Since the Smart Clock uses Google Assistant, you’ll be able to control all of your Assistant-compatible smart home devices, so you can do things like check in on your connected cameras and lock your doors at night. You can use the touchscreen or your voice to call up any of the screens, and set alarms. There’s the digital clock face, a weather tab, a tab for checking your commute and schedule and one for setting an alarm. The Smart Clock’s interface is a low-key affair. And since Google and Lenovo know you’ll still need to charge your handset, they added the USB port to compensate for losing a wall outlet. It’s meant for you to be able to charge your smartphone while the Clock is plugged in, since that will presumably take up one of the power outlets next to your bed. That USB port is a smart addition to the clock. Around back, there’s a power adapter physical mute button if you don’t want Assistant listening to you at night, and USB port. Up top there are two physical volume buttons, as well as a touch-sensitive area that you can tap, or more realistically smash, to silence your alarm. Lenovo covered the Smart Clock with a cloth shell that’s thematically similar to the cloth base found on Google’s own Google Home smart speaker. Unlike Amazon’s Echo Spot, which has a circular design reminiscent of a classic alarm clock, the Smart Clock features a rectangular display up front, with a body that slowly tapers off toward its rear. So don't expect to watch movies from this little device. The Lenovo Smart Clock is meant to provide you with the right amount of information for your nightstand. And, of course, you can set multiple alarms each morning 1-minute apart like I do, so you can constantly snooze one after the other until you’re late for work. The idea is to make waking up a little less awful each morning. To help improve this experience, the companies have set the Smart Clock to slowly begin increasing its screen’s brightness 30 minutes before your alarm sounds.Īnd when that dreadful noise finally begins, it won’t hit at peak volume all at once, but instead will slowly increase in volume. When building out the Smart Clock, Lenovo and Google said they took into account the fact that people generally don’t like being woken up by the incredibly annoying and jarring sound of their alarm clocks. Chiefly, that you probably don’t want to watch video on a 4-inch display and, because chances are you don’t want a camera pointed at you while you’re sleeping every night. Lenovo and Google, however, say there are reasons for that. You won’t be able to stream video to it, and you won’t be able to video chat with it since there’s no camera. The Smart Clock isn’t supposed to be as complex as Lenovo’s Smart Display with Google Assistant.
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