Lenovo Smart Clock Essential, an useful bedside timepiece

The simple bedside alarm clock is a timeless concept, offering you a quick and convenient way to see all the information you need as soon as you wake up. However, the analogue time companions are now turned into smart timepieces. Today, Lenovo Smart Clock Essential will be reviewed.

Design and specifications

Smart Clock Essential has a 4-inch monochrome LED non-touch display. It shows the time, day of the week, and a weather report for the location that you define using the Google Home app. The screen also displays symbols for active alarms, when set. At the top of the screen is a set of four lights that illuminate when the volume is being adjusted, or to let you know that the device is listening for voice commands after the wake words have been spoken.

For voice commands and controls, the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential uses Google Assistant, and it works like any other Google Assistant-powered smart device. The speaker has a rated output of 3W, and is at the top of the Smart Clock Essential, firing upwards. There’s dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 for connectivity, 4GB of RAM, and an Amlogic processor powering the device. Interestingly, there is also a night light around the back of its body, with a rated brightness of up to 31 lumens.

Features and performance

The display of the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential is additional to the full-fledged smart speaker functionality. It is uncomplicated and does exactly what it’s supposed to, showing basic information such as the time, weather, and day of the week.

Since the device doesn’t have a touch screen, there are buttons to control some functions, including adjusting the volume, playing and pausing content and setting alarms.

Interestingly, the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential also has a night light at the back, which can be turned on and off using voice commands. It’s useful to have, and the soft lighting, working just as a small night light would.

Sound quality on the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential isn’t particularly good; the odd angle of the speaker, its size and output rating, and the sonic signature itself make for a shrill sound.

Price: This is actually an upcoming product. The price will be around Tk 5000.