PHILIPS DS8550/10 Fidelio Docking Speaker for iPad/iPhone/iPod

Do yourself a favour and avoid this.  It was meant to be a Christmas present to me so i’m glad i tried it out first! Before i get to the annoying habits/faults the first thing i noticed when i switched the dock on was the sound quality and i really don’t think it’s that great. I can hear a great deal of hissing and popping noises on a lot of songs (something that’s mentioned a lot on the Amazon US reviews i’ve since discovered) – i’ve tried several files from normal quality mp3 to very high quality, all of which play crystal clear on all my other devices but it’s there on most songs on this dock.

When you power on the dock it rams the volume up really loud even though your ipad/iphone was on its lowest setting so you’re left scrambling for the volume.  Also it just randomly switches itself off half way through songs for no apparent reason. I read that it also randomly switches itself on too at high volume. Not at all what you expect for a £200 dock.  So i’m sending it back and i won’t bother with a replacement – at least not a Phillips one.

Frame created with Polymagic app for iPhone

We go though this ever time i run a bath!  She likes to keep her stuff clean :)
filmed on iPhone 4s

My mutha fuc*ing paper supplier has let me down and an order that was supposed to arrive this month now won’t arrive until December the 12th at the latest so i’ve had to quickly ordersome matt paper from another (more expensive) supplier.  Why is matt photo card so hard to get hold of in bulk!?

I’m still sick of eBay.  The place is still a shambles and i’m still constantly living in feat that one wrong word from an idiotic customer (and believe me some of those customers are shockingly idiotic) and i’m out.  For example.  Every one of my listings says “bow are printed on the designs – they are not real bows”.  Do you know what one of the most common question i get is?  “Are the bows real?”.  And then i get a low score from customers saying “Item not as described” because they couldn’t be arsed to read the description.  And eBay side with them.  So i’m still plugging on with my website off of eBay.

In other new, the iPhone is still FOOKING FABULOUS!  And i’m addicted to instagram.

Oh i despise November so much.  November, January and February are the most depressing months of the year for me.  Still, the little rose is adding a bit of much needed colour.

Taken & edited with iPhone 4s