G-Alarm 2.3 – Easily the best Windows Mobile alarm app to date
G-Alarm
G-Alarm is the best alarm application ever created for Windows Mobile. Scratch that, it’s the best alarm ever. No other alarm app has as many features and performs as well as G-Alarm. In fact, we’ll let you know at the beginning of the review that it’s a five star application. Kind of a backwards way of putting together a review, sure, but that just goes to show you G-Alarm’s magnificence. It’s the app that made the Ageye brand famous and with good reason. If this introduction isn’t enough to get you to download the trial version of G-Alarm, feel free to read the rest of the review.
More and more people are starting to use their mobile devices as their regular alarm clock, so naturally there are a ton of alarm apps available to us. The alarm tool that comes with Windows Mobile by default is as basic as it gets and to be honest, I would rather keep it off. The interface is ugly, it doesn’t have advanced features, and it’s limited to only a few alarm profiles. The good news is that there are many third party alarm apps to choose from. The bad news is that most are just as basic or unattractive as the default alarm. Pleasing graphics may not matter to some people, but there are a lot of benefits that come from well thought out designs. G-Alarm puts together advanced features with fantastic graphics to create the best experience for users.
Software from Ageye is always attractive, G-Alarm included. All the menus and buttons are beautifully skinned with a classy and finger friendly design. From the settings screen to the actual alarm that is displayed when you awake, you will not have any problems navigating. If you dislike the look, you can choose from custom skins on Ageye’s website or even try skinning it yourself. G-Alarm lets you easily change wallpaper from within the settings menu, which is a bonus.
There are plenty of features and settings in G-Alarm to accommodate all types of sleepers. The first thing you will want to do when you install the app is look through the general settings. G-Alarm can use your device’s accelerometer to snooze or turn off an alarm. This can be done by either turning the device face down or by shaking it. Similarly, there’s an option you can choose to use the light sensor to do the same actions. So if the alarm goes off and you turn a light on in the bedroom, the alarm will either snooze or shut off (depending on what you select). One of my favorite features is the “Flightmode” setting. If you enable this option, the phone will go into airplane mode while you’re sleeping and will reactivate the phone radio when the alarm goes off. This ensures that you get uninterrupted sleep and excellent battery life during your off peak times without having to remember to turn your phone profile back on. These are general settings that are applied to all alarms. Next, we cover settings that you can apply when setting a new alarm.
Mazes and Quizzes
Personalizing and setting an alarm is simple. You get the choice of making a quick one time alarm or setting an advanced alarm schedule. If you go with something quick, you set the alarm time (hour and minutes) and you’re done. It will basically use previously selected settings for the quick alarm and will delete itself after it goes off and closes. Going the advanced route, you have a variety of customizations at your disposal. After selecting a time using this method, you’re able to schedule it to go off just once, everyday, every workday, or on weekends only. Weekly patterns can be personalized to any day you wish. I used this scheduling method a lot during college since I had different sets of classes every other day. For example, I set one alarm for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; and another alarm for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Weekends were for sleeping in, so I left those days alarm-free. The developers really thought it through and created an easy and automatic way for people to use the alarm all week long without having to set a separate alarm each day.
The alarm sound is important because it’s what you wake up to each day. It has to be perfect for each user, with a goal to wake them up, which is why you’re able to choose your own tone in G-Alarm. Whether you want a traditional alarm sound or music to launch the alarm, it’s up to you. Tired of the same old song every morning? No big deal as G-Alarm allows for creating playlists with an option to play sounds and music randomly. Selecting a sound file is easy thanks to the built-in file explorer.
An alarm wouldn’t be an alarm without snooze. Snooze is a great way to squeeze in a few extra minutes each day while preparing your mind to get going for the day. Ageye thought this out thoroughly, so you have several options here too. You can set a normal snooze, random snooze (with min and max times), or decreasing snooze (decreases interval by percentage with each snooze).
