Price: £7.99
Supplier: Beautiful Bud
Rating: *****
I first noticed these car phone holders on a Facebook page and was immediately drawn into how simple and effective the design was.
It was a little time after that I searched for and came across this product on Amazon by a company called Beautiful Bud.
The holder can be attached to any car air vent so long as it has vertical or horizontal slats and can be adjusted virtually to any angle to suit the driver.
When there is no phone in place, the holder collapses automatically into a very small form factor. To get the holder to work you just need to place your phone onto the bottom two arms. With the weight of your phone, the bottom two arms lower which activate the other four arms in to grip the phone securely. That is all there is to it!
I have had mine for several weeks now and it is so easy to drop in and out of the holder and I have had absolutely no issues with my phone slipping or dropping out of the holder whilst driving on the pot-holed UK roads.
I really think this is the best car phone holder on the market currently and to be honest I cannot see anyone bettering this design for a while. It is elegant in function and virtually silent in execution.
As a bit of a footnote – the item came fully assembled in a small plain white cardboard box, unbranded and without any unnecessary packaging.