A pop-up will appear below with, say, your smart lights, but the best way to control your home is very much through the voice and not the screen with the Smart Clock.Ĭhanging faces is simple enough, echoing a little of what Wear OS – Google's smartwatch platform – lets you do, and enabling you to swipe through and customise them on the spot with different widgets. No longer can you see all your smart devices in one easy glance, with a swipe-down from the top now showing you your alarms, a quick-start to your morning routine and a quick-jump into your music. Home View, for example, is something that's been changed specifically for the Clock. Smarter, bassier, fonder of walls : Google Nest Mini review However, for some, and particularly (we think) for those who are used to other Smart Displays, what's on offer probably won't feel like enough. On one hand, this makes sense – it doesn't undercut its own devices too badly, this way.
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The Smart Clock runs on the same Android Things platform as its sibling smart displays, but things have been stripped back slightly. It'd be good if it could also go wire-free, sure, but that's not a deal-breaker, for us. They're little touches that actually make a big difference to this feeling like a standard alarm clock, and not just a smart display in smaller clothing.
So, the light of the screen will dim and brighten based on its surroundings, thanks to the ambient light sensor, and you can even tap the top of the device to snooze or stop the alarm in the morning. Pretty much, though, this is your regular smart alarm clock look, but a little smarter.
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For a device of this size, it's not bad, and you can alter the sound either through the plus and minus buttons on top or through the Assistant.Įssential reading: Google Nest Hub Max review We'll come to the actual quality of the speaker below, but built into that chunky back section is a 1.5-inch speaker with 3W output and two passive radiators. (On the back there's the power socket, mute switch for the mic and a USB port) Located on the back, too, is a switch to turn the microphone off – a plus – and there's no camera to worry about, either. The woody, curved back is gone, replaced with a Home-esque grey knit fabric – almost like Google had this planned as their own alarm clock before passing it along to Lenovo, hey.Īlready panicking at the thought of trying to find another plug socket for the Smart Clock to sit on your table? Well, handily, you can just replace your phone's plug and use the clock's built-in USB cable to power your phone from there. It's also the third member of the company's connected home family, after the 8-inch and 10-inch Lenovo Smart Displays launched last year, though it brings with it quite a different look and feel. The 80mm x 113.88mm x 80mm size means it doesn't take up too much room, and the 4-inch 480 x 800 LCD screen is crisp enough for pretty much everything this clock has to offer.
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And with a price tag of £79.99, the Lenovo Smart Clock is also the cheapest smart display money can buy – at least until the Echo Show 5 launches and sits around the same price point.Įssential reading: Full guide to Google Assistantīut with some features taken away here, is your money better off being placed into a standard Google Home, or towards a more rounded member of the Google Smart Display family? We've had the new alarm clock wake us up for around a week now – here's our full verdict on the design, features and sound performance.įirst things first, this is an alarm that looks great on the bedside table. Will it remain a one-of-a-kind device for long? Well, we suspect not, even though Lenovo has told us that Google (with whom it worked closely to produce this device) doesn't currently have plans to offer a smart alarm clock of its own. Now on sale, the Lenovo Smart Clock is the first Google Assistant-powered alarm clock we've seen, offering all the simplicity of your regular alarm but with some of the added features you've come to expect from your smart speaker.
When Lenovo arrived at CES earlier this year, it previewed a new kind of smart display – not one for the kitchen, but one for your bedside table.
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