DreamSky Alarm Clock Radios for Bedrooms with Battery Backup, Large Big Numbers with Brightness Dimmer, USB Port, Bedside Digital FM Radio with Sleep Timer, Temperature, Adjustable Volume, Snooze

If you looked around like I did, you found a hundred different clock-radios to choose from. Which one? Well, I hope I can help you a little bit, by pointing out the pros and cons. Keep in mind that I didn't want to pay more than $25. So, here's the review.PROS ...1. This is a big one - the display has a continuous dimmer!!! It's terrific to be able to dial down the brightness to nothing. If you share a bedroom, you can set this up to be just barely visible to you, and nobody else. On the other hand, you can make it as bright as you want. I absolutely love this feature!2. The orange display is definitely the one to get. I personally like blue a bit better, but with all the noise about "blue light" keeping you awake, why mess around when you can get orange? And I'm happy to say, the orange looks absolutely great. Sharp/clear and easy to see. I now wish more appliances had an "orange" option. You can even make the clock display military [24:00] time.3. Radio is easy to use and tune. FM only, which is fine, so you don't have any static. I don't miss AM one bit. Although if you're more than 50 miles from a city, this might not work for you. It still has an alarm buzzer, if there is no FM station nearby.4. Alarm is easy to set, and volume gradually increases over a few seconds to whatever level you set.5. Volume is set in 16 digital steps. Step 00 is no sound, step 15 is the loudest. Note that the volume for the alarm buzzer, the alarm radio, and the FM radio for listening are all SEPARATELY SET. Each one can have a different volume! As an aside, I bought this to replace a clock-radio with a volume knob that went bad. It would never work at exactly the volume I wanted (I guess it got dirty over time, so it was either too soft or too loud, and always scratchy when changing it). You will never have that problem with this radio, since the volume is set digitally, in steps.6. The OFF button for the alarm/radio is - any button you like, as long as you don't press SNOOZE! But even if you hit the big SNOOZE button by mistake, you only have to press any other button to stop the snooze function and turn off the alarm. Genius!!!CONS ...Small point - it has three AAA batteries to maintain functions even when the power goes off. BUT they never tell you how long the batteries will last.All in all, it's small, it's certainly loud enough, and the display very clear. It's easy to use. Although you should still read the manual - I didn't do that at first, and missed a couple of great features! It has battery backup, an accurate temperature display (one reviewer said theirs read four degrees hot, but I find that mine is exactly right, and changes if I put my hand near it for any length of time - it's sensitive!). Finally, a USB charging port. The price is great for what you get. I'll keep mine and highly recommend that you buy one too!

Good clock radio.Pros:Intuitive controls and settings; very easy to use. This is huge; most similar products have terrible controls and settings.Sound is good given the price point and speaker size; best for speech, not that great for music.Very clear, large display. As many have noted, it can be dimmed to zero.Has temperature display, for some a useful feature.Small footprint; about the size of a pack of cards.Reception is quite good; better than many competing products at higher price point.Uses USB “A” as power so if you lose or break the adaptor or chord you can just use anything that outputs to USB A.Cons:No AM radio; I can’t remember the last time I saw a radio that had no AM. So, if you need AM for sports or other AM-only content, you won’t get it.No radio pre-sets and the tuning controls are not great; you can either auto-seek the next station in the band, or you can press the button and go in .1 mhz intervals to the next station. So, if you primarily listen to a couple of stations that are at opposite ends of the band, this is going to be a constant annoyance.Otherwise, a very good unit.

It has a lot of nice features in a very compact box and works well. 2 things that annoy me, which are very minor, are that in order to change the time, you must first adjust the hour, then the minutes. That's ok, unless you only want to adjust the minutes! The other thing is that it is advertised as having 2 USB ports, but if you want to use it as a plug - in appliance, you must use one of the ports to connect the electric plug to an outlet! Otherwise, the radio has a nice sound, seems to pick up stations well, and I really like the dimmer switch on the display. I also like that it has a temp. reading feature as well.

I've only had this for a day but I'm so impressed I'm taking a chance and leaving a review. I'll amend it if it crashes and burns in a short time. This is a great clock for the price. The orange is hard to find and a great color for an alarm clock as blue is supposed to contribute to keeping you awake. Love the orange, the display is big and easy to see, not crowded with an easy to read font. It's very easy to set up. The radio sounds great and picks up stations well without even unraveling the antenna. It's perfect for a light sleeper as the display brightness is fully adjustable and the alarm volume goes down to 1, not 3 like many other clocks. It also has the graduwake feature where the alarm slowly increases to the max volume they you selected. The USB is out the back which works out much better for me. It has a battery backup that takes 3 AAA batteries. The snooze button is large and easy to hit as it's the width of the clock. It gives you 9 minutes, I'd prefer 10 but most are 9 so nothing terrible there. As of right now, I highly recommend this.

Just received this Dreamsky alarm clock radio. It was packaged really well and looked great out of the box. It was very easy to set up and only took a few minutes. The sound quality of the radio is great! I really like the backup battery feature. I took it out of the box and set it up in the kitchen. When I moved it to the bedroom the time didn't change so I didn't have to reset it. It's very easy to read and I love the dimmer to set the brightness just right. I used the alarm, and it was spot on accurate! I enjoy seeing the temperature too. The USB port will be invaluable so I can charge my phone and keep it next to me on the nightstand. I need a few more of these around the house so will be ordering again. Thank you for making a nice, simple, well-made product!