Thanks for your review, zieloczek. I came to that point where I realized the blazing hot inefficient halogen light I’d been using at my bedside needed replacement. It’s overwhelming to see so much choice on the market, and even more disappointing that mainstream makers aren’t offering much… you have to dabble into all kinds of Chinese lights to find something innovative. Yet, innovation with poor or low quality implementation can be a problem. Thus, it’s hard to know what to choose. While it would be attractive to get a light at less than $30 that’s worthy of the job, I’d want it to last a good solid 10+ years, as my previous light had been doing. It’s a shame that there aren’t more companies making LED halogen bulb replacements, as there were a number of halogen bulb designs that makes it difficult to create one LED that replaces many.
I actually did not want to get an LED lamp with any charging ports on it. That’s extra electronics that I just don’t need or want. And while a number of tint choices is great to have, I’d want them all to be usable for me. But with the Yeelight, the lowest is too warm and the highest far too cold. I’d never use them.
I opted for the Mijia Philips. I haven’t gotten it yet, but expect it’ll arrive in 2 weeks.
The two main things that drew me to it are the dual illumination options (very clever) and the very artful design (no hard seams, joints, exposed wires). The Yeelight has a lot of potential, but I really don’t like that exposed wire. A couple of other brands have “clones” available for about half the price, and IMHO they have a better joint design than the Yeelight. I like that the Mijia Philips is WiFi enabled & can be controlled remotely. A bit of a gimmick, but it could be useful. It’ll be interesting to find out if the app has the capability of controlling more than one lamp at once, and how you could identify them for selective control. Also, if it can work on older Android phones. My thought would be to have an available old Android phone dedicated to do the controlling.
As for brightness, there are brighter lamps on the market, but frankly for bedside usage it looks pretty usable to my eye.