Customer Reviews

RiteAlarm Triple Weekly Alarm Clock (R) for Weekdays, Saturday and Sunday, Automatic Extended Daylight Saving Time, Automatic Snooze, Adjustable Volume, Gentle Sound Pattern, Simple Buttons, Pushing Backlight and Battery Operated

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

 

 

I like the "triple weekly alarms" and I believe this is the only alarm clock provides two separate Saturday and Sunday alarms, along with the weekday alarm. The alarm feature is very easy to program, and the alarm schedules are also displayed to eliminate any guess work. This clock also sets the daylight saving time automatically, and it is the new 2007 extended daylight sving time. If you are tired of re-setting your clocks again and again each week...definitely try this one. One thing needs to mention is that its alarm volume defaults to medium, and you have to change it to high. Overall, I think it is a cheap but very good alarm clock.

It is a fine travel aolarm. I really like the choices of alarms given. The Mon-Fri setting is a nice feature.

Chas

In my one month experience with it, it works as advertised. I especially like its sound pattern which starts with a very gentle buzz, so I can hear it while my wife can still in her sleep without being disturbed.

I do not have any problem with the snooze function and I do not have the luxury to enjoy it. Most of the time I simply push the alarm button twice to reset (off and on) the alarm.

I think I got what I paid for, as the overall quality is not as shinny as the stuff I got from The Sharper Image, but the price is cheap. Also, I am not sure if I would spend $50 to buy an expensive similar product from The Sharper Image if they had one.

Finally, a nice alarm that offers Weekdays, Saturday and Sunday settings. We don't have to remember to turn off the alarm on Friday night and back on Sunday night.

It is also nice that the alarm starts off gentle and gets progressively louder. We have had a few alarms that starts off with a loud beep and our kids don't like to use them.

Snooze button is large and also turns on the backlight. No need to fumble with the alarm in search of the light button in the middle of the night.

I bought this alarm because it has an adjustable volume level. This feature works as advertised, and is great.

I only rate the alarm clock 2 stars because of the snooze/off button. Clicking this button once activates snooze. Clicking it twice turns the alarm off. First off, this is a poor design feature. When waking up in the morning I'm groggy. I have sometimes hit the button multiple times without thinking about it (trying for snooze but inadvertantly turning it off). Another design flaw is the inability to turn off the alarm after hitting snooze but before the alarm goes off again 9 minutes later. Maybe there's a way around this (besides removing the batteries), but I haven't found it yet. Minus 1 star for poor design.

My major gripe is that the snooze/alarm button doesn't always work as designed. Sometimes one click turns it off; sometimes multiple clicks works as a snooze. I've tested this when awake to make sure I wasn't just having issues when half asleep. Minus 2 stars because I got to work late a few times.

If these items had a decent display they would be worthwhile, but the one I got won't entirely display the screen, which renders it somewhat unusable. It displayed clearly for a couple of days, enough for me to get a weekday alarm set, but then it started only partially displaying the screen, making all the dates and times unreadable, and it's never fully displayed again, despite changing batteries. It still goes off on time, but I can't read it, and if I ever want to change my wakeup time I'm screwed. Had I known it was made in China I never would have bought it - this is the third Chinese-made battery-powered alarm clock I've bought, and they all have the same LCD screen display problem. Stick with something American or European!

There are 3 issues and 2 of them are deal killers for me.

Issues:
1) I used this for about 6 months before the snooze/stop alarm button stopped working.

2) The time loses about 15 minutes a month.

3) There is no stand or a screw hole in the back to hang it. Because of this it falls over all the time.

On paper this is a great clock. I wanted the ability to not have an alarm on the weekend. It does this for cheaper than any other alarm of this style. If you don't work mon-fri, this clock becomes useless as well. The grouping for times is hardcoded in and it is 1)mon-fri, 2)sat, and 3)sun.

Do not buy this clock.

The only problem I have with this clock is that it falls over when I try to see the time at night.

I like that the alarm clock automatically changes with daylight savings and that it has multiple alarm settings for weekdays, Saturday and Sunday, so that you can set many alarms and not have to remember to turn it off/change it for the weekend. The only thing is that when the alarm goes off it isn't very loud. In a way this is nice when my husband uses it. He is a lighter sleeper and it will wake him up and not me. However, if I ever use the alarm it doesn't always wake me up. If you are a heavy sleeper it is not very loud and there is no way to adjust the volume.

it would be great if it was louder.... but its cool over all.. 3 diff alarm settings, weekday,sat,sunday..