Timex T315SX Travel Alarm Clock Radio (Silver)
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Customer Review: Great travel clock!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great portable travel clock, I travel for a living and was looking for a travel alarm clock RADIO and this is the ONLY one I found. I am in Europe and Asia often and I like to listen to local music in my hotel rooms. Sometimes the reception is iffy and I suggest using the BuZZ function for your alarm. The batteries last long in this but watch out for the battery 'door' which can sometimes come off in your bag. I 've taped mine on the back but as I said I travel a whole Heck of a lot and use it every time. Overall I like the price for the quality and would recommend it over one without a radio. I've even requested another for Christmas as I know I'll wear it out or lose it someday and that way, I'll have another one ready to go!Customer Review: surprisingly good little radio and clock
Summary: 4 Stars
The radio obviously has no low end, but is crisp, clear, and loud. Pulls in many stations, sharply, on AM and FM, and tuning doesn't backlash on you. Slips into a shirt pocket. The open-lid/reset-radio/snooze/LED light button is really clever. Very easy to set. This is a great rig for waking to news or music on travel. I notice some others had trouble. This one's OK. I'd say..give it a good testing right away when you get it. If it works you will be pleased going forward.Customer Review: travel alarm
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice little alarm. Tinny sound from the radio but can't expect much from such a small speaker. Light to see time is handy, bright enough to use as a small flashlight. Times for alarm and time are easy to set. Up to now I am satisfied.Customer Review: Poorly lit
Summary: 3 Stars
I have a previous version of this Timex travel alarm clock (sans radio) and loved it. This one I'm not so keen about. The drawbacks to me are 1) the light and (2) the on/off switch. The good part about the light is that it stays off unless you manually press a button to turn it on, and it turns off when you release the button. The problem is that the light is a blaring amber light that really does nothing to help you see the time. It basically just creates a blur. The light doesn't come from behind the digital number display, it's more like a mini-beacon that shines onto the numbers--very ineffective for anything except a mini-flashlight. Would have been much better to have been back-lit in a nice blue. The second big problem for me is the switch that makes the alarm shut off--it's on the side of the left side panel of the bottom portion of the clock--very difficult to find when you're trying to get the danged alarm to shut off. It's the same button that turns on the radio. Speaking of radio, you get what you would expect--a radio without decent sound. In this day and age of excellent sound, it's almost too annoying to listen to, except in a dire emergency. The dial doesns't seem to pick up many stations.Customer Review: Works OK, but only for occasional use.
Summary: 3 Stars
If I was seriously travelling on business I'd get something a little higher end. The radio works rather well on the strongest local stations, but there is no function that lets you go to sleep listening to the radio. No "sleep switch" that a lot of clock radios have. The radio is listenable, but I'd never want to listen to it for more than an hour or so.
The way this has messed up for me is that if you set "time set" switch to "alarm", and then set the alarm time using the hour and minute buttons, and then forget to move the time set switch back to the middle between time set and hour set, the alarm will not go off. I slept through alarms a few times before I figured that out. Wouldn't want to mess this up on a business trip.
Also, the minute button is starting to not work and it's getting harder to set the time because I have to push the minute button so much.
So, I'd only recommend it for "travel" within your own house, like when your spouse is wheezing, snoring, or coughing all night and you want to sleep in another room, and you don't have anything really important you need to be there for early the next morning.