SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 i9500 16GB INTERNATIONAL VERSION NO WARRANTY BLACK

SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 i9500 16GB INTERNATIONAL VERSION NO WARRANTY BLACK..

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64 of 68 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome phone, incremental upgrade from SIII
By rpv
Galaxy S4 is an incredible phone. I have been using this unlocked S4 for past 2 days helping a friend to migrate from iPhone 4S. My friend has been on iPhone and it also gave me a unique perspective. I used iPhone for couple of years and been using Android for past 3+ years.

I have used Galaxy S3, Note II and for me S4 is more like a S3s :) If you have a Galaxy S3, it is perfect and there is no need to move to S4. The new features are more like minor upgrades for me. Just like Detroit rolls out new cars every year, phone manufacturers have found excellent way to make yearly upgrades.

Battery came for almost a day. The video playback was crisp and my friend was amazed at the customization options. It is heaven for a iphone user to come out of shackles and explores the wonderful world of Android. It sure sounds like it is for geeks, but Samsung has created lot of ways to simplify and make it less intimidating. The EASY mode is for one such reason. Samsung's addition of all those apps (commonly referred as crapware) is not as bad as HTC or LG. Android experience is classified as pure vanilla in phones like Nexus. Vendors like Samsung have added a whole lot of extra programs.

5" HD Super AMOLED 1920 x 1080 display (441 ppi) is just plain gorgeous. 13 MP camera takes ginormous image sizes. I put a 64 GB microSDXC card SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card with SD Adapter - Retail Packaging as my friend wants to take lot of movies (built-in 2 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM). No stuttering, and very smooth playback of videos captured in varying light conditions (HD Playback; HD Recording). Compatible video types are AVI/DIVX, WMV/ASF, FLV, MKV, MP4/3GP, WEBM. HDR and Panaromic photos were incredibly sharp. Compatible audio types are: AAC, AMR, MP3, OGG, WMA/ASF, 3GA/M4A, FLAC, WAV. Google Music, PlayerPro Music player are producing excellent music. Audio/Video is one section where S4 has nudged S3. For a normal user, if you are not into lot of video processing this does not matter.

S4's infrared sensor is the same technology as TV remote control, so with WatchON you can change the TV channel from your phone. My friend was shocked to see this feature. Having used Android for a long time, I explored all new features one by one. My friend is still getting used to and feels this is too complicated. I broke down into lot of sub features and told my friend he may not use 50% of features, but told him to explore one feature at a time and focus on that.

Games were very buttery, this phones runs ARM®-based octa-core mobile CPU. This is apparently world's first! Inside this chip is Imagination Technologies' PowerVR SGX544MP3 GPU. I tried several car racing games and performance was phenomenal. People on the XDA-Developers forum report seeing smearing and ghosting when scrolling on the phone. This especially occurs to people when scrolling among darker colors, which begin showing up as purple. I tried hard to see if I could on the S4 I was testing with my friend and I could not see it. I am sure these can be upgraded with software over due course.

Air View and Air Gestures - are they worth it? Air view is similar to how the S-pen on the Galaxy Note 8 works. Simply hover finger a few millimeters above the screen and in supported apps, you'll see a preview of content. This works with many of Samsung's built-in apps, including the photo gallery, the dialer, Samsung's browser and email client. It also works with Flipboard. Air View works by cranking up the capacitive sensor on the screen. Another new feature is Air Gestures. This uses the IR sensor on the top of the phone to detect movement by your palm or finger. One can flip between open tabs in Samsung's browser app, skip to a new song in the music player and do many other things. I say these are still in works and sometimes not very efficient.

GPS was spot on and I tried multiple GPS apps. It was bright outdoors (had to crank the brightness all the way up). I tried multiple apps to demonstrate to my friend. In the end, my friend was impressed with what all Android and in particular S4 had to offer. Smooth and Stunning display!

I tried following apps and they just worked awesome.

