Nice display, TERRIBLE battery life!!!!!  Abysmal support.
581169
I wanted a phone with a good display, true 4G data, and lots of available apps.  The Samsung Charge does that....for a few hours.

I can't understand the people on these reviews who are saying "good battery life".  Perhaps they are barely using their phone.  I am a very savvy techie; I have done *everything* one can do to get better battery life (e.g., turn off WiFi when not using it, kill unused tasks, use a short screen timeout, etc.), and I cannot imagine getting a full day from this phone.  I end up living tethered to chargers...at home, in the car, etc.  Right now, my Samsung Charge shows 50% battery after very light use for 6 hours.  I have *NEVER* made it a full day....not once in 5 months.

Otherwise, it has a nice display, and most things on it work.  Other complaints:
1.  The jerks at Samsung loaded the thing with apps that you cannot remove (Golf? Buzzbox, Rhapsody, Rock Band, etc) and Verizon packed it with a few of their own.  That's seriously annoying.
2.  No LED to indicate calls/messages is seriously annoying.  The answer is an app named NoLED...which consumes battery!  :-(
3.  The phone has "issues" w/ BlueTooth; not sure what triggers it, but sometimes it just will not connect to existing paired devices.  The only cure then is to re-boot the phone.
4.  The phone is *very* sensitive to chargers...one charger I have makes the touchscreen almost useless, another (in my car) puts a whine on the audio coming out of the headphone jack.  Neither is a cheap charger, BTW...the car one is a Verizon charger.

All in all, this isn't the worst phone I've owned...but you can bet that I am looking forward to my contract expiring so I can get something else!

Update 8/2012:  I had the misfortune of having my phone partially fail, and I called Verizon to have it repaired...which, of course, actually meant that they shipped me a "new" one.  Well, the new one was a re-furb, and it had its' own, severe problems.  Back it went...and I got another refurb...which also was very seriously flawed....and back that one went....when I received the 3rd replacement, and it, too, was seriously flawed (I'm not being picky here: Wi-Fi didn;t work on it!), I went ballistic with Verizon and they offered me a different model phone.  Thankfully, that Motorola Droid has turned out Ok. I'm reducing the phon e rating to 2-stars, for obvious terrible support and terrible QA.
894489
$400 paper weight! Horrible support, drivers and glitches. I've used this touch screen a total of 5 times, mainly while trying to get calibration to work properly or that hideous gap from extended display to go away. Regret this purchase to the fullest!
1525494
I'm back eviando serious damage this equipment.
this team has display problems since the third day of use.
specifically, when the screen is suspended novuelve and its battery pack needs to be removed.
1113041
Battery life is absolutely the worst of any electronic product I have owned in the past 20 years.  Takes 1 hour to charge 2%.  A full charge lasts less than an hour. So 5 days to charge for one hour of use for a tablet that is only 2 months old. I will update this review after trying to get a warranty replacement.

