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★☆☆☆☆
It's earned it's spot on my nightstand, and subsequently lost it
I needed an alarm clock with 3 critical features:
1. It must tell time accurately (seriously, this was an issue - I tried the iLive clock and it ran fast)
2. It must have an FM radio
3. I wanted a USB charger for my phone/ipad, etc
This clock achieved my objectives with flying colors, and on top of that added a bluetooth connection. I was really impressed with the bluetooth, as all of the controls are on the clock (playing/stopping, skipping to the next song, etc). It worked great with pandora.
The little speaker in this clock sounds pretty good, I was pleasantly surprised at the volume output. it's got a little flip up holder in the back to rest your phone while charging. The buttons are all easy to figure out, and the clock itself isn't too big. Overall I'm pleased with this little guy.
If I had to say any knocks on this (and these are pretty nit-picky), it would be that the sleep button doesn't automatically turn on the radio (that would be a nice feature), and that the sleep starts at 120 minutes and you have to click through a bunch of minutes before you get down to something a little more reasonable (30 minutes).
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update 12/4/2013
This product has finally reared it's ugly side. I've got a major gripe that makes this product unusable with Bluetooth. It auto-reconnects to the last device it was connected to. Couple this with some pretty decent bluetooth range, and it auto connects every time I come back home. Unless you live in a studio apartment, the phone is contstantly reconnecting to the alarm.com and routing your calls to the clock by default. My phone would ring and I would try to answer looking like an idiot that no one was there, but the call was just upstairs on my alarm clock. There is no way to turn this off, and I can't seem to find a way to put the clock in a true off state.
Basically, this is a very expensive USB charger for me now... which I can live with, but it's too bad as things started off so promising between us. I had to reset the clock to have no bluetooth associations, and now the autoconnect problem doesn't happen.
August 2013 · Unknown · verified purchase