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I've been looking for an alarm clock for my iPhone 3G since I bought it in June '08! Finally I found this one, and it is perfect.
- Charges iphone without interference, no weird "not compatible" message
- sounds great! perfect for the bedroom
- 2 alarm presets
- Motion Sensor! This is cool, you just wave your hand over the top instead of having to find the sleep button. Best feature!
- Dimmable display
- remote control
- looks great

I highly recommend this alarm clock to anyone with the new iPhone. Charge your phone while you sleep, wake up to your favorite music. The best!

The item itself is pretty nice. The motion sensitive snooze and back light activator is a nice touch. The housing for the product is the glossy black plastic that is the trademark of iPods and their related accessories. The orange glow clock and lights is a nice change of pace from the ubiquitous blue that's been going around for the last few years. It even comes with a remote control, which can be stored on the back of the unit when you're not using it. A nice touch that is overlooked by most manufacturers.

The item allows for setting two alarms. In theory when the alarm goes off you can wave your hand over the top right of the unit and it'll engage snooze. Which, nicely, has a feature that allows you to set the snooze length. The wave hand snooze, did work. However, the unit I had, about 50% to 70% of the time the alarm would auto-snooze itself about 2 seconds after it began sounding. Another reviewer posted about this identical defect. So, I'm not sure if it is an overly sensitive motion detector, or what, but a two second alarm will be bad news for me in the morning :)

There are a few good reviews about the product, so if you want to try one out and hope its not defective, it's a nice product. I would have kept it, had it not been for the auto-snooze.

I have been using this about a week thus far and really enjoy it. I have an iPhone 3G and it works great for charging it, playing Pandora or MP3s, and as an alarm clock. The ability to float my hand over it to snooze is really nice. Since the buttons on top are dimmed until your hand is hovering over the device is nice in the evenings when you don't want extra gadget lights distracting you when it comes time to sleep.

It has 3 programmable buttons on it which is fine for me as I have only 2 FM radio stations I care about in my area. This may be an issue for others who have more they like to pan through. Also note that the remote control is for the iPod application on the iPhone and will not work in controlling Pandora.

I only gave this 4 stars for two reasons. One is how my phone fits into the device. Not as snug as I would like as when I am touching the screen, for instance in Pandora for ratings, it rocks back into the alarm clock instead of being held solid. I have tried the other docking cups too, no luck. The other reason is price. While the price is really good, especially compared to what you pay in other stores, I still think for the sound quality and volume you get could have been better.

Overall though, I am not disappointed and have had zero issues with it.

This item is great. I recommend it.

I bought an iHome alarm clock in an attempt to use our 5th generation iPod Video as the music source for the alarm sound. After a lot of messing around and testing and days of troubleshooting... it simply did not work. Supposed to, but didn't.

This Logitech Anytime unit is wonderful. Right out of the box I followed the simple quick-start instructions and was up and running 5 minutes later. But most alarm clocks are like that. The real test is getting the iPod as the alarm source. In the next 5 or 10 minutes I was able to test my iPod's use as an alarm source to wake up to my playlist's music. It works flawlessly.

There are two alarm time settings this unit remembers. Useful for two different people that need to get up at different times, or you can use the second alarm time as an "oh crap 1-hour later alarm really really get out of bed" for example. They're Alarm #1 and Alarm #2. Each one has it's own time setting as well as it's own source setting. So you could have alarm #1 set at 5am with the iPod as the alarm sound source (or the buzzer or the radio), and alarm #2 set at 8:30am with the buzzer as the alarm source (or the iPod, or the Radio). Both can use the same source so it's totally configurable.

The unit is really small. Smaller than a loaf of bread in a bag for example. It's speakers play the music really well. The sound is distinct and nice. I'm sure that there are people that will compare this unit's speakers with larger "iPod speaker systems" and conclude that they could be better, but you know what?... they sound just fine. No crackles, not a light tingy sound, not too rich and deep... just good enough to enjoy music and more than good as an alarm clock.

When the iPod is set as the source and the alarm goes off the unit will automatically look for a specific "Alarm 1" or "Alarm 2" playlist in your iPod. If it finds one of them (for the associated alarm in question) it'll play music in Shuffle mode from one of those playlists. So you can totally customize what music should be used as alarm music. If however you don't have those playlists on your iPod the unit will just resume playback from whatever playlist was last played from.

When the alarm time goes off, the music doesn't just abruptly start playing. The unit will start off the music quietly and slowly over the course of a few seconds increase more and more the volume until it's at the wake-up audio level.

The way to stop the alarm is really neat. You simply wave your hand over the top and a little sensor will detect the motion and shut off the music. It's also the way to illuminate the controls if you need to see them in the dark for some reason.

The unit has a backup 9volt battery that it uses for remembering the time settings if the power goes out. If the power does go out and the music source was set to iPod, the buzzer will sound instead because it won't have enough power to run/command the iPod.

If the unit has power from the wall it will charge your iPod, although if the iPod is actively being used to listen to music it won't charge until the iPod itself is off. The iPod mounts to the unit via the standard Apple Dock Connector slot on the bottom of the iPod itself. There are different snap-on mounting guides to help different iPod models all stay put and mount properly.

The orange lighted display is very clear and easy to read at night.

This unit has more features than what I need. I needed an iPod alarm clock and it's great! I've tossed my iHome unit because this Logitech Anytime unit works flawlessly. I recommend it.

Unfortunately, I got one with a defect. The alarm goes off for all of 2 seconds, then spontaneously stops. I tried it out multiple times, even unplugged it after I came across a review that mentioned the defect on iLounge. The review mentioned that unplugging it sometimes helps. Not here. Sat on phone with Logitech for an hour and they found the same defect in the one they had there! They said to return it to Amazon since I'd just bought it. Apparently, the defect isn't widely known yet so they haven't recalled the ones that don't work properly.