Tablet Stand Holder, Mount Holder Clip with Grip Flexible Long Arm Gooseneck Compatible with ipad iPhone/Nintendo Switch/Samsung Galaxy Tabs/Amazon Kindle Fire HD – Black

Don't listen to the nonsensical 4 star or less reviews. They're all the same, complaining about the neck being too hard to bend. Uuuuum, it's supposed to be or else it wouldn't be able to support your kindle or tablet. I guess common sense aint so common. Anyway, this is an awesome reader accessory. My only complaint is that I wish it was longer BUT that is my own fault because I didn't read the measurements. It's definitely not a deal breaker though. I've only had it for a month so I'm not sure how well it will hold up overtime. But I would imagine as long as you're not grabbing it by the parts that swivel and hold your device, it will last for some time. It feels very sturdy and is easy to use. You definitely get the hang of bending it different ways if you move it room to room. I will probably invest in a second one though!

Love it!! Very sturdy, keeps the phone in place & doesn’t start falling. Easy to change the position, but stiff enough to keep it there once you get it where you want it. Easy to detach to take to another room, but I’m going to order another so I just have one in my kitchen & living room permanently

I bought this last November and have been using it for around 3 months now. It looks good and I've only used it to hold my cell phone. I mounted the stand to a window ledge behind my bed and it can accommodate about an 1.5 inch ledge. And they are not kidding when they warn it takes some strength to shape the stand to hold your device at a certain height and angle. I do like the fact that you can twist/rotate the device grip and run a charging cord to the device (bottom of my cell phone). I don't mess around with it's positioning much. Something to consider is that you or others are using it and end up changing the location or angle of the holder, it requires some strength. If mounting it to a desk or drafting table, you might be better off with the old-school -/'\,/` spring-loaded and easily-adjustable stands. I think the length of the bendable portion is good, but is hard to bend in place so younger children and elderly folks may need help with bending it. Also, if you accidentally hit it, it will spring back and forth until it stabilizes. If plugging a cell phone in overnight, I suggest threading your cord through the hole in one side of the device grip and plugging it into your phone and then fitting the phone/(tablet) into the gripper. I'm pretty happy with this for my nighttime use, but if I was using a tablet on my drafting table, I'd investigate other options such as a stand on the table or a clip-on stand with adjustable sections like a desk-light stand; I give this 4.5 stars. It fits my needs.

Love it! Clamps onto my industrial sewing machine table for recording videos. Great quality, easy to move for different angles.

I love the idea and purpose of this holder. It's pretty sturdy once it is in place, but getting it in place is really challenging. The bar is really stiff to make it sturdy but it can make it quite difficult to angle into the right position. I do spend quite a bit of time working it out depending on where I am sitting. And it's even harder to manipulate if it is already fastened to a surface.

As of this writing (late May 2020), much of the nation is still under some sort of lockdown due to the pandemic. As a result, a lot of us are working from home as well as connecting with loved ones by video.

I have a fatal flaw: vanity. Yes, it’s one of the Seven Deadlies. No, I’m not proud of it. I guess we could blame it on the self-absorbed, narcissistic tendencies which already exist deep within everyone’s psyches—which, under normal circumstances are easily controlled with self-discipline and humility but flourish when we are fed so regularly and efficiently by social media. (I’m lookin at you, Insta.)

Why bring vanity into the discussion about video calls? Have you SEEN what you look like when your rear-racing camera is on the desk or table below your eye level?? I DO NOT HAVE ALL THOSE CHINS. I found myself spending fifteen minutes before each call stacking books and rigging up strange set-ups with clothes pins to try to get either my iPhone or my tablet at eye level so that I would not look like Jabba the Hutt on my video calls. This became pretty tiresome, especially when my comically magnificent structures would collapse in the middle of a call, forcing everyone else on the call to see areas of my living space unfit for public display. I needed a quicker, more versatile, less Rube Goldberg-ish solution.

Enter the gooseneck tablet/phone holder. After doing some comparing, reading reviews, and price-shopping, I finally decided on this particular one because it had the features I wanted: the length was good, it would hold my iPhone or my iPad, and the price was right. It took a while to ship, despite it being Prime eligible—but that was no fault of the seller as Amazon was, at the time, prioritizing shipments of greater need/importance due to the pandemic.

This thing has changed my video conference game tremendously. I had doubts as to how effectively it would hold my iPad, but it’s plenty strong enough for that. It’s very adjustable… but since the gooseneck is so very sturdy (you want it to be, because otherwise you’ll look like you’re constantly in mid-earthquake to your viewers), it takes some muscle to bend it to where you want it to be. Despite that sturdiness, one disappointing aspect of the arm is that the mounting clip and the collar for tightening it down are plastic. I could see someone easily overtightening it and breaking it, rendering it completely useless. As long as you’re careful with it, it’ll be fine, but I felt that information was worth knowing if you’re considering buying.

Top tip: if you ultimately decide to purchase this product, READ THE DIRECTIONS. I know none of us want to read directions for something that seems very simple and self-explanatory, but you could save yourself potential frustration by taking a few seconds to do it. It won’t kill you, so go on and do that. One of the things you will figure out very quickly is that you should affix your device into the spring-loaded holder BEFORE snapping it onto the ball joint at the end of the arm. Much, much easier.

Overall, I can recommend the product. Good value for the money, does the job, spares me the ridiculous engineering, and enables me to take video calls without my viewers looking up my nose—can’t ask for more than that.

Owned it for a couple weeks and no problems!