The Moto X phone has an ingenious feature which allows you to require a pin or pattern lock, and yet have the phone persistently maintain an unlocked status when it’s in proximity of a bluetooth device that you’ve marked as trusted [see more details on this official Moto X help page]. I believe the Droid Maxx, Droid Ultra, and Moto G also have this feature.
Unfortunately, Motorola only offers an NFC unlock widget — the Skip — and that’s less convenient, because you have to physically touch your phone each time to it to unlock.
Therefore, many of us have been seeking convenient and reliable bluetooth device options that’d work with the Moto X. To this end, I’ve done lots of digging and asking around, and below I’m maintaining a list from my discovery :). But first, I want to give major props to this thread from the great AndroidCentral forum and the helpful users who’ve posted in it, especially “Distorted Loop” who already started a list in this post. (more…)