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 Simple to Use, kid friendly - Easy to see - worth the $37 June 10, 2008
Two things I will note - this clock disappeared off the Phillips website by the time I went on-line to register 2 days after getting it and I was unable to register it ( for recall purposes). Second the price has gone up [...].
For the [...] dollars this is a great Clock-CD player for my 6 year old. Easy to operate, full featured and easy to see.
The display is bright even on low - so if you like a really dim clock , don't get this one.
Fo my own use, I like the Emerson Research CKS3088, no CD player - but the perfect alarm clock.
It could have been a perfect alarm clock... April 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all I'd like to say that i think this is a decent product. Reasonably priced and I'm (for the most part) happy with it.
Size: it's much smaller than i thought. It is literally the size of the discman. It seemed to me from the image that the transparent part was the size of the CD and the unit about twice that, but that's not true. I'm actually quite happy with the size. It looks like a letter L from the side.
Display is large and pretty easy to see. I haven't found it too bright like some other reviewers. It is a bit brighter than the usual red lighted digits on alarm clocks (I had one like that before) but still pretty dim.
The way the whole button layout is made and the logic of it is a bit of a mystery to me. It's, of course, pretty easy with the manual, but i have seen and used much simpler and more intuitive alarm clocks. I wouldn't give it a negative point over it, it probably just takes some time to get used to. At least the "Snooze" button is well placed and of proper size for that random slam on the alarm clock in the morning.
My biggest complaint is that even though you have batteries inside, it will not sound the alarm if there is a power outage. Whoever thought of that "feature" should be forced to rethink the idea of "must wake up and get to work even though i'd rather sleep until noon". I'm not saying it should even turn the radio on, but in that "power out" case, at least a buzzer would and should wake you up.
Slow increase in volume (alarm) works only for buzzer. Since the whole thing is completely digital, I just can't understand how hard would it be to have that enabled for radio and CD alarm too.
The rest is just your decent average CD/radio/alarm clock with good sound quality and better looking than most of it. I really like that the package is eco friendly. Two alarms feature is also very convenient and I never listen to AM stations anyway.
So, if they haven't messed up on those two points (battery and volume increase) it would really be a perfect alarm clock for me. It still is a good buy IMO, but could have been much more...
Edit: i just had to drop it down to 3 stars now because of following "feature" i discovered yesterday: if you want to fall asleep with some light music on (on radio) and set up a timer to automatically turn off after 15, 30,...90min...well, when the radio turns off, there is a very loud "pop" or "crack" sound out of your speakers (and it doesn't matter how quiet your sound setting is at that time) sort of like a quieter version of firecracker right next to your ear. And i'm pretty sure it will wake you up...at the point when you should be falling asleep. Really disappointing :-(
Pop April 24, 2008
I love this alarm clock, the only thing that bothers me is the Pop sound it makes when it changes a track on the cd, it doesnt do that when i have my MP3 player plugged in.
 Shame on Me February 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read some mediocre reviews for this product, but didn't want to believe it. I liked my old Philips alarm clock so much, that I assumed the reviewers were wrong. However, after using it for a couple months now, I think i'm going to buy a different one. Another reviewer said that the gradual alarm didn't work, but I didn't believe them. Now I do. If if does "work", the starting volume is too high, and there's no way to control, as I could in the last model. Also, it's way too bright, even at the "dim" setting. I have to point it away from me at night, so that I can sleep. Maybe I'm alittle sensitive, but I definitely think it's too bright. Lastly the controls are much worse than before. If you set the alarm, you have to wait until it stops blinking before doing anything else. In previous models, you could set the way you wanted to hear the alarm (radio/cd/buzzer) after you had entered in the alarm time. Now if you try to do that before it stops blinking, it goes back to the last alarm time, and you have to start all over again. This may not seem like a big deal, but it's annoying to have to wait 10 seconds or so, in the middle of setting the alarm.
My Daughter Loves It January 7, 2008
It's a nice clock for a kid. Great features...the ability to plug an iPod into the aux jack is key. However, the "bass reflex" is not all it's cracked up to be. It really doesn't sound much different from any other clock radio.
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