

It’s also bringing a new take on its Smart Clock Essential. The Lenovo Smart Clock is extremely compact measuring 3.14 x 4.48 x 3.12 inches / 7.98 x 11.39 x 7.92 cm ( w x h x d) and has a subtle wedge-like shape, covered in a grey fabric mesh. It's genuinely dark at night and not a bother when the settings are correctly selected too. Lenovo Smart Clock Essential 2022 hands-on. For this year’s CES, Lenovo is bringing a refresh for its oversized smart home hub, the Smart Frame. This brings the price closer to that of a regular alarm clock, but the Smart Clock offers so much more. You can voice control it to set an alarm, while the slow wake-up feature gently builds up light output for 30 minutes prior to your scheduled wake up time, for a more natural entry into your day. Best Buy dropped the price of Lenovo’s Smart Clock with Google Assistant to 40 today. So is the Lenovo Smart Clock the alarm clock reinvented or technological overkill? Well, it depends how much you value Google, its organisational properties – Calendar integration, Alarms, other smart home products and the ability to voice-control them – in addition to having a sensibly sized and well-priced bedside screen-based alarm that can't be used to distract with videos from YouTube and other things that your phone can do.Įven if you're not big into Google and don't have other smart home products then the Smart Clock gets the basics right too. Top it all off with a fair 50 (£50, AU59) price that matches the Nest Mini and the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential is worth your consideration if youre looking for a smart alarm. But is it the classic alarm clock reinvented, or just technological overkill? Our quick take

Previously available only with Google Assistant, this new version features Alexa, can function as a smart speaker, and it offers users the ability to mute its microphones. The Lenovo Smart Clock is like a smaller, stripped down version of this, minus the built-in camera for security reassurance. The Lenovo Smart Clock Essential is more than just an alarm clock. Back in 2018 we saw the Google Home Hub – which has since been re-named Nest Hub – make for a great central control centre using both Google Assistant voice and touchscreen controls. Amazon’s Halo Rise is an alarm clock, sleep tracker, and wake-up light in one Google Home (Nest Audio) vs.
