iPod Alarm Clock
Categories : Personal, iPod |
For some reason I seem to have bad luck with clock radios. After a period of time something always seems to go wrong with them, either the alarm or the clock or the music fails in some way. Anyway I hope my luck is going to change with my latest purchase, which I picked up on Saturday at Target
– it’s a Jensen iPod clock radio. As well as a standard digital AM/FM alarm clock this baby is a charging docking station for my iPod, which means I can choose to wake to whatever tunes I like in the morning. I could even wake to a Podcast if I wanted to – maybe I should start the day with the Daily Breakfast (although that would annoy two people – Jennifer at 5:30am and Owen on the way to school. He loves listening to the podcast and just today was asking “What’s Father Roderick talking about now?”)
Anyway it comes with a remote control which allows you to work all the functions of the radio, as well as Play/Pause and skipping tracks on the iPod itself. The speakers are quite good for such a small unit and the sound is very listenable, unlike most clock radios I’ve ever owned. Even at higher volumes it still sounds good, which has already provided the soundtrack to some heavy duty dancing on the bed by the kids. Perhaps the only negatives about it are that it doesn’t have dual alarms (which I’ve found to be quite useful in the past) and the clock is not very clear from across the room. Oh, and it only lets you “snooze” 3 times in a row, which may turn out to be a little inconvenient on these cold winter mornings. But overall, I’m very happy with it so far.
