-You have to jump around the app a lot to start features and then nullify them if you did something you didn't like -Creating a
591247
To be honest I would probably give the bulb itself a 4 star rating as it performs relatively well. However, due to its app it lost an entire star.
App Cons:
-Choosing a color is difficult to do accurately
-The functions tab is confusing and difficult to navigate ie: what does M- or + mean?
-If your goofing around with all these strange features there is no, "go back" or "undo" button.
-You have to jump around the app a lot to start features and then nullify them if you did something you didn't like
-Creating a custom setting is difficult, the layout is a barrier to entry, not an invitation to do something cool
-The Timer is hard to use

Summary: The application is hard to use because of the layout and in just being ambiguous. There are no helps, its not intuitive and is just plain frustrating to use. I use the app for the sole purpose of turning the light on and off without having to get up off my butt, cross the room and turn it off manually. Which is a far cry from what I had imagined I would be doing with this bulb.
4281391
If you use with IOS you have to purchase an app to get a great working app. Free ones suck. Worked great with Android as well. It gets hot if you use it for a long time but it hasn't failed yet.
4404791
First, let me say that once you get it working, it seems to work well.  The key is getting it working.  Read reviews here and particularly on the app.

During set up, I had trouble with connecting bluetooth initially to get it set up.  I restarted set up and bluetooth a couple times and had to go back to factory settings on the Furbo before I finally go the first part setup.  Then I tried the app and it crashed every time.  Restarted my phone and still crash.  I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it and it stopped crashing initially.  I had to reset the Wifi on the Furbo again at least once too.  After all of these resets, reboots, reloads, I finally got the thing working.

There are basically no instructions, they rely on the app for all of that and when it crashed like it did me, it wasn't much help.  Thankfully, I know things to try.  The really disappointing thing is to read the app reviews (which I didn't before purchasing) knowing how long this product has been around and seeing all of the issues it still has with set up.  It looks like they need some people to work on the software side of things.

The lack of troubleshooting for set up and difficulty with set up are a 2 star drop for sure.  Once I got it working, it does work as advertised.  The picture quality is good and it has a good wide angle view.  The sound it makes when tossing treats surely gets a dog's attention.  It's funny to see what dogs do when you aren't right there with them and how they respond to your voice even though they aren't quite sure where it is coming from.

I am not sure I would necessarily recommend this to friends and family with the set up issues right now.  I'd recommend doing research and if it's something you want or need, just be prepared for some issues in setting it up.
1765821
This software is easy to get started as it has a start up to get your accounts added. I got all the way through and added all the accounts I needed to add. They all came up with a balance and would show me what it had. Unfortunately, when I go to update the accounts to see if the newest transactions would post, only a couple would. The others would come up with errors that would think my accounts online have been deleted. This is AFTER I had already logged in, and got the account set up. AFTER it had already found the account that it would have these glitches.
I would not recommend getting this for a new user and unfortunately I am now stuck with this.
It is unfortunate.
3747030
You have a goals echo on the other end. Makes the most basic function of your phone almost useless. What's the point in that?
1106788
Menus can use allot help, they are bulky, and cumbersome to navigate.

 app for smartphone is useless, and you have to poke around the play store to find one that actually works.

Video is good, case resists fogging up better than some.
Quality is better than I expected at this price.
2069546
Seems to create more work than it is supposed to reduce!  Had 5 devices programmed into it mostly without problems, though my DISH DVR had to have it's IR channel changed to get it to work.  But once you have more than 4 devices connected, it's a series of constant screen flips on the remote to go back and forth to do things, with the screen going dark within seconds no matter how long you seemingly tell it to stay on, causing you to have to press a button or shake it to bring the screen back up.

The activity commands never worked right so it involved having to go to three device menus to turn each of 3 items on (TV, sound bar, and DVR).  Change a channel?  Go to the remote, go to page 2, choose device.  Turn the TV up?  Go BACK to the device, page 1, choose that device. It gets old... fast.... and with the VERY tiny buttons in a darker room makes it prone to mistakes.  Time to turn everything off?  Press the "all off" button.. but wait... not everything goes off.  The help menu comes up and asks you if it's all off, you choose no... it then turns everything off, asks you if it's ok now, and you hit yes.  Have to do this every-single-time.

