Scosche motorMouth„¢ II Bluetooth Streamer
Product Details
Manufacturer: Scosche
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Typical Selling price: £59.99
Description
Small Bluetooth device designed to allow hands free calling and stereo music streaming from any music player with Bluetooth or a headphone output socket. It has a microphone, internal DSP and a Lithium Ion battery to run it with up to five hours of talk/music transmission time to your system or up to 150 Hours standby time on the one charge of the 150mA cell. It comes with accessories to charge and locate the unit where it suits you best and has a single multi function LED and single multifunction button to indicate status and operate the unit.
Specifications
– Single multi-function button
– Red/Blue status indicator LED for incoming call/charging
– Bluetooth Protocols: HFP and A2DP
– Range: 33ft/10m
– Aux input to system via 3.5mm four pole jack plug
– Battery tech: Lithium Ion
– Battery capacity 150Ma
– Talk Time per charge: 5 Hours
– Standby time per charge: 150 Hours
– Charge Time : Approx two hours
– Weight: 10g
– Complete with: USB charging cable, 12V USB cable adapter, two-way Aux-input splitter with internal switching, aux input extension plug-cable-socket with mount and two Philips head screws.
Editor Review : Scosche motorMouth„¢ II Bluetooth Streamer
Bluetooth was a magical standardisation of how things close by to each other could talk to each other wirelessly. It was named after a Viking who united many Scandinavian tribes back in the days of Beowulfor some such. But the tragic reality is that Bluetooth is a Dark Art. So hard to get right to work with every single tribe of doodad, be it a car HiFi unit, a Nokia, PiffleBerry or Apple device, that a slew of makers have tried and then given up on making really good Bluetooth units of their own.
It’s all very well it saying on the box that a given unit can be ‘˜Paired’ to anything made since the god of Ragnarok was a boy but they often just don’t. So much so, that the kings of Bluetooth, Parrot, have their clever electronics used to supply the internal Bluetooth of car headunits from Kenwood, Pioneer, Alpine, JVC and Clarion. So making a Bluetooth equipped product is supposed to be straightforward for an electronics company? Trouble is, some phones and devices are easier to pair to than others. From the user point of view, all you care about is the binary issue. Simply “does it work or not?” Well I can tell you that although we took a dozen or more takes to get it all right, (as my mate Graham Baskerville kept on pressing buttons when he didn’t need to and I kept cocking it up!) the MMII didn’t bat an eyelid.
It paired rapidly with the iPhone we used and sounded pretty damn good streaming A2DP music from the iPod section into the test rented Golf’s auxiliary input. We made a call and it worked, we made several calls and eventually got a take we could use and the video is so entire that I simply embed it below for you to see how well it works.
I have heard a lesser audio streaming codec on a Parrot speaker being fed by an older OS and it stopped and started and sounded low resolution and crappy. But on the A2DP stereo music stream profile, the MMII worked a treat in the Golf and the stock system sounded as though it simply had a digital source running, like a plugged in iPod.
It’s small, easy to use, has a sexy Lithium Ion battery that gives it huge power in a tiny spud little bigger than the size of a double A battery and yet it has a set of Bluetooth circuitry that can eat iPlops and any other Bluetooth device you want to play music from. The accessory pack is brilliant, with an extension socket complete with sticky fixing or else a screw to the panel option. What I thought was a simple ‘˜Y’ splitter adaptor actually has some circuitry inside such that if you hook the MP3 source into the extra socket, when a call comes in the splitter itself will switch the input to the system’s aux feed to let the call take over.
And that’s clever. For being a straightforward does-what-it-says item, being so easy to use, yet looking handsome, this scores highly and enough to garner a Talk Audio Best Buy award.
Scosche’s Bluetooth motorMouth II is a gem.
In a Nutshell
A small and cute Bluetooth device that’ll fit easily anywhere in any car with an aux input and has a powerful battery and BT circuitry that simply works for streaming and all phones. A little gem of affordable excellence from Scosche.
Overall 9.4
Build Quality 8
Appearance 9
Ease Of Use/HMI 10
Effectiveness 10
Value For Money 10