It's solid for background listening with little to no distortion even at max volume. Don't expect premium audio, but turn it up and it will more than fill your bedroom with music. Start playing a song, and the sound quality is similar if even a little fuller than the Mini. You can sign into whatever accounts you have and indicate one as your default so when you ask to play a song, the Google Assistant built in to the Clock will look in that service first. It offers Google's standard mix for smart speakers - YouTube Music, Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora and Deezer. You can also add music services to the Smart Clock. You choose a Wi-Fi network, assign it to a room in your home if you have those established in the app, set up voice recognition if you'd like and you're done. The app makes the process simple and it works the same as setting up any of Google's other smart speakers. Plug it in, and the display will guide you to the Google Home app for setup. It is genuinely cute with a solid three watt speaker and two passive radiators for sound. There's not much to the hardware of the Lenovo Smart Clock. The back of the device has a spot for the plug (it's not battery powered), a mute switch, and a USB port for a phone charging cable. The Google Home Mini is only $50, and solid alarm clocks can be had for as little as $10.Īlong the top, the clock has tactile buttons for volume that stick out enough that you can find them in the dark. You can regularly find the Nest Hub on sale for $100 or less if you want a smart display. Worst of all, although you can pick from a wide variety of clock faces, colors and brightness levels for the screen, none strike the right balance of clearly showing you the time at night without casting a sleep-disrupting glow.ĭepending on what you're looking for, you can probably find a better device for any of the individual features of the Lenovo Smart Clock. It can't wake you up with your own music. , search for recipes or use the touchscreen for anything else other than a few prescribed functions.Įven as an alarm clock, it's customizable and easy to use, but compare it to our favorite ordinary alarms, and it falls short. ) and even Lenovo's smart display, you can't watch videos, look at pictures, get an overview of your It's a trimmed-down smart display, but unlike the Google Nest Hub (formerly the It's basically a smart speaker, but you can't make calls like you can with the $50
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