- Dual alarm with weekday, weekend, andcustom alarm settings to suit your lifestyle
- Sync button syncs clock time to always-current iPhone time settings in seconds
- Specially designed high-end drivers deliver astounding clarity, depth and power
- Works with free iHome+Sleep app or paid iHome+Radio internet radio apps
- Adjustable EQ Bass, treble, 3D and balance controls let you customize your sound
I downloaded the manual because the buttons on top are SUPER difficult to see in the my bedroom. It's not a super bright room and the buttons are silver with backlit names on them. If you are setting it up, it's hard because you need light and you can't see what you need to see. The trade-off is that the buttons and the design look very nice and clean. Anyway, I put my ipad on it's little dock and pressed the time sync button on the back of the unit and wow! The time was set! Then the manual said I needed to download onto my ipad the ihome app. Well, there are two and I am already confused. I can't believe I'm going to have to decipher all this. This is NOT Apple people.
Anyway, my ipad was 56% charged when I put it on there and now it is 36%. I had set only one alarm to go off for 6am every day. The alarm sounded briefly and never resounded! I don't know if I got a lemon but in the troubleshooting section, when your ipad fails to charge, they just have three different scenarios where they blame your Apple product. Lame. I am charging my ipad just fine on the wall adapter.
I will give it more stars if these problems get straightened out. I wanted to leave this review since there were no others. Sometimes companies find a way to start clean when there are lots of problems reported in reviews. If the docking problem on mine is an isolated incident, I'll find out sooner.
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i just purchased this unit from Sam's Club at a great price! unlike the other reviewers, i am using this clock radio in my office. It is a wonderful unit! as soon as i set it up and put my iPhone on it, the clock immediately synched time with my iPhone.I had to purchase and return several other iPhone speaker docking units because i have a case on my iPhone and i didn't want to remove every time i used the dock. this unit has a removable rubber strip that when removed, was very easy to set my iPhone on the dock.
Not only does the unit charge my iPhone with no problem, but the sound is great. the radio is easy to set up and is perfect for my use.
The reason for the 4 stars is because the buttons on the top of the unit are hard to read. Out of curiosity, i will set the alarm and see how it works.This was an early Christmas present for my wife. It started out fine. I downloaded the free app that allows you to use your phone or ipad to sync the clock and to set up the alarms. The app interface is kind of important because the the controls on the clock are not user friendly. For about a week, we had it set up to wake us with the radio, and that was fine. Then, ihome seems to have changed it's apps. When I tried to set the alarm to wake with radio, I get sent to the app store to BUY a radio app! Really? A hundred dollar alarm clock and the company wants me to pay more money to have a radio option? Any cheap radio clock can do that much without the need for a four hundred dollar phone running a two dollar app. So far this week, we've had two out of two alarm failures and we're not exactly sure why because it worked fine last week before the apps mysteriously changed. So, now it fails as an alarm clock and I need to buy a feature I already had under the old app. My advice is skip ihome and find a nice speaker dock for your iphone/ipad and get a cheap, reliable clock for waking up.Just bought this as a gift for our 11 year old son. He opened the package, plugged it in, and figured out how to use it in minutes. The sound is great. Set the alarm with no problem, even chose the song to wake up to from is ipod app. Time sync'd as soon as the ipad was in place. He uses the ipad screen to update information on the id85, I noticed. If he can do it so quickly and easily, I can not see why others are having issues. Maybe once he starts getting into more complicated types of use, it might get more challenging, but so far, no guess work and super easy to set up and use for music and an alarm!!!
(I have the iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1.1...just one man's tale)
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