May I suggest that a "RF pollution" evaluation to be included in the next reviews of this kind of products. The LED light bulbs include a switching power supply and some of them have bad filtering and make a lot of noise over several MHz of spectrum degrading (sometimes blocking) some communication services like MW/LW AM broadcasting, CB, Hamradio, ADSL, etc. see some testing made by Thilo in Germany at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zMhjXcmoA Being "green" also includes avoiding this kind of pollution ... Regards!

Completely agree with Pedro. There is so much rubbish in this very slowly developing, but up and coming category of energy savers.

Interesting video Pedro, thanks!
Interesting James also about Osram Sylvania answer to the GE bulb. Somewhat unfortunate that LEDs are being used to simply copy incandescents in fixed warm color temp etc - rather than being developed (and awarded, subsidised etc) for their own advantages in adjustable color temps, and as RGB LEDs or as LED (OLED) sheets. Never allow a simple regular incandescent bulb solution, get in the way of a complex expensive copycat replacement!

I would add that the supposed 25 year (and similar) LED lifespans are highly questionable for several reasons. The lab-tested specs do not conform to real life use (http://ceolas.net/#li15ledax)
Also, because manufacturers gain little profit from long lifespans - on light bulbs as on other products. General Electric, Philips and Osram/Sylvania already cooperated to fix regular incandescent lifespan at 1000 hours - and cooperated again to achieve the 2007 legislation banning these patent expired unprofitable light bulbs. GE light bulb lifespan policies are specifically documented by Michael Leahy and Howard Brandston (the latter is the US Congress lighting consultant) in their 2011 e-book "I Light Bulb", there's a review on Dunday.com

Pedro;
You radical, you just blew this piece of junk right out of the water. You know you are going to be hunted down and persecuted for showing the truth.
Thanks Pedro, good job. American companies can do better than this. Or maybe we should turn to China, India for innovative breakthroughs. And we wonder why we can't compete in the world market. How much you want to bet the cost will be somewhere between $15 and $25 per bulb. Pathetic...

1600 lumens is very bright from one bulb. The best CFL's I have seen are aroung 800 lumens.
The only interesting question is the price indeed.

And yet, my three old all LED lighting from lumiabulbs has paid for themselves, umm six months ago, payback was 2 and 1/2 years from energy savings

The "warm" 2700K LED lamps produce a dingy yellowish light. Sunlight is at 6500K and most tungsten lamps are at 3400K so going down to 2700K is not going to produce a light that many people are going to enjoy using. This is going in completely the wrong direction with regard to SAD as well.

Agree with Calson above ; it does seem odd that manufacturers of these devices seem to want to reproduce the colour characteristics of incandescent lamps, which resemble those of (rather dim) dim class M stars, rather than those of our Sun (G2V). People have, indeed, become accustomed to indoor lighting with such characteristics, given that bulbs with tungsten (wolfram) filaments were introduced over a century ago - but most of us still emerge from our artificially lighted rooms into the light of the sun from time to time...

Kelvin is one thing, the full color spectrum is another. Quality of light needs to take both into account.