Philips Smartsleep Sleep and Wake-Up Light, Simulated Sunrise and Sunset, Multiple Lights and Sounds, Relaxbreathe To Sleep, HF3650/60

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I have really poor hearing without my hearing aids so this alarm with the sunrise feature is a real blessing for me.Worth the price for me

Wake gently to increasing brightness starting before set alarm time. The light changes from a soft reddish tone to brighter yellow. If you don't fully awaken, there is a choice of audible alarm, such as soft gong, birdsong, other soothing noise at actual alarm time. turn off by touching alarm icon on face of clock. I am extremely nearsighted, need to put on glasses to touch correct icon or set the clock. The time is not bright or disturbing when trying to sleep. Includes relax cycle of sunset or breathing rhythm to lull you to sleep.

This may actually be one of the best things I own. It looks great and works well. The light is unbelievable. I love how the sunset and sunrise works. I love the sounds that have been chosen. I have had no issues so far and would recommend this to anyone. If you have trouble falling asleep - this will help you tremendously. If you have to get up in the middle of the night - the night light is excellent. I have nothing negative so say about this. The overall design is perfect.

This light is amazing! Works fantastic! Was skeptical at first about the effectiveness of it, but I love the dimming feature at night and enjoy it in the morning. Worth the money

The simulated sunset is very calming. It lasts about five minutes, during which the lamp gradually darkens and the ocean wave sounds gradually fade away. The sunrise feature is nice too, should I wake early I may see the room dimly lit with yellow light that very gradually brightens over a period of 30 minutes until the set alarm time when the selected alarm sound begins. The FM radio is very sensitive with good sound quality. I haven't tried the Breathe to sleep feature. The midnight light is turned on and off by just tapping the top of the lamp. The cell phone charger feature works fine. A minor design flaw is the FM antenna wire exits the lamp body without any strain relief.

I feel like I wake up more gently, and start my day feeling more refreshed. My only complaint about the Sleep light is that the speaker is poor quality for the price. Not a huge deal, but it's why I took away one star. All in all, I'm glad I took the chance on this product.

This is not the app connected alarm clock but the version that is just an alarm clock! Not the easiest to set up or figure out even with instructions. They are only about 20-30 dolllars difference in price so I returned for the more user friendly app based alarm clock.

Very few options to configure the few available sounds. Awful commands; they are difficult to figure what they are for unless you memorize the Manual. Configuration control very confusing; icons design and resolution terrible. In a colorful and high resolution era those icons resemble the ones used in the 90's. Snooze command are hard to use and often doesn't function as expected. Not worth the price, would be a good product if were in $50 range. Stay away, or you will regret buying.

I was excited to get this lamp, as I had previously been mightily impressed with the Philips Hue system - to the point of integrating it into my Smart Home setup. However, this product was nowhere up to what I would call the Philips Standard. The lighting integrated into the lamp is of high quality. It responds well and has color/brightness options that are pleasing. The speaker is of better than average quality, and the options for `wake up` sounds are mostly pleasing (birds, ocean waves, etc). But this is where the positives end. To list a few of the negatives 1) You cannot schedule a `Weekday alarm` and a `Weekend alarm`. There is only one schedule, and you would have to go in every single weekend and disable and then re-enable the schedule to avoid being woken early on your days off. 2) The user interface is clunky at the best. Finding a particular setting is difficult, and the iconography chosen is not exactly intuitive in all cases 3) You cannot set the lamp to play any of the sounds as `white noise`. I am one who dislikes sleeping in a totally quiet environment, and having a little background noise would be helpful. 4) No wireless connectivity of any kind. This means no WiFi access for playing an internet radio station, no wireless time sync to the Atomic Clock, no Bluetooth for playing music from your phone or tablet. 5) Does not integrate with the Philips Hue system. For me, this is the biggest `sin` of them all. At the current price point for a lamp of this type, it seems to me that it should integrate with Philips` flagship smarthome platform. This would allow for synchronized wake-up scheduling, color selection, etc. Overall, to me this product is under-functioned and over-priced. Note: I did receive a free device in return for my open and honest opinion.

Bought this for my wife for Christmas and set it up. Didn't seem to work properly. Alarm wasn't the sound we selected, and control buttons we're sporadically coming and going to where we finally gave up and set up a return. She was excited to try this but said directions were horrible, and for the way it preformed, it wasn't worth the price.