Sharp Digital Alarm Clock with Keyboard Style Controls Battery Back-up Easy to Use with Simple Operation Black Case

This alarm clock is perfect for what it is, a small nononsense digital clock for your bedside. The red readout is large enough to view easily and can be dimmed accordingly. Settings are simple and easy to use. The only negative is the sound of the alarm. Not quite loud enough for me but eventually gets the job done. Otherwise a nice little clock. Read more

I needed a noisy and simple clock to get my children OUT OF BED to turn it off. The way that you set the time and the alarm and the easy of turning the alarm on and off is perfect. I like that you can dim the light to make it not so bright but still visible. The Battery backup is always a feature that I look for in a clock so you don't have to reset it all the time if the power flickers. Very functional and simple design. Read more

It's so easy to set the time and alarm on this little clock. Love that. It's a nice, compact size. Love that. There's a dimmer for the brightness. Love that. It has a snooze button so that's good. It's easy to see the time even without my glasses. Two things I wish this had was volume adjustment for the alarm and a choice of alarm chimes. The alarm on this thing is loud and jarring. Not exactly the sound I want to wake up to, but for sure I'm not sleeping through this alarm. I recently had to go out of town and brought this with me. It's compact and easily packed so I'll use as my travel alarm and keep my old alarm with the more peaceful alarm for daily use. Read more

Small size and lightweight, moderate sound when the alarm is on, easy to set and operate, clear numbers, and the price is not exaggerated. Read more

My old clock a few days ago I went to use it , clock set button snapped off of it I wasn't happy, I looked on Amazon thank goodness I found this clock , I used it to set my time to get up this morning ,it woke me right up . Simple to use, simple to shut off. Clock is very small,but mighty. As you can see the old clock,where the button is there's a gaping whole wear the button should be Read more

I was looking for a simple desk clock that runs of AC and uses the 60 Hz mains frequency as a time base. The reason for the latter is because the electricity company keeps this really accurate, you will never have to correct the clock (as is often the case with clocks having an internal quartz reference). Quartz based clocks always drifts over time, not so for this clock. Also, those atomic clocks (as an alternative) were not an option for me, as the NIST radio signal for that (from Ft Collins, CO) is too weak where I live. Apart from the fact that those clocks cost at least twice as much. There is a battery backup in this clock that keeps an internal oscillator running when there is a power outage, two AAA batteries can be placed in the clock for that. Contrary what some reviewers have reported as a "defect", these batteries are only there to keep the internal oscillator running during an outage so you won't have to re-adjust the clock after a power outage. These batteries will NOT keep the display illuminated. That is not why these batteries are there, even the video reviewer had not grasped that fact I noticed. I recommend to use old-fashioned carbon-zinc batteries for this backup function, as alkaline-based batteries always start to leak corrosive electrolyte after a while. This will destroy your radio in the process. This leakage happens even when alkaline batteries are hardly used I have noticed, they are terrible in that aspect. Use carbon-zinc instead (often called "heavy duty" batteries) This is in fact my only gripe about this radio, it should have been designed for a lithium coin cell battery instead of the two AAA batteries. Lithium batteries never leak an have an extremely low self discharge. Another nice-to-have would have been a daylight- saving time switch, but not a big deal. Adding it all up, this is a buy I can recommend. The clock is built well and has good brightness (settable by the user) Read more

Zezette: love it as it is small but not to small and the numbers are quite visible at night. Easy to set Read more

After having it for a while I find that it works fine, definitely does its job and wakes me up, but I’ve noticed that mine is off by a couple milliseconds or something because every couple days I notice it falls behind and I have to skip ahead a couple minutes. As of now it’s 2:24 and the clock reads 2:18. Gets annoying having to change it all the time. Docking two stars for that because an alarm clock only has so many ways to mess up… that being one of them. Other than that it’s good. The dimmer is nice because I don’t like it to be so bright and I can have it nice and dim, can’t attest to the battery because it stays plugged in… overall good product Read more