Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock Review

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I have here the Neverlate Alarm Clock from American Innovative. It's called the Neverlate Alarm Clock because the main concept behind it is that you can set the alarm to go off at different times for each individual day. This is great for people with variable schedules, like colleges who have different classes that make them wake up at different times each day. Because it's one less thing you have to worry about when you go to bed, setting the alarm to go off correctly for the next day. When you first get it, you do the general setup. You set the current time. You can set it if you wanted it to wake you up with a buzzer or with the radio, how long you want the snooze bar to snooze for, general things like that. The next step is setting the individual alarms for the different days. There are seven of 'em, one for each day. You do this by turning the knob on the top, and you choose the day, and then turn this to set the time that the alarm goes off. You go through that. You can set the alarm to go off at any time during the day, or you can set the day not to have an alarm. Turning off individual alarms, like if you have a class that got cancelled on Monday, you just turn it there and you hit the off button. This is nice and easy, but you do have to remember to turn it back on. There's no one-time deal for this. If you ever need a reminder what time the next alarm is going off, you just hit the snooze bar and the next alarm flashes on the front. It has a nice setting called All Off. This is great if you're going on vacation or you're going to be away for a while, and you turn there. As long as it's on All Off, none of the alarms are going off so you don't have to worry about it, and then just turn it back to run if you want them to come back on. It has pretty much all the standard features of an alarm clock. It has the radio, it has a sleep function that plays the radio for you while you go to sleep, then turns it off after a set amount of time. Nap function that you can set it to wake you up after five minutes, ten minutes, whatever you set it for, various things like that. But, not all is great with the alarm clock. There are a few things with the interface that feel a bit clunky. To set the time, you choose the day that you're gonna set for, and then you turn the knob on top. It’s supposed to act somewhat like the iPod scroll wheel, in that the longer that you turn it, the faster that the time is going to go up or down. The problem with this is, it's rather sporadic, and it seemed a bit random. You can be about a minute away and one click further ends you up ten minutes further than you want to be. So that can be a bit troublesome when you're trying to set the times. The front display, it's a bit small for people who don't sleep with their glasses on or their contacts in, so it could be a bit hard to read. It's also a tiny bit dim. It's easy enough to see but it could be easier to read. As far as the alarms go, both the radio and the buzzer are a bit quiet, so people who are heavy sleepers are gonna have to be careful with that. So, overall, there are a bit, a few plunky designs with the interface, but it's a very solid alarm clock. The main draw is the concept different alarm for each day. If you have a variable schedule, it's a great draw. However, if you're going to be waking up the same time every day, you might want to go for a standard alarm clock that's a bit more solid all around. If you do need the variable time, though, it's a very nice alarm clock and I highly recommend it.