Scosche IPUSBMR Reviews

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Category: Electronics
Brand: Scosche
Model: IPUSBMR
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Scosche IPUSBMR Product reviews

Scosche IPUSBMR Review by Stephen Ragalevsky (Lynnfield, MA USA)

I constantly travel for work and frequently want to sync that new app that I have downloaded or podcast from my laptop to my iPhone or iPad. The flipSYNK definitely fits the bill. It saves me from finding the cable that is buried in my bag or on my desk at home.

I will agree with the other reviewer that the connection into the port is a tight, perhaps overly. I wouldn't say that its a reason not to buy the product though.

Scosche IPUSBMR Review by BenB (Midwest California)

I am extremely impressed with the way they have designed this to fit into a minimum space and completely enclose the connectors for their protection.

However, they are not so clever with their choice of dimensions for the USB connector. The connector is much thicker than other similar connectors I have and it is an extremely tight fit in any standard USB receptacle. I measured several connectors of this type (without metal shells) and they are all 2 mm �0.1 mm thick. The flipSYNK is 2.8 mm thick; nearly 50% thicker!

Since I am otherwise so impressed with the design, I decided to call Scosche customer service to see if this was some kind of manufacturing anomaly. But the rep said it was deliberately thicker for a tight fit so it wouldn't have any danger of falling out. Frankly my greater concern is that it would damage the connector in my $2000 laptop. It is so hard to push into a USB receptacle that I really don't want to risk trying. I have tested the snugness of all my 2 mm thick connectors and don't feel there is any risk of any of them coming loose with normal handling.

Since I do love the design other than this critical flaw, I have decided to file (or sand) down the connector to 2 mm and keep it instead of getting a refund. But I feel the extra thickness is such a serious flaw that I only gave it 2 stars; which I will happily raise to the full 5 if they ever fix this error.

I will add a photo to illustrate the issue.

Scosche IPUSBMR Review by Woody

This is a slick little device that works exactly as described.

To those people who were concerned about the thickness of the USB portion, I have found the same to be true of the really tiny USB drives like those that come as system restore disks for the MacBook Air (e.g. Verbatim Tuff n Tiny USB flash drives). It appears that the way they make these tiny devices durable is to eliminate the metal sheath around the USB contacts and then improve the durability and stiffness of the contacts by making the stem on which they are mounted just a tad thicker. Yes, it's a bit of a nuisance but you'll get used to it.

I plan to use this primarily as an emergency connector so the short size doesn't bother me and hopefully I won't run into the problem with loose contacts after multiple uses that others have described.

I liked this puppy well enough to order another couple for my other keychains.

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