AMIR Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock, (7 Sound 5 Colour) Nature Night Light with Sunrise Simulation FM Radio Sound, Touch Control Multi-Functional, 4-Brightness for Bedroom, Living Room, Playroom, Nursery

I have been writing reviews for several companies for a couple of years now but it became too time consuming and my house became filled with goods. Therefore I stopped doing this service many months ago with one exception...AMIR !! The products from this company exceed every expectation in every item! The quality and craftsmanship that goes into the manufacture of Amir products of all kinds is perfect giving excellent quality and reliability for your money. Every day I refuse requests to trial a product and review it, but when Amir asks me I am only too happy to give their products a thorough checking over and testing and only then do I give my honest unbiased opinion. Hence this review. This is an amazing clock in every way. The gradual lightening of the face at sunrise in slow incremental increases is a boon to those of us who do not enjoy bright lights as soon as we wake. The choice of five different colours is also a delight, I personally love the blue light as I find it easy on my eyes and they are getting old now poor things. With 4 increasing brightness settings, you can fit the light to suit your preference and the surrounding ambience. I especially love the FM radio feature as I love to wake up to the gentle music of Classic fm, my preferred station but you can choose your own favourite at the touch of a button. This unit is not only good to look at but is simple to set up and to use giving you a multitude of choices to customize it to suit your tastes. I prefer the 24 clock, no particular reason, I simply have used it for many years and so I was delighted when this clock gave me that option as well as the regular 12 hour clock with am and pm settings. I have simply shown my setting of the clock in my photographs as there are multi posting of all of the colours on this page for you to check out. I can highly recommend this clock as an ideal gift for someone or for your own use. As this is an AMIR product, I can guarantee the quality with no reservations, I have yet to be disappointed by them.

I got this light because I have seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and it's recommended to get a sunrise alarm clock to use alongside light therapy. Sunrise simulator lamps aren't medical/therapy lamps but are supposed to help when you use both. I was expecting to spend a lot more money for one so it was a pleasant surprise to see one in this price range. You set the alarm for what time you want to get up and 30 mins before that time it comes on at 1% intensity and over 30 mins it gradually gets brighter until it's at 100% at the time you set it for. 10 mins before the time, the alarm sounds for 1 minute at a low volume and then at the alarm time the sound comes on again at the volume you set it for. The result of this is that I'm wide awake and ready to get out of bed about 5 mins before the time the alarm's set for, which is pretty amazing for me in autumn/winter. Usually it's a struggle to get out of bed, but with this light it's even easier than it is in the summer. If you have SAD you would need a proper therapy light to treat the SAD, but this light a) makes it much easier for me to get out of bed and b) means the light therapy light doesn't feel like a big shock to my system when I first turn it on. If you don't have SAD but find it hard to wake up easily in winter due to it being dark, or you just want a gentle alternative to a beeping alarm clock that makes you just want to press snooze all the time, then you might like this light. I was particularly impressed by the quality of the light. At full intensity the light is bright, but it's not harsh. It feels the same as natural light. The light can also be a reading/bedside lamp. You can set the intensity of white light by touching the buttons on the front. Even the low intensity one is comfortable for reading when it's a beside lamp. You can change the colour too (four colours) all bright enough to read by (when next to the lamp). It also has a changing colours setting which is very pretty and relaxing. The quality of the light at all intensities and colours is very good. Also, the unit itself looks good and is very lightweight. What I didn't like so much is that it only has one set program and can't be changed (e.g. adjusting the sunrise time from 30 mins to, say, 20 or 40 mins, or changing when the sounds come on, etc). This isn't a big deal to me because it works just fine for me the way it is and I'm wide awake when it's time to get up, but some people may prefer a different pattern of light/sound and won't have that option. The other thing I didn't like is that the sound/speaker quality isn't the best, particularly with the radio. It's not a deal breaker for me, but for listening to the radio I'd rather keep the radio I've got already and use this light with the nature sounds. This is why it's only got 4 stars and not 5. It's quite hard to set up and it's not intuitive. However, the instructions are simple and clear and if you follow them you should be able to set it up. Overall, I'm very impressed with this light/alarm clock and would definitely recommend it and it's excellent value seeing as there are other sunrise simulator alarm clocks that cost way more than this and from the specs don't appear to do any more than this one. Maybe they have a bit more versatility and better sound quality but those two things alone don't make up for the huge difference in price.

Great value for money. I chose this one because it has radio and nature sounds, I'm going for nature sounds at the moment. A few of them are quite repetitive loops of the same 5 second clip but most of them are good. Radio signal is ok, bit of a static sound but it's not claiming to be a DAB radio and at this price it's really good. The light up feature wakes me but I set the nature sounds alarm just in case. It is pretty bright on the brightest setting, I do need to reposition it I think so it's not right next to my head, it can be a bit dazzling. A bit fiddly to set but once I did it a few times I got the hang of it. Can't beat it for the price. It works every time and it's getting me up every morning like I've wanted to do my whole life!

As a concept this is great and the gradually increasing light to wake you up works really well. Couple of issues though. Firstly the alarm sounds it makes. Its supposed to be relaxing but the bird song, farm noises etc. are a loop of the same few seconds of sound over and over again. It's incredibly irritating. Setting it to silent also doesn't work because it loops a clicking sound rather than actual silence. Secondly it doesn't keep time well. It's 3 mins slow after only a couple of weeks. Overall I'd recommend this type of alarm clock but not this one.