If you’re a heavy sleeper, G-Alarm has you covered with special options. In my opinion, these are the features that set the alarm apart the most from every other similar app in existence and I use them everyday. You’re probably wondering how a phone can help heavy sleepers. It’s possible thanks to the brilliant idea of using quizzes and mazes. For quizzes, you must do a set of math calculations (multiple choice, different difficulty levels) before you’re able to snooze or turn off an alarm, depending on how you set it up. If you pick an incorrect answer, you have to try again. Likewise, you can use accelerometer controlled mazes in the same situation. Mazes can also be completed by guiding the ball with your finger to the finish line. The amount of quizzes or mazes can be customized, so it really appeals to a wide range of heavy sleepers. These innovative methods of stopping an alarm can be used for light or heavy sleepers alike to get off on the right side of the bed.
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The features just keep rolling as you can also enable a talking alarm, vibration, and fade-ins. For people who like automatic settings, you can set auto-snooze and repeat alarm times, as well as auto-close after a specific interval. If you have G-Weather, another great Ageye product, you can be greeted with weather conditions.
Ever since I started using G-Alarm, the alarm switch on the clock on my nightstand hasn’t moved at all. I’m a notorious heavy sleeper and with the help of G-Alarm, I haven’t had any trouble waking up in the morning thanks to the quizzes and mazes. With other alarms I often slept through them or angrily turned them off. G-Alarm has ways of gently waking and keeping me up, which is exactly what I want out of an alarm. It helps that I can see my weather, a customized background and navigate a beautiful interface in the morning. The customization capabilities of the app make it perfect for any type of sleeper. I’ve been using G-Alarm for over a year, since its inception, and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon. Bottom line, this is the alarm that should be bundled with Windows Mobile out of the box. It’s highly recommended and is the recipient of our first perfectly rated app with five stars. If you’re skeptical, try the fully featured 10-day trial! The only limitation is you can’t export and import your settings in the Demo.
Supports: Every touchscreen device with Windows Mobile 5 or 6.x
Tested on: Touch Pro2
Pros:
- Fully featured 10 day trial available
- Great value for 4.99 €
- Stunning graphics
- Mazes and quizzes are great for heavy sleepers
- Works with G-Weather
- Has today plug-in
- Multiple languages supported
- Advanced and quick alarms
- Replaces system alarm, so displays on home screen, TouchFLO3D, S2U2
- Use custom alarm sounds
- Talking clock
- Accelerometer features
- Can launch programs by schedule
- Customizable and custom skins available
- Export & import your alarm settings
Cons:
- Maybe that it wasn’t created earlier?
Possible Improvements:
- We couldn’t think of any.. Maybe our readers can help
We have 3 Giveaway copies, Check 1800PocketPC for details on how to enter. Will Close on 15th Nov
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I love how G-Alarm can be so easily and beautifully skinned to suit my phone, but the top feature has to be the use of the light and motion sensors, so I can turn off the alarm by throwing it across the room, just like a real alarm clock!
Not that I would, mind..
I would say that best feature of G-Alarm is the ability to configure the alarm behavior with the use of the light and motion senors. That and the ability to use music from your collection.
Wow…a nice soft…I wanna use it!!!
if you're anything like me and are a little bleary-eyed and resentful at being woken up in the morning then three words say it all….
Shake To Snooze
…beats fumbling for the snooze button any day.
Definitely the best alarm software on WM! I like that I can snooze by flipping my phone
G-Alarm Probably the Best Alrm Clock in the World
I think the best feature has to be the support for any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device with a touch screen. I hate it when I find the perfect software to fill a need on my phone only to find out it doesn't work with my screen resolution.
Congratulations, This is a site with style and class.
And this review is superb. clear and detailed.
I crack up laughing with the tricks for heavy sleepers. HA they going to trow the phone through the window when half speel can answer 3+2 LOL
I love this application and I use it every day (once or more) and I can't separately name a feature which I like most and I like every feature. Too bad I live in a country which I'm not able to buy this wonderful app on the internet and hence I'm forced to use the old and free version of this app.
