Previously, I wrote about my first impression of the Mi4004 iWake Clock Radio for iPod and had some consternation over a little audible hard drive noise.
Well, two other shortcomings in the iWake make that concern seem like small potatoes. First, as my wife pointed out almost immediately, the iWake offers no radio presets. Sure, it has a digital tuner, and you can have each of the two alarms wake up to a different radio station, but it doesn't have any station memory presets. So, if you want to change stations, you have to scroll through the digital dial. Not horrible, but a bit pointless.
Second, and perhaps most incredible, is that you cannot set the volume level for the alarm. It starts out at volume level "6" and increments up to "12" over a span of about 20 seconds. By my standards, "6" is way, way too loud for an alarm clock. This is my wife's alarm...she gets up about 90 minutes before I do. It takes something on the order of an atomic blast to wake me up, usually, but this thing had me leaping out of bed as soon as it turned on. It's pretty ridiculous that you can't have it start out at zero and gradually increase into the audible range.
So, back to the store it goes...and for good, this time. :-(
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