Scosche TuneStream

Editors' note: With the addition of stereo Bluetooth capabilities in Apple's latest iPhone 3.0 operating system (also available for the second-generation iPod Touch), we've revised this review and increased the rating to reflect the product's narrower purpose of bringing Bluetooth to the iPod Nano, iPod Classic, and first-generation iPod Touch.

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch include tons of desirable features, but they can't stream music over Bluetooth. To address this shortcoming, the folks at Scosche created TuneStream, a $79 stereo A2DP Bluetooth transmitter that plugs directly into the dock port of your iPod or first-generation iPhone.

For better or worse, there's not much to the TuneStream--no buttons, no switches, and no battery to change or charge. What you get is a 1.7-inch tall by 0.7-inch wide rectangle of black plastic, measuring a slim 6.5mm thick, with an iPod dock connection on the top edge and a blue LED set into the front. The TuneStream is as light as a penny, and its plastic construction shows no obvious signs of durability issues.

Scosche correctly advertises the TuneStream as compatible with the iPod Touch, iPod Classic, and iPod Nano (third generation). We found the TuneStream also cooperates with the first-generation iPhone and fourth-generation iPod Nano; however, we couldn't get it to work with the iPhone 3G, or older iPod models, such as the fifth-generation Video iPod.