ACER would not repair or replace.  At this time I am looking to escalate and soliciting those experiencing a similarly poor battery life.  The only way these companies will learn to put effort into reliability engineering and testing is to launch a class action.  If there are sufficient numbers I will lead such an action.
2617159
Terrible Screen, Will not stay sync'ed with phone, terrible app support,
526325
I was curious about smart watches, so I bought a pebble time as an inexpensive experiment to see if I would enjoy having one.  In general the watch functions as advertised and I like being able to look at my wrist to see the time, messages and other small bits of information.  Unfortunately the watch does not charge properly and pebble customer support leaves much to be desired.
The watch is meant to attach to the charger through some magnets and a couple of contact points on the back side.  When it is attached an animated graphic appears on the display showing that it is charging...  I can literally spend 10 minutes fiddling with the position of the connector before the watch will register that it is charging.  If I then place it down it may stop charging.  Also at times the watch will report that the battery is near empty, I attach it to the charger for 2 seconds and detach it, and it will report as being fully charged.
I have contacted customer support about this.  Before they will even assign you a case number, they make you jump through hoops, like e-mailing them photographs illustrating the problem.  They require a photo of the back side of the device with the serial number clearly visible, with a piece of paper under it with a case number hand written on it.  Trust me, it's not easy to get a clear image of the serial number which is in the tiniest of fonts, in dark grey against a black background -it probably wears off within 3 months.  I think they are having enough problems with their devices that at this point they are trying to discourage people from requesting replacements by making it extremely difficult to even file a claim.  I understand this is a small company, but this is bad business.  Search online and I think you will see that I'm not the only one who has had the charging issue, and the problems with customer support.
One other rather shocking piece of fine print, is that although the watch is reported to be water resistant to 30m, pebble asks that you never press any of the buttons on it when it is submerged as this breaks the seal (??!?)
3670591
Weak battery life vs the Garmin battery. Poor support. the pull tab pulled out. I emailed and asked for a refund. They basically said what do you want for the price you paid.  Very poor support.
2774240
I had one of these, sent it right back to after 2 weeks use. I have experience with many players, Zune, Ipod, Iriver etc and I can say the gigabeat is a nice player but the battery life fell way below the specified time quoted. Ex. I watched half of a (black and white) movie which had less than 1 hour remaining to watch. I had the player fully charged. After watching the remainder of the movie and then playing less than 4 hours of music, inconsistanly I might add the player gave me the low battery finger. I practiced the proper battery charging techniques etc. WTF?! Other than that the capacity is nice, it acts as a removable storage device which was a plus and the interface is great with the exception of it's almost total reliance on Windows Media Player for all of the aesthetic features. In addition to the true lack of accessories in America (and just about everywhere else at this point) for this thing I would say Do not buy this! Unless you think the aforementioned problems are minor and dealable. The 60GBs are great but in the end you have an easily scratchable heavily fingerprinted, low battery life, nice screen player with a hard to find simple accessories like a basic rubber case. Buyer Beware.
2533564
I bought this based on reputation of another Eton product I purchased. I am very disappointed with the overall performance of this product compared to my FR160. Battery life is on avg. 6-8 hours of play. Compared to the FR160 which gives me days upon days of play.

Technical support did not respond to my initial email request. It took forever to find the email address. Then I had to ping them a second time for a reply. The technical support manager validated other customer comments/reviews that the digital display is a part of the reason that battery life is short. The solution offered was to purchase an AC Adapter. It's a good workaround for home or cottage use, but on the road and camping, this is not an option. The sound quality is also really bad. Had I known all of this in advance I would not have purchased this model for friends and family. I won't be making that mistake ever again.

I guess this is one of Eton's lemons.

While I love my other Eton, I won't be buying another one for a very long time and will warn others not to purchase this model.
210219
It doesn't take long to get over the clarity of the screen and the photo and video quality. The OS crashes constantly. I have to be restart the phone  3 to 4 times a day. It keeps asking me to pick a keyboard to input which you can't because it freezes. The display stopped working 3 months after I purchased it and they told me 15 to 21 days after they receive it they will fix or replace and I had to talk to three different people until someone was smart enough to understand the issue with the phone was the screen and not the charging. They don't tell you that it takes 15 to 21 days after  the warranty department receives it from their  warehouse that I was told to send it to. It took them 10 days from the time they received it from me (via fed ex) until they delivered it to their warranty department. So I had my phone for 3 months and it has been at their location for a month getting fixed. I'll never buy a blu again. I'd give it a minus 1 star if I could.
3099178
Love the phone overall.....but the battery doesn't last very long.  Seems I am constantly charging.  In addition, there is a bug when opening any map application. Doesn't happen every time but the app freezes and you have to shut down the phone manually. Now the phone is constantly dropping calls.  Have replaced the Sim card and been dealing with  HTC support.  After two hours on the computer, I was told they had to escalate the problem to the development support team. I was told I would be contacted with 7 days....Really, 7 days?

