Shortcomings in the operation

On the whole I am satisfied with the part. As for the actual main function - waking by simulated sunrise - there's nothing to complain about, that works well.
30 minutes before your set wake up the lamp with low brightness begins to glow and increases its brightness to the set maximum brightness (20 steps). For alarm then is added audio, so depending on the setting one of several Naturwecktönen or radio.
The lamp is at max. Brightness really very bright, despite energy-saving LED technology. Any whir from the power supply is not heard (was a problem with some Philips lamps).
The radio is very simple (no RDS, no preset buttons), but received strong and not noisy.
The sound is - for my needs - good. The alarm tones are rather poor, the bird calls go, the rest you can forget.
The ability to be awakened by his own music is practically non-existent. Although the alarm has a line-in jack, to which one could connect an MP3 player, then the player should be switched on at bedtime and go through the whole night, yes ... that's so useless. In the next generation there is hopefully a USB port for flash drive or an SD card slot.

But the biggest shortcoming is the operation of the alarm clock. The function keys are located around the display and distributed the label must be read in the dark NOT - to the lamp turn on, you have to know by heart, which key should be pressed. When the lamp is on, you can label the way also do not realize because you will be blinded by the light. It is better if the keys by the dimming backlight of the display would be the same with-backlit would ...

Big crap is that you have to hold the unit while pressing the keys with the other hand, otherwise you push away the whole unit. On top of the device has a large button with test or snooze function, which can be prima palpate and press-handed. I wish that were instead just a switch for light on / off. And it would be best if Medisana right next to it still a big key for "Ringer off" would set, then you would need the fiddly buttons around the display only for rare settings.

Another shortcoming, but that's at the Philips equipment as well: The alarm clock has no power reserve! In case of power failure all settings are gone. I do not understand why the producers save pennies production costs calculated here.

Despite the flaws, I'm happy because there is nothing better in this price range. The new Philips generation, now also with LEDs is equal to at least twice the price!