequency (e.g. 11.495) ... I can use the slow tuning feature (press the tuning knob IN until it clicks - toggling between slow and fast tuning) and tune up to 11.501 or 11.502 and tighten the bandwidth from the standard 3 kHz down to 2 or even 1 kHz and only listen to one half of the signal that has less interference ... ALMOST in the same way a more advanced shortwave receiver might use synchronous AM detection monitoring one sideband or another. It is NOT exactly the same because if the carrier fades out, the receiver does not produce an identical signal to the carrier to maintain detection ... however it is pretty darn close because this receiver is HOT and if you can pick up the audio sideband - you will more than likely have the carrier as well.

Not a communications grade receiver - it was never meant with that in mind. It is a GREAT shortwave listening, AM dxing, FM dxing, weather monitoring, and airport monitoring receiver. I only wish that there was the same content on shortwave that we had available 20 years ago prior to the internet age. This radio soaks up signals and with the ATS button and a couple minutes, it finds the strong, moderate, and even the occasional weak signal that is covered with some local noise for your enjoyment.
664364
Excellent MP3 player, plays OGG files fine, displays pictures nicely, and videos, too, if you need to watch them on such a small screen. I've never used it with Windows, only Linux (with which it works well), so not sure how good the Windows software is. The FM radio has poor reception where I work, though normal radios work fine. The UI makes it hard to figure out how to both sort music by artist and album AND shuffle through all the music on the device, though the dynamic playlist helps a little, though it has a 200 song limit.

I like that I can have my entire CD collection on it with plenty room to spare, but if I had to do it over again, I might buy a flash-based MP3 player and just use Amarok to fill it.
4074533
To begin with:  overall this is an excellent multi-function device (MFD):  superior in almost every way the the HP PSC 2210 that it replaced in a small office.  The features:

* flatbed scanner with typically high HP quality
* document feeder (one of the unexpected features - UF)
* automatic 2-sided fax and copy printing (UF)
* separate darkness settings for fax and copy
* built-in phone dial for faxing
* special photo paper tray included (UF)
* special CD / DVD printing tray included (print directly on printable CDs / DVDs / Blu-Rays) UF

Physical setup was typically straightforward.  I did not have any difficulty except a pause in the first time I opened a print cartridge - they require a physical "breaking" of a seal by twisting an orange lever, which I was very hesitant to do (fearing I would break the cartridge).  Instructions should provide a picture of the action required and, perhaps, describe the forcefulness necessary (and point out that it is OK).  Separate color ink cartridges (including photo black and regular black) make the ink costs noticeably cheaper than older models.  Ink installation is even simpler than earlier HP MFDs.

The software installation was almost excruciatingly lengthy (well over an hour on that computer system), but proceeded without incident.  Since the device includes several computer functions (fax, printer, scanner), I do not consider this a significant drawback.

Many of the options available are not obvious (not easy to locate in the menus).  It took me quite a while to locate the fax darkness option.  Most copy or fax devices have that easily available from the console.  It was still longer before I realized that the copy darkness option is separate from the fax darkness option.  Similarly with the two-sided printing:  although I discovered quickly how to make the fax print automatically on both sides, it took longer to figure this out with the copy function, and I have yet to figure out how to automatically print on both sides from the computer (surely it must be an option, since it prints faxes and copies automatically on two sides).  My printer options do not give me the choice to print on both sides except manually, which means that some setting on the printer itself must need to be changed to enable automatic 2-sided printing from the computer.

I had slight difficulties during copying when the paper tray ran out; now that I recognize the error message, I probably will not have the same problem again.

The unit does not default to automatically receive faxes; a button on the panel must be pressed before auto-answer of faxes is enabled.

And this sums up ALL of the difficulties I have had with the unit, which shows that it is very easy to operate.  It prints cleanly; photos are beautiful and edge-to-edge on photo paper; the copy and scan and automated document feeder all work like they should and as well as you would expect.  Ink costs are definitely less than the previous HP model.