Again... yeah, it removes the need to have several remotes laying around, but all of the menu and button presses every time you want to do something makes this definitely not worth the price for me.  I'll stick to the old way.
1962648
The instructions that came with this unit are clearly translated into English from some other language, and can be confusing. Also, when attempting to change the switch position from a location not on its home network, the button symbol on the app does not change (i.e. "ON" or "OFF")--you must watch for a tiny message at the bottom of the screen indicating "success" or "failure" of the command.  Finally, sign in is sometimes not accepted from a second device, then suddenly it decides to accept it at a later time.
1861032
Bought this two years before it was released. I waited and waited while they kept pushing the release date out, but promised to add more and more features. Finally got it in the mail, and had issues from the start. For some background, I am a systems administrator, so I have a good handle on how to use various pieces of technology. Hard the hardest time getting it to sync and update. When that nightmare was finally over with, I quickly put it on and tried to do some pushups to see what it would detect. It didn't catch every rep I did, which is disappointing. Then to transfer to doing squats, it was a whole mess of accepting the pushups I did and moving onto something else. It was clunky, not easy to use in any way, and was fairly uncomfortable as well. If you really want this watch, wait for someone else to buy it and get ticked off in a few days and they will give it to you. But don't worry, you will get fed up with it as well and hand it off to someone else just as fast. So disappointed in this. Sad.
3408740
I bought the iLife '09 upgrade with great expectations for the
face recognition feature in Iphoto. Such feature can really help
to bring some structure in a huge pile of pictures that I was too
lazy to organize manually.

So, does face recognition work? Well, only about 60% of the time. Its quite a bit
weaker than Google's Picasa face recognition.

Like a psychic running amok, Iphoto sees faces in trees and in other
mysterious spots. More irritating is that it completely misses some
30% of obvious faces in typical photos. Its hard to understand why.

Once faces are detected, the process of tying them to people is
generally OK. It makes suggestions of snapshots that might
match the given person. The more faces it knows of a person,
the better IPhoto gets, but it runs out of steam soon. This process
leaves a good portion of the faces undetermined. To get those
remaining faces properly named you have to manually flip
through thousands of pictures.

In summary, faces in Iphoto works, but is not up to the
general apple standard. Its quite a bit weaker than
the similar feature in Google's Picasa.

Another missed opportunity is its non-existent  interface
to Apple's address book.
Instead, you are making a totally separate people database with just
the name, full name and email of a person.
For a company that made all tools work so seamlessly together,
this is an unexplicable miss. A few smaller bugs in the naming in
the pop-up menus show that the new features were added
quite sloppily.

On the positive side, the 'places' tool is quite nice. Any picture
that I took with the iphone magically showed up on the correct
spot in the map. Adding locations to non-geotagged pictures is
quite easy and flexible. An hour of work results in a nice virtual
map with pins all over the world you've traveled.

Overall, this is a useful upgrade with some disappointing
misses.
2221880
As some of the reviewers stated, these things can be a massive pain in the butt to get set up. I ordered two of them and I wrestled with the first one for about an hour before finally getting it to work. And I have no idea why it finally started working, because I'd tried BOTH types of configuration multiple times without any success and then, once I'd given up and was about to pack 'em up to send them back, I got it working. And once it started working, it's been flawless. It's slower when your smartphone is not on the home wifi, but it still works. When you get the phone back on the home wifi, the app still seems to think it's not, but if you fully close the app (including the double tap and swipe type of full close with IOS) and then reopen it, it then understands that you're back on wi-fi and it works instantly. And, then, once I had the first one working, the second one configured instantly and worked flawlessly right away. The documentation is just barely better than useless, with some really bad translations. But, eventually, I got them working...