Amazon Mobile
Android Status
Androidify
Angry Birds (Space/Seasons)
Asphalt 7
Amazon App Store
Box
Car Maintenance Reminder Pro
Chrome
CNET TV
NAVIGON (from Garmin - offline maps)
Google Navigation/Earth/Maps
Google Currents (nice way to read News)
Draw Something
Google Drive
Ebay
Linkedin
Google Music
Tapatalk (awesome forum browsing app)
OverDrive Media Console: Library eBooks & Audiobooks (public library consumption of media)
Microsoft One Note (legacy docs, skydrive of 25 GB is good)
Subsonic Music Streamer
Terminal Emulator (still need to use vi, yes this is it)
TweetCaster Pro for Android (excellent twitter client)
Twit.Tv
Google Voice
Plenty of Widgets

Ask questions, the review cannot do justice to Galaxy S4. I will be glad to answer any questions.

62 of 70 people found the following review helpful.
Worldwide distributors sucks!!!!!
By Hernando
The cell phones is great, but DON'T BUY IT FROM THE THIS SELLER WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTORS!!!

I Bought from them because I saw all the good rating, but they sold me with a faulty camera, all the photos taken was out of focus all the time, it seem like a hardware problem I they gave me a very very hard time trying to refund or replace it, finally the gonna reimburse to me, but $160 less than the amount of money I've paid

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
WorldWide Distributors Sucks!!!
By RR
The phone itself is great, BUT DO NOT BUY IT FROM WorldWide Distributors!!!

"WorldWide Distributors sold me a defected Galaxy S4, which rebooted itself. I sent it back in order to get a full refund, however they lied me that the phone in excellent working condition. I lost more that $150 plus $30 for shipment. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM!!!!"

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Apple iMac ME087LL/A 21.5-Inch Desktop (NEWEST VERSION)

Apple iMac ME087LL/A 21.5-Inch Desktop (NEWEST VERSION)..

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89 of 99 people found the following review helpful.
Apple vs PC? No comparison - the Mac wins
By ShoePurseBookBuyer
I have just switched back to a Mac after years of using a PC. The difference is night and day. The Mac is so much easier to use (although it took me a short while to get the hang of it), and has many more options and abilities. I am an artist, so I had to switch all my art files from PC to the Mac. It was easy to do and the Mac is so much more art friendly. I have to write quite a lot of documents, so I needed the Mac to handle that too, and it does.
I happen to own an iPhone and iPad Air as well. My son set my iPad Air (he's more tech savvy than me) to show and act as my Mac's desktop. So when I am away from my Mac, I can use the iPad as my computer and work with it as if I had a mini desktop! All in all I wouldn't go back to PC if you paid me. I love it.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Very Pleased
By Mike
I doubt that I'll ever go back to Windows again (other than the machine that I use at work). This is something that I've wanted to do for a while but I didn't want to take the time to learn it. I finaly bit the bullet and did it. I ordered it on a Saturday and it arrived on the following Wednesday (free shipping).

Within a few days, I'd figured out most of what I care about. I bought a book but found it only marginally helpful. In the several days bewteen ordering it and the arrival, I watched tons of YouTube videos on the iMac and that's where I learned most of what I know so far. Note: FINDER is to the iMac what Windows Explorer is to a PC.

I keep all personal files on an exernal drive, the only thing on the internal drive is the OS, applications, etc. That's a holdover from my Windows days.

Music is loaded although I don't like iTunes so I downloaded WinAmp. Pictures are loaded including some old photos that I've scanned, retouched and then saved back to disc (not just in iPhoto). It has a fairly decent photo editor;basic but good for someone like me who doesn't have the patience for spending 2 hours fixing a picure. Disc formatting and partitioning is quick and easy. I downloaded SuperDuper (free) and created an image in one of the partitions of an external drive. I'm used to using things like Ghost and Acronis on Windows platforms so this SuperDuper image is comforting.

