Alarms are a must-have if you want to make sure you get up at the right time each morning. I’ve tried to use my phone as an alarm and it does work, but there have been times when the phone dies during the night and I slept in. Until I tried out the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 with wireless charging pad, I had no idea just how much I needed an alarm clock upgrade.
The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is a touchscreen alarm clock with Google Assistant built-in. It has a wireless charging pad on the side that keeps your phone charged while you sleep, and it can stream music, play your wake-up or sleep routine, control your smart home devices, and it even has a nightlight.
Features and appearance of Lenovo Smart Clock 2
The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is quite small, so it won’t take up a lot of space on your end table. With the charging pad it measures 21.97 cm (8.64 in) x 8.28 cm (3.25 in) x 10.69 cm (4.20 in). The touchscreen is 4 inches, but it’s very bright and easy to see from a distance. It has a great design with a fabric cover, and it’s available in blue and grey.
- A smart clock you can use as just an alarm clock or as a hub to control your smart home devices
- The clock is detachable from the wireless charging pad
- Built-in Google Assistant so you can use the Google Good Morning Routine to wake up and the Good Night routine to go to sleep
- Wireless charging pad gives you a quick charge and you can charge up to 2 devices at once as well as plugin a device via the back USB port
- Built-in night light provides a nice glow when you need to see in the dark
- Easy set up via Google Home app
Tech built into Lenovo Smart Clock 2
The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 has a lot of updated tech onboard. It runs the Android 10 operating system, has a MediaTek™ MT8167S processor (1.50 GHz), 1 GB memory, and an 8GB Flash hard drive. The 4.0″ LCD IPS touchscreen is very responsive, and it streams music via a 1.5″ 3W speaker with air duct design.
To connect to your phone and other devices the Smart Clock 2 has Bluetooth 4.2 and 802.11AC wireless. One feature it doesn’t have is a camera, and in my opinion, it’s a great feature to skip on an alarm clock. I have other displays I can use as cameras, so it’s nice to keep the alarm clock just as a multi-functional clock and not a way to video chat.
Setting up Lenovo Smart Clock 2
If you have the Google Home app and you own other smart home devices, you’ll find setting up the Smart Clock 2 to be very quick and easy. You’ll just open the Google Home app on your phone, find new devices, and tap to add the smart clock. Once it’s added you can assign the clock to a room and set it up to use with your other smart devices.
How to use the Lenovo Smart Clock 2
The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 has quite a few different uses. It can be used as an alarm clock, as a wireless charging station, speaker for streaming music, nightlight, or hub for your smart home devices.
Alarm clock on Smart Clock 2
Waking up with the Smart Clock 2 is so much nicer than a regular alarm clock. Because it’s a smart display you can stream your favourite music as a wake-up or change up your alarm sounds anytime you’d like to. This is really helpful if you become accustomed to sleeping through all of your really loud alarm sounds, and you can have the volume set as high or low as you’d like.
With the Lenovo Smart Clock 2, you can use Google’s Good Morning and Good Night routines. Once your alarm goes off and you’re waking up you can say, “Good Morning” or touch the display and Google will kick off your morning routine. My routine includes a recap of the weather, whether I have anything scheduled for that day, and then a highlight reel of local news. The Good Night routine asks you to set an alarm for the next day and plays sleep sounds. The default is night noises like crickets, but we always change it to ocean sounds or rain.
You can choose whether to have the nightlight on or off, but I left it on while getting ready to sleep because it gives off a very cozy glow. If you sleep right beside the clock you can turn the brightness of the screen all the way down so it doesn’t glow at night.
Using the Smart Clock 2 as a daily assistant
You can change the clock faces on the Smart Clock 2 to a few different styles or use your own photos as a clock face. If you use your photos you’ll have to save them to the Google Photos app as an album before you can stream them to your smart clock.
With Google Assistant on board, the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is much more than an alarm clock. You can use voice commands to find out your schedule for that day, set a reminder, set a timer, listen to a podcast, or add to your grocery list. You can also use your clock to control your other smart home devices, so if you’d like to lock your back door or turn off your smart lights, all you have to do is ask your clock.
Audio quality on Lenovo Smart Clock 2
The Smart Clock 2 has front-firing speakers that are specifically tuned for clear vocals and improved tone. Voice commands come through clearly, and audio sound great when you’re streaming from Spotify or another music app. The far-field microphone can pick up your voice from across the room very easily.
Charging your devices using the wireless charging pad
One of the best features of the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is the wireless charging pad. It gives you space to wirelessly charge your phone, and if you’d like to charge another device you can plug into the USB-A port on the back of the clock.
The charging pad worked perfectly on my iPhone 12, and it even charges through my clear case. Normally I have to take my case off to charge on a charging pad, so it’s nice when you don’t. It gives you a fast charge too, and I was able to charge from 10% to 50% in about 10 minutes.
Should you choose the Lenovo Smart Clock 2?
The Smart Clock 2 is easy to use and extremely versatile. After having it on my nightstand for a week I’ve come to really rely on the nightlight that glows when I set my phone down, and it’s so nice to not have to use my phone as an alarm. It’s become my go-to charger because of how fast it works.
My favourite feature is the wakeup Sunrise Alarm feature. It will brighten the screen before your alarm is going to turn on, and in a dark room on a winter morning, it’s a great way to wake up.
