HID-C10
3.3
5
175
175
Actually a Lot of fun~!
This is a great little Media device. From the Nexflix, Pandora Radio, Google News, Pictures, and Weather to the robust Alarm Clock features including a Dimmer or Power Save feature to have the screen turn off until you touch it again. I really like it so far. I love that I can customize it from my computer if i want to. So apps i find online i can send to my Dash at home and they are ready instantly. If it had a Battery option this would be almost perfect. It still has room to improve with the Apps but i am sure that will come with time.
May 28, 2010
So satisifed I am buying 2 more . . .
I bought this for my 15 year old son. He and his friends are impressed - which says a lot. The streaming music, videos, facebook application and games are a big hit! I am going to purchase one for our kitchen and my husband's office.
May 17, 2010
Constantly freezes up
Good concept but poor execution. When it works well, it's a nice device that lets you play Internet radio, view news headlines, or see the latest weather forecast. However, I'm constantly having to unplug it to unfreeze it. Sometime the screen will just go completely dark. Other times the apps won't load. This is not acceptable performance for a device you need to rely on to get you up each morning for work.
September 24, 2011
No Real Purpose Hampered by Bad Design
The Dash seems like more of a proof-of-concept than an actual product. It doesn't really seem finished, and I have a lot of trouble figuring out what it's actually for.
After using it for several months I've settled on just leaving it on my desk as a virtual fishtank, which seems a bit excessive, but I'm not comfortable using it anywhere else.
I know it has alarm clock functionality programmed into it, but I can't imagine trusting it to wake me up for something important - just on my desk it will lock up completely about once a month, it loses some of my app settings about once a week, and there are frequent software updates that freeze the other things it's doing. Because of all of this I just can't trust it with something as critical as waking me up in time for work, or to catch a flight, or anything like that.
In addition, the interface is very ambiguous, and the device responds very slowly, so I frequently don't know if I just didn't push the button right, if it didn't notice me pushing the button, or if it isn't actually a button at all. This makes it very frustrating to try to do anything with it beyond just have it set up and cycling through apps.
I suppose you could get past all of these flaws and perhaps use it in the kitchen for movies or recipes or something, but I've never had the space in a kitchen to sacrifice to something like this.
The lack of a battery really limits the places it could be used as well.
September 19, 2011
