Philips Wake-up Light, Sunrise Simulation, 2 Natural Sounds, FM Radio & Bedside Lamp, HF3505/60

TLDR -> Only had it for one night but it seems to work. Pros: Very bright. Alarm noises are pleasant and not too jarring. Extremely easy to use interface. Did wake up without feeling exhausted. Cons: Felt a bit cheap (again, light electronics don't feel sturdy to me so it's strictly personal preference here). Setting brightness for night lamp use seems to affect alarm brightness. Only one night of testing so far. Full Review ------------- I tend to be up pretty late in, usually asleep between 12 - 1 in the morning. I have tried setting multiple alarms on my phone and smart watch to wake me up but it seems like I turn them off in my sleep. Most of the time I wake up with enough time to get ready for work but one recent evening I couldn't fall asleep until 3:30 in the morning and missed a morning meeting. Enter this alarm clock. When I first opened the package and pulled out the device it honestly felt a little cheap. The plastic didn't seem high enough quality and it felt very light (I tend to think lighter things feel less sturdy than heavier so take this with a grain of salt). I turned on the device and configured it and ran it through the demo mode. Much to my enjoyment, it was a very easy setup and the demonstration mode gave me a good idea of what to expect. Set it up on the bed stand, approximately 24 inches away from me and prepped for sleep. I turned down the brightness to use it as a room light while I was brushing my teeth and went to bed around 12:30 in the morning. Surprisingly, I woke up right as the alarm went off at 7 AM, just 6.5 hours later. The brightness was a bit unimpressive but that appears to be because the brightness the device was using when I had it on as a lamp appears to be the brightness the device maxes out at when using the alarm. Suffice it to say I will be turning up the brightness for the next night. At the end of the day, I did wake up feeling a bit more refreshed in my dark room (winter here now so the mornings are a bit dark when I wake up) but I can't say for sure if that's because this is a new device and I'm excited to test it or if this is because the device is actually good. More to come in the following weeks.

I had a Philips a long, long time ago. It's actually for sale on Amazon for $299.00. While tempted, I chose this one instead. No regrets. I've used for a week so far. I am waking up happier and ON TIME. For once in my life. I know there are a lot of other ones out there that have this, that and the other thing, but I'm a simple girl with simple needs. Easy to program. No battery back up, but I'm okay with that. My cats love it too! The first bird chirping sound is really nice, second one, not sure it's for me, but still pretty. I actually wake up to K-Love the Christian radio station. It's not bad for reading at night. If you stare into it you see halo's just so you know. I can read at night, yet it's soft enough to tell me it's time to go to bed. My other lamp was super bright so I kept on reading instead of shutting it off. It fits nice enough on the bedside table. I have a small one. I still have my phone there too just in case. Good purchase. :)

I finally had to replace a 25 year old (if not older) alarm clock radio and wanted to try a daylight alarm. This one is great. I agree with some of the other reviewers who say that the instructions leave a little to be desired, but I read them through first, then attempted setup. Pros are that the light really does simulate daylight and I've been waking up 5 to 10 minutes before the alarm actually sounds. I attribute that at least in part to my dog waking up thanks to the light and then she starts stepping on me so that I wake up too. The first day I woke up with the light and I turned and she was sitting upright and looking at the light as if to say "who turned that on?". Anyway, if the written instructions aren't enough for you to set it up, there are some YouTube videos that can help you out. I opted for the radio option, needlessly it turns out, because I was afraid the "nature" sounds would be cheesy and annoying. The bird and rooster sounds are actually quite soothing and would've been fine. I didn't need the radio after all, but I'm keeping it anyway. Now to the cons. First day it went off, I pressed the alarm button (I never hit snooze because that's too dangerous and the dog doesn't allow it) and the alarm silenced immediately. I remembered where the alarm button was so no big deal. Got up, had coffee, showered and went back in my room and the light was still on. WTH? Because you must also hit the light button after hitting the alarm button so as to shut both off. Come on, how hard would it have been to give a single Alarm Off button? Anyway, that's the only con for me, which is why I took off a star. You can only set one alarm, which for me isn't a big deal, might be for some. All in all, terrific alarm.

The price premium over the older model is justified. Every issue I've seen in reviews of similar products have all been addressed. Sound and light are independently toggleable. Both can be set at 10 levels of intensity. The nature sounds fooled me the first morning, I thought it was real birds. The time display is bright by default but can be dimmed significantly or turned off if it disturbs your sleep. The product is very elegant. The buttons work like a touch screen. This alarm clock has genuinely had a great impact on my sleep. I used to wake up tired and feel tired all day. Now I wake up refreshed and with more energy throughout the day. I love the alarm clock, but there are some cons. It is quite bright but it doesn't exactly light up the room, so it's recommended to place the clock near your head on a nightstand. This alarm clock more prepares you for waking up rather than actually and abruptly waking you up, so use a secondary traditional alarm clock if you must wake up at a certain time.

