Customer Reviews

RiteAlarm 5-1-1 Triple Weekly Alarm Clock (Silver) with Weekday, Saturday and Sunday Alarms, Extended Daylight Saving Time, Automatic Snooze, Simple and Meaningful Buttons, Adjustable Volume, Gentle Sound Pattern, Pushing Backlight and Battery Operated

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Love the three alarm settings. I use the alarm M-F and Sunday (Saturday is turned off). I like that I don't have the set the alarm each night - it's always ready to go. I also like that daylight savings time is automatically handled.

I don't like the double-click necessary to turn off the alarm. There is no indicator letting you know that the alarm is off and not in snooze mode instead. A few times I've double tapped then left the room only to have my wife yelling a few minutes later that the alarm was still going off (oops, still in snooze mode).

Edited 5-26-2009
Clock is not so good anymore.
Gains about 5 minutes every 3 months and I have to reset the time. And now the backlight is not working anymore.

Ok, is not perfect:
1) It easily falls on it's back.
2) Need to hit the top button twice to turn it off (if you hit once you get the snooze mode)
Besides that, is a nice item:
1) Nice alarm sound pattern (it starts smoothly and it gives you the time to react without waking up the whole family)
2) You can set the 3 alarms: one for working days (Mon-Fri), one for Sat and one for Sun

I have the alarm clock at home and I would like to strongly recommend to everyone out there with a fixed weekday schedule but a flexible weekend one.

The alarm clock works perfectly. I like its buzz pattern which is very pleasant. It wakes me up gently. I especially enjoy the lighting feature, which allows you to lite up the LCD screen by simply pressing any button. This real makes seeing the time easier in the middle of the night. The clock is also very light and it is ideal for bring it with you when you are traveling.

Overall, this is a wonderful product and I think every family should have one.

After reading all of the wonderful reviews that other people have written, i thought this would be the perfect alarm clock for me. I got it, and i wasn't impressed. It doesn't come with directions, so you have to figure it out on your own. It seems to be made very cheaply, and it looks worse in person than the picture shows. Oh and when you order it, you can't choose what color you want. It's hard to get it to stand up like its supposed to, the slightest little bump will make it fall down onto its back. The problem with that, is when it falls onto its back, it covers the speaker and you can't hear it go off! One tiny bump and poof! i'm late for work...yes, it happened. I would not recommend it.

I have been looking for such an alarm clock for a long time. I have a fixed weekday schedule, but very different weekend schedules from time to time. There is a Neverlate 7 day alarm clock on the market, but it is too much trouble to set 7 daily alarms, and you can not see what you have set for. This one simplies the task for me and I am glad that I finally found it at Amazon. It is a handy bedside alarm clock, but can be also used as a travel alarm clock. I also like its buzz pattern, and I can set its volume to low so I can wake up myself, but not my wife. By the way, my wife actually prefers a pink alarm clock, but it is not available yet.

Overall, I would strongly recommend it to others. It is a regularly priced, wonderful gadget for everybody.

I have to report to work Monday to Friday at the same time, and the weekday alarm clock is perfect for me. I have have different schedules in the two weekend days, recently sending my child to early morning soccer game on Saturdays, and always taking my family to church on Sundays.

Its sound pattern is also very good, which wakes me up gradually and gently.

I liked the idea of a small alarm clock. Setting different alarms for weekdays and weekend appealed to me, too. The sound of the alarm - to me at least - is rather annoying and there's no option for something nicer. But what made me replace the clock was that it kept coming back on! The snooze and the turn-off are only a few second apart: if you don't hit the button twice fast enough, you're in snooze mode! Short of removing the batteries, there is no way to turn the alarm off until it comes on again. Very annoying!

I've own this clock a few years now and can recommend it. It is light weight, small and easy to program. It changes times on it's own when we go from standard time to daylight saving time. It also adjusts to calendar days because it uses the year in it's programing.
I would like something brighter but this is the best battery operated digital clock I've owned so far. It is not visibly for long in the dark to spit what the product details say. I've changed the battery like once in the 2 year or so I've had it.

Sometimes I just don't understand why most manufacturers insisting on producing very stupid product. Ask yourself: How often do you get up the same time in weekends as you would do in weekdays? I believe 99% people would reply "Almost never!". Then why most alarm clocks on the market has only one alarm for 7 days? Isn't is annoying when you forgot to reset the alarm on a Friday evening then the next day it goes off at 6am?

Finally someone realize this.

The clock is fairly easy to use and setup, with up/down button you don't have to go around 59 and then go back. Some minor drawbacks:
1 The backlight time is bit too short.
2 No atomic
3 The shape of the clock made it a bit unstable while on the table

I have been looking for a gentle sound alarm clock for a while, and recently bought it from Amazon. Besides the gentle sounds I am looking for, the triple alarms also work well for my schedule, and it also has the daylight saving time, and these funtions can only be found in high end alarm clocks. So far it works very well, and I would like to recommend it!