It goes to sleep and remembers how to wake up. I don't think I ever owned a Windows machine that could handle that through several sleep/wake cycles, they always seem to get confused and need a forced shutdown. I attached a watt meter to it and it uses about 40 watts when awake and about 2-3 watts when asleep. The battery in the keyboard is still at 100% but the batterry in the mouse is at about 90% after 10 days. That's understandable considering how much more the mouse is used. A wired mouse would fix that but I like not seeing wires anyplace.

It's incredibly quiet and I'm very sensitive to PC noise.

I bought MS office because it's so much easier (for me) than using what the iMac came with or things like OpenOffice. The interface is not identical to the Windows version; it's close but not identical - don't know why Miscrosoft couldn't have done a better job of that.

It comes with some parameteers set in 10.9 Mavericks that didn't make sense and I thought I was stuck with them until I figured out that they could be changed. The 2 that come to mind are (1) the vertcal scroll bar is not always visible on a web page and (2) a right click on the mouse is not active. I changed both of those things.

I was able to play with the 27 inch version at a local library and found the sceeen too big. Maybe I would have gotten used to it but the 21.5 inch version that I got seems just right.

53 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Base model not so good, get the maxed out version!
By Ryan D
So had a base model 2012 21.5 inch iMac. I almost loved it--but I found it was a little too prone to stuttering and choppiness with clicking and scrolling. Also I found the 102 ppi screen surprisingly fuzzy looking.

So I made a decision I thought I might regret--but don't. I ordered a maxed out version of the 2013 model: i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB solid state drive, and NVIDIA 750M graphics. Big difference. It's much faster and smoother. Also, to my pleasant surprise, the screen is far less pixellated even though it's the exact same resolution. I assume it's the better graphics card?

I would say splurge for an upgraded customized version--at least you can get the top specs for cheaper than a similar 27 inch iMac--and save yourself from neck strain in the process.

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Apple Time Capsule 3TB ME182LL/A [NEWEST VERSION]

Apple Time Capsule 3TB ME182LL/A [NEWEST VERSION]..

Special Price Apple Time Capsule 3TB ME182LL/A [NEWEST VERSION] By Apple

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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
Great Shared Storage Drive For Mac & PC, Improved Internet Speed
By J. Gebauer
(Note: I have the 2 TB version but the 3 TB version is functionally the same. I thought my review of the 2 TB version may be helpfully.)

In my household we have a MacBook Air, 2 PC's, 2 iPhones, and an iPad. For a long time I've wanted a shared storage drive that would always be on so all my computers and iOS devices could access it wirelessly at any time. The new Apple Time Capsule has finally given me that. In addition, the wireless internet speed of my network is 50% faster.

NETWORK SET UP
Setting up the Time Capsule for the internet was extremely easy. My iPad immediately recognized the Time Capsule after I connected it to the modem and plugged it in. On the iPad I created the network name and password. I also created a guest network name and password. The Time Capsule updated this and I was up and running. From pulling it out of the box to surfing the internet was less than 5 minutes.

INTERNET SPEED TEST
After I connected all my computers and iOS devices to the new network I did a speed test with the app Speedtest.net on my iPhone. I had an inexpensive Belkin wireless N router before getting the new Time Capsule and was curious to know if and by how much my internet download and upload speed improved with the Time Capsule. With my old wireless router and the iPhone next to it my download speed was 27 mbps and my upload speed was 8 mbps. At about 35 feet away from the Belkin router my download speed was 22 mbps and my upload speed was 7 mbps. With the Time Capsule and the iPhone next to it my download speed improved to 40 mbps and my upload speed was 10 mbps. At about 35 feet away from the Time Capsule my download speed improved to 38 mbps and my upload was 10 mbps. Overall with the new Time Capsule my internet speed got 50% faster. I was most impressed with the speed since my internet subscription is only for 30 mbps.

