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I did extensive research before buying this product and almost got discouraged by doing so mostly because the majority of people writing negative reviews are not competent enough in order to figure out why certain features of this device did not work for them. So let's start. This device will work with Samsung Galaxy s3, s4, and Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for sure. It may work with other models from the Galaxy family but I can't say for fact that it will. I bought mine pretty much to use my phone (SG3) as a substitute for my laptop which broke. Straight out of the box it did everything I expected it to do. Hooking it up to my HD TV was a childs play as well as to a wireless mouse and a keyboard. In all fairness I must say that it took me a while to get the sound to work through the TV speakers. While I was getting a nice picture I couldn't get any sound. The fix, as usually, was fairly sime and had nothing to do with the dock itself but rather with the settings on my phone. So if you find yourself in the same situation like me this is what you need to do: Open system settings andscroll down to accessories. Here you'll see the folowing options: Dock sound Audio output mode Desk home screen display Audio output (under HDMI) Now in order to be able to hear sound through your TV speakers make sure that the Audio output mode box is UNCHECKED and that's it. Now you have sound playing through your tv. Next thing some people have complained about is the unability to see your phone screen in landscape mode on the TV because when it is conected to the doc the phone always stays in picture screen orientation. Some people have gone as far as suggesting to simply put the dock and the phone on its side hence forcing the phone screen in to a landscape mode. While on theory this idia will work, you are risking to disrupt the rather delicate conection between the dock and the phone. There are two much better and easier solutions. The first one is to simply plug in a mouse in to one of the USB ports on the doc and the moment your phone recognizes it, it'll automatically go in to landscape mode. I actually discovered this by accident since initially I was using solution number two. There are tons of free apps on the play store that will give you the ability to force your screen orientation to whatever you want regardless of the position of your phone. If you prefer not to use a mouse while using your Samsung Galaxy on a big screen (even though I don't know why wouldn't you) just install one of those apps and you are good to go. To conclude I want to say that while $99 or whatever is a bit on the high side, I think it's worth it because it turns your phone in to so much more. So I hope this has been helpful to people who are still trying to decide if they want one or not and to those of you who have not been able to figure out the things above. Cheers!