![]() The Lenovo Smart Clock is very good at what it does do. You can tap anywhere on the clock to snooze your alarm (no punching) or double tap to turn it off completely and commence your routine. Everything you want to know first thing, basically. You can have it cycle through the weather forecast, details of your Google Calendar schedule that day, and the headlines. When it is time to get up, the Smart Clock will play your choice of six wake-up alarms, before launching into a customisable morning routine. You’ll need to give the brightness icon a second tap in the settings to enable it – probably the first thing you should do, or you’ll find the clock’s glow problematic when you’re trying to sleep. I should say though that the auto-brightness feature isn’t turned on by default. It works in reverse at night, and you can have the clock play sleepy ambient sounds as you slowly drift off. The Smart Clock’s screen will also get progressively brighter before it pulls you from the land of nod. There’s a built-in gentle wake-up routine, which when activated can tell your smart lights to begin gradually brightening 30 minutes before your alarm goes off. ![]() The Smart Clock’s primary function is to remove you from your sweet dreams with as little aggro as possible. It’s more than adequate for a bit of soul-destroying Brexit-based morning radio.īut seemingly everything can do all the stuff mentioned above these days. The Smart Clock can link up to a Spotify account, but if you’re of the Apple Music persuasion, music defaults to YouTube Music.Īlthough you’d obviously be absolutely bonkers to use it as a stand-in for an actual speaker, I’ve been quite surprised by how loud the max volume is. Just like a Google Home product, you can ask Assistant questions, control your other smart home gadgets, stream to Chromecast devices and listen to podcasts. The Smart Clock is as good a listener as it is a time-teller. The UI is clean and uncluttered you can manually swipe between clock faces, weather and alarms, or just use your voice. While the Smart Clock is definitely an alarm clock first and foremost, it might be the cleverest smart clock you’ve ever had (no, smartphones don’t count). Next to that is a switch for disabling the mic. Keeping it minimalist, volume up and down are the only buttons you’ll find, and on the back there’s a USB port for charging your phone. Wrapped in a light grey fabric, the Smart Clock might be property of Lenovo, but it definitely looks like it belongs to the the ever-growing Google Home gang. It would push the price up for one, but more importantly, I don’t want pictures of my 8am Monday morning grimace sitting in a cloud. There’s no camera, which is a good thing. You’ll ordinarily be looking straight at the clock when you roll over, but it’s nice that you can easily see the time at a sidewards glance too. You won’t be seeing Google Photos feeds or YouTube videos on the Smart Clock, but as you’d have to stand right in front of it to see them anyway, this isn’t a big issue. The 480 x 800 resolution is fine for something that only displays alarms, reminders and funky digital clock faces. The rectangular 4in touchscreen is surrounded by some pretty chunky bezels, but I think they actually add to its cheap and cheerful charm. The Smart Clock really is small, especially when you sit it next to Lenovo’s also great Smart Display, but its diminutive form factor means you won’t have an issue finding somewhere for it to live.
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