Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine

by Sony

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• ASIN: B000I19SA4
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,212 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 6, 2006

Product Description

Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine No Power no Problem Alarm system Automatic Time Set No power no Problem Alarm System to back up Time and Alarms Dual Alarms with easy alarm Setting Two-Color triple time Display: Green for time, Amber for alarm Times Weekend alarm Mode Melody Alarm

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfied, March 1, 2007

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B. Brooks (Appleton, WI. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine (Electronics)

You would not believe how hard it is to find a decent alarm clock. All I wanted was a alarm clock that shut off automatically on the weekend but the Emerson Research smart set was the only 2\5\7 day setting alarm clock I liked. After buying two of those and having issues with both, one the radio would lose the station over time and not wake you up, two, a brand new one having a bad LED and poor radio reception. Emerson needs to check their quality and then maybe they will have a great product. Yes this Sony has a hard to read display because of the viewing angle but if you have a small table next to the bed it works just fine. The radio pulls in every station and sounds good and loud for the size of the device. The alarms are really easy to set all you do is turn the knob to the desired time. Plus all you have to do is hit one button to shut the alarms off for the weekend or have two new sets of alarms. This thing gives you up to four alarms. If it had a better display I would give it 5 stars.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea, but ..., February 28, 2007

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James Gage "Eagle Construction" (Bothell, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine (Electronics)

I agree the features are great, but two problems:1 - the sound is actually worse than you would expect from such a small speaker today; I could live with that, but 2 - the clock display is only readable from a very small viewing angle. You see only the amber backlight if the unit is above your line of sight and the same if it's below the very narrow fixed design height which is slightly below level with your eye. I tried all sorts of props and shims to make it readable, but if I moved, the display vanished again. I gave up and returned mine.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressed, February 22, 2007

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Julia Freewoman "Julia" (Bath ME, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony ICF-C180COS Radio AM/FM- Dream Machine (Electronics)

I bought this alarm in large part because of the dual alarm feature. I take the bus to work and on weekends/holidays, which I don't always have off, I need to get up earlier. This alarm not only has two alarms that I can turn on and off. Which means I don't have to change my alarm setting!!!! I can also see that it is set, which reduces the going to sleep paranoia on my part. I love it just for this.

But the weekend setting allows me to have two other alarms available for times I have to wake-up and do things on my days off, rarely actually the weekend. This is a really cool alarm system. And I love waking up to music that will wake me up, radio has never worked, so the melody setting is great as well.