SATECHI Bluetooth Media Button with Steering Wheel Mount - Wireless Music & Volume Control for iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Android, Car & Bike Audio Systems

Brilliant little button. Works well to keep you safe on the road as you don't have to look at your phone to change music! Pros: - Looks great, very slim, small and stylish - Easy to click - Doesn't get in the way of your steering (if you decide to stick it to the steering wheel which I did and recommend) - Battery lasts for ages, as it turns off when you haven't clicked it for a while. So when you click it again after a period of time not clicking it, you have to click it twice (one to wake it, and then one to complete the command such as pause/play). This is not a hassle at all as you get into the habit of doing it, and its a life saver not having to change the battery as the battery is quite fiddly (see cons) -Comes with a battery which is always good Cons: - The battery backing is quite fragile. When I took my car in for repairs, the engineer accidentally removed the button. I couldn't stick it back on because the sticky backing that was securing it got dirty. So I tried to take the sticky backing off, but accidentally broke the battery backing. The battery only works when this is on. I fixed it with a lot of bluetack, but just be aware that you should use a screwdriver to change the battery. However, you shouldn't have to do this often because it comes with a battery Great buy!

Overall really good, easy to use and setup, however it doesn’t answer calls and doesn’t activate Siri. Would recommend but hope the manufacturers release a version that allows use for Siri and calls.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. And very well. Extremely impressed with this little button, it's so small, yet works so well. Just plugging my phone in and controlling the volume, changing the song and pausing/playing. It works at extremely long distance too, still works quickly and accurate from the other side of my house, even upstairs. Easy to pair with a small button on the back, that you hold for around 3 seconds, the you're phone will pick it up and recognise it as a media device. Works well with my HTC One M8, using Google Play Music as my music app. It's easy to use and has a small replaceable battery which can be unscrewed on the back, when it runs out. Probably won't be doing that any time soon with the up to 2 years battery life. The controller even has a small blue led light to tell you when you've pressed a button, or it is looking for a device to pair to. After a short amount of time, it conveniently powers off, to save battery and powers back on when next pressed. Gadgets like these are almost what make my life and it's handy. For the price, I'd say. It's worth it.

New update: Updating this product Oct 2016, it's barely been a year since I bought this product, which was stuck on my steering wheel. Recently I bought a new phone, which meant I had to take the button off the steering wheel as the Bluetooth paring button was at the back! I read others complain about this but I didn't think too much of it. Experiencing myself was a pain to say the least. Whilst attempting to take the button off, the glue sticky was so strong that the battery cover detached - after I got it home to put it back together, I realised that battery wasn't sitting tight as it should - with my last push the 'metal' looking surrounding came off the button and it was impossible to put back together. I am extremely annoyed with this product and so not understand why they had to think of having the paring button at the back. Waste of money. Old review: was looking for one of these for awhile, as I listen to music from my HTC phone via the car stereo. There's plenty of similar remotes available online but nothing had good reviews as much as this - but nothing was as expensive as this either (for what it offered), but my safety and comfort came first and I didn't want something gimmicky that never worked, this had reviews that spoke for itself...so eventually bought it. Pros: - Very sleek looking premium feel and design, looks like an Apple product. - Works every time, someone it's a bit slow to respond, but that's probably me being impatient. - Drving is now very pleasant and eyes are on the road rather than phone!! Cons - Yes it looks great, but if there's a cheaper version that works, I'd rather buy the cheap model. I think for what it offers (just basic music control) is very expensive. I would have expected atleast for a phone answer button. - Its quite bulky and sort of sticks out, so you would have to get used to not displacing off steering. I'm still getting used to trying to avoid touching whilst turning. - The holder which attaches to the steering, should have been an optional (and price reflecting this), as I find it even bad, gets in the way when steering. Instead I would have preferred to have a couple of sticky pads, they provide just one. I had to change it over once already since I wasn't comfortable having the button on the right hand side. - I thought this should be no more than £15. But since there's nothing like it, I can't blame them for charging more.

I wondered if this worked with Apple Podcasts so that it skipped forward *within* the podcast rather than to the next podcast. It works - forward/back *within* the pdocast by number of seconds shown on iPhone. Very happy.

Very good so far. I've had one of their other BT remotes for a while now and it works very well and has great battery life; no reason to think this will be any different. Couple of minor quibbles. I really don't like the steering wheel mount; way too bulky and doesn't look nice on the wheel. Also I keep catching it when I turn the wheel more than 90 degrees. Secondly the adhesive pad, which is how I've ended up securing it, covers the battery cover. If it does indeed last 2 years on that battery then it's not so bad, but having to unstick it and then get a new pad seems a little excessive to replace a battery. Not worth marking it down though, and with the adhesive mount it really does look nice in the car. Of course there's the fact you have to press it to wake it, but I'm used to that with the other remote and it's no great hardship; you quickly get used to it.

I bought this because my 2012 VW Golf has a factory Bluetooth head unit that streams music from my iPhone perfectly, but doesn't allow any playback control using the steering wheel or head unit buttons. This device does the job, and I have it mounted to the steering wheel with its supplied clip. I would agree with other reviewers that the Bluetooth pairing button is in the wrong place. It would make more sense to be at the 12 o'clock position of the metallic bezel so that it could be used without having to take the button out of the clip; as is it, the 12 o'clock position is taken up by the hole for the supplied wrist strap. The button is flush with the case and needs to be pressed and held with an appropriately-sized tool, so it couldn't be operated by accident even if it was repositioned. I suspect it's only on the back because that was the most convenient (and therefore cheapest) place to put it given the layout of the internal board. I haven't had any of the problems other reviewers have noted with the sticky pad, because I'm not using it - in fact, I'm not sure it even came with one. If you're using it in the steering wheel clip, you don't need a sticky pad, it's firmly held in place by the sides of the clip. The very first day I put it into use, I accidentally knocked it off the steering wheel as I was getting out of the car, and after I picked it up off the floor it wasn't working. I thought that maybe the battery had become dislodged, but re-seating it made no difference. In the end I replaced it with a new Duracell (it's a CR2016) and it came back to life.

This should have been exactly the product I was looking for: the ability to control my iPhone 5S podcasts app while driving. It even matches the shape and style of controls of my Honda Civic. However, three things. Firstly, the design flaw that the pairing button and battery replacement access are obscured by the adhesive pad. Ideally, the main button bulk would screw onto a baseplate that could be permanently fixed to the surface: unscrew to access the battery and the pairing button. Secondly, the five button functions aren't clearly divided, so it's easy to mis-press. Finally, and far more critically, the reliability of the connection. The phone in my dashboard mount is roughly 30cm from the button stuck to the dashboard, so range isn't an issue. However, it's just unresponsive. It goes to sleep and then requires a lot of pressing to get it to wake up. By then, I've play/paused so many times I have no idea where I am. Solution is to just keep hitting Volume Up until the phone reacts. Even so, it's too fiddly to bother with while driving. I don't know if this is a fundamental problem with Bluetooth Low Energy, or the iPhone itself, but this isn't a satisfying solution. Pity.