No. I have a plain old alarm clock with no radio, and I just have it there so I can see the time easily. I don’t use the alarm on it.
I had the same clock radio since the early 90s to earlier this year. It has a tape deck!The clock started losing time and I had to replace it. I replaced it with a digital alarm clock with no radio.
I used the clock radio as an alarm until about 3-4 years ago when I got an iPhone. I had already stopped waking up with an alarm (pretty sweet trick) but every so often when I need one I prefer the iPhone.
I have two.
One is on my nightstand, as it has been since I bought it when I was in grad school, 30 years ago. It looks pretty much like this one, and replaced the one that my parents had given me when I was 8 years old. The lettering on the controls is a little worn now, but that’s OK, since I’ve had the controls memorized for decades.
I have it set to the local 24 news station, and it’s what I wake up to.
The other clock radio is on the bathroom counter, and is there primarily so that I can listen to the news while I’m getting ready in the morning (in other words, it’s set to the same station as the one in the bedroom).
I have one with an old iPhone permanently docked - so I can listen to internet radio & podcasts.
Sure do! It still works, so no reason to get rid of it.
I bought one recently: still can’t figure out how to set the time or the radio station, so it remains unplugged and unused.
This! I also have a few mechanical alarm clocks among other stuff in the shed. Also nib pens, a milk separator and a late neolithic flint knife.
We have one. It’s in my 9-year-old son’s room because once he learned how to tell time, he wanted a clock, so I dug it out of a bin in the basement.
I have one on the dresser, with alarm 1 set to 6:40 am which is when I had to get up to go to work, back when I had to do that. Don’t use the alarm much except for getting up early to go to the airport.
My phone stays in my office charging overnight. I’m on a What’sApp list from India, and I don’t need a text storm waking me up.
The clock radio is about 30 years old now, and works just fine.
I still have one from way back in the '70s that has migrated out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. I like to see the time when I am cooking, or just dawdling until I absolutely positively must leave the house to be on time. The microwave shows the time, but it is on the other side of the room.
I still own one. I had to go dig it out of the basement a few years ago when I broke my phone and had to wait a day for the replacement. Now it’s back in the basement.
In our room we have 3 alarm clocks, 2 of which have radios. Extremely cheap radios that drift away from stations when you’re not looking, and generally make unpleasant noises. Back when we used them to wake us up, we set them to the buzzer. But one of them has that gadget that projects the time onto the ceiling: that’s extremely cool. Nowadays, we use our phones for the actual waking-up part.
I count 5 clock radios plugged in right now.
They are mostly just clocks. One is sometimes also used as an alarm clock. The “noise” that is a radio station makes a great alarm. Getting into “Turn that **** off now!” mode is a good way to make sure you stay awake.
That one I think was bought new or was a present. The others I bought for a buck or two at thrift stores because I wanted to have a clock there. So the “radio” parts just came along for the ride.
I do, but I don’t use the radio or alarm features, just the clock. It’s a little easier to check the time while in bed by just rolling my head and looking at it than by picking up my phone and pushing a button. I could do without it, though.
It’s so amusing when people bag on things that they don’t comprehend.
I have a circa 1989 Sony Dream Machine clock radio. My ex wife got it when we were first dating as a gift when she opened a new bank account as I recall. I kept it in the divorce. I haven’t used the alarm or radio part in well over a decade. I use it to glance at the time when I wake up in the middle of the night. Resetting it twice a year for time change and the occasional power outage isn’t much of a burden.
I have to ask, did you honestly think that in all of these years that it never occurred to lots of people to create an ap that does exactly that?
I use either my iPhone or Echo Dot, depending on how critical it is to get up. The Echo Dot does not have a battery backup so if power goes out I will miss my alarm, so when it is mission critical I use my iPhone. The Echo Dot allows me to snooze or turn off by voice.
WTF is a clock radio anyway (jk)
We have one in the house that my son uses. It’s from around 1982 and used to be my grandfather’s then I somehow wound up with it after he died and then my son took it when he needed an alarm. Still works fine. Clock has two brightness settings which are “subliminally faint glow” and “rivals the sun” and makes an alarm tone to raise the dead. Or a sleeping teenager.
I use the alarm on my tablet which works fine. It makes noise, I swipe the screen, it stops making noise. Certainly no more troublesome than finding and moving the switch on the clock radio.
Wife has a Bose Wave Radio. Doesn’t use it to wake up, though. I think its the only thing I bought for her that she hasn’t lost. Yet.
I literally just threw two of them in the garbage. They were buried deep in a box I was exploring and they haven’t been plugged in in over a decade.