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Review on ⏰ Emerson Radio ER100401: Ultra Fast Wireless Charging Alarm Clock Radio with Bluetooth Speaker, USB Charger, Cyan LED Night Light, and 1.4" Display by Cody Stroop

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Great watch, great features, few flaws

Pros: 1. Small gauge.2. Large, easy-to-read hour numerals.3. The clock digits have good dimming, although there are only 3 settings. Bright is very bright and easy to read even in daylight. The bottom one is quite dark but still readable in a dark room. The other setting is disabled. I want the middle to be between high and low and the 3rd setting to be low because I don't need the "off" setting. on the clock. The night light on the bottom of the watch is good, but you can only see a few inches around the bottom of the watch on the high setting. Clock time at the brightest setting allows you to see more than at night. There are 2 brightness settings for the night light, as well as the time setting, plus off.5. wireless charger This is the best wireless charger I have. It simply charges through the Otterbox Defender case. I never have to fiddle with my phone to put it in the right place to charge. Just install it and it will charge.6. FM radio. Good to have. Plenty of preset memory to use (more than the stations I can find in my area). But the antennas don't work very well and I get scratching noises on every channel. My 8 year old cheap alarm clock is better and more stable than the FM transmitter. Your stations could be better as I live in a rather small town.7. Sound. The BT sound and the direct aux sound are damn good. Speakers on the back of the clock (poor) but the sound is still very good. If I had the clock closer to the wall, I think the sound would be "more room-filling" than if it were away from the wall, like mine. Sound at full power (aux, direct, BT) has no distortion at all and gets quite loud.8. The day of the week feature is pretty cool. I just want it to be the same color as the time on the clock and bigger too. The same applies to AM/PM. I am disabled, unemployed, have insomnia and migraines so my bedroom is VERY dark and sometimes I have to check my clock in the morning/night as this setting has been removed from my phone by the manufacturer.9. To use dimming, aux, radio etc the buttons to press are not just indented (VERY nice as you can 'feel' to the button you want without having to turn on the light once you've memorized it which buttons do what ), but they have a tactile "click" feedback and sound which leads me to believe they are very good quality and will last a lifetime.10. Rubber feet prevent slipping on the smooth bedside table. Even if you put it on a slick cheap plastic arch piece that slopes down a bit, it still holds tight and won't slip off. I think it will hold up on glass just as well.11. This watch is quite heavy, which speaks volumes for me. Other clocks I have had were 2-3 times larger but less heavy and either the charger had burned out, the radio had died or the clock/night light was starting to dim so that it was impossible to tell the time. I think this watch will survive the last 3 hours I've had, total time/years. Now for the cons: 1. Clocks lose time. I've had it for over a month now and it's already lost 3 minutes (slowly). It's not good that hours lose minutes. But my old watch lost minutes too, so I got used to it.2. Setting the time is a lot more complicated than it needs to be, especially with watches that lose minutes. It's difficult because time is related to day and year and it's easy to forget how to turn back time. You must keep the manual nearby for reference. I think the time setting should be separated from the day/month/year settings for easier time resetting.3. Although it has fast wireless charging and a USB charging port, only one of them can be used at a time. You cannot use both at the same time.4. With wireless fast charging, my phone completely covers the top buttons. All of them. So I have to take my phone off the charger to dim the lights, turn on the radio or press any button. It would be better to either place the dimmer and volume buttons on the sides instead of the top, or make the watch a bit larger so wireless fast charging is removed from all buttons so you can access them while charging. I think the pros of this watch outweigh the cons. I would definitely recommend this watch to my family and friends.

Pros
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Cons
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April 20, 2023
Great little alarm clock!