Emerson's patented SmartSet® Automatic Time Setting System. The first time you connect this clock radio to your AC outlet it will immediately set itself to the correct year, month, date, day and time in the Eastern Time Zone. If you live in a different time zone there is one simple Time Zone adjustment to make and you will never see the dreaded "flashing 12:00" display again. It will automatically reset itself every time you have a power interruption, and not just the time but your wake-up times as well. Daylight Saving Time and Leap Year adjustments are also done automatically through the year 2099.

User Reviews about Emerson Radio Jumbo Triple Display Dual Alarm AM FM Clock Radio with SmartSet Technology

We like this alarm clock radio so much that we buy it for a gift to high school graduates and friends. I can see it at night without my glasses on. It has two alarm settings and lights to show whether it's set for Monday through Friday or the weekend. This clock radio resets itself after we lose power and automatically when the time springs forward or falls back. I wish all our clocks in our house and cars worked like this. One day they will. It's refreshing to find a product that improves the quality of life and does not cost an arm and a leg. -- Great clock radio that sets itself automatically during time changes

Everything I was looking for. The auto time set is a great feature. The display is easy to see and the wave feature allows you to sleep without light in the room. With just a wave on a hand it lights up and turn off in seconds. The alarm can be set for weekdays only so no chance it will wake you up over the weekend because you forgot to turn it off.
Overall a great product for a very reasonable price. -- Every thing I was looking for and more

I have almost six months experience with this now, having picked it up for myself while out Christmas shopping last year. It's the kind of thing that's more impressive in person than in a picture online; I don't think I would have chosen this one if I hadn't actually seen it first.

The main things I love about this clock radio are the large buttons and number display. I'm very nearsighted, and never before in my life have I had a clock I could read from bed so easily without my glasses--no more scrunching to the edge of the bed, pulling the clock close and squinting. The numbers are almost unbelievably large. It's also very easy to memorize the position and feel of the on/off and sleep buttons. When it's dark and you're groggy, they're easy to find. My previous clock radio, which had a lot more features, had many small buttons which were almost flush to the top surface, and everything was the same silver color. It looked very snazzy, but I was always hitting the wrong button.

It's true that tuning the radio can be tricky, but I grew up with analog tuning and it wasn't too hard to get the knack back. If you have the patience, you can get pretty decent reception of surprisingly distant stations, especially AM stations at night. I'm down in the Philadelphia area, but can reliably get 740 AM in Toronto and 1030 AM in Boston, which can be more fun to listen to before bed than local radio. I use the sleep button pretty often, which turns the radio off in about 30 minutes. It's easy to reset for another 30 minutes. Because the stations I listen to at night will be hardly audible in the morning, I use the beeping alarm, which seems loud enough to me.

It's larger and heavier than you might expect, but it doesn't have a large footprint on your nightstand. It stands vertically and is kind of triangular at the base, so you can put in on a corner, leaving the rest of the surface free. The heft and shape of it make it hard to tip over--which is a good thing if you have a cat like mine, who likes to climb around our heads in the mornings. He hasn't knocked it over yet!

The alarms are easy to set, and it's easy to see at a glance whether the alarms are set and for what time. On my old one, I would have had to go through a routine of holding several tiny buttons down at the same time to see each alarm setting. I've been through one automatic daylight savings time switch-over, and it worked flawlessly.

The only thing I miss is an earphone jack, but it's a trade-off I'm willing to live with.
-- Blessed simplicity

I've been using this alarm clock for about 10 months now.

I had a few problems with other alarm clocks. I went thru 3 of them in less than a year before I found this one.

For me, a common problem is that the 'dim' setting is too bright at night.
The option of having it off completely and having to touch it to see the time is not for me. This one dims down real nice. Could be just a tich dimmer for nighttime, but it's dim enough, and way dimmer than a couple others I had.

Seems like most alarm clocks the numbers are too small to read without my glasses. This one I can read.

Often, finding the alarm off button required engaging too much of my brain just after waking up, and on some the switch turns the alarm really 'off'. This one the alarm off button is big and easy to find, and the alarm stays set to ring again the next day if it is supposed to.

Some people thought the volume was too low. Maybe that's true for the 'beeper'. But when I have the radio option selected, and the volume is turned up, it's LOUD. If I get up without turning the alarm off, I can hear that radio EASY all thru that end of the house as I get ready for work.

Changing the alarm times or weekday/weekend 'modes' is very intuitive. Never need the book. For either alarm1 or alarm2, you start by holding down the alarm1 or alarm2 button. That shows the 'mode'. To change the time, press the big up/down rocker button. To change the mode, press the mode button. Done.

I do have 2 small problems with this clock:
1. The analog radio tuner is ultra low tech. It reminds me of the cheap transistor radios I had as a kid many years ago. My advice: find a strong station and let it be. It will work fine. If you try to use a weaker station, within a week or so, you're likely to hear static instead of music when you wake up.

2. I had to disable the 'wave your hand' snooze feature by putting a piece of black tape over the sensor. I have a big window near the west side foot of my bed, and my alarm clock is at the east side head of my bed. If it's light outside when the alarm goes off, any movement by my leg or arm casts a shadow on the alarm and would activate the snooze. Just reaching for the alarm off button would activate the snooze. But the tape fixed that.
-- Almost perfect

I've been looking for a new alarm clock for several years and have tried a few but have always been disappointed. This is the clock I've been waiting for. First, you can set the alarm to go off every day without having to reset it - when you turn it off in the morning it automatically resets for the next day. The alarms can be set to go off regularly on weekdays, weekends or both. I bought one of these for my 14 year old too, and he now has one fewer excuse for not getting up in the morning. Second, you can see immediately if the alarm is set, and for what time, without having to push any buttons. The front display shows clearly if the alarms are off or on. The best feature for me, however, has turned out to be the setting that allows the display to be totally dark until you make a movement somewhere near the clock. I've always liked a very dark room and most clocks are too bright. Any movement, even rolling over in bed can turn the display on if the clock is facing in the right direction. The clock numbers are large, which I need in order to read it withough glasses. I like this clock! -- I've been waiting a long time for this clock