I just received the Poker Genie a couple days ago, and it's great. Many thanks to Tommy for the very nice giveaway, and for the excellent packing and shipping!
I haven't yet used the Genie for an actual tournament, but I pulled it out today to test it for the first time, and found it to be surprisingly good.
The overall construction and fit & finish quality was better than I expected. Also better than expected is the level of intuitiveness. To be fair, it's of course not quite as intuitive as a good piece of software what has a large LCD screen to work with. However, it's pretty close! Unlike a lot of other hardware devices with nothing more than some simple alpha-numeric LED displays, the Poker Genie is laid out in a logical fashion, with a clear indication of what step you're on during the setup process of entering your chip set, number of players, desired tournament length, etc. Additional detail is clearly illustrated right on the back of the unit. I never once pulled out the instruction manual.
Another plus for me is the fact that the Poker Genie is A/C powered, so there are no batteries to deal with. It has legs to stand upright on a table top, and it also has two molded eyelets on the back for hanging on a wall or other vertical object.
So far, the only annoyance I experienced is that the button beeps during the setup process are LOUD! That's very easily mitigated by holding a thumb or finger over the three small speaker holes toward the top of the front panel. I'm guessing the loud volume will prove to be an advantage during a real poker tournament - the alarms sounding the end of a round will NOT be missed!