Logitech Pure Fi Anytime Premium Alarm Clock for iPod and iPhone

Everything you’d expect from a premium iPod and iPhone speaker system … and more. The Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime is an iPod/iPhone alarm clock that offers premium sound with innovative features that make it easy and convenient to use. Motion-activated, backlighted controls allow use in little or no light–like a dark bedroom. You can even snooze with a wave of your hand. A high-contrast, easy-to-read display is clearly visible during the day, but not too bright at night. A recessed dock helps prevent you from accidentally knocking over your iPod or iPhone by providing a protected cavity for docking. Add a dual alarm, digital AM/FM radio, and wireless remote, and you have a perfect nightstand companion.

Motion-Activated, Backlighted Controls and Dual Alarm with Motion-Sensing Snooze Make it easy to use in little or no light. Lets you wake up to digital music, radio, or buzzer, or sleep a little longer with a simple wave of your hand.

High-Contrast, Easy-to-Read Display Optimized to be clearly visible during the day, but not too bright at night.

Recessed iPod/iPhone Dock Helps prevent you from accidentally knocking over your iPod/iPhone, by providing a protected cavity for docking.

Digital AM/FM Radio Delivers live content, including music, news, weather, and sports.

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System Specifications
Supports iPhone and all iPod models with a 10-pin dock connector. The system supports 1st through 3rd generation iPod models (and other portable music players) via a 3.5-mm auxiliary input. Also, it uses the Apple Universal Dock specification.

What’s in the Box
Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime speaker system, AC adapter, advanced wireless remote, detachable AM antenna, Universal Dock adapters, quick-start guide, user’s manual, and 2 year limited hardware warranty.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great Itouch Speaker
I am using 1st generation itouch. I’ve been looking an ipod/iphone speaker with alarm clock, and compare with other brands’ product, I like this one the best. It has a cool look, good sound effect, useful functions, and good price. I would definitely recommend this product.

5 Stars Excellent iPod Alarm Clock
This item is great. I recommend it.

I bought an iHome alarm clock in an attempt to use our 5th generation iPod Video as the music source for the alarm sound. After a lot of messing around and testing and days of troubleshooting… it simply did not work. Supposed to, but didn’t.

This Logitech Anytime unit is wonderful. Right out of the box I followed the simple quick-start instructions and was up and running 5 minutes later. But most alarm clocks are like that. The real test is getting the iPod as the alarm source. In the next 5 or 10 minutes I was able to test my iPod’s use as an alarm source to wake up to my playlist’s music. It works flawlessly.

There are two alarm time settings this unit remembers. Useful for two different people that need to get up at different times, or you can use the second alarm time as an “oh crap 1-hour later alarm really really get out of bed” for example. They’re Alarm #1 and Alarm #2. Each one has it’s own time setting as well as it’s own source setting. So you could have alarm #1 set at 5am with the iPod as the alarm sound source (or the buzzer or the radio), and alarm #2 set at 8:30am with the buzzer as the alarm source (or the iPod, or the Radio). Both can use the same source so it’s totally configurable.

The unit is really small. Smaller than a loaf of bread in a bag for example. It’s speakers play the music really well. The sound is distinct and nice. I’m sure that there are people that will compare this unit’s speakers with larger “iPod speaker systems” and conclude that they could be better, but you know what?… they sound just fine. No crackles, not a light tingy sound, not too rich and deep… just good enough to enjoy music and more than good as an alarm clock.

When the iPod is set as the source and the alarm goes off the unit will automatically look for a specific “Alarm 1″ or “Alarm 2″ playlist in your iPod. If it finds one of them (for the associated alarm in question) it’ll play music in Shuffle mode from one of those playlists. So you can totally customize what music should be used as alarm music. If however you don’t have those playlists on your iPod the unit will just resume playback from whatever playlist was last played from.

When the alarm time goes off, the music doesn’t just abruptly start playing. The unit will start off the music quietly and slowly over the course of a few seconds increase more and more the volume until it’s at the wake-up audio level.

