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Your Ears Instead Will Be Welcomed By Your Favorite Ringtone, An MP3 File Of Your Preference, Or For The Connected Model, How About A Web Radio Station With Your Favorite Shock Jock Digitally Playing Tunes In Your Bedroom?
The common-or-garden alarm clock has certainly come a long way from being your average awakening tool these days, the aggravating din of metal clanging against one another is a thing of the past. Your ears instead will be greeted by your favourite ringtone, an MP3 file of your choice, or for the connected model, how about a Web list of radio stations with your favourite shock jock digitally playing tunes in your bedroom?
That is what the Altaz Internet Clock Radio offers, and I was able to spend some time with it. One thing I can say though if you are ever going to get to work on time, it is best not to switch alarm clocks overnight like me, possibilities are, you won’t even wake up to be on time for work, as your ears have yet to be conditioned to the new sounds. Read on about the Altaz Internet Clock Radio hands-on after the jump.
But I digress. Just how did I this new gadget in the bedroom? Well, it is hard to suggest it as a “must buy”, while it would make for an interesting knick-knack to have. I might suppose if you know of any modern day luddites, getting this could be a way to warm up their toes to the consumer electronics revolution.
Seriously, your smartphone should be able to do what Altaz’s offering does with the right app, and masses more, but if you are the type who would prefer to leave precise functions for dedicated devices, then it could be worthwhile.
With a 3.5″ touchscreen display at 320 x 240 resolution, it is not about to win any awards for being the finest looking screen around, although it does its job well. Other hardware specs include MP3 playback capacity, an SD memory chip slot, 128MB of internal memory, a mini USB input, a 1-watt speaker, a JPEG viewer and Wi-Fi connectivity to get you connected.
Audio quality is decent although it isn’t recommended to sleep with this alarm clock too a great distance from your bed, otherwise a pillow covering your head might actually drown the sound out during those drowsy mornings, leading to you missing an important appointment or even worse, getting the sack for being late for the umpteenth time.
You will be able to use the touchscreen display to manipulate all the settings inside, and occasionally the clock appears to hang but if you wait long enough (more than five minutes for me), the software did not freeze, it just took a very, truly long time to sort things out, especially when you are hunting for specific radio stations.
Setting up a list of radio station presets is painless, and you may decide to do it when the Altaz Net Clock Radio is attached to a computer via USB if you find the touchscreen a wee bit tough to use.
Actually , inputting characters thru the touchscreen display was an extremely frustrating experience for me no thanks to the virtual keyboard that appeared to be less than impressive. You would be better off hooking it to a computer and getting the job finished thru a genuine keyboard as an alternative.
Setting up the Wi-Fi connection may also be quite the exasperating experience entering your WPA key incorrectly will require you to delete the whole string rather than the offending character, which shouldn’t occur in this time.
Except for that, there isn’t any option for you to view your password in plain text as you are entering it in order to forestall mistakes, so practice makes perfect here. Hopefully a future firmware update will fix these issues. On the bright side, firmware updates give the clock a longer life-span in your home, do you not think so?
Aside from the touchscreen display, there is the play / pause button, volume control and power button at the side which are just about self-explanatory. A big sleep button at the top does its job well,
The alarm clock has 2 default audio files to get you out of bed a crowing rooster, and that of chirping birds. Naturally, you can always upload your own MP3 files to replace those, and for people who like to awaken to a morning Net radio station talk show, you are able to do that also.
I actually let the Altaz Net Clock Radio run for around four hours straight, being attached to my favourite Net radio station, and playing it back at fifty percent volume loudness. This is a good return, but I would recommend you just leave it wired into a power outlet.
The asking price of $99.99 makes it hard for me to endorse it to any person, but if your want to dip your toes into the sector of Web alarm clocks and digital photograph frames, there could be better ways to begin. A little bit too late to the game, I have got to say. Hopefully a future version (if ever) from Altaz will be in a position to address all of its issues and make good then, writes tagza.com.
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