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Electrohome USB Charging Alarm Clock Radio front right EAAC470W

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USB Charging Alarm Clock Radio

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Product Review (submitted on April 4, 2018):

I am very happy with my new alarm clock! My previous very old clock radio was no longer keeping good time and I never loved the design of it anyway. Key features I was looking for included (1) Large easy-to-read clock display for my poor eyesight (2) AM/FM radio with digital tuner (3) Decent alarm clock functionality and (4) better design aesthetics than my old unit.

It is surprising how difficult it was to find a low-cost option which met my basic requirements. So many options had FM-only radio (I need AM for the news talk station I wake to in the morning) or an old-style analog tuner (which is ridiculous in 2018) or were too big and clunky or too small and hard to see. This unit while very compact has a very BIG digital display that is easy to read even when I am half-asleep and not wearing my glasses. I like the white-on-black color of the display. It looks good from a design perspective but is also high contrast and very legible. The other option for this unit is blue-on-black which is attractive but I wasn't sure if it had as much contrast. Either choice to me is more aesthetically pleasing than the Red-on-black or green-on-black displays that are most common in other products.

A couple of points in response to some other reviews I have read. The sound quality out of the radio is pretty basic. It is clear and properly tuned but not high-end sound by any means. I think if you are looking for an alarm clock that has a radio you will be satisfied. But if you are looking for a radio that also has a clock you may be disappointed. This is definitely a clock first with a radio added on. It wakes me up nicely to the news-talk show I like in the morning but I would never use this during the day to listen to music or other content.

Second the unit has some pretty advanced features for setting dual alarms and programming them to work every day or only during the work week or on the weekends etc... I have read numerous reviews that commented on how challenging it is to use all these features. While I think after getting used to the unit that the design and use of the various buttons is actually pretty good they are definitely not intuitive. I had to read the directions closely to figure it out the first time and I have tucked the little directions booklet underneath the clock for future reference because I don't want to lose it. I would say that if you are the type of person that could never figure out how to set the time on your VCR then you will probably be frustrated trying to operate this alarm clock. But if setting the time on the VCR was not a problem for you then this won't be either. - Verified Store

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