It hurts my neck watching TV and texting with my phone in my lap… ( 😉 )
What phone holders are you all using in your car? The issue is, I’ve a one-plus2, with the ‘flip cover’ that’s part of the phone back, so I can’t remove the phone from it.. I’d need a holder with ‘soft sides’ to hold the phone and the case.
RAM Phone Mount not cheap but good quality kit and I’m well into the RAM ecosystem with various mounts, arms, bases, etc for bikes, motorbikes, windscreen. Have a diamond base attached to the dash tray in the van.
I use a cheap generic one from ebay it’s soft on the sides and works well, it’ll hold any phone I’ve tried and my garmin. If it rotated it’d be the best thing ever.
Gotta be a brodit I paired mine with a dashmount bracket for my 1 series and ran the charging cable behind the dash and into the usb port under the arm rest. Hard wired for the bmw info system and constant charge with no holes needed in the dash. Happy man here.
– edit I see you’re after one to use with a case – not so good!
Not sure of the model but they are a couple of quid from eBay. Search for clip phone holder. We’ve got one in each car. Both different but both work fine.
I also use the one Nick recommends. It is fine, they tend to break quite easily but at only £1-£2 each they easily replaced.
I liked the look of the magnetic one with car and bike mount that someone recommended the other day on a bike navigation thread, might look to upgrade if I can remember what it was called
I needed one that could take my phone with a flip cover too. We had one like nickjb posted, but when the cover is open, the phone doesnt fit tight.
Ended up buying one of these as I needed to grab the phone from top+bottom rather than sides to allow flip cover to open:
My phone (Xperia T) is a pain in the ass to mount in the car. The position of the buttons means that almost all jaws that grip the phone press a button or are in the way of the charging port etc.
The only place to realistically hold it is at the ends, avoiding the headphone socket, or at the top end of the sides, where there is about 20mm of free space on both sides.
but the suction cup on it is rubbish. It stays on the window for perhaps a minute before falling off. I had a replacement as the seller to me ‘that is very strange, they normally stick very well” but that was just as bad.
So, I ordered one of the mounts that nickjb shows above from ebay:
The suction cup is mega strong, but still easy to remove from the screen.
But, because I clamp the phone at one end, it was quite wobbly due to play between the ball & socket….
So – I took the jaws from the rubbish suction cup model & fitted them to the one with the good suction cup – the ball & socket are the same size so I could just swap them – and this has solved the wobbly issue.
I suspect that if you mount the phone centrally in the cheap ebay one it won’t wobble, but that’s not an option for my phone.
“drivers who perform a secondary task at the wheel are two to three times more likely to crash”
“Driver reaction times are 30% slower while using a hands-free phone than driving with a blood alcohol level of 80mg alcohol per 100ml blood (the current limit in England and Wales), and nearly 50% slower than driving under normal conditions.”
I’ve been knocked off my bike 3 times (some would argue that’s not enough!) but in all 3 instances the driver was either yapping on the phone or trying to tweet / facebook / play pokemon / whatever else drivers now think is safe to do whilst they drive “but it’s boring driving in traffic” (the excuse by the last person to knock me off).
“drivers who perform a secondary task at the wheel are two to three times more likely to crash”
I don’t doubt that. But, like all statistics, you need more information…
Wearing a metal hat makes it 1000 times more likely to be struck by lightening, but the initial risk is low..
I’m not going to be hunting pokemon or facebooking – it’s to hold my phone in sat nav mode!
I’m not going to be hunting pokemon or facebooking – it’s to hold my phone in sat nav mode!
Even though most drivers say this it’s quite noticeable cycling to work that many drivers are also “fiddling” with their phones even when their phones are ostensibly just in “sat nav” mode – largely because the phone continues to receive calls / display messages / app notifications.
Unless your phone is in airplane mode whilst being used as a sat nav (in which case GPS doesn’t work on most phones) all the other phone functionality continues to work / present a potential distraction.
£30 gets you a perfectly decent sat nav with built in mount to avoid all the phone faffing around (phones are never ideal as sat nav, tendency to overheat and loss of signal stuffs them anyway).
Falperon couldnt disagree more, phones in someways are far more advance than a basic satnav.
My phone does live traffic updates, gives me re route options incase of traffic, has offline maps and im never in the situation that the maps are out of date.
Falperon couldnt disagree more, phones in someways are far more advance than a basic satnav.
My phone does live traffic updates, gives me re route options incase of traffic, has offline maps and im never in the situation that the maps are out of date.
Plus, I can just shout “OK google..navigate to the zoo” and it does all that, without me having to take my hands off the subway i’m holding or book I’m reading.
Much safer…
Amazes me that most (modern) cars have bluetooth yet drivers still feel the need to clamp a phone to one ear… 😐
I’ve lost count of the number of trucks & delivery vans I’ve seen coming off the dual carriageway into the industrial estate with the driver on the phone.
this one for when i need to use the phone for navigation
and this one fer when im using the phone for playing music. i drive a ford cmax and the lighter socket is near the handbrake so the cradle sits the phone just below the gear lever so i just plug the phone in and leave it
both are very good although my samsung s6 just about fits in to the top one
Brodit are shit if you have any sort of case on them.
The Belkin cup holder mount is the only one that works in the 1 series well.
Cable management built in.
Rotates.
Swaps to another car in seconds.
Agree with people saying phones for satnav are better than satnavs for satnavs.
My focus had built in sat nav, but it took ages to program the destination in (after finding the postcode on my phone anyway) and it was crap at directing around traffic. So I always use google maps on my phone, and plug it in while its in use.
The brodit ones look slick, but doesn’t it cover the vent a bit?
CD mount magnetic one here. I like the magnetic bit especially. And CD positioning is ideal in my car. Obstructs nothing but the screen on the stereo which I don’t use anyway with the info screen in front of me.
Downsides – the screw tensioning CD player grip bits require a lot of force to hold still and even then it’s got some movement. And they eventually wear as a result. And my car stereo has been holding 2 CDs hostage now for many months, which may or may not be linked to the mount.
I’m with the camp that says phones are better satnavs than satnavs are.
I use an Arkon screen mount like the one posted earlier with my iPhone 6+, which is in an Otterbox, works just fine, and for the finger-wagging members of this community, I also use a Jabra BT headset for receiving the occasional phone call.
The Arkon was in use for some time on an occasional basis, but now it’s in use for some hours every week day.
This is when I’m doing my current job of ferrying cars around the country for BCA. Yes, many modern cars have satnav built in, but when you are driving maybe three different cars a day, all with different systems, often requiring an SD card which is usually in a sealed envelope, it just too much of a phaff to find out which ones work, and how.
In my own car I use a Niteize Steely stuck to the front of my dash, mostly for playing music if I’m not listening to 6Music.