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Take a Siesta today

Advantages: Neat clock radio, well made, nice features, eco-friendly. DAB+ upgradeable.
Disadvantages: Display viewing angle is fairly narrow.

Pure Digital Siesta: What is it? This is a digital radio alarm clock that can receive both DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) radio and FM radio stations. It's quite neat and comes in three different colours, black, charcoal and silver. When you first switch on the unit it goes through an automatic setup routine and tunes in all the DAB radios stations it can find. This autotune can also be run at any time again through one of the menu options. ...
...the Pure products I've looked at, style is something that they take a lot of time and effort over, and I have to say that I like the look of the Siesta. It's a very neat little unit measuring 17cm wide, 14.5cm deep, and 6.2cm high. The shape is a type of half oval, with the display in the centre of the front face, and all the control buttons on the top near the front. The front face screen is gloss black in all the models, with the rest of the housing ...

seajays 27.12.2007 · Read full review
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Sony XDR-C705 DAB Great clock radio in small smart package

Advantages: DAB, multi alarm settings, greart design and look
Disadvantages: Slightly fiddly alarm setting and often high price.

This is my second Sony clock radio the last lasted for over 10 years, now was the time to update the technology DAB was a must. I loved the design of the Sony XDR-C705DAB particularily the size and clock display. However, I didn't like the price. However, I was lucky to pick up an Argos Clearance bargain via Ebay. The radio, clock and alarm features are great, it takes a little while to familiarise yourself to the menu logic and settings but after ...
...first time and unit automatically sets the right time and day. There is a UK specific DAB scan that worked beautifully. Setting the alarms were the fiddliest but wonder of wonders it has an automatic feature for weekdays or weekends just the ticket for our house. the reception on DAB is pefect, I would have loved some sound adjustment (treble/bass) as the units tone is a touch to sharp for my taste but this is a tiny thing. ...

Cannylondon 20.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony XDRC705DABW.CEK

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Bye bye annoying breakfast radio

Advantages: Allows you to wake up to a CD, easy to use, has 2 alarm settings
Disadvantages: snooze could be a little confusing for those that are that way inclined

...dud christmas gift! This item was bought from the Sony Centre in Galway City, Ireland. My parents told me that it cost 65 euro new (£48) which is slightly more than the price tag of £35 I've seen in the UK, still well worth the money in my opinion. ...

raary 04.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sony ICFCD814.CEK

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An Alarmingly Poor Clock

Advantages: Nice looks, Projection feature, Radio controlled time reception
Disadvantages: The "alarm off" button is minute and located under the clock, Glows very brightly at night

...seems to me how the Oregon RM383P Cube Projection Alarm Clock was created. I bought one recently after the cheap-as-chips Acctim alarm clock that I bought from Woolworths about seven years ago (and which DID have a big friendly button on top, making turning the thing off very easy at 6.30am) finally packed up. With Woolworths having gone much the same way as my old clock, I turned to the internet to help find its successor. Unfortunately, I found ...
...and Other Half has an Oregon alarm clock and had always been happy with it. I paid £24.99 for it through Play.com in November 2009 (and am slightly annoyed to find the exact same site now has it for £19.99). So what do you get for your money, then? Well, look at the item in the product category photo – it does look quite nice, although I should add that it is nowhere near as solid looking or feeling in real life as the photo implies. It is about ...

Collingwood21 22.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Oregon Scientific RM 383 P

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A brilliant set of speakers!

Advantages: loud, bass, good looking
Disadvantages: fragile

This set of speakers i bought from amazon a few years back. they are truly brilliant i used them a lot for use with my ipod classic and brothers ipod mini and they had great sounds. recently the dock snapped off it. But because the speakers are so good i could not through them out so i have been using them ever since as PC speakers and that takes them to a whole new level. the bass is deep but very clear and the volume from a small set of speakers ...

mish4444 23.10.2009 · Read full review
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