| | |  | Travel | Home » » » Neverlate Alarm Clock Executive Travel clock | | | | | | | Description: | | The Neverlate Executive is simply the most flexible alarm clock ever made. Dual 7-day schedules ("his & hers" if you will) plus a bank of "daily reminder" alarms accommodate any morning routine. Everything from the backlight brightness to the alarm duration is customizable. Any of the 20 station presets and 4 buzzer tones can be linked to each alarm - wake up to the buzzer Mon-Fri and NPR on the weekends. The long-awaited successor to the original Neverlate 7-day Alarm Clock, the Executive does not lack for new and exciting features. | | | Features: | |
• Incredibly customizable: from the duration of the snooze to the brightness of the LCD backlighting, nearly every feature can be adjusted to suit your personal preference.
• Designed to be easy to set: a simple twist of the patent- pending rotary dial makes complicated push-buttons a thing of the past.
• Two 7-day banks provide two, completely independent seven-day wake schedules - his and hers, for example.
• Other features include: descending snooze, up to 7 daily reminder alarms, calendar display, flexible inputs and outputs, ac powered with battery backup
• Choose your wakeup sound: wake to NPR news at 7:00am weekdays, a morning talk show on a different station on Saturday, and the buzzer on Sunday (there's no other clock radio in the world with this capability)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 64 reviews |
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 Doesn't do what an alarm clock shouldFeb 20, 2010
The alarm clock switches from "normal mode" to "set alarm mode" without bieng touched. If I wake up at 4AM and look at the alarm clock, sometimes it reads 7AM and I incorrectly get up. The alarm clock goes off even when the alarm is not set.
 Near perfect alarm clockJan 28, 2010
This little unit has a lot going for it. Here's a summary of the features that I think set it apart:
* Snooze duration is customizable
* There's a descending snooze option, which reduces the snooze time each time you hit snooze until it won't let you snooze anymore.
* The alarm volume is separate from the radio/sleep volume.
* The alarm duration is customizable.
* The clock illumination can be turned off, not just lowered (helpful if you like your bedroom to be as dark as possible)
* There are three alarm settings, which can be used in any combination: every day and two seven day alarms.
* There's a nap feature, which lets you set a quick alarm without changing your regular alarm. Default duration is 20 min, but you can quickly adjust up/down from there.
* The snooze button is also a review button. Hit it and you'll see when the next alarm is set to go off. If you want to adjust the next alarm, you can easily do so when reviewing without changing your regular alarm.
* The alarm (beep, radio or media source through axillary jack) can be set to escalate in volume.
* You can easily skip the next alarm if you wake up before it goes off
* When you set the alarm, you begin adjusting from 7 am instead of 12 am. The rotary dial is also quicker than the tradition button hold-down.
* It's small - 5" square
* Has a USB charging port (useful if you want to charge your phone on your nightstand)
* Includes radio station presets
Some may consider it difficult to use, but if you understand what the two rotary dials are for and how the seek buttons work, everything becomes fairly intuitive. If they added a numeric keypad to set the time, required simultaneously pushing two buttons to turn the alarm off, displayed the next alarm information without an additional button push and provided the option to have the time announced when the alarm goes off, I think this unit would be perfect.
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Good idea, but quirky features and bottom-of-the barrel reliability make this a clock you should avoid!Jan 11, 2010
I used this this alarm clock for about 2 years; notice the past tense on this. The title of this review sums it up - the ideas behind the alarm clock are quite nice but the execution is really sub par.
