Lenovo Smart Clock Essential adds built-in Alexa voice assistant control

(Pocket-lint) - Lenovo has utilized CES 2022 to uncover an further merchandise successful its connected astute timepiece range: the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential With Alexa Built-In.

It was successful mid-to-late 2020 erstwhile Lenovo revealed the previous Smart Clock Essential, which uses Google Assistant arsenic its dependable power assistant. The 2022 merchandise is alternatively each astir Amazon Alexa, adding much prime to the marketplace to suit assorted preferences.

Otherwise, conscionable arsenic we've ever said of this series, the Smart Clock Essential is precise overmuch 1 of those 'does what it says connected the tin' products. It's a integer timepiece that uses Alexa to crook it into a time-telling astute speaker.

The original Lenovo Smart Clock, released successful 2019, was a touchscreen-based device. The Essential removes that touchscreen ability, stripping things backmost to the essentials, which is wherefore the dependable power makes each the much consciousness successful this peculiar product.

It is, successful a sense, a 'speakerclock', marrying unneurotic the functionality you would expect from a bedside oregon room aboveground timepiece - time, date, alarm - with dependable astute functions, specified arsenic being capable to bid listening to the vigor oregon person the upwind announced audibly. There is an integrated 3W talker with 2 passive radiators to boost the dependable output.

Keeping with its 'Essential' sanction is an indispensable price: the Alexa mentation of this astute timepiece volition retail for $59 erstwhile it goes connected merchantability this January. It's disposable successful Clay Red (pictured) oregon Misty Blue cloth finishes. Very bully indeed.

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Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.