SHARED STORAGE SET UP
As mentioned earlier I wanted the Time Capsule as a shared storage drive so all my computers, PC and Mac, and all my devices, iPhone and iPad, could access it. Neither of my PC's recognized the Time Capsule hard drive on the network. The MacBook Air had no problem recognizing it. It wasn't until I dragged a file from the MacBook Air to the Time Capsule hard drive that my PC's recognized the Time Capsule and were able to access the shared drive. Honestly I'm not sure if dragging the file did it or my PC's just needed more time to get connected to the Time Capsule. My only grip with the Time Capsule is that my PC's at times will need to be on for 20+ minutes before they connect to the Time Capsule hard drive and have disconnected a few times. I haven't had any issues with the MacBook Air, iPhones, or iPad connecting to the Time Capsule hard drive or issues with it randomly disconnecting on any of the Apple devices.

SHARED STORAGE TRANSFER RATE
Wireless N transfer of files between my main PC and Time Capsule is adequate but it may be too slow for some. I'm curious to know what the transfer rate improvement would be with wireless AC on that PC. My other PC is connected to the Time Capsule via an ethernet cable so transfer rates aren't an issue with that computer. When downloading files from my main PC to the Time Capsule or uploading files from the Time Capsule to my main PC via wireless N, my transfer rate for both averages to be 1.7 mbps. For the transferring of photos or videos that I've done so far it is fine. If I was to transfer about 20 gigs of images though I'd want a wired connection to the Time Capsule otherwise it would take 3 1/2 hours to transfer wirelessly.

SECONDARY DRIVE SET UP
Setting up a secondary drive for the Time Capsule was quick and easy. I took my Western Digital external hard drive that I used as backup with my PC and formatted it to use as a secondary drive for the Time Capsule. To use with the Time Capsule the external hard drive needed to be reformatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). After that was done I plugged it into the Time Capsule. Again my PC's didn't recognize it but the MacBook Air did. Though I haven't done it yet I plan to use the external drive for Time Machine backup with the MacBook Air. If you try to use the hard drive in the Time Capsule for a shared drive and Time Machine backup, the hard drive needs to be partitioned. I plan to use all the hard drive space in the 2 TB Time Capsule for a shared drive so I wanted to get a secondary drive set up for Time Machine.

ACCESSING FILES FROM IPHONE & IPAD
Finally I set up the 2 iPhones and iPad to access the files on the Time Capsule. For that I downloaded the app Remote File Browser. They have a paid version and a free version. I tried the free version and it's worked fine for my needs so far.

USING TIME CAPSULE AS YOUR MAIN STORAGE DRIVE
The Time Capsule is great to store your iTunes music library to play on your computer or photos to open up and work on in Photoshop. I opened up iTunes and added music from the Time Capsule to my iTunes library on my PC computer. The music played flawlessly. I opened a few images saved on the Time Capsule in Photoshop to edit and it worked great too. After opening images from the Time Capsule in Photoshop you will want to save the PSD locally to improve speed and then transfer the final edited image back over to Time Capsule when you are done. I've also watched some movies stored on the Time Capsule on my PC and they ran fine as well. However, the wireless N transfer rate between the Time Capsule and PC is too slow to watch 1080p videos I've shot with my digital camera.

SUMMARY
Overall the new Time Capsule is a great shared storage drive for Mac and PC. Plus, you have the ability to access all the content on an iOS device with the proper app. For anyone with a MacBook Air the Time Capsule is a must have because it alleviates perhaps the biggest downside of the MacBook Air, hard disk space. You can store your TB of music, photos, and videos on the Time Capsule and play the music and videos through iTunes once it is added to the library and access pictures so long as you are on your network. Best of all you retain the sleek, compactness of the MacBook Air, nothing else needed. In addition to all this the new Time Capsule provides your network with fast, reliable internet which is easy to set-up and ready for the future with its wireless AC capability.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Never has an "Airport" been so great.
By Todd S.
I have recently fallen in love with Apple Products. Don't get me wrong, I've had iPods since the beginning, but it was the 1st Generation iPad that made me dabble in the Apple waters. Soon After my first iPad, I got the 2nd one that came out, Iphone 4s, then an iPad mini, followed by a MacBook Air and then the 27" iMac and most recently the Iphone 5. I decided, I needed Apple TV and since I have 3 main locations to watch TV, I bought 3 of them. Everything was working wonderfully, except, I felt that my router, which is a decent reviewed Netgear router, wasn't getting the job done. I live in a two story house and my router is located on the left side of the upper floor. So the right side out of the house, wasn't getting a strong signal.