So, you might have to fight with it a while, but once you get it working, it does exactly what it's supposed to. You can rename each of your outlets to reflect their locations (but you can only do this when you're on wifi) and program each separately if you like.

Update - I added two more units for a total of four and all but the first one configured quickly and easily and on the first try. I'm really curious what happened with that first one, but now the whole setup works incredibly well. I can set up a schedule for each device and I can also change settings remotely when I'm away. Even if I have the plugs on a schedule I might decide to turn a light on or off spontaneously sometime when I'm gone just to change it up a bit.
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Problems
1) When opening the list of bulbs to add, sometimes the app finds nothing. Have to close the app and reopen to try again.
2) The Bluetooth list will show every Bluetooth device in the building. Example: It will let you add a laptop and it will appear as a non-response bulb in the app. A lot of trial and error.
3) The color picker will not let you pick certain colors. It jumps from orange to pink, so picking RED (between orange and pink) is impossible. You can see the bulb is capable of showing red, because you can see a perfect RED in one of the scene modes. No pure red and no pure green.
4) Music mode is useless. It lets you play music and the light will pulse at it's own pace. The light has NOTHING to do with the music.
5) Worst of all. I have not been able to stay connected to a bulb for more than 5 minutes. Bulbs stop responding. The only way to fix it is to remove the bulbs from the add and go through problem #1 again.
3340439
This Blu-Ray player has some quirks that are pretty annoying. For one, let's say you're signed into the Netflix app, but then you want to go sign into your Vudu account. Okay, you can do that - but signing into another service causes the login information (password) of the previous service to be forgotten. There's no option to save credentials. It's a little annoying since this was a gift for family that isn't super tech-savvy - it didn't really simplify their lives.
3889770
It may look good and lots of bells and whistles but very poorly engineered. Some of the very basic features need 2-3 steps to get to.
May be fine if you don't get too many calls but its a nuisance if you are going to use it.
4623880
It use too much battery juice. A lot of buttons to get used to it. The configuration is very complicated and sometimes I do not know how I switch my other profile messing up my buttons while I was playing my fps game halfway.
2748044
has multiple features that will attract you, but is cumbersome in switching between the features.  The buttons are a little too low-profile, making it hard to select the different pre-sets without having to look (not good while driving).  I should not have to click the "SRC" button 4 times just to turn off this stereo.  In actuality, I would say they just put "too many" bells & whistles on it.
1546612
This is a good book to get your feet wet when diving into mobile development.  It provides good examples on how to get started and gives a number of code snippets in each chapter.  The issue is many times they explain what you need to do only to throw all of that out when they put the code together.  For example, Chapter 8.  I was tasked to cover this chapter in a book review to other associates.  The chapter is clear, talks about using phonegap build to create the apk file that you download to the emulator or to your phone.  Good stuff.

The issue is as they are putting together the Tartan Hunt app the code deviates from the prior text covering the chapter.  On page 350, they even warn you that the code looks different than what was just discussed in the prior pages.  The captureImage method is way different and that required me to spend a bit more time trying to make sure I understood it completely.  The other issue is the book left out an important requirement - a feature to allow permission to store files.  It took me a couple of hours of searching on the forums to find out that you must add a feature to the config.xml so that once you take the photo that pressing done or check takes you back to the tartan and you see your photo added.  Otherwise, pressing done does nothing.  I understand that typos are common in books but the source code from the main site doesn't include the changes, yet the apk file they say use as a last resort does work.  Why not add an addendum or maybe a readme file to the root of the chapter source code giving this info?  Remember, your audience is new to mobile development and may not know about all of the feature permissions.

Keep in mind, the frameworks used in the book are constantly updated.  What you see in the book may not work as designed.  It's a good book to get a taste of mobile computing but you may need to get separate books on the various topics covered (like HTML 5, jQuery Mobile, and docs).  This might be daunting to the beginner who has never developed code for a mobile device.  Keep that in mind that if something doesn't work, you will need to do some research.  They do a decent job of providing the final code for each chapter so compare your code with theirs if you find your code doesn't work.