Does anyone still use a clock radio or traditional alarm clock

I just had a random thought and was curious am I about the only person that still uses a clock radio/alarm clock instead of using their phone?

I have an alarm clock (no radio though)

Old school digital clock radio with battery backup when at home and the cell phone when traveling.

GT

I would guess most people use their smart phones today for wake ups. Since I have not worked since 2014 and retired I get to use natures alarm clock.......when I wake up........lol.

My daughter has one for when we take her phone away and she has to use that.


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I have a sunrise alarm clock. It's been a game changer for my morning routine. I'm a night owl. I don't even bother setting an alarm on my phone anymore. I wake up gradually over 15-20 minutes. It is so much nicer than the abrupt wake-up a-la the Groundhog Day gif posted above.
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Still do, though it almost never wakes me up. Once last year??? I am awake every morning at 4 AM, regardless of what I am doing.

My daughter still has a clock. But I think she uses her phone for an alarm. The last clock we had in our bedroom ended up in the front yard around 2am one night. It was one of those that set automatically to the atomic clock or whatever. Apparently it decided to set the time for whatever it wanted and the last time the alarm went off at 2am my wife tossed it out the front door.

I only need one a handful of times per year (to wake up for early flights) but when I do I use my phone.

I use my phone. When I work, I wake up at a different time in a different timezone every day. I'd use hotel wakeup calls, but they always confuse the hell out of me. I just wish you could set the iPhone alarm to use a gradually ascending volume for the alarm. I had a Nokia that did that in 2005 and it was the best alarm I ever had.

no cell phone here, so yes. but only for the days that i need to wake up at a certain time! lol

Good to know I'm not alone on this one, I guess I've just gotten used to looking over at the time on the clock and I don't feel like picking up my phone in the middle of the night.

I still use a traditional style alarm clock, ours projects the time on the ceiling so we can both see what time it is.

ajaf1656 said:

I use my phone. When I work, I wake up at a different time in a different timezone every day. I'd use hotel wakeup calls, but they always confuse the hell out of me. I just wish you could set the iPhone alarm to use a gradually ascending volume for the alarm. I had a Nokia that did that in 2005 and it was the best alarm I ever had.

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If you use the iPhone stock 'Bedtime' app, located in the factory 'clock' app, you can set a nice slow ascending volume alarm. It was a game changer when my daughter was born and sleeping in our room in her bassinet.

GT500-2007 said:

Old school digital clock radio with battery backup when at home and the cell phone when traveling.

GT

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I have one that projects on the ceiling, my Lady can keep track of how long I'm in the saddle. Things don't happen as fast at 73.......lol

Been using the same alarm clock I have had since the mid 90's. If it works, why change?

Pribilof said:

I have a sunrise alarm clock. It's been a game changer for my morning routine. I'm a night owl. I don't even bother setting an alarm on my phone anymore. I wake up gradually over 15-20 minutes. It is so much nicer than the abrupt wake-up a-la the Groundhog Day gif posted above.
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Interesting I didn't even know this was a thing. I'm not so sure the gradual would work for me, I'm such a heavy sleeper I almost have to be scared but a sudden loud alarm to wake my ass up. Usually its my wife forcing me to get up because I've snoozed and slept through all 3 alarms on my phone and never knew it. I will see screenshots saved in my phone of my alarm clock screen from me squeezing buttons until it stops making noise only to capture screen shots over and over lol

GT500-2007 said:

Old school digital clock radio with battery backup when at home and the cell phone when traveling.

GT

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