Wake-up Light, Sunrise Simulation, 2 Natural Sounds, FM Radio & Bedside Lamp, HF3505/60

TLDR -> Only had it for one night but it seems to work. Pros: Very bright. Alarm noises are pleasant and not too jarring. Extremely easy to use interface. Did wake up without feeling exhausted. Cons: Felt a bit cheap (again, light electronics don't feel sturdy to me so it's strictly personal preference here). Setting brightness for night lamp use seems to affect alarm brightness. Only one night of testing so far. Full Review ------------- I tend to be up pretty late in, usually asleep between 12 - 1 in the morning. I have tried setting multiple alarms on my phone and smart watch to wake me up but it seems like I turn them off in my sleep. Most of the time I wake up with enough time to get ready for work but one recent evening I couldn't fall asleep until 3:30 in the morning and missed a morning meeting. Enter this alarm clock. When I first opened the package and pulled out the device it honestly felt a little cheap. The plastic didn't seem high enough quality and it felt very light (I tend to think lighter things feel less sturdy than heavier so take this with a grain of salt). I turned on the device and configured it and ran it through the demo mode. Much to my enjoyment, it was a very easy setup and the demonstration mode gave me a good idea of what to expect. Set it up on the bed stand, approximately 24 inches away from me and prepped for sleep. I turned down the brightness to use it as a room light while I was brushing my teeth and went to bed around 12:30 in the morning. Surprisingly, I woke up right as the alarm went off at 7 AM, just 6.5 hours later. The brightness was a bit unimpressive but that appears to be because the brightness the device was using when I had it on as a lamp appears to be the brightness the device maxes out at when using the alarm. Suffice it to say I will be turning up the brightness for the next night. At the end of the day, I did wake up feeling a bit more refreshed in my dark room (winter here now so the mornings are a bit dark when I wake up) but I can't say for sure if that's because this is a new device and I'm excited to test it or if this is because the device is actually good. More to come in the following weeks.

I had a Philips a long, long time ago. It's actually for sale on Amazon for $299.00. While tempted, I chose this one instead. No regrets. I've used for a week so far. I am waking up happier and ON TIME. For once in my life. I know there are a lot of other ones out there that have this, that and the other thing, but I'm a simple girl with simple needs. Easy to program. No battery back up, but I'm okay with that. My cats love it too! The first bird chirping sound is really nice, second one, not sure it's for me, but still pretty. I actually wake up to K-Love the Christian radio station. It's not bad for reading at night. If you stare into it you see halo's just so you know. I can read at night, yet it's soft enough to tell me it's time to go to bed. My other lamp was super bright so I kept on reading instead of shutting it off. It fits nice enough on the bedside table. I have a small one. I still have my phone there too just in case. Good purchase. :)

I finally had to replace a 25 year old (if not older) alarm clock radio and wanted to try a daylight alarm. This one is great. I agree with some of the other reviewers who say that the instructions leave a little to be desired, but I read them through first, then attempted setup. Pros are that the light really does simulate daylight and I've been waking up 5 to 10 minutes before the alarm actually sounds. I attribute that at least in part to my dog waking up thanks to the light and then she starts stepping on me so that I wake up too. The first day I woke up with the light and I turned and she was sitting upright and looking at the light as if to say "who turned that on?". Anyway, if the written instructions aren't enough for you to set it up, there are some YouTube videos that can help you out. I opted for the radio option, needlessly it turns out, because I was afraid the "nature" sounds would be cheesy and annoying. The bird and rooster sounds are actually quite soothing and would've been fine. I didn't need the radio after all, but I'm keeping it anyway. Now to the cons. First day it went off, I pressed the alarm button (I never hit snooze because that's too dangerous and the dog doesn't allow it) and the alarm silenced immediately. I remembered where the alarm button was so no big deal. Got up, had coffee, showered and went back in my room and the light was still on. WTH? Because you must also hit the light button after hitting the alarm button so as to shut both off. Come on, how hard would it have been to give a single Alarm Off button? Anyway, that's the only con for me, which is why I took off a star. You can only set one alarm, which for me isn't a big deal, might be for some. All in all, terrific alarm.

The price premium over the older model is justified. Every issue I've seen in reviews of similar products have all been addressed. Sound and light are independently toggleable. Both can be set at 10 levels of intensity. The nature sounds fooled me the first morning, I thought it was real birds. The time display is bright by default but can be dimmed significantly or turned off if it disturbs your sleep. The product is very elegant. The buttons work like a touch screen. This alarm clock has genuinely had a great impact on my sleep. I used to wake up tired and feel tired all day. Now I wake up refreshed and with more energy throughout the day. I love the alarm clock, but there are some cons. It is quite bright but it doesn't exactly light up the room, so it's recommended to place the clock near your head on a nightstand. This alarm clock more prepares you for waking up rather than actually and abruptly waking you up, so use a secondary traditional alarm clock if you must wake up at a certain time.

