Proper function depends on the weight of the phone & case!
This product is used in combination with a couple of different Nite-ize complementary receiver base-type products, that each, individually function in a complementary way with it. Think the "eyeball" and the "eye ball socket". This product is the socket!
It is made of quality materials. It is manufactured using quality manufacturing techniques and the two together, result in a piece of well made and quality merchandise. However, it's proper function is only assured and is dependent on whether the item(s) (phone and case), to which it is mounted, is/are light enough to allow it to work correctly.
It uses sound and functional principles to work (strong magnetics, strong adhesives, quality rubber and chrome plated steel, that together, create just enough friction, to steadily hold a phone in its case; a small, light weight phone and it's case, in almost any position in which you place it.
However, when properly affixed and then mounted, it's magnet against it's rubber and chrome receiver (this Steelie product), doesn't exert too much friction, such that it restricts any further movement, adjustment, or removal, from the necessary steel base, upon which it (this product) must also be mounted.
The item will operate effectively and hold a phone and case, where you have positioned it, so long as the phone and case it's used on, weighs a lot less than (say, 50% less than) an iPhone 6s Plus-sized phone, that is carried in an equally sized, Mophie-type battery case.
In short, that phone and case combination, results in a complete lack of stability for the mounted phone. The phone/case will freely pivot around its base as you drive, make turns, and stop and start.
Plugging the phone into a cable that is attached to the vehicle's cigarette lighter socket, used to charge the phone, will not help to solve the problem or stabilize the phone's movement. In order for a charging cable to do that, such a cable would also need to be mounted along most of its length near the mounted phone, right up almost to within a very close distance to where the cable would be plugged into the phone.
That condition or similar type of configuration, would of course, make use of the cable (plugging it into or unplugging it from the phone) very difficult and thus impractical.
Bottom line? Only use this product, with one of its complementary base products, on VERY LIGHT WEIGHT phones and carry case combinations.
Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : Neuf