Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

They say: "Gramofon works with WiFi rather than Bluetooth, enabling it to: transmit higher quality audio at a greater distance, play music with no interruptions from phone calls, consume less phone battery, connect with many smartphones at once so that other people can easily play music from your speakers." Not true - it doesn't work with your wifi, it needs and uses your Internet connection, and that is not even the worst part, you are forced to have enabled a free open WiFi connection so any stranger can use it. There is no option to disable it. So what at a first look seems an audio version of a chromecast, where you can play music using your local network, is in fact a cover for a free open public hotspot. They claim it is very safe, Apple said the icould was save and it turned out it's not, the OpenSSL cryptographic software library was supposed to be safe it turned out to have one of the biggest security issue ever and so on. So yes, they could say it is safe but I don't want to take any risks, since they are not even a major security company. If someone connects and uses my Internet connection for illegal purposes who is responsible for that. And who wants to go through all the hassle to prove that they didn't do it, and it was some stranger who connected to your open public hotspot. They were very misleading all the way and you can see the negative reaction to the product all over the Internet. Also, it requires a paid Spotify subscription to work, so you can't stream your local music, or from your basic spotify account. The other solution they are offering is a big joke and it just doesn;t work with any recent Android version. So, to resume, it's not a device that you plugin to your sound system, and you stream music inside your local WiFi network, like you can do with the Chromecast if your sound system is connected to a TV, where you can even make playlists with friends, it's a crappy router that also forces you to keep a public open WiFi. I am still thinking if I should use it as a paper weight, door stopper or just throw it away. I asked some friends if they would want it for free but they laughed, of course, and said that they don't feel comfortable keeping an public hotspot open. I am looking forward for the first class action against this company. You just can't sell a product and force people, in order to use it, to have a public hotspot for your company. Their responses to people complaining about this on the Kickstarter page: "- Fon service is mandatory. It was part of the product before it even existed: we added Music to our routers, not added Fon to the Gramofon. This is a company policy. Should this ever change, you will be given the option to take it out." "Unfortunately, the Gramofon has a WiFi hotspot. If you have concerns about the legality of using it, best option is not to. Some users have posted ways to disable it by altering their network set up. That might work for you." And my favourite one: "Ben: really sorry to hear that! We hope you reconsider, sharing your WiFi can be fun, specially when friends come along! In any case, that might come in the future, who knows. You know where we are if you feel like sharing WiFi again! Thanks!" Sharing your WiFi can be fun :)))))))))) And like a user signed Chris mention on the Kickstarter page: " If you read the headlines of the fon website I really get the impression that this Kickstarter project really is a fake campain. It looks like that your goal is to just promote a rounter which is in controle of the fon company; under the hat of a modern juke box. The main goal: Grow a public wifi network operated by 1000's of (stupid) private people. "