Poll: Alarm Clocks - Do you use one?

[twist3d0n3]

i use my phone. i've got an alarm clock but don't see the point when i've got my phone

 

[Vampyre]

Radio controlled alarm clock which projects time on the ceiling, other half uses cheap radio alarm clock so if my mobile is anywhere near it picks up interference.

 

[Kainz]

Alarm clock. Had the same blue-backlit Argos jobby since 1990 and it's been solid. Sod using a mobile and having to fiddle about to reach for something so small just to switch it off when blurry eyed in the morning.

 

[nimz]

Xperia Play with dock. Ace!

 

[Feef]

Both my phone, set multiple times, and an old style metal hammer/bells alarm. If I really need to wake up for something I absolutely cannot miss, I also tend to move my speakers either side of my pillow, point them at my face, and set an MP3 alarm clock. Usually Freestylers or Asian Dub Foundation. That works.

I sleep fairly heavily

 

[arc@css]

Some of the time, prefer to wake up naturally as often as possible, though.

 

[George Hincapie]

We have an alarm clock. He's 17 months old and wakes us at 0630 hrs every day

 

[mrk]

Phone. Can apply multiple alarms with individual snooze patterns.

Best solution for mission critical timing!

 

[Nimdok]

I use my mobile phone as an alarm clock after my pancake failed to wake me up, causing me to get to work late

 

[Begbie]

Use my phone at the moment. But I do normally use an alarm clock, I broke it though. Need a new one.

 

[alx]

I've started using the smart alarm on my android phone - it uses a basic soundscape setting i.e. "morning", "forest", "rain", etc. and builds up an ambient sound over time starting quiet and minimalistic and getting louder and more complex over about 5 minutes or so. I find I'm waking up in a much better mood rather than suddenly being started from my sleep by a klaxon type alarm blaring out and usually wake up better tho not always.

This. Love the smart alarm, nice gentle sound rather some sort klaxon-esque noise.

 

[Hamster]

I need two alarms to get me out of bed. One is my bedside internet radio and I use my mobile phone which I have to get up to switch off. I've still managed to do two hours worth of snooze and back to bed on both of them though!!

 

[Dist]

I use Alarm Clock Xtreme on my Android phone. Does everything I need it to, like slowly increasing volume the longer the alarm goes on (up to a set maximum), dismiss and snooze buttons with the ability to set how to use them (like shake, press button or solve math problem to snooze/dismiss, ability to limit how many snoozes and duration etc..)

Great app for android phones and there is a free version of it that I highly recommend.

 

[mothermachine]

I used to until my son was born. No need now.... I'm up between 5am and 7am every morning no matter what.

 

[Burnsy2023]

I use my nixie clock:

 

[utajoker]

phone, i have several alarms set at certain intervals so i no were i should be up to in my 'getting read for work' routine.

 

[haaammit]

Clock radio/alarm. I like to see the time at a glance, and I generally don't have my mobile phone in our bedroom

 

[Zefan]

I normally set about 10 alarms on my phone, spaced 2/3 minutes apart and an actual alarm clock towards the beginning - but not at the very start of - that spread.

This means I get a little "You're about to get up!" then "RIGHT NOW GET UP!" and then if I reaaaaaaaaaaally need to sleep a little longer my phone will just keep nagging me and nagging me and nagging me for the next 20 minutes

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Phone, can't see the point in having a separate one anymore.

My phone is almost always flat when I need it so wouldn't trust it to get me up on the morning.

Plus my alarm clock projects the time on the ceiling which I wouldn't do without now due to been to lazy to turn my head