Very pleased with the features, but can understand why some are not
Pros: You can use the radio/sound/and light feature and also have separate settings for the Alarm.  This was KEY for me as I had the Phillips one which cost more, but if you wanted to sleep with soft music or dim light, well...guess what that overrides your alarm settings and hence you likely won't wake up.  This is the most important feature to me.  This is why I returned my philips H3780 (or something like that, cant remember the model right now, but it was $99)<br /><br />The menu/navigation is better than philips. This gives you date/time/year.  More buttons than Philips.  Phillips was driving off one menu button.  This has several buttons in which to use.  Including separate buttons for volume/light.  Although I'm not too crazy about the scroll button for the lamp, but it works nonetheless.<br /><br />A nice soft blue backlight (although this is also a con because you can't dim it, you can only turn it off but then you can't see anything), but you can turn it off by holding the 'lamp' button down for two seconds.  or you can quickly turn on the actual lamp which helps you see the time.  On second thought, some people appreciate the completely darkness of turning off the backlight.  Sometimes looking up to see that its 3AM and your still awake causes you to get more frustrated and therefor worsen your sleep.<br /><br />It's smaller than the philips, saves space.<br /><br />Cheaper than the philips, this cost me $80, the philips was $99.<br /><br />Lightbulb is easy to change.<br /><br />Cons: button quality is cheap, the 'Mode' button is actually recessed a little more than the rest of the six buttons, this annoys me.  It works fine now, and  I hope it stays that way.<br /><br />It generally feels cheap and light.<br /><br />Sound quality is not as good as the philips.  Definitely no where near the sound quality of the philips, but I can live with this, I need it to wake up, not to impress my audiofile friends.<br /><br />Thank's it for now.  4 stars because it does everything I need, has seperate volume/light settings/controls and price. Overall, you can tell the engineers thought about functionality to it, just not so much into the detail design/looks.  Took off a star because of quality/feel.
Rating: 4 stars