Philips USA AJL308 Clock Radio with 7" TFT LCD Color Display and USB/SD Card Slot | 
| Brand: Philips
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $75.95
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Rating:  43 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 3.7 x 8.2 x 6.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: AJL308
Model: AJL308
UPC: 609585142480
EAN: 0609585142480
ASIN: B000U6LEGS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New In Original Retail Box. Never Opened. Never Used. Expedited Shipping Available.
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| Features:
| • | 7" widescreen TFT color display for easy viewing of clock, radio and calendar | | • | MP3, WMA, JPEG, DivX and MPEG4 file support | | • | USB and SD /MMC card slot for photos, music and video clips | | • | Preloaded nature sounds and relaxation music | | • | FM digital tuning with 20 presets, dual alarm time and gentle wake with increasing alarm volume. |
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Product Description
The AJL308 Clock Radio with 7" color display and handy USB/SD card slot can help you start your day right. Effective-viewing area - 6.07 x 3.41 inches (154.1x86.6 mm) LCD panel type - Anti-glare polarizer Pixel pitch - Width 0.107 x Height 0.370mm Resolution - Width 480 x Height 234 x RGB 3 Response time (typical) - 30 ms Wake up to sounds of nature and start a fresh new day Preloaded relaxation music lets you fall asleep peacefully Enjoy music or radio channels while photo viewing Your favorite photo or image by your bedside Gentle wake with increasing alarm volume FM digital tuning with presets Dual alarm time USB flash drive Memory Card Access - SD/MMC card slot Dual alarm time, Nature sound, Buzzer Alarm Sleep Timer - Nature sound and Relaxation music White Backlight Color Digital Clock/Version Auto digital tuning Tuner Bands - FM Compression format - MP3, WMA Loudspeaker types - Bass Reflex Speaker System Output power (RMS) - 2x0.6W Sound System - Stereo Speaker diameter - 32mm Volume Control up/down Playback Media - DivX, MPEG4 Picture compression format - JPEG Picture enhancement - Slideshow with MP3 playback Dimensions - 8.21 x 6.63 x 3.59 inches (208.5 x 168.5 x 91.2 mm)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Toying with perfection September 18, 2007
Michael Ellars (Los Angeles, California)
99 out of 101 found this review helpful
There is a lot to love about this product. It's sleek. It's stylish. It's bright, bold and clear. (It can be dimmed!) It's a clock-radio with two independent alarms that also plays audio files (.mp3 and .wma), video (mpeg4 and divx codices) and photo slide shows (.jpg only). It has built-in "relaxation" sounds to help you fall asleep. It has so much going for it! And just when you think it can't get any better...
It doesn't get better. It slips a little. You start thinking to yourself, "If only..." and "Why didn't they just take the next step?" Why isn't there a tiny bit of built-in memory so that I don't need a SD card or USB stick to be attached to change the cute-but-becoming-annoying default photo? Why can't I select an audio file on the SD or USB as my alarm music? Why only three built-in sounds for the "relaxation" music? Why isn't there an AM tuner? Why isn't there a headphone jack? Why can I only display JPEG-format images? For a widescreen 7" LCD picture frame, why is the resolution only 480 x 234? Why isn't there a back-up battery?
This is such a near-perfect little gadget that it's painful to see how close Philips came to making the best device on the market. Yet despite these flaws, it is still so wonderful that it demands four stars. Lucky for Philips, there don't seem to be any viable alternatives with all of the features it does have at this price point... yet.
And regarding the day-of-the-week issue: Philips posted a firmware update on their Web site on September 14, 2007, that fixes this issue. Visit the Philips Web site, type in "AJL308" to find the product page, select the Support link tab (just above and to the right of the product image), and scroll down to the Software section. There is a PDF read-me file and a ZIP file with the actual firmware update. Read the PDF and carefully follow its directions to update the firmware. You'll need a USB drive to transfer the firmware update to your AJL308, and it takes several minutes to complete the update, but once it's done the day of the week should be correct.
 Form over Function December 11, 2007
RainmanRD (Wexford, Pa. USA)
86 out of 95 found this review helpful
You'll be impressed when you take this unit out of the box...a very handsome design, until you turn it on. There are two fatal flaws, and several annoyances. First, even in "dim" setting, the considerable real estate on the 7" LCD gives off so much light that you can read a newspaper in the room (I tried it!). I would need eyeshades to sleep in the same room. (You get the choice of red, green, blue, and purple "wallpaper", but NOT black, which would have solved this problem, at least at night). Second, and I can't believe this: a full half of the screen in "clock" mode is taken up by the picture frame. However, you have three choices for that half of the screen (which you will be seeing all night long): 1. You can forever look at the picture of two people that Philips has selected to be your permanent roommates, or 2. You can load your own photo, BUT that will require you to have a USB memory stick permanently protruding from the left side of the unit, or 3. Buy a separate SD Card and somehow figure out how to get your picture loaded onto it. (The unit has no internal memory, so when you remove the memory stick or card, you can only see the default picture, and it can NOT be turned off!)
Now, the annoyances: This unit is multi-functional, but none of the functions are designed to work together. For instance, you may select "photo/video" mode and view your pictures in sequence (the random setting does not seem to work), which makes this a mediocre digital picture frame. However, when you return to "clock" mode, you will NOT see the slideshow of all of your pictures, only the first picture on the stick (you can't select), or worse, the default picture.
Next, you can not set view your alarm settings while in "tuner" (radio) mode. It's one or the other. If you want to change your alarm setting, you must select "clock" which turns the radio off, and vice versa.
I consider this product to be completely unusable as a bedroom alarm clock. It seems to have been designed by committee, with no one talking to each other, and no one having tried to live with the final product.
Nice hardware, poor software October 20, 2007
TJS (SF Bay Area)
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
A previous reviewer pretty much pegged it: stylish hardware, nice screen, nothing else I've seen quite like it at this price point. But oh, where did they go to get the software??? Imagine: file names with only the first six characters displayed; no effective way to navigate among (thousands of) music or picture files; white borders on the sides of standard 4:3 ratio pictures contrasting glaringly with the glossy black frame; or, use the 16:9 screen format and just not show people's heads; no slide show in Clock mode and no way to permanently replace the default picture that someone at Philips at least seems to like; and then there's the randomizer that doesn't really seem to. The operation of the unit isn't exactly intuitive either, and the documentation doesn't cover all features. They could easily fix most of the shortcomings in a software update, but remarkably enough the Philips website doesn't have a way for you to submit suggestions or complaints (that's a 'future'). A great pity, because they almost got it right on this one.
One Fatal Flaw September 21, 2007
Paul of California (Los Angeles, CA USA)
32 out of 40 found this review helpful
It is a great idea, but has one fatal flaw: when displaying the clock, it cannot show a slide show for the picture by the clock.
You can use it for a slideshow frame, you can use it for an alarm clock, but you cannot use it for an alarm clock with a slideshow.
I returned it as a result of this.
Great, except for 1 major flaw... September 10, 2007
David
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Great looking product that is very easy to use. Would be 5 stars except for 1 major flaw...
When setting the date, the day display in not correct. For example, if you set the date to Sep. 10, 2007, it will display Sunday instead of Monday. Have had the same issue with 2 models now, and in store model had the same issue.
Other minor issues is that you must have a USB or SD card inserted (not included) to change the default photo the clock comes with. Not a big deal except that the USB port is on the side of the unit, so you will have an ugly USB sticking out of the clock.
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