

Turn this on, and the screen on the Lenovo Smart Clock will gradually start getting brighter 30 minutes before your scheduled alarm. My favorite feature of the bunch is the sunrise function. This routine won't trigger when you snooze, just when you stop your alarm for good. You can also customize the routine to control your smart home devices and more in the Google Home app. Your alarm can trigger your good morning routine, which will tell you about your calendar and play the news by default. You can change the alarm tones, the snooze length and the volume of the alarm (separate from the volume of the speaker). You can set multiple alarms and customize each one. It will suggest alarms based on your first appointment the next day. You can set an alarm with a voice command to the Google Nest Hub, so you can use it to wake you up, but the Lenovo Smart Clock is designed for that task. It offers enough info that you could reasonably turn off your phone without the temptation to keep consuming the vast content of the internet anyway. What remains makes sense for your bedside and for the things you need to know when you're going to sleep or first waking up. Lenovo was intentional with the features left out of the Smart Clock. You can still see the most pressing pieces of info - you can check on your security cam, look at your calendar, and see the forecast and your commute. If you want to limit screen time for yourself and your family, the Lenovo Smart Clock offers a viable alternative. For certain families, that more limited functionality will be a good thing.

The Lenovo Smart Clock is closer in functionality to a smart speaker as the touchscreen only offers a few prescribed functions while still letting you issue any of Google Assistant's recognized voice commands.
