I live in Los Angeles so I spend a lot\u00a0of time in my car.<\/p>\n
It’s illegal to use your cellphone while driving unless you’re hands free \u00a0but if you’re like most of us – your phone has become your navigation system.<\/p>\n
When you’re driving no one wants to look away from the windscreen to look at directions, so the best thing to do is have your phone\/navigation device attached either to the dashboard or the windscreen.<\/p>\n
I’ve tried quite a few of these phone holders and they usually have a life of around 1 year.<\/p>\n
Now I’ve only been using the Arkon for about 3 months and the I have high hopes for it.<\/p>\n
Let me explain why.<\/p>\n
First, there’s the build quality. The engineering on this phone holder is very good.<\/p>\n
Like many of the phone holders out there, this particular phone holder uses a suction cup to attach it to either your windshield OR your dash. And if your dash is textured, fear not!\u00a0The folks at Arkon provided a 3M adhesive disk which – according to the company – won’t leave residue on your dash and is specially formulated for temperature extremes.<\/p>\n
Arkon says that their suction cup should work on a textured dash, but it wouldn’t stick to mine for more than 1\/2 hour. But the adhesive disk they provide solves the problem nicely. Just for total transparency though, mine is attached to my windshield.<\/p>\n
Another cool thing about this phone holder is that you can remove the clip that holds the phone, and it has a threaded hole on one side (protected by another rubber plug – I told you these guys thought of everything) that allows you to attach your smartphone to a tripod!<\/p>\n
I’m a commercial director so I use my phone as my director’s finder and it comes in handy when I’m trying to lock the camera down or to shoot unassisted.<\/p>\n
The one really\u00a0outstanding thing about this smartphone holder is that it is solid. The arm is designed in such a way that there’s almost no\u00a0wiggling or shaking as you’re driving. When you put the phone in the holder (currently I’m rocking an iPhone 6+) it’s so solid that you can do it one handed without the fear that the suction cup will come loose, or that the phone clip itself might move on it’s pivot.<\/p>\n
And oh yeah, one thing about the pivot. The way that the clip is attached to the arm is very\u00a0clever. It uses a “screw down” tightener to attach the clip itself to the “pivot ball.” It’s super\u00a0easy to unscrew the “screw down” and remove the clip portion from the arm.<\/p>\n
Price: $18<\/p>\n
Solid car phone mount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25928,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions\/25928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}