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| Philips USA AJL308 Clock Radio with 7-Inch TFT LCD Color Display and USB/SD Card Slot | 
 enlarge | Brand: Philips
Category: CE
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $77.77
You Save: $52.18 (40%)
New (36) Used (1) Refurbished (7) from $59.18
Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 8.2 x 6.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: AJL308
Model: AJL308
UPC: 609585142480
EAN: 0609585142480
ASIN: B000U6LEGS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New-We ship fast and provide tracking.
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| Customer Reviews:
 You can sell your bedroom lamps! December 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a great idea for a clock design but it has it's flaws. It has 4 brightness settings and a program to auto-dim during the times you program. The most noticeable flaw and the reason we returned ours was that the very dimmest brightness setting still lights the bedroom brighter than any night light could. The entire 7" screen emits light far greater than the typical LCD display. It is obnoxious how bright it keeps the bedroom. Hopefully enough people will complain so that Philips makes a software update to allow the screen to be dimmed further or turned off.
 Get Idea, poor product marketing and development December 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pro: Great Industrial design, useful combination of picture frame and clock, good set of features. Con: no slide show mode when viewing with clock, Poor clock/picture screen layout and sensitivity to low lighting, no AM radio frequency.
I agree with what others have said concerning this product. I purchased this product for my wife for Christmas because she needed a new alarm clock and she's quite the sentimental type.
This is a great idea that Philips sales and exec. team came up with, but being in product management myself, I can imagine that poor product marketing doomed this product. I'll bet that there was no user testing or focus study groups for this product, or if there was, they we're asking the right questions, or testing it in the right conditions (did anyone every have potential users try to sleep in a dark room with it.)
My biggest problem with it, and reason that I will return it, is that you can not slideshow mode the pictures when showing the clock. This is absurd since it is a pretty cool clock and a good digital photo frame but can not be both - "one hand not knowing what the other is doing." I also agree with another reviewer that they could have made better use of the 7 inch screen when showing the clock and photo. The interface designer was more interested with making the photo look like a 35mm slide than thinking about all the wasted space it takes up on the screen not to mention the excessive white space giving off too much light at night. I disagree with what other reviewers have said about no built-in memory; if your going to use this as a picture frame, most users will purchase a 1 to 4Gig SD card for it - and in this implementation, Philips did it right.
Philips, if you're listening, don't deep-six this product line because of poor sales or returns, but rather from a poor implementation by your product development and management team - You still have a chance to make a winner with a follow-on to this product, or a significant Software upgrade.
 This is NOT an MP3 Alarm Clock December 26, 2007
This device is a snazzy digital picture frame with some excellent features, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. It is NOT an MP3 alarm clock. It has alarm clock features to wake you up to the FM tuner (no AM) or to some pre-set sounds (mostly nature soothers). The packaging is somewhat misleading, and the store I found it in placed it with the alarm clocks and implied that it could wake you to any MP3 or WMA file placed onto an SD card. It is NOT the case.
That being said, when viewed as a digital picture frame, the device is quite nice. It has both a slideshow feature and a clock feature which will show you the date and time while it displays photos singly or in a loop. It has nice speakers for playing MP3s with or without a photo slideshow, and allegedly it can handle DIVX and MP4 videos (I have not made it work with one yet). The unit is stylish and far more at home on a work desk or well-kept home than most digital picture frames. Be aware, however, that to use some functions the files must ALL be kept on the root directory of the memory card and that it does not support MP3 playlists.
Overall, a nice addition to the digital picture frame arena, but be careful an overzealous salesperson does not mislead you about its true capabilities.
 It does eveything with almost no regrets December 21, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
to answer a few other reviews right off the bat the default image is only the first picture until you go into clock mode and change it then go back to the other modes.
I bought this for my father for Christmas as he was looking a for a desktop radio and we liked the idea that it was a photo frame as well as he is proud of his farm and family and displays pictures throughout his office.
I am currently testing the device to make sure it's perfect for his gift and I don't see the problems others are seeing unless they just missed the feature.
it dims for night use if you hold the snooze bar, it rotates pictures using the arrow buttons
IN FACT my only complaint is you cant use the USB stick input and the SD card at the same time. and internal memory would be nice, but if you bundle the 1GB SD amazon offers it works well.
the picture is slightly pixelated and flickery, but bright and plenty visible. it's not a perfect picture frame, nor a perfect alarm clock although it offers many features for both. but it is the only combination of the two that I would buy.
For the right price it's a good unit December 18, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I got this unit for about $49 with free shipping, and at that price point it is worth it. It is NOT worth it for the $100+ the MSRP is stated as.
The LCD has poor resolution (although all text is anti-aliased which helps slightly), and fairly limited viewing angles.
The volume control is not electronic, nor tied to a source, with some sources such as the sleep relaxation music, being substantially louder than say the MP3 and DiVX playback.
The firmware update did resolve not only the date issue, but also added expanded filename viewing, and a few other cosmetic tweaks.
Despite what the manual says, I cannot get an MPEG4 video file to play. DiVX files appear to play without any issues - though one cannot shut off the playback time or playback remaining display.
The LCD backlighting is controlled both by a big button at the top, and also by software settings that allow the display to dim to it's lowest level at a selected time, and return to bright at a selected time. The dim setting is, for me acceptable so long as I don't have the display pointed directly at me. Turning it slightly to face the room, results in a pleasing nightlight. Contrast and display readability suffer a bit when the display backlighting is turned down.
The radio tuner section does not support RDS or E-O-N for radio stations.
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