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Mar 23, 2015

The $90 Alcohoot AHT101 Smartphone Breathalyzer costs $40 less than our pick and fared a little better against our police baseline hardware than the LifeGuard or the Breeze did during our first day’s 20-minute test. It provided a reading of 1mg/0.001% BAC less than the police hardware did. Unfortunately, it went right off the rails at the 40-minute mark during our second test with a reading that was 6mg higher than what the police gear provided. That’s a large enough margin of error that, even at $99, we don’t feel comfortable recommending it. It’s worth noting that, like the Breeze or BACtrack’s Mobile Breathalyzer (which we’ll talk about in a minute,) the Alcohoot is designed to send its BAC readings to a connected mobile device. Unlike these two aforementioned breathalyzers, the Alcohoot requires a physical connection, in this case via your smartphone’s headphone port. That’s inconvenient, and it could be okay if the extendable port interface felt sturdy, but it doesn’t: The interface slides out of the side of the Alcohoot when you flick a switch. I found the mechanism to feel kind of flimsy, with the track it slides on made of cheap-feeling plastic. Using it doesn’t leave me with any confidence in its longevity.
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Mar 23, 2015

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