Though there certainly is room for minor improvements (I'd especially like to see a darkness setting control on the panel rather than in the menus), overall the unit is excellent.
3161696
I have had this camera for 3 weeks now and have taken it on flights all over the Asia region - the form factor means it slips into my briefcase easily and is truly portable. The images taken in bright sunlight are truly STUNNING - clear, sharp and with fantastic color. The lens is especially good showing sharpness from edge to edge. The sensor obviously delivers smoothly graduated and vibrant color - the results speak for themselves. However it is not all good. The fixed lens while good is a little too wide for general use IMHO, so it forces some real discipline onto your photos. Maybe a 50mm would have been better. It is a little slow to focus and sometimes just seems to get confused into doing nothing - which is strange. The low light results actually seem quite pedestrian compared to the truly spectacular bright light results. Added to all of this, it seems that the "non-Bayer" sensor means that few RAW converters (in my case Apple Aperture)can work with the RAW files it makes - so you need to use the very odd SPP software that comes with the camera. So in summary I will use this when the light is good and the colors work well, and just work around it's limitations. I recommend this as an alternative to an SLR. The results is produces can be and are amazing, once you work within its capabilities.
1235414
The sound quality is what makes this soundbar a better choice than most others out there. We replaced a lesser model with this, and, while the remote-control directionality issue is noticeable, I'm continuously impressed by the completeness, power, and (relative) lack of coloration to the sound. It's great for dialogue, and the wireless sub brings a nicely integrated musical depth to soundtracks. For streaming music (like from Pandora) it's so-so -even with the different settings available. Why the distinction? I'm not sure, but it really does sound excellent for television and movies. Excellent.
1402231
Overall, I'm very happy with this laptop. I only use it for games like WoW, Starcraft 2, Star Wars the Old Republic. The performance on these is wonderful, even on high quality settings (not quite up to snuff on ultra), but there's just a few complaints. I know mousepads aren't wonderful for gaming, but this laptop's mousepad just seems to stick often and you have to drag multiple times to get it to move. Not that big a deal though, I can just use an external mouse. The other complaint is I've already had quite a few occasions where my games just quit unexpectedly, sometimes with the computer restarting afterwards.

But everything other than these few problems is wonderful. Design is beautiful, lights on the keyboard is a nice touch. On the rather hefty side, which isn't much of a problem for me, I don't move my laptop around much. Cooling system seems to work very well. And as said earlier, performance is great. Overall, I'd recommend this laptop, but it would be a STRONG recommendation if it wasn't for the unexpected exits/restarts. Not very conductive to raiding or other MMO scenarios where you just can't have your computer randomly restarting.

UPDATE:
It's been a few more weeks with this laptop. I'm still extremely happy with the performance of the machine. The random restarts haven't happened since I wrote my original review. Mousepad still stinks but like I said, no big deal; I know that's one flaw of laptops.

But to update my recommendation: 100% all in on this laptop. I would pick it again if I had the option and pay the same price.
1890564
This BluRay player is really great! It plays well and it has all of the main apps that anyone could need for their TV. I'm very happy with how it has been for me but I have two small complaints about it. First, I don't like that it doesn't have a light showing when it is on or off. I really prefer to know that but it's not a big deal. My second minor complaint is that with the apps, you need an ethernet cable as well. It is not Wi-Fi capable. It's certainly not a problem at all but it is another cord to have hanging out the back of the entertainment center.
1141401
This could end up being a 5-star product IF I can get some of the idiosyncrasies ironed out.

First off: it installed and fired up beautifully, no problems at all. The wires are all ISO color-coded, and I made no mistakes connecting everything (Huzzah!). All of the applications worked right first time - - radio, GPS, Bluetooth hands-free, etc. Oh and BTW, the GPS is amazing at signal acquisition. I'm used to Garmin taking a while to get a position, especially after sitting un-powered for some days. But this unit found satellites and got a position after only a minute or so, even after being shipped across 10 time zones!! And it picks up a good GPS constellation even under my carport.

My current complaints are few and minor: the audio has a hiss in it, and I see that Pumpkin has a power filter (free) to solve this issue. The GPS does not seem to have a "north up" setting, which I much prefer over "track up". Also, the existing GPS software has map colors that are very poorly chosen. It's almost impossible to see secondary roads, and I may have to change that software before all is said and done.

The physical unit is fairly large, around 4" vertical dimension, and it was a very snug squeeze in my Ford Ranger console -- but it worked.

The Android system is fairly conventional, but with all the apps and configurations, it's sometimes puzzling as to where to find a particular setting. Time will iron this out. Nice to have "home" buttons both on the touch screen and the push-buttons.

I'm overall quite pleased, ESPECIALLY for the price. I expect to have a lot of fun with this.

UPDATE 2017 March
After almost two years of almost constant "fixing", I'm about to give up. Support has been great, very responsive -- but there's a lot they just can't do. As of today:
-Bluetooth hands-free won't auto-connect
-Hands-free audio is garbled and unintelligible to my callers
-Sound system has background hiss
-Google Play has quit entirely, will not allow login -- no download of apps or updates is possible
-Some apps cannot recognize external SD
-Some apps can't work with GPS
-Some apps simply won't activate after loading
All I'm trying to do is use hands-free calling, GPS mapping apps, and play music. As of right now, it won't do any of those properly or at all. I have another unit that I bought after my initial liking this one, and it's just as bad.

