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American Innovative Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock
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Our Price: $59.95
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Manufacturer: American Innovative
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Binding: Kitchen
Brand: American Innovative
Color: White with light grey base and trim.
EAN: 0860078000049
Feature: 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.
Label: American Innovative
Manufacturer: American Innovative
Model: NL7DEX-US
Publisher: American Innovative
Special Features: Declining Snooze Option
Studio: American Innovative
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Features
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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)
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: better off with two seperate alarm clocks
Comment: We received this as a christmas gift last year b/c myself and my partner have different alarm needs: I wake up immediately after maybe one snooze, he needs several alarm sounds and snoozes for an hour (his previous setup was two alarm clocks and a cell phone alarm). Also, we get up at different times and listen to different radio morning shows. So we really put this clock to the test!
The clock is difficult to learn how to use, not intuitive at all. But we read and learned the directions, so OK whatever. The first week was wonderful, I loved the clock and it did everything it said it would and woke us each up in our own way. However, slowly over 2 months of using it the alarm functions began to go haywire...the buzzer would go off instead of the radio, one alarm would never go off and another would never come back on after a snooze, the volume of the radio became increasingly lower over time (or wa too loud without ever even touching the dial), and probably most annoying of all the clock randomly goes "click-clikclik-clik-clik-clik" loudly and annoyingly at all different times of the day....almost as though it is "recalibrating" itself, except that I know it's a sucky clock that doesn't even function. We are now back to two alarm clocks for him and his cell phone, and my own alarm for me. We use this product now as a single functioning alarm-- the radio alarm (which again with the weird volume issues!)
I'm glad we got this as a gift and didn't waste our own money on it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Cust. service yeah! Product quality oops##
Comment: We received the Executive model almost a year ago(12/07)as a fill for the short in supply "7 day model". Wow, that seemed cool. We actually ordered two because the one we bought a year ago was nice and we wanted one for our daughter and one more for the master bedroom. The first two Executive models we received broke with-in a month. The lighted feature quit in one upon arrival, while the other took a couple weeks to quit working. Customer service sent out replacement units right away. The two replacements are still being used, however the lighted feature goes in and out of one unit, and one unit 'at least the display' freaks out when you push any button and it freaks out differently depending how hard you push the button. It works, but it doesn't really offer the comfortable reliability we all want in our alarm clock. It is also fair to note, the customer service said that this light feature may be effects of shipping and offered to refund money if it happened again. We did not contact customer service again...because the units are such great concepts and no one has been late for school or work because of the units. (We do have a young early raiser in the family though...that helps.)
Note* The original 7 day model nearly two years old works fine, though the radio reception is not any better than a cheap radio.
Hopefully the quality has improved over the last year.
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Summary: top notch alarm
Comment: This alarm means business but gently wakes you up, compared to those obnoxious alarms that just bang bang bang bang. The feature in which you can set the whole week up easliy is the second best feature. The best feature is the beeping alarm that starts off soft and then get louder over 30 seconds or so. I have told EVERYONE I know about this. Radio is clear, controls and directions are easy enough. give yourself 20 minutes to grasp all the feature. Well worht the money and I would buy a second one if i needed it
Customer Rating:
Summary: A good clock, one flaw
Comment: This is the alarm clock I had been waiting for! It allows two alarms to be set for every day of the week, and up to seven alarms that will go off every day. As someone who likes to sleep in as dark of an environment as possible, the ability to set the backlight to be completely off is a very nice feature (you can still see the time in the middle of the night by hitting snooze, which turns the display on for 10 seconds).
The one serious flaw of this clock is that it locks up if you hold the on/off button down for too long when an alarm has gone off. This isn't hard to do considering how sometimes I fumble for the button in a groggy stupor. Resetting the clock is a pain--you have to unplug it, remove the battery, then reset ALL of your alarms. The clock has a USB port--too bad it doesn't allow a firmware update to fix bugs.
Overall, though, I only lock the clock up once every two months or so, so it's a bug I can live with to get such a good clock.
Suggestions for future improvements:
* Allow firmware updates via the USB port
* Offer the clock in more than one color
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thought it would be great, but it's not
Comment: I was really excited by the press releases about this clock, and put myself on the mailing list to be notified when it entered production. I asked for one for Christmas and got it.
It's not that great.
1. Sometimes the clock "crashes" and locks up. If you press a button the wrong way, press too many buttons at once, or maybe do nothing at all, it just stops working. It displays the same time forever and none of the buttons do anything. Not very reliable if you depend on this thing to wake you up for important meetings, etc. You have to take the battery out and unplug it to get it to reset, and then do all the settings over again. I've had to do this three times so far.
2. You can't read the screen unless it is below eye level. It just appears as a glowing blue box. So you can't put it on a dresser, shelf, or anything else higher than your mattress. You can put it on the floor...
3. Although it has 4 "ring tones", there's not much difference between them. Would you prefer a "beep-beep" or a "beep-beep"? I thought it would have a variety of different sounds. I'm sick of being startled awake by a screeching alarm, but the annoying beep isn't much of an improvement.
It seems like the internal connections are intermittent, too. If I press on the top surface the display glitches and shows alarm settings and stuff, even though I'm not pressing any buttons.
The daily alarms are nice, but it takes so long to set them all up again when it crashes, I've just gotten used to having the same alarm every day.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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