AT&T ID102 CoolBlu Docking Station for iPod and iPhone (Black)

• Features Soft blue LED clock display
• Simultaneously play & charge your iPhone/iPod
• Alarm clock with FM radio
• High quality stereo sound with 4 band EQ
• Cool, clean, unique metallic design

AT&T could have had a great little product here. It is sleek, attractive, and has a solid feel. The translucent metallic finish over the display area gives it a very modern look. The sound quality is even pretty good for a clock radio. Unfortunately their engineers made the same logic defying mistake that many other clock designers have been making lately-you cannot simply "set" the clock, nor tune the radio, you must program the device. You have to press a "function" button until you come to the function you wish to control, then using various other buttons, you set the time, tune the radio, etc. This makes no sense whatsoever, as alarm clocks have had "time set", "alarm set", "hour" & "minute" buttons, and tuner controls for many decades and that simple design has worked very well. Did somebody think making things more complicated and time consuming would be an improvement?

Another design problem makes me wonder if the engineers did not understand that this product might be used on a bedside table. I am referring to the brightness settings for the display. It has three levels: "off", "bright", & "beacon". A gradual dimming switch would have been nice.

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This is a good item, beware though your Ipod or Iphone will not work in it with the Otter Box cover or whatever you have on your item, needs to be inserted without external cover attached.

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The device is attractive and sounds amazing for a clock radio. The music quality rivals our Logitech docking station, but it is not as good as our Bose (no surprise). The display is ultra modern and pretty easy for me to read at night (I'm not so young anymore).

My reason for 3 stars is that this thing is difficult to program, and I cannot figure out how to get it to wake at the volume I set it at. Instead, it goes back and wakes at the default center point which is personally too loud for me. I like the unit so much that I made mufflers for it when I use it as an alarm.

If you need an alarm that is a little louder and if you have no problem programing, then you would probably be very satisfied with this device.

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A great docking station for both day and night. It's also attractive and fits in tight spaces. I wish a cover came with it.