So sad, it had such promise. The only time it ever worked right was in the first few months. After Android and Google changed their software, this poor product never caught up with them again.
1068953
This is an excellent digital picture frame. Bright screen, easy to use remote, very easy to setup, with some decent features like putting the time and date on the frame while it rotates pictures.

Just a couple of complaints. The remote can be slightly unresponsive - there are times when I have to push the button twice to get it to trigger the menu, and then it'll trigger two button presses in quick succession, almost like it lagged up on me. I would have also liked to see this device about $10 cheaper - at it's current price it's almost as much as a full blown Amazon FireHD tablet which can do much more than just slideshow pictures.

Second, shuffle play isn't truly shuffle play. The frame will shuffle "groups" of pictures and you don't seem to have any control over this. For instance, it'll shuffle to Christmas pictures and then play 4 or 5 pictures from the same Christmas in a row before shuffling over to another group of images. It's kind of nice as you can view several pictures in a row, all in the same context, but it would be annoying if you were looking for a truly random shuffle feature.

Finally, the Sleep timer directions are a bit backwards. If you want your camera frame lit up to show you pictures from 10AM to 5PM, you have to set the Sleep Timer "On" at 5PM and Sleep Timer "Off" at 10AM. It's the reverse of how the wording on the frame's control panel shows you.
3749033
I like the product very much and recommend it as well.

Features/Cons:
  High in performance,
  Slick design, light weight,
  Nice quality of the product,
  Very good display,
  Long battery life,
  Quality of headphone and other stuff is excellent.
  Controls are very good,
  Menu options and navigations is very good.
  Audio Recording Quality is also sensitive and good.

Improvement needed:-
  1) FM does not work outside the US - I assume it has not got a dual  frequency mode FM  - however, when you are out of country, least you like listening FM but more the stored songs and for this MP3 player quality is excellent.
  2) Battery charging does not show the actual charged level. This causes me to check player's screen every time before removing, has it been charged? As it shows charged fully at the end only.
  3) There is no facility to search a particular song. So, if you have around 900 songs loaded, to listen a particular song, you need to browse through a whole list! I am not sure if this feature is available in other brands. But it really helps in case a long list of songs and where browsing of songs in not that easy like in this set.
  4) Manual print quality is cheap, descriptions of the instructions is also not good.

Problem:
  1) Viewing a photo is slow, get very slow, even system gets hang, when you load a high resolution photos like of 7 mega pixels or higher or movie. This behaves similar even when you are browsing the photos-because it shows thumb nails of the loaded photo.

Overall an excellent audio player but the video player is average.
3366035
I have been using this tripod for a few months. I've noticed a few quirks.

* The leg screws have a tendency to come undone
* The ball head had some rubbery gasket looking material come out of the horizontal adjuster
* The blue clips that keep the legs from folding up are sometimes cumbersome to hold open while collapsing the leg into it's storage position.

Other than these minor issues this is an awesome tripod. The included head works great with my a6300 and all the lenses I have.
854621
... I recently came into possession of this baby as well as an HP iPaq 5550.  It's been an interesting comparison.
The Clie is exquisitely designed.  Everything fits together very nicely.  The keyboard is large enough to be useful, and you can hide it when you flip the screen to tablet mode.  The one gripe I have about the physical ergonomics is the location of the scroll wheel -- I wish it had been placed on the left, where the power button is presently located.  Its placement underneath the keyboard can be somewhat awkward.  I thought the screen would be bigger, but it's high resolution and quality compensates for its size.
I'm relatively new to PalmOS, so I have no point of comparison other than the iPaq I'm also using, which is based on Windows Mobile 2003.  For good or bad, you don't feel like you're using a regular computer on the Clie -- the interaction style is rather different.  I'm guessing this is a feature of the PalmOS in general.
The web browser NetFront, which I'd read rave reviews of, is somewhat lame.  You can't control the font size, and bookmark management is not especially flexible.  As far as I can tell the only thing you can do is create a long linear list of bookmarks -- no user-defined folders or anything like that.  It's also darn near impossible to control the web browser from the keyboard exclusively -- I found myself switching between keyboard and stylus quite frequently, which was somewhat annoying.
The "entertainment" functions such as the still/video camera capabilities are merely toys.  By no means are they a replacement for a real digital camera.  Still, very handy when you need to take a quick picture of something for a report and all you have is your PDA.
I have not yet tried syncing to my PC, so I can't comment on that aspect of it.  The wireless networking capability (802.11) works well.  I had it up and running with my Linksys wireless router in a matter of minutes with WEP enabled.  Connection reliability was very good; I never lost a link to the router when within reasonable range (this has *not* been the case with the iPaq, I might add).
All in all, a pretty nice device.  Would I have spent my own $700 on it?  No way.  I could never justify that kind of dough on something so frivolous.  But it is a very slick gadget for those who must have the latest and greatest.