I bought this clock because I was assigned a 4am-1pm work schedule but I am a natural night owl (naturally wake up between 10am-12pm). I was having a very hard time coping with the schedule, and would abuse snooze, sleep in, and would come to work in a daze when I was using my phone alarm. What had worked with my old schedule was no longer working, and my performance was suffering, so I was desperate for something that could help. My coworker recommended a similar sunrise clock from another brand that was even more overpriced than this one. After considering the multitudes of $20-30 Chinese knock-offs of this model and not being impressed with the reviews, I purchased the Philips Wake-Up Light and had it same-day delivered to me. Yes, that's how desperate I was. Let me start with the good stuff. The sunrise simulation really does work. If you dream vividly, you probably know the feeling of being woken by your alarm during a dream. If that happens to me I feel dazed for a good amount of the day. With the sunrise simulation I have definitely felt my body transition from REM to a lighter sleep in response to the gradual increase in light. I don't have the same urge to snooze that I do with regular alarms, and I feel more alert after waking. Now to the bad: The snooze only worked for me once (pretty sure it is nonfunctional or poorly designed). The buttons to turn off the alarm and the light are on the lighted part of the clock, so you either have to go by touch or stare into the bright light to turn them off. NO BATTERY BACK UP. Are you kidding me? My city is always working on our power cables, so blackouts around the time I need to wake up are pretty common. Knowing this, I still have to have my phone as a backup just in case there is an outage before I wake up. For the price, you would expect some better functionality, such as the ability to have more than one alarm or at least a way to set which days the one alarm goes off. Having to turn the alarm off on my weekends adds a danger of forgetting to set it. Bluetooth functionality should also be a given at this price. As it stands, I would have rated this alarm as a 5 star product if the price was lower or if the functionality gripes I mentioned were addressed. It does actually improve my waking experience but at the price I do expect much better engineering.

The option for waking up to birds chirping is very nice - like a flock of robins right next to my head - and cheerful - it doesn't make me angry like a buzzer does. (I know they are robins because it was hard to differentiate between the real robins outside my window in the spring and the ones from my alarm clock.) I also like the light, but the light itself doesn't wake me up. It's just nice to have some light in the room turn on automatically when the morning is still dark, and the light stays on even when you snooze your alarm. So that was most helpful in the winter when it's extra hard to get up early. I also use it for late night reading, it's nice and soft and can be dimmed in 10 increments. There is no radio, but if I need music I have other options. My only complaint, not enough to knock down a star from my rating, is that the whole thing is super lightweight and rests on part of the circular face, so when I gently tap (smack blindly) the top when it goes off, it tends to move around and tip over. Overall, I'm happy with this item.

I was having a hard time waking up this winter. I get up at 5:45 and it's still dark then through the winter months. This lamp was one of many lifestyle changes I made to combat my sleepiness and, fortunately, it worked. The light is kind of magical- it's very nice to wake up to. It lit up my side of the room but it was not overwhelming. It really does feel like sunlight; sometimes it didn't register until I was fully awake that it was still pitch black outside. My husband sleeps later than I do but the light doesn't ever bother him. Waking up to NPR, however, annoys the hell out of him. Funny story about the bird alarms, though. They confuse me. I have chickens in my backyard and we're surrounded by all sorts of wild birds. I can't tell the difference between the backyard sounds and the alarms when I'm trying to wake up. For the first few weeks of using the alarm, I tried to "turn of" the real birds many, many times by tapping the alarm. I was certain it didn't work and was quite frustrated until I realized I was just dumber in the morning than I thought . That's when I switched to waking up to NPR...Lol.

So far so good! The light range is really nice, and the design is nice and fits right on my bedside table. It helps me wake up, especially during those dark winter or rainy mornings. The light change is subtle enough to not jolt me up, but quick and bright enough to actually signal to my brain that it's wakey-wakey time. I wish I had had it when I worked the 3AM shift. A few things I wish I could change: 1. The clock display does go down in brightness and its lowest setting isn't bright enough to wake me up, but I still wish I could turn it off completely. Using electrical tape to cover it works, but shouldn't be necessary. 2. The two pre-recorded bird/nature sounds are atrocious and give me anxiety. One of the sounds stops abruptly and then starts again, and the quality is like those annoying screechy static-filled recorded birthday cards. I don't use this setting at all and can't imagine anyone but a narcoleptic or someone with hearing problems using it either. 3. The FM radio option is OK, but I wish that I could set it to a lower volume and have the alarm stay at that volume. After the 30 minutes is up, the radio turns on to the lower volume, but increases to TOP SCREAMING VOLUME which gives me that nauseating anxious feeling and jolts me a bit too hard in the morning and also wakes up the entire house and our neighbors and our neighbors dogs and probably the entire town too. You'd better hope you wake up before it turns on - I have another alarm set on my fitbit or phone that vibrates at 25 minutes, just in case. 4. I wish we could just turn off the sound settings completely without having to take apart the alarm and mutilate the speaker - the speaker is tinny and not that great quality, and I really only bought it for the light, which is primo quality (and so far I haven't seen any good light alarms that don't have sound - Philips seems like the company that would have had that by now). As it is, you have to choose between badly recorded birds 1, badly recorded birds 2, and screaming FM radio. If you need loud noises to wake you up and live alone on an isolated mountain top, this is the alarm for you.

Alles bestens - wie beschrieben - ein Stern abzug für den doch hohen Preis. Die Konkurenz ist billiger und kann auch nicht weniger. Bin sonst aber sehr zufrieden mit dem Ding. Fein finde ich, dass der Alarm für den nächsten Tag wirklich nur mit einem Tastendruck ausgeschaltet werden kann, bei der Konkurenz musste man immer viele Knöpfe drücken. Das war auch der Grund für den Kauf dieses Weckers.