Bought 3 of the LIFX Color 1000. These are E27 Edison screw type LED bulbs.
It uses 11 watt at full brightness and puts out 1055 lumens or equivalent to a normal incandescent 75 watt bulb.
Now it does uses a bit of power during standby at about ~0.7W
Their website says it is capable of producing 16 million colors and 1000 shades of white ranging from 2,500K to 9,000K.
Two years warranty
Normal price is USD$59.99 but there is a $20 discount now so each bulb is $39.99
If anyone wants a $5 discount code, let me know. I got one.
Postage is a flat rate of $20 for one or many bulbs.

LIFX is an Australian company but the bulbs are made in China (like everything else)
My bulbs were shipped from their depot in HK using DHL. They also use HK Post but you don't have a choice of which method during ordering.

DHL called me say kena tax. Kastam wanted 20% + 6% and DHL fee is RM50
I told DHL is just LED light bulbs and only 3 pieces and for personal home use. They then manage to convinced Kastam. In the end I kena only 5% + 6% + Rm50. I had to come out with another RM120 to clear it.
Don't understand how Taobao buyers dont kena tax for their LED lights.


This is the box that it came in. It has padded foam protection all round. It has no instructions inside the box whatsoever. Infact not a single piece of paper inside. Nothing to read.



The size compare to my 9.5w Philips LED Bulb which btw is also a 70w equivalent bulb. Almost the same size but the LIFX is much heavier due to extra electronics inside.

Installation is very simple. Screw in the bulb. Download the LIFX app. Connect the bulbs to your smart device (phone or tablet) and it will then connect to your home WIFI network. Yes the bulbs needs Wifi so you can control it. Your phone/tablet must be connected to the Internet also but it need not be on the same Wifi network as your bulbs. You can be on 3g/4g and it will still work so that means you can check or control your bulbs even when you are somewhere else.
Please note that during initial setup, your smart device needs to be on the same Wifi network.

COLOR WHEEL


WHITE WHEEL


Ok the app. Here is the color wheel and white wheel. You can control Color, intensity (dimming), Color temperature for Whites, On/Off. You can control bulbs either in groups or individual.

THEMES


There also preset themes incase you dunno what to choose.

OFF


ON


Difference between On and Off.
You can tell the status of your lights whether they are On or Off, Brightness and what Color they were in.

SCHEDULES


Last but not least, this is the most important feature. The Schedule Settings. Or timer setting.
You can set your lights (whether in groups or individual) when to turn On or Off. You can select time and day.
You can also select at what Color, Brightness or Scene when they turn On
And also if you want the lights to Fade In/Fade Out during On/Off
Multiple schedules can run concurrently

If I'm not mistaken, all these settings are located at LIFX's Cloud server.

I only received them yesterday. So far they work ok but I'm worried that they will drop offline either because it lost connection to the Wifi router or some network problem. The 16 million colors seems like a gimmick. I think first few days you might play around with it but later you will set it back to the normal White color light.

You can also buy just White bulbs from LIFX. They are cheaper but it produces less lumens. They also have Color light strips which is new. I hope they will come out with bulbs for E14 base. I have three E27 table lamps, the rest are using E14 bulbs.

Oh one more thing. There are other ways to control your LIFX bulbs and not just by using their app. You can tell Alexa to turn On/Off, change , etc if you have Amazon Echo. You can also use IFTTT but I havent tried. Hopefully Apple's Home will be included soon then you can ask SIRI to do stuff to your lights

Nice review. And I guess this consumes more electricity than the normal bulb because you have to always keep the switch on?

if the led rosak early on, bye2 $39.99

it does uses a bit of power during standby at about ~0.7W
11 watt at full brightness

Two years warranty

seller pays for replacement courier fees?

75Watt for an LED light, that's very high.

heavier because of the bigger heat sink i believe.

I dun think so. I mean i will have to pay to ship it back and they will pay for postage sending a new one back to me

This post has been edited by idoblu: Nov 24 2016, 08:34 PM

Ts

Mind to snap actual lighting ?

Can but too many variations
Many colors
Many whites
Then intensity of brightness

No need all just few sample like what u set in ur app = output is same.

Solving question that nobody asked.

I'm not in Malaysia at the moment
Maybe this help

did you compared to Philips LED RGB ones?

I still in looking for alternatives other than Osram and Philips.

Is it better than xiaomi rgb led bulb?
I've seen those going for rm59.90
That's cheaper by much.

wow >RM200 for a bulb.

you mean Philips Hue?
Hue needs a bridge - have to buy separately, cost another USD$60
and Hue not as bright
800 lumens compare to Gen 3 LIFX which is 1100 lumens
Plus Hue's color not correct compared to LIFX (you can search Youtube)

This post has been edited by idoblu: Dec 4 2016, 07:27 PM

yeap philips hue.. looks like lifx more brighter and green is green lol.