*** Let's start off with what was nice about the clock ***
- The customization really was well above what you'd find on any other alarm clock
- There's a descending snooze feature that I really liked - in fact it was the single feature that sold me on the clock
- It seems (note the keyword seems) to be solidly built
- It's not bad on the eyes
- Aux in lets you hook up your MP3 player of choice
*** Now the neutrals ***
- This point is probably very subjective, but the more I used the clock, I actually kind of had to ask myself why? I have a somewhat regular schedule (I work a 9/80 schedule and on the weekends I wake up when I wake up) as does the GF. The different alarm banks were nice, but in the end it was a pain to set them up and really, it was overkill. I suppose if you're a college student and have a schedule that may differ every day it would be nice
- I never figured out what to do with that USB port on the back
*** And now the negatives ***
- As other have pointed out it's at night WAY to bright, even it its dimmest mode. What's worse, is that at the same brightness setting it's too dim to be read during normal lighting conditions. I personally like it dark when I sleep, so it may have affected me more than others, but it really is like a little torch. For comparison, I've also got a DirecTV HR-21 and Netgear wifi bridge in the bedroom. The lights on those are annoying, but not to the point that it would disrupt my sleep. I can't say the same for this alarm clock. In the end, I set the brightness to 0 (no backlight at all) and just hit the snooze button when I wanted to tell the time. The backlight would then come on for a few seconds and go off. It was fine for nighttime, but a real pain during the day. Why not have a customization option to modify brightness during different times of day?
- Build quality is really sub par. In two years, I had three different units. The first unit I had had an issue with the LCD backlight where it would constantly flicker. I had to RMA that one (more on that later). The replacement one that they sent me had issues with the rotation knob. Whenever I turned it it would first go into some default display then to the one I wanted. The third and final one finally died today (I had this one for about 16 months). Doesn't power on or anything. Tried replacing the battery; nothing. Unfortunately it's also well out of warranty. I'm sorry, but $60 for an alarm clock that doesn't last more than 2 years is a joke.
- Customer service was rude and unresponsive. The first clock I had to RMA had the issue almost immediatly. I submitted an RMA request on their website within the first 90 days (the length of the warranty) but never got a response. I tried again after about 5 months and then just got a reply saying it's out of warranty and to take it to my local electronics shop. They were completely unwilling to help until I produced evidence that they never replied to my original RMA request. The second clock also came with the issues above and that one had to go back too. Both times, they wouldn't reimburse me for shipping costs even though it was their fault (and it was their policy to do so, according to their website).
- Warranty is a joke. $60 alarm clock has a 90 day warranty? You've got to be kidding me. If these units were well built then this wouldn't be an issue but 3 alarm clocks in 2 years shows there's some serious quality control issues.
*** Overall Conclusion ***
I've said it earlier. This alarm clock is packed with neat features that could make it a great clock niche markets, but the reliability and the brightness issue end up making this a product you should avoid!
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 Too bright - and no brightness controlJan 09, 2010
The idea behind this alarm clock is wonderful. A week's worth of alarms, always set, always ready to go. Love the battery back-up.
However, I cannot believe that there is not a brightness control for the display. We have had to turn the alarm towards the wall so that we can fall asleep. It just doesn't make any sense to go to all of the trouble of creating this super-duper alarm system and then forget to add a feature that other alarm clocks DO have. We will be returning this alarm clock. It's too bad. We were really excited for it.
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A very poor alarm clockJan 05, 2010
This clock is billed as "innovative" and "executive" and is neither. It is fairly (and unnecessarily) complicated to set-up with too many difficult-to-interpret instructions for a myriad of personalization settings.
The display has a dark-ish blue LCD background with white numbers and is hard to read unless your fairly close up. The backlight can be adjusted, but it's just not a "clean read."
When I shut the alarm "off" on the first use, it silenced, and five minutes later the radio turned on and blared - a feature I definitely did NOT set and could not find an answer for the reason. In addition, an alarm I thought I had cleared (and the instructions are NOT clear about this) went off after I was asleep. I could not find where the setting might be.
The pads used to set features are NOT backlit, but are impressed on grey rubber keypads. You will have to have bright light to see the words on them and set them. They are all dual use pads (two instructions/uses per pad) and you'd better have small fingers, too.
Lastly, the "battery backup" is extremely misleading. If the power is lost, it retains the settings, but does NOT DISPLAY - so if power is lost, your clock simply does not work. (We lose power fairly often where I live, so this is useless.) Lastly, it is an ugly white - only option available.
I purchased this clock to replace a dual alarm with AM/FM radio and headset jack, battery backup and small footprint - all necessary features for my needs. The clock I am replacing has unfortunately died and after 10 years and must be replaced. It is ALL of the things this is not, but is no longer available. Stay away from this clock unless you are a gadget fiend and want to waste your precious time messing around with it!
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