Joined on 01/26/04
Easy to use, great basic system
Pros: Simple. Easy to set up. Portable. No wiring. Integrates somewhat with SmartThings. Battery operated, now with rechargeable batteries.
Cons: Some of it's pros are also it's cons. It's portable, so if outside, someone can easily grab it and walk off. Reset it and it's now theirs. There's no way to lock the camera in place. It's just held on with a magnet. Field of view is wide angle so we get a good overview of what's in front, but sometimes we don't need a wide angle and only want a narry field of view covered. No way to block areas out from triggering the alarm. It's pricey, and prices seem to defy gravity as there's little direct competition in it's niche. I've been watching individual add on camera prices creep up from $124 to $169 over the past 6 months.
Overall Review: I would recommend it. It's great for interior, short range, coverage.
Bluetooth connection garbled
Pros: Comfortable, easy to use
Cons: The sound quality when wired is fine. However, when tested with multiple bluetooth devices, it's untenable. The sound is garbled, goes blank for seconds before coming back, only to drop out again for another second or two.
Doo doo
Pros: design
Cons: shame it doesn't hold a charge nor even when fully charged, discharge a high enough voltage to charge your phone. Fully charged, mine puts out 3.1 volts, yet phones require 5 volts. Go figure. It's useless.
Keeps it's charge, but...
Pros: Keeps it's charge
Cons: flashlight button too easily to activate and I do mean easily. It's a protruding push button. Pocket, purse, backpack, it's going to be turned on and you'll find the battery dead every time you go to use it.
Large USB plug
Pros: good design
Cons: It's advertised as a keyboard for android tablets. What android tablet uses the old, large, USB2 connections? None that I can think of. I assumed it would be the standard micro USB connection and wound with something I now can't use.
Overall Review: Granted, it's partially my fault as I should have looked at the photo closer, but as all android tablets use the micro USB connector, I assumed that this would use that plug too.
Failed after 1 year of light use
Pros: Can't think of any, now that it's failed and all my data is lost.
Cons: Poor quality control to fail so early and with so little use
Quick shipping
no problems with this merchant at all, efficient customer service.