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(More customer reviews)Pros:
- The first time your partner runs around the house chasing Tocky down to turn it off, you'll be awake laughing hard.
- I like that you can use your own MP3 music.
Cons:
- Tocky is about baseball sized, which is just too small for a lot of reasons (that follow)
- The physical button and touchwheel/touchwheel button are very close together, making it extremely easy to hit the wrong thing. This has been our biggest problem with Tocky. We have inadvertently changed the current time, turned off the daily alarm, routinely hit snooze instead of off.. just because the interface has so few buttons that you really need to pay attention to what you're doing - good luck with that when you're half asleep. These flaws have basically meant that I always have to set a backup alarm, which completely defeats the point. I miss my old big clunker alarm clocks with distinct switches/buttons for everything.
- The LCD backlight is very dim, and only comes on when you press a button. The way Tocky sits and with the rubber cover, you won't be able to see the time standing up if it's on a normal dresser- or nightstand-height surface and you're standing. Plus, the time display is small so you need to pick it up to see it anyway.
- The rubber sleeve seems necessary to protect Tocky and to press the physical button, but it's difficult to get on and off (necessary each time you change the batteries), and needs to be in just the right position to press the button, access the USB port, etc.
- If you leave the rolling on (Tocky's main feature, right?), the batteries run down very quickly. Apparently there's something called "protection mode" (see [...] ) that kicks in when the battery is low, and this caused the alarm to stop functioning without any warning. Um, thanks, Tocky? Good thing I'd set a backup alarm.
- I want to be able to program Tocky to have the alarm go off certain days (M-F) but not others (Sa/Su). This seems like an obvious software feature but you have to either set the alarm to go off or not, no scheduling. With normal alarm clocks this is fine, with Tocky you have to page through so many menus and hold in the touchwheel button for a few seconds and it just takes too long.
- I wish the snooze could be set to longer than 9 minutes.
The minimalist interface design seems good in theory, but sorry, it doesn't work for an alarm clock.
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