Put a phone on top of the Air to charge your phone using its Qi charger, and the LEDs turn amber and then green when your phone is fully charged. The Air also has custom alarms, so you don't have to rely on Alexa to wake you up.įive LEDs on top change color based on what the Air is doing if Alexa is listening, they glow different shades of blue.
The Air's display shows the time in a stroke of brilliance, the Air's app lets you schedule times for when the display should brighten, dim or even turn off. This impressive alarm clock radio isn’t perfect, but it’s close enough in light of the fact that, if I hadn’t settled on something soon, my wife would’ve divorced me.If you don't mind its trapezoidal design and high price, this wood- and leather-wrapped Alexa-enabled alarm clock is loaded with features and sounds amazing, too. In the end, I chose to keep the iHome iBN43BC mostly because my wife was tired of all the boxes strewn all over the bedroom and because I had to burn off my BestBuy store credit. (It’s a problem that was already solved in iHome’s above iDL44 model, so they must be aware of this horrible, horrible design mistake.) I could also quibble about the recessed volume and +/- buttons on top of the unit which are weird, but not a problem, functionally. Unless you have owl-like night vision, you’ll have difficulty telling the time, as the individual LED digits are slim and close together. In the negative column, the radio’s retro digital LED font is hard to read- especially in bright light. There’s a long list of other features on iHome’s website that all work well and easily-it even has physical buttons for many common alarm clock functions, which make setting the unit reasonably logical and, more importantly, memorable.
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In the plus column, its speaker is amazingly rich and deep-it’s a joy to listen to the Reson8® sound technology in this bluetooth device, finally bringing my entire Apple Music collection to my otherwise stereo-devoid bedroom. The iHome iBN43BC ended up being my winner-this odd-looking alarm clock radio hit all of my above criteria, but it’s not without a few issues. Presenting the new 2017 contenders: iHome IBT233G Dual Alarm It’s the 21st Century and the world’s best alarm clock radio can, and should, be jam-packed with awesome features, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to include bluetooth connectivity, so I can link my iPhone to the speaker, a high-quality speaker, so I can listen to sweet tracks while napping, USB charging, so I can power up my iPhone overnight, and a backup battery, so I don’t lose my job. While not absolutely mandatory, these features were not entirely optional either. I also insist on dual alarms that can be set separately for weekdays and weekends-nothing irritates me more than waking up at 7am on a weekend, except for waking up at 9:30am on a workday.īright lights also keep me awake, so I need a lot of clock radio whose LED display doesn’t light up the bedroom like an oncoming freight train.
Instead, I need an AM/FM radio to engage my brain with news, traffic reports, the downside of which are those unbelievably annoying, motherf#cking Kars4kids radio commercials. While it would be nice to wake to music or nature sounds, that stuff puts me right back to sleep, so it’s somewhat counterproductive. Increasingly (get it?), this “gradually gets louder” volume feature is much more common these days. Apple Music, Spotify, and/or Internet RadioĪs a corollary to my first point, I want an alarm clock that wakes me gradually and gently like a delicate baby, or a dangerous animal with razor-sharp teeth and claws.High quality speakers (stereo, ideally).Hate paragraphs? Here’s a bulleted wishlist of features:
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