What's a good gentle-noise alarm clock?

[Dewey_Finn]

Those using a smartphone as an alarm clock, what happens in the middle of the night when you want to check the time? With an old-fashioned LED alarm clock, you can just roll over and glance at it. With a smartphone, do you have to pick it up and look at the screen? Because that sounds less convenient.

[KneadToKnow]

@Dewey_Finn

Those using a smartphone as an alarm clock, what happens in the middle of the night when you want to check the time? With an old-fashioned LED alarm clock, you can just roll over and glance at it. With a smartphone, do you have to pick it up and look at the screen? Because that sounds less convenient.

It is, but you trade that mild inconvenience for darkness when you don’t want to know what time it is.

[WildaBeast]

@Darren_Garrison

Wait—I thought that was where the sun *doesn’t *shine.

That’s what I get for posting in a hurry right before bed time.

[scr4]

@Darren_Garrison

That one was aimed at scr4, who clearly had not understood my suggestion of having a second old phone, not the primary one. And yes, refusing to reuse an old piece of electronics that has a deep catalog of software for doing exactly what the OP wants because one other option for it is communications is just an eye-rollingly pointless silly shooting yourself in the foot.

Not everyone has old phones. I either use electronics till they break, or sell them on eBay. My last phone sold for enough money to buy a fancy alarm light/clock. For any application I could use an old phone for, I could instead buy a specialized device that does the job much better, for less money than I get from selling the old phone.