To me G-Alarm, which I had used when it was still freeware, has always been the most effective ppc piece of software to wake me up. It made me seek the best activity for me to actually get up. I tried solving puzzles and doing the math. I also tried tunes I love or hate the most. But what really got me in G-Alarm was the flexible snooze mode.
Anyway, though I am into the free choice of tunes and snoozes, if you need more discipline you’ll find it here in many a flavor. G-Alarm seems to be made for all and each one of us. With one sad limitation. You have to be a user of a WM operated device.
Well, I would really love to have it…
Gimme one copy pleaaaaaaaaaaaseeee…
I have wanted to try G-Alarm for a while now, I am already using an ageye.de product, G-Profile and I love it. It would be a huge upgrade to go to G-Alarm from the stock WM alarm. If I had to pick just one feature as the stand-out it would have to be the ability to customize, like having different music wake you up or having to complete a task. I think its a great product and would love to have a copy.
G-Alarm is reliable, presents a lot of useful features. It is easy to setup any sound (mp3 songs for example) to wake up nicely every morning.
Above of all is perfecty functional and beatiful;
Best alarm app ever!
However, now I need a countdown app as functional as this!
Not sure if this is accurate, but if I can wake up to a voice announcing the weather (using G-Weather or otherwise), this would be great. Otherwise, I like being able to set up different alarm schedules throughout the week.
Pick me! Pick me!
Yepp, G-alarm is the only good alarm system designed for windows mobile =)
Still using version 1.8 because that one is free =)
I like the feature of being woken up by your stored music. it nice to be gently awoken buy you own tunes and not a stark beep.
I'd love a free copy! Looks like a great product.
I think G-Alarm is the only “functional” product available at the moment that can smartly supply the absence of this function on widowsmobile.
His constant growth has leaded to a mature application able to satisfy everyone (business, students, everyday use).
My favourite feature is the extreme costumizable type of alarm (music, volume increase, vibration, snooze).
The best feature is the ability to wake up heavy sleepers. I sometimes hit the snooze button without thinking and wake up late, but the maze makes me actually become alert.
G-Alarm's snooze function (using puzzles) is easily its best feature as I automatically get up to snooze my alarm. As a result, I have to set 3 to get me to wake up properly and on time.
I love the integration of G-Alarm with WM alarm system (this is even patched if necessary during installation) as well as the snooze features.
altough I did buy it, because it is easily the best, as you say, it is sad that it is currently not compatible with some WM 6.5.x ROMs.
on my stock Acer s200 WM 6.5 it never gets the focus when the screen is locked with thew new WM 6.5 sliding lockscreen, on the newer 23506 build it just crashes instead of ringing
I use g-alarm since the free version. And i love it ! Especially the snooze function and math operations.
I think the best feature of G-Alarm is that it exists. It is the number 1 best alarm application to date. I think if I had to pick 1 feature to go on about it would be the random mazes and quizzes you have to do in order to shut the alarm up. This will ensure I get up in the morning if it's harder than simply hitting a button.
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i think the best feature is the maze for heavy sleepers and the posibility to chosse my own alert sound. also the export settings function for people like me who flash very often the phone and setup all the alerts again and again
The best feature is easily the different games and puzzles you need to answer in order to wake up. That really makes sure that you ACTUALLY wake up instead of just snoozing.
I also love the randomized play list feature.
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Thanks to all who participated…
I like the ease of setting the alarms as well as the options for snooze.
This is a GREAT app.
i love the features to wake up a heavy sleeper…and yeah the innovative use of the FlighMode too
i love the features to wake up a heavy sleeper…and yeah the innovative use of the FlighMode too
Sorry, but I don't agree with the author. Although some features of the application are nice, all of them can be found on better alarm applications too or they are totally stupid and useless.
But the big problem with it, is that it keeps crashing and is reacting totally slow. Way too much overkill for an alarm clock!
Hi Jack .
Have you tried contacting the developer with the issue. which device do you use the app on ?
Well, 2.3 is a bit buggy, when changing backgrounds app often crashes. Other than that – a must. No comparison what so ever with the default WM one. Great app.
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