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iHome Launching First Clock Radio That Can Charge Both an iPhone and Apple Watch

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iHome has announced it will soon release the iPLWBT5, the first alarm clock radio featuring both Lightning and Apple Watch chargers.

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Audio can be played via the docked Lightning device, Bluetooth, USB, or AUX. The dock features an alarm clock with dual alarms, FM radio with 6 preset stations, auto dimming display, built-in microphone, digital voice echo cancellation, answer/end controls for speakerphone calls, and a 1 amp USB port for charging devices.

iHome's iPLWBT5 will be available in mid December for $129.99 online and at retailers such as Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond.

Article Link: iHome Launching First Clock Radio That Can Charge Both an iPhone and Apple Watch
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/18/ihome-iphone-apple-watch-clock-radio/
mistafro said:
3 devices with clocks/alarms on your nightstand... o_O
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Not sure about the watch, but the iHome uses the alarm on your iPhone when docked. I discounted the use of the iHome dock for years until I bought one last year.
 
nutmac said:
Perfectly put.

Instead of pushing the design boundary of alarm clock design, iHome time and again settle for classic alarm clock design from the 70s.
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Once you have the perfect design. 70s alarm clock. How can you improve on it. It's like trying to design a better straw. Nothing beats a tube you put in liquid and suck on other end. It's perfect design for the function.

You can add color or curly cues but that doesn't improve it one bit. Same with alarm clocks. Something to display the time in dark room, and easy way to stop it or set snooze. What more can you have an alarm clock do?
 
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Say what you want, may also not be the best looking thing either... But as a student moving soon again this is exactly the type of device I'm looking for.
 
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Not sure I understand the hate...I would love to have one of these. I still put my phone in a dock every night to charge it and I hate the way the watch charges. This looks nice.
 
I wonder how this would work on phones with cases. I stayed at a hotel that had a lightning port on their alarm clock (I was shocked, even the nicest hotels I've stayed at lately still have the dock connector.) But my phone wouldn't work because I have a case on it.
 
vikram1991 said:
So Im supposed to buy a clock radio to charge my watch, which has a night stand mode with alarm to replace my clock, and my phone, which has Spotify and Apple Music to replace my radio. Got it.
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You're not supposed to do anything. But if you want to have a clock radio in your bedroom that shows the time to anyone, anytime, whether or not they are wearing a watch or carrying a phone, this is one option that also doubles as an iPhone and Apple Watch charger.
 
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Regardless of the ridiculous redundancy, when a device is sold at Bed Bath and Beyond = automatic pass (don't get me started on 'i' devices not made by Apple..)
 
doelcm82 said:
You're not supposed to do anything. But if you want to have a clock radio in your bedroom that shows the time to anyone, anytime, whether or not they are wearing a watch or carrying a phone, this is one option that also doubles as an iPhone and Apple Watch charger.
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The only people in my bedroom have iPhones and Apple Watches. Anybody else is chained to a water pipe in the basement. :p
 
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HEK said:
Once you have the perfect design. 70s alarm clock. How can you improve on it. It's like trying to design a better straw. Nothing beats a tube you put in liquid and suck on other end. It's perfect design for the function.

You can add color or curly cues but that doesn't improve it one bit. Same with alarm clocks. Something to display the time in dark room, and easy way to stop it or set snooze. What more can you have an alarm clock do?
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I disagree. 70s style alarm clock design is functional but it was designed with technical constraints of the time.

The perfect alarm clock design is subjective. My ideal alarm clock should have sufficiently large wide angle display, good font, brightness with ambient light sensor, important buttons easily accessible, decent audio quality, not bulky looking, and atomic clock.

I have yet to find my ideal, but this one comes close: Ambient Weather RC-8473

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First up, the article is incorrect because I bought mine a couple weeks ago from Best Buy, and all our local stores show them as available for pickup today.

Second, to all you haters... here's why I bought mine and why all y'all oughta shut your cynical yappers... when I wake up in the middle of the night, I want to glance at the time WITHOUT getting distracted by Facebook, email, IG, Twitter, and any other rabbit-hold notifications. So I've enjoyed the freedom.
 
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iHome has been around for while. But this seems to convoluted for me. I would prefer To have my iPhone and Apple Watch separate.

For the price tag, it would be worth it if you wanted to utilize all of its features. And iHome products last, until Apple changes their proprietary features.
 
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