I was bored and doing some online window shopping when I came across the 3TB Apple Airport Time Capsule. I had all my music and movies on an external hard drive plugged into my Netgear Router. I have since transferred everything over to the 3 TB Airport Time Capsule.

Let me just break it down like this. In my honest opinion, the Airport Time Capsule router, which was the easiest router I've ever set up, has fixed all of my connection issues. Previously, it would take anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds for my apple TV to connect to my iTunes and sometimes even longer to load a movie up. Now, everything loads in 3 seconds or less. I'm not exaggerating, in my situation at my house, this router has fixed all the minor discrepancies I had with my wireless home network. My iPad test speed under my old router provided a download speed of 13-14 MB's and now with the Airport Time Capsule, it's pulling 25-26 MB's. And this was on the other end of my house at the farthest point from the router.

The price on this item is expensive. $399 or a couple dollars less. But resolving the stresses of my wireless home network makes it worth it. Apple is expensive, I was always leery about spending so much when I could buy a PC based "equal" for so much less. But in my lifetime, Apple products have finally made the majority of my computer headaches go away.

Apple products just work, and this 3TB Airport Time Capsule, is no exception, it is the RULE. It's wonderful, and if you can get passed the price tag, you'll find yourself in home network heaven.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Every Apple User Needs One; So Easy to Set Up.
By Lukester
[Note: I have the 2TB version, but posted this here to help anyone that comes across the 3TB version. I found 2TB to be enough, but other users may need 3TB. Regardless, the functionality is the same]

Anyone that has a hard drive fail will tell you how incredibly important it is to back up your computer. I had this happen to me a few years ago and was devastated at the files I lost, especially the photos I had been storing on my computer. Ever since that day I have tried my best to back everything up. The problem, however, is actually making the effort to back up the files. To say the least, it can get tedious and if you slip up, it's easy to get out of the habit.

Apple has fixed this problem with their Time Capsule. I've been waiting for the new version and picked one up the day it came out. This version is taller than their older model, and hardly takes up any desk space. We have ours in the office and this thing is unobtrusive.

Set up is a breeze. I plugged this straight into my cable modem. The set up software on the Mac takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up the Wi-Fi signal and also configuring the Time Machine software to begin automatically backing up your computer's hard drive. The first back up will take a long time, but after that the software will update the backup on the Time Capsule in just a few minutes, all automatically and in the background. The other nice thing is that it's possible to set up the Time Capsule to back up two different computers. I did this with my own and my wife's MacBook Pros, the setup couldn't be easier.

So far, I couldn't be happier with the set up. The Wi-Fi signal is strong and has handled two computers, an iPad, and a Tivo all at the same time with no hiccups. Unlike our previous router, I haven't found any dead spots in our house yet. Luckily, I haven't had to use the back-up function, but I feel much more at ease knowing it is there and will stay current no matter how lazy I get.

There are three gigabit internet connections on the back for plugging in devices directly. We have an AppleTV plugged in and the wired connection results in much better streaming that over Wi-Fi. We also plugged our older printer into the USB slot to enable wireless printing. Now any computer can wirelessly print to one printer without having to upgrade to a newer printer with built-in wireless connectivity.

Like everything else they do, Apple excels are creating well-honed systems that run simply and flawlessly. With the Time Capsule, they've taken away the hassle of backups forever. I think every Apple user should get a Time Capsule. If you don't back up, I can promise one day you will regret it. Save yourself the nightmare and get a Time Capsule!

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Apple iMac ME089LL/A 27-Inch Desktop (NEWEST VERSION)

Apple iMac ME089LL/A 27-Inch Desktop (NEWEST VERSION)..