Development support contacted me and told to go into safe mode and give them the information found there.  Give them the information, now I receive a two paragraph email on the next instructions and to send to them. Do yourself a favor avoid this company......
2715081
If I had reviewed this phone soon after I had bought it (first 2-4 months), I would have given it at least 4 stars because of  the features and pretty good battery time. However as time went on, battery life has deteriorated to a point that it is a joke. Sometimes we get just 20 minutes without speaker phone. I have both a speaker phone/base station and an extension set. The extension is worse, but the base station is the same in terms of battery life. So if you see 4 or 5 stars in the rating by some Amazon reviewer for this phone, you know it is someone who just recently bought the phone; if you seee 1 star, it is someone like me, who Panasonic has nicely fleeced but has finally figured it out!!!
3687041
The charging functions performed as described in the product literature.  One issue I had was that the display illumination turns off after a few seconds.  While this is not a problem when the unit is in direct sunlight, it was difficult to read the display in the garage even with the ceiling lights on.  The display appears to have an LED light so leaving it on when the charger is running should not present any problem.  My second issue is with the complete lack of customer support.  The unit has a battery reconditioning function that can improve charging capability and extend battery life.  The instructions also say that activating this function may cause the unit to run for the next 24-hours.  I used this feature on another battery and let the unit run for over 72-hours.  At no time did I observe any activity in the battery cells when I removed the caps.  I had the same results with another battery.  I contacted Stanley Black & Decker and asked for further information about the reconditioning function.  I received a response that my inquiry had reached the wrong department (I used the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the battery description page - go figure) and that my inquiry would be forwarded to the correct department.  I was informed that I would receive a response within 48-hours.  I waited 8 days before sending another inquiry.  I gave up after waiting another 3 days and returned the unit for a refund.  I have since purchased a different brand battery charger.  I presume Stanley B&D has all the customers they could ever want.
3378356
Superb Design and body but battery life is poor.
Huawei need to work in its UI too.
3234652
This tablet has good specs and is pretty good except for horrible battery life.  Every time I go to use it the battery is either dead or almost dead. If you are willing to charge you tablet every night then it might be a good tablet for you, otherwise avoid.
866412
I purchased this watch a little over a year and a half ago. I actually really like the features of the watch and the garmin connect software allows you to pull some pretty neat reports with HR/location/etc.

However, I just ran my first marathon this past Sunday and the watch went dead on me at 4hrs 50mins. The specs claim it should last 8hrs with continuous use. I had the latest firmware installed (version 2.3) and the watch was fully charged when I left to go run in the race. When I contacted customer support, they told me that if I send it back to them - they would send me a refurbished watch for $90. They told me that the battery is not user replaceable and that this is my only option for repairing it.

I am giving this watch 1 star because of the hidden $90 every two years you will need to spend on replacing the battery. If you are just going to use it for 3 hour max runs, then you can probably get away with making it work for you. You've been warned.
4892407
I bought this phone as a valentine's day gift for my wife. The screen is 1080p, and it's bright and nice. I matched it with StraightTalk, and while it's not 4G, it's definitely fast enough for our needs.

The two bad things about the phone are 1) it's Android 4.2, not Kit Kat...at least not at of 2-18-2014 (the day I'm writing this review), and 2) unfortunately, the battery capacity is very poor. I mean bad. You can just about watch the battery drain down, and it goes really fast. Don't expect it to last through the day if you do things like watch videos and surf the web. You'll be surprised by how fast the battery drops. I could live with ANdroid 4.2, but the battery problem is lethal. Even with using all the battery saving tips---like toggling wifi and GPS on and off when I need them (which means a lot of extra time spent changing settings)---the battery goes really fast.

Would not buy the phone again for this reason.

UPDATE: I did some tests on the battery. I streamed Flight (great movie) from Netflix over wifi. At 50% brightness and full volume (has to be full volume to hear anything...sad), the battery declined from 94% to 80% in 23 minutes. This suggests that at half screen brightness, you have about 160 minutes of video. Most movies will be less than this, so you can make it through about 1 movie before charging the phone again.

Another test I did at full brightness, also Flight, suggested about 180 minutes at full screen brightness. Not sure why. The only difference between these two was that I installed the Espier launcher (makes Android look like IOS 7 ... the launcher that comes with the phone is terrible). Why this would cause the battery to be worse at half brightness than it was at full brightness, I don't know...but that's what happened.

Roger