![]() With that said, the frequent sales on the Nest Hub make the Lenovo Smart Clock seem overpriced. If you specifically want to upgrade your alarm clock with smarts, this cute little gadget from Lenovo is your best option right now. Yes, they both have Google Assistant built in for voice control and the screen on the Nest Hub does more, but the Lenovo Smart Clock is perfectly suited for what it is. The Lenovo Smart Clock is a great smart alarm clock. The Google Nest Hub is a great smart display. It has a USB port for charging your phone and the rectangular front is pleasantly reminiscent of old school alarms with a modern twist. But Lenovo's alarm clock is small enough to fit onto any open surface in your bedroom. Plus, they both have an ambient light sensor to minimize glow from the display. Neither has a built-in camera and both have a mute switch to help with peace of mind. The Lenovo Smart Clock just has the one grey fabric finish, but it's perfect for your nightstand. It could blend into a wide variety of rooms and Google offers a few color choices for the fabric exterior. I love the cute and colorful design of the Nest Hub. The Nest Hub isn't exactly a giant device and neither one can do more than fill a room with background music, but Lenovo makes great use of its built-in 3W speaker and two passive radiators. Sound qualityīelieve it or not, the little Lenovo Smart Clock sounds better when it's playing music than the Nest Hub. The fact that you can customize what happens when you hit it makes it even better. Smacking the top of the Lenovo Smart Clock feels right - a call back to a big snooze button on the top of a traditional alarm clock. I almost always hit snooze a couple of times and finding a button on the Nest Hub's screen is honestly more work than I want when I'm still struggling to wake up. When I'm groggy in the morning, I get a lot of satisfaction from stopping my alarm with a little bit of brute force. Neither is an arduous task, and you have those options with the Lenovo Clock too. If you use the Nest Hub as an alarm, you can stop it just by saying "Stop" or you can hit a snooze button on the touchscreen. You can customize this so that hitting it will cause it to snooze or stop entirely, which is pretty great. When your alarm does start buzzing, you can smack the top of the Lenovo Smart Clock to get it to stop. You can change the alarm tones, the snooze length and the volume of the alarm (separate from the volume of the speaker). You can set multiple alarms and customize each one. It will suggest alarms based on your first appointment the next day. You can set an alarm with a voice command to the Google Nest Hub, so you can use it to wake you up, but the Lenovo Smart Clock is designed for that task. It offers enough info that you could reasonably turn off your phone without the temptation to keep consuming the vast content of the internet anyway. ![]() What remains makes sense for your bedside and for the things you need to know when you're going to sleep or first waking up. Was intentional with the features left out of the Smart Clock. You can still see the most pressing pieces of info - you can check on your security cam, look at your calendar, and see the forecast and your commute. If you want to limit screen time for yourself and your family, the Lenovo Smart Clock offers a viable alternative. For certain families, that more limited functionality will be a good thing. Google is Amazon's closest competitor, claiming 17.2% of the market during the same time period.The Lenovo Smart Clock is closer in functionality to a smart speaker as the touchscreen only offers a few prescribed functions while still letting you issue any of Google Assistant's recognized voice commands. Amazon accounted for 28.2% of the global smart speaker and smart display market as of the first quarter of 2022, according to Strategy Analytics. Launching a device like the Halo Rise not only helps Amazon compete more closely with rivals like Google and Apple, but it also could give the company an even stronger foothold in the home. But if you own an Echo, you can pair it with the Halo Rise so that you can ask Alexa how you slept, or incorporate the Rise into a bedtime routine. There isn't built-in Alexa functionality since the Halo Rise was designed specifically for sleep. ![]() The wake-up light consists of 300-lux LEDs in the shape of a semicircle. In addition to the previously mentioned environmental sensors, the Halo Rise also includes a digital clock with physical buttons and a small speaker for the alarm. Amazon says it should wake you up at the optimal time based on your sleep stages. Since the Halo Rise is meant to be placed on your nightstand, it also serves as an alarm clock and wakeup light. ![]() The Halo Rise can monitor sleep stages as well as environmental factors like light and humidity. ![]()
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