Customer Reviews for Samsung - Portable Speaker System for Apple iPod, iPad and iPhone
Customer Rating
4
Almost a great product.
on January 4, 2013
Posted by: DarenK
from Utah
Expertise:Expert
I love the way this unit sounds and looks. It is also great that it works with every device I own including 30-pin iPods and Andorid phones via the dock and with a new Lightning iPod Nano over Bluetooth. The sound is excellent and it can play very loudly.
The Samsung App for Android leaves a little to be desired as it is not easy to use with Pandora. Also, with my iPods it will not a play the song you are currently listening to when you dock it; you have to go out the Playlist (or Artist or Album list, etc) and select a song to play fro there.
Using the touch controls are hit and miss. Sometimes it reads the button next to the one you thought you "pressed". Also, the remote control is very picky about the angle from the remote to the receiver (which seems to be in the pop-out dock based on where pointing it seems most effective). I have not had a chance to use it with a BT-ready Saumsung TV but I assure you that it sounds better than any of the speakers in your flat-panels.
But, since you are only spending this much for a really good sounding (and probably great looking) dock with lots of features, this certainly fits the bill. All the docks I have used seem to have some unusual behavior so it is just a matter of finding out what is strange about each one. I am happy I bought this and I am not sure stepping up to the tubed-dock that is $400 more would be worth it in most areas where you are using a standalone dock.