One of the only downsides is that you can’t watch video on the 4″ screen. I can understand that as it’s a bit too small to offer a great experience, but if you’re choosing the Smart Clock 2 you’re probably looking for a great alarm clock and not a video player. It definitely is that.
You can find the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 on Best Buy right now.
I would ask the Google assistant to play my favourite radio station every morning when i get up.
I would love to have the Smart Clok 2, the alarm clock I have now really frustrates me. Half of the time I give up because I can’t get it to set properly for me, and if I have an early appointment with one of my specialist doctors I have to hope I wake up on time. So I don’t sleep well that night thinking I am going to sleep in. AThis makes me very tired the next day. I would love the night light, right now I leave thehall light on and it’s too bright.I have to grab my cane or walker to use the bathroom through the night if I have to go, so that is why I need a little light to see them. This clock would help many of my poblems all in one machine.
Listening to the news and charging my phone overnight are great features. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would use Google assistant to control the lights
I would use the built-in Google Assistant to check on the weather in AM. Help me plan my day
My apartment is pretty dark so the fact that I could use Google assist to help me turn on and off the lights would be a huge help.
I would us the Google assistant to check the weather before getting up, queue up my favourite music or podcast, syncing it with my smart home features like the room temperature and the lights.
I would totally set up routines with Google Assistant and have my favourite podcasts put me to sleep.
I would ask the google assistant to give me a weather report when it wakes me up in the morning.
I often get into bed and wonder if I have turned out the lights in the basement and locked all the doors. The Google Assistant would give me the peace of mind knowing that is being taken care of!
I would use the assistant to control lights around the appartment
Setting morning and night routines
I would use Google Assistant to check the weather and news headlines for me in the morning.
Wow great review I learned so much and am really interested in this product now. Would be great to use the google assistant to to creat a grocery list off the top of my head
Listening to the news and the ability to charge my phone overnight are great features. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love the availability to recharge my phone on my nightstand. The cool photo display is a real winner for me too. Great product and blog review.
Catchin the news and making lists would be the main use for now…
I would listen to the news while I get ready for work
Google assistant is great to have in a device like this. I would use it in connection with my other smart devices to control my house. It is super nice to have an all on one device that shows time/weather and charges devices as well.
Just to check the weather
I would use the google assistant to catch up on the morning news and sports
Great way to check the weather in the morning.
I would use the google assist to find out about the weather, temperature, news and my appointments.
Great features, they are all nice, if I had to pick just one it would definitely be the google assistant for sure. Everything nice though.
I’d ask Google Assistant about the temperature & weather each morning as I have 3 dogs that are eagerly awaiting their walks the second I open my eyes lol.. Would love to have this on my bedside table!!
Great review Shelly. There are so many amazing features to this “Smart Clock 2”. I would love the feature to wake up and ask Google about the weather and catch up on the news. Also, the feature to control lights, door locks, and more. I especially love that I can put my own photos on the screen. Love seeing the many pictures of my grandkids. Would be great to get up to in the morning. I love them to the moon and back!
I would use google assistant to first check the day’s appointments and then the weather in the morning. That would be a key benefit!
i would use the google assistant in many ways, but which would be the best is to tell me of my daily appointments for the day! a great reminder tool ! 😉
I think using the google assistant to check the weather in the morning would be helpful.
I think Google Assistant would be handy in checking the traffic each morning before i head out to work. Might make me be on time more often
I would use Google Assistant to remind me of my daily schedule.
I would get the weather each morning and I love the sunrise Alarm feature too
Weather information at the start of the day is the perfect use of Google Assistant
I’d use it to try to get up earlier in the morning 🙂
It would be used for listening to podcasts
I would use the Google assistant to tell me the news
I would use the ‘white noise’ feature to help my wife get to sleep. We currently run the loudest fan we own even in winter. I would charge my phone which is always dead. And wake up to the weather so I can decide whether to get up and fish or sleep in. To cap it off, I would stream the song Perfect Symphony with Sheeran and Bocelli to get me going just in case it isn’t fishing weather.
I would use the google assistant to set reminders.
I would rather that it brigtens my days before it brightens the screen, I want to win it for the things it should be doing instead of repeating the same commands on another screen.
I get the weather on my smartphone, on my laptop and, I get to turn off and turn on whatever I need when I need it. I want to win it if I can do more. What else does it do, Mr. LENOVO?
I was sure that a Smart Clock automatically did what it says here Shelley.
That I could program it for the rest of the stuff I need to do.
After all, when I have to remind it to do its job, Lenovo is actually adding more unnecessary and repetitive tasks. I wanna win it anyways if I can program it my way.
I would use the google assistant to listen to a podcast.
Setting up morning and bedtime routines, especially hearing the weather first thing in the morning is super helpful.
I would use it for voice commands. I would listen to podcasts and I would set a reminder for later in the day. I would like changing the clock face on a regular basis with photos or different fonts.
I would use Google Assistant to check on the weather.
I would get google assistant to play my favorite tunes first thing in the morning!
I would use Google Assistant to check on the weather for the day.
The Sunrise Alarm feature that will brighten the screen before your alarm is going to turn on sounds like the nice way to wake up.
The Sunrise Alarm feature that will brighten the screen before your alarm is going to turn on sounds like the perfect way to wake up.
I would use the Google good morning routine and get a update on weather, news and listen to music as I get ready
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