The way to stop the alarm is really neat. You simply wave your hand over the top and a little sensor will detect the motion and shut off the music. It’s also the way to illuminate the controls if you need to see them in the dark for some reason.

The unit has a backup 9volt battery that it uses for remembering the time settings if the power goes out. If the power does go out and the music source was set to iPod, the buzzer will sound instead because it won’t have enough power to run/command the iPod.

If the unit has power from the wall it will charge your iPod, although if the iPod is actively being used to listen to music it won’t charge until the iPod itself is off. The iPod mounts to the unit via the standard Apple Dock Connector slot on the bottom of the iPod itself. There are different snap-on mounting guides to help different iPod models all stay put and mount properly.

The orange lighted display is very clear and easy to read at night.

This unit has more features than what I need. I needed an iPod alarm clock and it’s great! I’ve tossed my iHome unit because this Logitech Anytime unit works flawlessly. I recommend it.

5 Stars Much better than our previous alarm clock
This is easy to use. My wife enjoys waking up to the iPod, i need the crazy beeping (luckily I get up last). The sound is really good for an alarm clock. The bose ipod docs sound slightly better and have a more full rich sound but we really wanted/needed an alarm clock.

4 Stars A very good iPod alarm clock
After approximately two months of using this product every day, I can recommend it as a very good alarm clock with iPod capability.

My expectation for such a device is that it has to function very well as an alarm clock first and foremost, and then the iPod integration after that.

I am happy to report that it does a very good of being an alarm clock. The only feature that I miss from my previous alarm clock is a gradual volume on the buzzer. I’m a light sleeper, and it doesn’t take a loud noise to wake me up. For an alarm clock advertised as “premium” such a feature should be included. Fortunately, the iPod integration helps in that regard, which I’ll get to shortly.

The dual alarms work very well, and having the choice of buzzer, radio, iPod, and auxiliary input for the alarm is welcome. The motion sensor makes it easy to use the alarm clock at night, and waving your hand over the display to snooze is an ingenious way to make use of that sensor. The snooze button is also easily reached without looking at the unit.

The iPod integration is well done, in my opinion. It charged my 5th gen 30GB iPod with no problem, and I was able to navigate the menus using the iPod, the buttons on the unit, and the remote control. There are three shortcut buttons on the Pure-Fi Anytime and on its remote that give you fast access to three playlists (labeled 1, 2, and 3) that you pre-configure. You are also able to set two alarm playlists (alarm1 and alarm2) on your iPod, which will play if you select iPod as your alarm choice.

The audio quality of the Pure-Fi Anytime is standard clock radio fare. Given its price, you’re not going to get a lot of dynamic range from the speakers, but this isn’t any different than other clock radios in this price range. At very low volumes, there is a soft white noise that is noticeable, but it is not overly distracting. During normal listening, even at soft volumes, I haven’t noticed it.

Overall, I am impressed by the integration of clock radio and the iPod that Logitech has done here. I like that the iPod is nestled into the unit instead of sticking up from the top like so many others. There is no chance that you will knock the iPod from its base while fumbling for the snooze button.

The only cons I can come up with are that the glossy finish does attract fingerprints (but it does match my black iPod nicely), the AC adaptor wall-wart is larger than I’ve ever seen for a clock radio, and certain keypresses will cause the clock to emit a rather large beep as an acknowledgement, which can be unsettling if you are trying to set something after your partner has gone to sleep already.

Good alarm clock operation, good iPod integration, remote, and decent sound quality make this an alarm clock worth owning!

5 Stars Good iPod player - with alarm built in
I’ve mostly used this as an iPod “radio,” plugging into the unit’s dock and playing tunes while the iPod charges up. The sound quality is quite good, and it can play fairly loudly without any noticeable distortion — the speakers seem well-engineered to amplify the digital signal from the iPod files. I have only experimented a little with the alarm function, but haven’t (yet) encountered the cutting-out bug described by other users. All in all, I’m pretty happy with the player — it seems like a pretty solid component and well worth the money.

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