American Innovative Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock
December 15, 2009
- One alarm for each day of the week: seven independent, daily alarms accommodate your varied morning routine
- Perfect for the active schedules of working parents, professionals, athletes and students
- American innovative’s patent-pending rotary dial makes setting the neverlate a snap: fiddling with complicated combinations of push-buttons to adjust time and alarm settings are a thing of the past
- Other functions include: customizable snooze duration, sleep timer, nap timer, and an innovative speaker for a fuller radio sound
- Small footprint (approx 5-Inch square) takes up minimal space on your nightstand, modern design with retro flair looks great in any setting
Product Description
The neverlate solves a problem that we all have in common: the demands of today’s active lifestyle often require a varying wake schedule. The neverlate 7-day alarm clock is the first alarm clock to offer seven independent, daily alarms to accommodate your varied morning routine. An analog fm/am tuner works in conjunction with a downward firing speaker which results in a fuller tone when in a small package. (Fits easily on your nightstand: 5-inch square footprint… More >>
American Innovative Neverlate 7-Day Alarm Clock
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I was so excited to get this, and so encouraged by the stellar reviews. That being said, I could not set this thing. I followed the manual to a “t”, and each day setting kept returning to 7:00 am. Then I’d set the regular time and try to set the day alarms, and they’d all be changed to the time I set. This was so frustrating, that after ONE HOUR of trying, I finally threw it out. I gave it ONE star because the radio worked fine. This should have been easy to set (and seemed easy from the manual), however it was pure frustration for me. Like I said, maybe I got the only defective one that this company made, but I’d already thrown away the box and couldn’t return it.
Rating: 1 / 5
If it wasn’t that Chinese people don’t give clocks as gifts (it’s bad luck), I would buy one for all my close friends and relatives.
Rating: 5 / 5
Didnot keep this clock, wasn’t what I wanted… cheap clock with too many knobs for my taste…
Rating: 2 / 5
The Neverlate is a nice idea badly executed. To give you an idea of what I mean here is what happened when I first tried to use it. When I plugged it in around midnight, the clock showed 12:00 noon so the first thing I had to do is set the clock. This is done by rotating a ring around the control button for setting the weekday. To change the time you put your fingers on the ring and rotate it, taking care not to rotate the weekday setting that is inside the ring. The most I can rotate the ring on a single turn of my wrist is about 5 minutes. So I started rotating – the ring does not rotate easily and clicks for each minute of rotation. The noise it makes is enough to wake up someone asleep in the same room. To change the time by 12 hrs it would take 12 of my wrist rotations for each hour, or 144 twists of the wrist in all. By the time I had done a couple of hours worth my wrist was sore. But that’s not all. While rotating the ring you have to make sure not to accidentally move the day indicator which is a raised button in the middle of the ring. I brushed against the weekday button a few times with my fingers as I worked away at rotating the time ring. Each time you move the time ring while the weekday button is set at some place other than off, you activate that day at whatever time you happen to have moved it to (that’s a default “feature” of the clock). The result is that you set the alarm and so it ends up going off at random times through the week. The design of the time setting mechanism for both time and alarm is one of the worst designs I have ever seen for this purpose. If it were easier to set time, say by allowing you to set hours independently of minutes this would make a bit more sense, although the twisting of a ring close to the day setting is a bad idea.
After my first random alarm went off I took the Neverlate back to the store where I bought it – I’d rather be late that have repetitive stress pain in my wrist and to be awoken at random times.
Rating: 1 / 5
The idea of this alarm clock is very appealing: an alarm clock that can be easily individualized for the day of the week. Here, however, is the reality in two bullet points:
1. The tuner is awful. Within ten minutes of having located a staion the focus has slipped and you have to relocate it or listen to gradually worstening static.
2. The alarm clock component is about 95% accurate. Think on that . . .5% of the time you will not be awakened. My partner and I have had it for a year and for the longest time thought that one of us had done something wrong in setting it. Or we were sure that we had done it right but waking up late hadn’t made us tardy for anything. This morning was the last straw,though. 5%, when you are depending on this little monster is not good enough.
And now, off to shop Amazon for a new clock radio.
Rating: 2 / 5