So far so good! The light range is really nice, and the design is nice and fits right on my bedside table. It helps me wake up, especially during those dark winter or rainy mornings. The light change is subtle enough to not jolt me up, but quick and bright enough to actually signal to my brain that it's wakey-wakey time. I wish I had had it when I worked the 3AM shift. A few things I wish I could change: 1. The clock display does go down in brightness and its lowest setting isn't bright enough to wake me up, but I still wish I could turn it off completely. Using electrical tape to cover it works, but shouldn't be necessary. 2. The two pre-recorded bird/nature sounds are atrocious and give me anxiety. One of the sounds stops abruptly and then starts again, and the quality is like those annoying screechy static-filled recorded birthday cards. I don't use this setting at all and can't imagine anyone but a narcoleptic or someone with hearing problems using it either. 3. The FM radio option is OK, but I wish that I could set it to a lower volume and have the alarm stay at that volume. After the 30 minutes is up, the radio turns on to the lower volume, but increases to TOP SCREAMING VOLUME which gives me that nauseating anxious feeling and jolts me a bit too hard in the morning and also wakes up the entire house and our neighbors and our neighbors dogs and probably the entire town too. You'd better hope you wake up before it turns on - I have another alarm set on my fitbit or phone that vibrates at 25 minutes, just in case. 4. I wish we could just turn off the sound settings completely without having to take apart the alarm and mutilate the speaker - the speaker is tinny and not that great quality, and I really only bought it for the light, which is primo quality (and so far I haven't seen any good light alarms that don't have sound - Philips seems like the company that would have had that by now). As it is, you have to choose between badly recorded birds 1, badly recorded birds 2, and screaming FM radio. If you need loud noises to wake you up and live alone on an isolated mountain top, this is the alarm for you.

I have the last gen one, I bought this one for my parents. It works well. It has two nature tones and radio instead of a buzzer. (No buzzer option). It is also finger sense tech, so there is no audio click sounds and works by touch, if that bothers any. I may upgrade mine in the future, and would tecommend it.

I did a fair amount of online research before buying this, and this is a life changer! I used to wake up feeling groggy each morning, snoozing my phone alarm up to four or five times. It got to the stage where I would snooze it in my sleep and end up waking up late. With the Wake Up light alarm, i wake up much more naturally (sometimes before the alarm goes off) and get up straight away, feeling fresh and well rested. The alarm clock is easy to use, has 3 different alarms including FM radio, and adjustable display light, lighting and sound. You can also use it as just a light as well. The only negatives are that the display is reasonably bright even on the lowest setting and that once the plug comes out of the wall, you have to reset the time (the alarm keeps its time, though). These I can live with, as its had such a huge impact on my life, I'm telling everyone about it! Not sure if you can buy this model in Australia, but no need for a voltage adapter.

I share a lot of the same complaints and praises most others have had. I'm mostly disappointed with the build and quality. Its just not worth $90 (even though I got a $10 off coupon). $90 is a lot of money to spend on an alarm clock, I don't care who you talk to. For that price I expected something more solid especially from industry veterans Philips. Cons: - Its too light. You cant touch a button without it sliding around on you. Its like having an empty cardboard box on the nightstand. - Plastic just feels cheap, the switches and buttons on the ‘kickstand’ have a quality feel that resembles a cheap kids toy bought from the .99-cent store. -My particular clock that I ended up with has serious speaker quality issues. When the birds start chirping there’s a heavy hiss from the speaker. I can’t tell if it’s the actual recording (i.e. the same on every model) or the speaker itself. Either way its going back for an exchange. No way I can wake up to… “hhhhhhhhhhhsssss- chirp- hssssssss- chirp chirp.. hsssssssss- chirp”. -Plenty of complaints already about the lack of battery backup. Agreed, for $90 you’d think Philips would design one in. It would help with the featherweight issue. But I knew this going in so no points off for that. My focus is on build and quality issues. -The snooze function is tricky. It’s not a capacitive touch thing (like the front buttons feel), and it’s not a press and hold thing, it’s more of a knock you have to give with your four fingers. Like what you’d give a cat who knows better than to jump on the counter but did it anyway. Takes me a few tries to get it to snooze and by then the clock has moved all over the place Pros: -This is my third night waking up to this alarm and I will admit, it’s a change for the better in terms of wake-up routine. Its dark out now when I wake up and this puts out a very pleasant light. Its filtered just enough to not hurt your eyes when you open them, but bright enough that it really lets you know there’s a light on and it’s time to get up. -I do like the buttons in the front. They have a capacitive feel to them. They dim to near-complete invisibility but as you move a finger towards the face of the clock they brighten up before contacting the panel. From there it’s a soft touch to make the button respond (albeit the clock still moves so you have to kinda hook your thumb around the side, then go in for the button press) -I’m okay with the alarm sound options (lack of). I knew this going in that there were not very many options. I’m disappointed with the speaker output however. Its total garbage, and really highlights the poor build/materials qualities. Overall: As a whole this is a great unit. I’m a big fan of waking up to light output and this clock does a very good job of that. However, in a world of you-get-what-you-pay-for consumer goods, the build quality is just not worth the price tag. This alone makes it a hard to recommend. In a $40-$50 price range I would overlook the cheap plasticky materals in an instant and rave on and on about this clock. But for $90 I wish I would’ve bought a whole smart bulb starter kit which would to what this wake-up light does but way better. It bothers me Philips is making so much money on these things. It probably costs them less than $4.00 per unit to build. EDIT: Amazon shipped me a second clock and the crackly sound of the bird noises is still present. So its likely not the speaker but in the recording of the audio. Its pretty terrible. Just cheap workmanship all around.

Alles bestens - wie beschrieben - ein Stern abzug für den doch hohen Preis. Die Konkurenz ist billiger und kann auch nicht weniger. Bin sonst aber sehr zufrieden mit dem Ding. Fein finde ich, dass der Alarm für den nächsten Tag wirklich nur mit einem Tastendruck ausgeschaltet werden kann, bei der Konkurenz musste man immer viele Knöpfe drücken. Das war auch der Grund für den Kauf dieses Weckers.