Robin Digital Day Clock, Your Choice

The good: * Good display. * Easy to set up * Lots of display languages * Showing what part of day it is (Morning, evening, etc.) is fantastic. * They thought of a lot of things, like locking the settings so they can't be changed accidentally. The bad: * Considering they invested so much in displaying many languages, it was very disappointing that the talking clock remains in English only, and there's no mention or acknowledgement of this in the manual or in the product page. If it can display a language, it should also be able to speak it when stating the time. * It's marketed as automatic DST that you don't have to adjust manually. In reality, you can choose Auto DST for US or Europe. For any other country you would have to activate DST yourself. Disappointing. * Entering birthdays and events is really nice, however it is very exhausting. You have to type everything in using a virtual keyboard that you need to navigate by using left, right, up, down buttons, so it takes forever. Plus, you need to enter an alarm time for each individual birthday, and it will default to the current minutes each time, so you have to change the time for each birthday. just have a universal time for alarms and allow to override a specific one if necessary. And maybe allow connecting a keyboard through the USB to save set up time. Or better yet, have an app or something that allows you to create events and sync to the device. Could be better: * The buttons are incredibly hard and clicky. Maybe the reasoning is to not allow them to be easily pressed accidentally, but this makes every setup and change really annoying. * The two main buttons that will likely be used the most are the nap button and the talking time button. Despite that, they do not differ from the rest of the buttons. Not in size, not in color and not in feel. I believe they should have had visiable indications or label on the front, or at least be bigger and colorful to draw attention. As they are, I believe my father won't remember which does what, and will have a hard time seeing, feeling them, or remembring what they do. ************* Update: The customer service team contacted me to enquire about my comments. They mentioned they will pass on the information to the development team and offered a partial refund. I'm happy to see that the product is backed by an active and receptive company, and am looking forward to having some of my issues improved with future software updates or hardware iterations. Thanks!