OK, but annoying to work with
I'm actually pretty annoyed by the design of this clock, and now wishing I went with another.<br /><br />Good: It provides light in the morning, it provides radio in the morning.<br /><br />Bad:<br />-Menu systems are horrible... I've had it for months and I still get confused how to change settings, set sleep mode, change light brightness etc...<br />-Buttons suck.  They are on the face of the clock, and hard enough to push down that the clock just slides on my Ikea wood end table.  You have to reach around the back to hold the clock to click a button, but don't reach around the right side or you will trip the snooze IR sensor.<br />-Snooze: speaking of snooze...  Light comes one, radio gets louder... you click snooze and sleep for a few more minutes, and the next time it comes on the light stays off (radio only)?!?  WTF, why would you ever want that?<br />-Radio "fade in": Very digital.  You can hear a distinct jump in loudness every ~30 seconds.  I don't know why, but it annoys me.  I would prefer a smooth fade, simply because it I know it would not have been hard to design.<br />-Nature sounds:  You can fit 100 gigs on something the size of an SD card, but you couldn't make enough memory to record more than 3 seconds of each nature sound?  After listening to each on for about 15 seconds, you realize how short the noise clips are.  It's really worthless because you simply get annoyed by the distinct sounds in each clip repeating so frequently.<br />-Speaker quality is total crap.  No need to elaborate. Everything sounds like crap out of it, and I'm not picky.  My old $25 radioshack alarm clock sounds 1000 times better.<br />-Backlight: worst planning every... "Off" is totally off, so you cant see jack.  "On" lights up the whole room at night, so you have to turn it off.  In the morning I never know what time it is because the sunrise light is bright and there is no hope of seeing the screen when the backlight is off.  I wish it would come on with the alarm, or simply have a brightness adjustment.<br /><br />I may put it for sale and try my luck with another brand.
Rating: 1 stars