fuzzyT;584461 Wrote: 
> Mr. Deadbeef, just quit trying to use it as an alarm clock.  It stinks 
> at that.  Great table radio though.
Yeah, I bought it as bedside radio clock. Is is so strange to expect
that a device that was advertised as bedside radio, that features a
dedicated alarm button and that was praised to have an improved wakeup
mechanism (featuring a 2nd low power CPU that serves as real time clock
and wakes up the radio before an alarm) actually has a working alarm?

Besides: it's not only the alarm. The whole software concept is crap.
It was obviously designed and implemented by people who don't have the
slightest knowledge about robustness and realtime systems. Or at least
some common sense. Indeed, it's hard to imagine that any experienced
developer worked on this. How is it possible that a device doesn't even
react correctly to the simplest of commands and there was not the
slightest improvement in whole year after the original release?

Every single morning the alarm fails this way or the other. When the
alarm stopped for no reason and I press the OFF button, it starts
again. Sometimes the doorstopper switches itself on and every single
time I try to shut it down, it restarts instead. Sometimes it freezes
completely, sometimes menu items are missing, sometimes it claims there
is no WLAN until I reboot it, sometimes it claims it can't connect to
MYSB until I reboot it. Let's say: it really keeps my busy, but it
never just simply works.

Now really, I own quite a lot of cheap Chinese crap product, but the
greatest disappointment and biggest cause of daily pain in my crap
gadget collection is by far that dreaded Radio. How can a large company
like Logitech fail so miserably to develop something so simple? How is
it possible that they didn't realize months ago how broken the Radio is
and that they really need to work out an emergency plan to get the
software to a level that is at least acceptable before they ruin the
reputation of the whole product line?

This is really completely beyond my imagination.

As a side note: one year ago, I really wanted to update my SB3 to a
Touch. I wanted to buy a Touch as present for my sister and at least
two of my colleagues were interested in the Touch because I praised my
SB3 so much and the Touch seemed to be better in every possible way.
Thank God it was delayed...


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