Advantages: Extremely User Friendly
Disadvantages: The "BEEP" when you confirm a scan

...This Symbol SPT 1550 is the best scanner around in an area flooded with similar products.This device is extremely lightweight compared to its competitors and ease of use is second to none.The scanner itself allows you to read barcode labels with extreme ease some scanners on the market ensure you have to be right next to the barcode for it to register but with the Symbol SPT 1550 it allows you to scan from a distance and scan hard to reach barcodes.The product also has touch screen GUI making it extremely user friendly the further you venture into the menus and sub menus you can never get lost due to the aptly named home icon.In terms of memory for this device i once scanned 1200 items in an initial audit i was doing and it had no problems in terms of slowing up.... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Efficient, Saves paper work & Easy to use
Disadvantages: You may not really need this gadget

...This review has been moved to Member Advice Category. Please read and rate there as this will soon be permanently removed by Ciao. Many thanks to the members of Ciao for pointing out this was an unsuitable category and for letting me know how to have this changed. Since my opinion about the Belkin USB Hub I have been asked by a great many Ciao members what barcode scanning is, how it works and what I use it for. With these questions in mind, I have decided to write this opinion to cover the various equipment I use. I will not dwell as usual on the technical stuff as you already know I myself don’t understand half of it anyway. Instead I prefer to cover the basics and the various applications they have. I will start by explaining why I have bar coding apparatus. I run my own business on the internet. I also use various... Read review

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Advantages: very gripping!
Disadvantages: Rubbish ending

...To Start off with, I started to enjoy this book. It drawed me in and made me read it intensely! I will not tell you the problem I have with it just yet! The start ************ The starting of a book always set's the scene. We are following a girl called Kayla Reed in America. The First Chapter, we are in with her and the principal talking. And then somewhere along the line we find out she has no dad and she has to look after her mom, who's in one terrible state! She has no job therefore Kayla's just about keeping the bills together. Then Amber Thorn jumps in showing off her new TATTOO called the Barcode tattoo. And she explains why you can't keep a card and use it... What does Kayla do? ******************************* Well I can't really tell you that except the barcode Tattoo freaks her out! Does she get it or not? Well... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, universal (sockets) easy to use
Disadvantages: quite big, problems with light (described below)

...This scanner is a great little piece of radio equipment. In the box you get: The Scanner An Aerial (which is detachable and quite poor quality) A Headphone which plugs into the scanners earphone socket A charger which plugs into the scanner to either run it directly off the mains power or to charge your batteries. 4 Batteries (rechargeable) A car charger (to fit into the cigarette lighter socket) And an instruction manual Some of this scanners functions include: 1000 Channel memory (very fast scanning) 10 Banks for storing Searching ( to search through the radio spectrum and pick up on any activity) Memory Pass