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89 of 99 people found the following review helpful.
Apple vs PC? No comparison - the Mac wins
By ShoePurseBookBuyer
I have just switched back to a Mac after years of using a PC. The difference is night and day. The Mac is so much easier to use (although it took me a short while to get the hang of it), and has many more options and abilities. I am an artist, so I had to switch all my art files from PC to the Mac. It was easy to do and the Mac is so much more art friendly. I have to write quite a lot of documents, so I needed the Mac to handle that too, and it does.
I happen to own an iPhone and iPad Air as well. My son set my iPad Air (he's more tech savvy than me) to show and act as my Mac's desktop. So when I am away from my Mac, I can use the iPad as my computer and work with it as if I had a mini desktop! All in all I wouldn't go back to PC if you paid me. I love it.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Very Pleased
By Mike
I doubt that I'll ever go back to Windows again (other than the machine that I use at work). This is something that I've wanted to do for a while but I didn't want to take the time to learn it. I finaly bit the bullet and did it. I ordered it on a Saturday and it arrived on the following Wednesday (free shipping).

Within a few days, I'd figured out most of what I care about. I bought a book but found it only marginally helpful. In the several days bewteen ordering it and the arrival, I watched tons of YouTube videos on the iMac and that's where I learned most of what I know so far. Note: FINDER is to the iMac what Windows Explorer is to a PC.

I keep all personal files on an exernal drive, the only thing on the internal drive is the OS, applications, etc. That's a holdover from my Windows days.

Music is loaded although I don't like iTunes so I downloaded WinAmp. Pictures are loaded including some old photos that I've scanned, retouched and then saved back to disc (not just in iPhoto). It has a fairly decent photo editor;basic but good for someone like me who doesn't have the patience for spending 2 hours fixing a picure. Disc formatting and partitioning is quick and easy. I downloaded SuperDuper (free) and created an image in one of the partitions of an external drive. I'm used to using things like Ghost and Acronis on Windows platforms so this SuperDuper image is comforting.

It goes to sleep and remembers how to wake up. I don't think I ever owned a Windows machine that could handle that through several sleep/wake cycles, they always seem to get confused and need a forced shutdown. I attached a watt meter to it and it uses about 40 watts when awake and about 2-3 watts when asleep. The battery in the keyboard is still at 100% but the batterry in the mouse is at about 90% after 10 days. That's understandable considering how much more the mouse is used. A wired mouse would fix that but I like not seeing wires anyplace.

It's incredibly quiet and I'm very sensitive to PC noise.

I bought MS office because it's so much easier (for me) than using what the iMac came with or things like OpenOffice. The interface is not identical to the Windows version; it's close but not identical - don't know why Miscrosoft couldn't have done a better job of that.

It comes with some parameteers set in 10.9 Mavericks that didn't make sense and I thought I was stuck with them until I figured out that they could be changed. The 2 that come to mind are (1) the vertcal scroll bar is not always visible on a web page and (2) a right click on the mouse is not active. I changed both of those things.

I was able to play with the 27 inch version at a local library and found the sceeen too big. Maybe I would have gotten used to it but the 21.5 inch version that I got seems just right.

53 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Base model not so good, get the maxed out version!
By Ryan D
So had a base model 2012 21.5 inch iMac. I almost loved it--but I found it was a little too prone to stuttering and choppiness with clicking and scrolling. Also I found the 102 ppi screen surprisingly fuzzy looking.

So I made a decision I thought I might regret--but don't. I ordered a maxed out version of the 2013 model: i7 processor, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB solid state drive, and NVIDIA 750M graphics. Big difference. It's much faster and smoother. Also, to my pleasant surprise, the screen is far less pixellated even though it's the exact same resolution. I assume it's the better graphics card?

I would say splurge for an upgraded customized version--at least you can get the top specs for cheaper than a similar 27 inch iMac--and save yourself from neck strain in the process.

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