Right here’s a product suggestion lengthy within the making. 4 years in the past this month, Matthew Panzarino was my visitor on The Speak Present and at one level he really helpful Moft’s Snap-On iPhone Stand/Pockets. It makes use of a really intelligent origami-style folding design. Folded flat it sort of simply appears to be like like a leather-based MagSafe pockets. However folded open it really works as a stand — and as a stand, it really works each horizontally and vertically. Borrowing photos from Moft’s web site:
You may also use it with the stand oriented vertically however the cellphone horizontally.
I purchased considered one of these proper after that episode of the present, and I’ve been utilizing it ever since. And from time to time after I use it, I believe to myself that I ought to write a publish recommending it. I’ve waited so lengthy that Panzarino has been again on The Speak Present 5 occasions because the episode through which he really helpful it, however right here we’re. The factor is, I take advantage of it each in my kitchen and whereas travelling, and so I’ll typically discover myself within the kitchen, rooting across the drawer through which I preserve it stashed, solely to comprehend it’s downstairs in my workplace in my laptop computer bag. Or, worse, I’ll discover myself on the lookout for it in my laptop computer bag whereas I’m sitting on an airplane 35,000 toes within the air, solely to comprehend it’s again residence in my kitchen. So I ordered a second one at present — which I ought to have finished like 3.5 years in the past.
I personal a number of related/competing merchandise, like these PopSocket-y rings from Anker and Belkin. I don’t know why I personal each of these rings after I don’t like both of them as a lot because the Moft foldable stand. The issue with these rings is that they’re solely capable of prop the cellphone horizontally. Watching video is nearly definitely the most typical use case for these stands, however I do typically use my iPhone propped up vertically, like for FaceTime calls and after I’m writing on it utilizing a Bluetooth keyboard. I’m going to provide each of those rings away — there’s nothing they do higher than the Moft stand. The Moft stand even works higher as a hand-holding grip.
I’ve by no means used the Moft stand as a pockets, however if you wish to, it holds two playing cards. Prime “Day” lasts per week and it’s nonetheless working till midnight Pacific tonight, however the Moft stand doesn’t have a Prime Day low cost: it’s the identical worth at Amazon as it’s from Moft’s web site: $30. Nicely price it. I like this factor. (Purchase yours wherever you need, in fact, however the Amazon hyperlink a number of sentences again will throw some filthy affiliate lucre my manner.)
