Naturally, the colour-changing mood lights can be set to react to the music. You could also set one of Beddi’s three smart buttons to trigger a saved playlist directly from Spotify or Apple Music.
#Phone clock radio combination Bluetooth
This is still bright enough for a bleary eye to half open and discern that it’s only 3:27am.īeddi is also a Bluetooth speaker, so you can stream music from your phone either from downloaded files or via any of the popular music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music etc). We liked semi-bright during the day, so we could see the time from across the room, then dropping it down to almost off at sleepy time. We also like that the clock face has four brightness settings, including completely off for total darkness, and you can easily cycle between them all according to your need. We snooze a lot and never missed the button once. The long snooze button, helpfully placed at the front of the top of the clock, has customisable settings. You can set up to four different alarms for different days, according to your schedule.
The alarm sound can be either one of the four regular chimes, an FM radio station or any song from your phone’s music library. With sleep quality high on many people’s agendas, Beddi does its bit for you here, offering a choice of white noise or sounds of nature (wind, fan, rain, ocean, forest) as you drift off to sleep and then gently rousing you with a gradual wake-up process in the morning, using the sunrise simulation soft back-light as a wake-up light up to 30 minutes before your chosen ascending alarm itself begins to sound. The app is where you control Beddi’s advanced functions. Presumably Witti reasoned that why bother reinventing the wheel, building much of that intelligence into Beddi - and significantly inflating the cost - when Beddi can just borrow the smartphone’s brain as and when it needs it? Witti describes Beddi as “Bluetooth enabled and App-controlled”. However, when you pair a smartphone with Beddi, its headline features become available via an app on your smartphone, effectively exploiting your smartphone’s innate intelligence.
Without a smartphone paired with it, Beddi is a digital clock radio, with a decent-sounding pair of speakers for its FM radio, a soft ambient backlight and either static or changing mood lighting all around the base, which can cycle through various pretty colours (a lot nicer than it might sound and rather relaxing, as it turns out). No one is going to be able to infiltrate your Wi-Fi network via Beddi because there isn’t any Wi-Fi onboard! However, while these might sound like technological fails in a smart device in 2017, Beddi still possesses a great deal of charm and appeal, its quirky hybrid ‘smartly dumb ’ approach to operation actually making it joyfully simple but full-featured in use – and hackproof.
It has zero Wi-Fi or other internet connectivity, the radio is FM not Internet or DAB and there’s no direct docking facility for the smartphone device that Beddi needs in order to unlock its more intelligent features. It is in this spirit that Witti Design created Beddi, “the intelligent alarm clock” - although, as it turns out, Beddi is not quite as intelligent as you might initially expect. Thanks to the burgeoning Internet of Things and a world of ‘smart’ devices, almost every standard household appliance is being reborn as an ‘intelligent ’ device, connected to at least one other equally intelligent device in your home.
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