Lamicall Gooseneck Phone Holder Bed – [Nylon Braided] Flexible Arm, 38inch Overall Length, 360 Adjustable Clamp Clip, Overhead Cell Phone Mount Stand for Bed, Desk, 4-7” Cellphone

Should’ve gotten this sooner!
I knew I had a quality product on my hands when I noticed the rubber strip just in front of the clamp’s hinge. As far as I can tell, its only purpose is protecting the clamp’s spring, preventing anything from getting pinched in there. It has nothing to do with basic functionality, or with advertised features. It just makes the product better.This isn’t one of those products where you wish the manufacturer had spent an extra nickel on better components; nor where you take it out of the packaging and realize that it was designed to just barely fulfill the letter of its features but not their spirit. You know that feeling when you get a pair of headphones and the “integrated playback controls” are a single button that recognizes various sequences of short and long presses? Or a camera that advertises 240 FPS but it turns out that it records at 30 FPS and then inserts seven extra copies of each frame?This, by contrast, is a good product. A maximum viable product, if you will, rather than a minimum viable product. I’m very happy with it. Here are some details that you may be wondering about.First, the clamp tension securely holds a phone without crushing it in a death grip. As shown in the photos, a phone can be placed in two positions: near the front of the clamp, and behind the second set of “teeth.” This is useful if you have – here’s detail two – a phone with a thick battery case. The first position holds a phone of average thickness perfectly, and a very thick phone very passably. If you want more peace of mind, though, you can move the phone a bit rearwards so that its front is held by the first position’s rear teeth. Those teeth may cover a tiny portion of the phone’s screen (given modern narrow bezels), but that’s part of what guarantees their secure hold.Third, the ball joint connecting the clamp to the gooseneck is perfectly serviceable. It’s easy to tighten and loosen, easy to adjust when loose, and firm enough when tight. If you have a really heavy phone, though – or if you put one phone off to one side in the first position and another toward the opposite side in the second, like I do, because I sometimes want a miniature dual-monitor setup – it tends to sag even when hand-tight. I can’t fault it for this, because 1) that’s not a reasonable load, 2) you can just let it sag and then adjust the gooseneck a bit higher to compensate, and 3) increasing the load capacity would need a whole new design, not a simple/obvious fix. Even though it’s not a negative, it’s a good detail to know about.Fourth, the gooseneck itself: if you’re not trying to bend it, it won’t bend. If you are trying to bend it, it will bend. Pretty much the perfect level of tension.Fifth, the base clamp: padded jaws that won’t mar furniture, and the knob to open and close them is that entire plastic tube that extends out of the base, making it easy and comfortable to adjust.Sixth, the stability of the whole contraption: as good as can be. The gooseneck’s rigidity means that very little wobble comes from the product itself. Mounting conditions are more important: mine is on my bed’s headboard, which extends upward without extra support – that can wobble before I even attach anything to it. One solution is to mount it at the lowest point of the headboard, but my solution (see photos) is to adjust the gooseneck so that it rests against the wall with just a bit of tension. This cuts down any wobbling to virtually nothing. Note that I have a bit of plastic around the part that contacts the wall, to minimize wear on the wall as well as on the gooseneck’s braided nylon.If you use your phone in a desktop stand, pick up your phone (yes, now) and hold it up where you wish it could be instead of on your desk. Those of you now muttering “but I want it on my desk” are all set. The rest of you would probably benefit from this gooseneck holder.

Failed after a year
Edit: Contacted the vendor and they were able to provide me a discount to replace the defective unit. While im uncertain of how long it will take for it to break this time, I will definitely keep an eye on this and chime in again. Customer service gets a positive mark from me.Initially the mount worked well and felt sturdy.After about a year the mount failed. Where the arm meets the base (that attaches to your bed) the metal pole that allows it to flex snapped internally and can no longer support the weight of a phone.If you don’t plan on ever adjusting the mount position it might be ok but if you have to move it to get out of way expect that it will fail at some point.One star added for first impression and features like rubberized surface and the clamp strength, but overall don’t recommend for long term use.

Excellent, sturdy product
I’ve bought several different similar models over the years, as I like to use these at both work and home for various reasons. I used to buy the cheaper ones and the plastic or the body would essentially fall apart within a few months. With this product, the first one I bought held up for years. It did eventually break on the holder portion, which is not shocking with the level of use and abuse it saw, and the fact that it held up for multiple years (instead of a few months for other cheaper/similar products) is a testament to the better quality of the Lamicall holder.

worthless item – clamp is weak, bendable arm is too stiff, and other problems…
Basically there is nothing good I can think of to say about this item. FIRST: The clamp at the base, where you would attach it to a surface to support the arm and upper clamp for your phone, well that lower base clamp is too weak to support anything I’d attach to it to be held up for me to use my phone hands-free. The base clamp measurement height at its smallest size is 1 3/4″ x 1 1/2′ depth (where the rubber nubbies that attach to a surface contact the surface you would be using to hold it upright– ie/ a table, or an arm of a chair, AND the largest size it opens up to is 3 3/8″ height and, when it is opened up to this size the depth measurement shrinks to 1″. SECOND: I have found NO SURFACE on a table, chair arm, or other in my house where this item works. THIRD: The swivel ball does not lock the arm in place tight enough to keep that part from moving around when I attempt to use it. FOURTH: when I put my phone in the clamp and attempt to balance it on any surface (note: to “create” a workable surface for the base clamp I had to add multiple layers of cut out pieces of cardboard to make the surface thick enough to be a tight enough fit to get the clamp to hold) well then the arm that is suppose to bend is too stiff to move it into what I guess is suppose to be a “workable holding position” for my phone. So I have not even been able to determine if it will actually HOLD my phone upright in a position that I can use. Like I mentioned at the beginning of this review, this is a worthless item, and so it was a big waste of money for me to purchase it. I doubt the seller will accept a return on the item now because in my attempt to use it the bendable arm is all bent out in to weird angles and it is too stiff to bend it back into the original shape it arrived in. MESSAGE TO THE SELLER: reply below if you will accept this item as a return for a full refund of my money.

Stable and flexible. Good one.

Endlich eine Halterung die flexibel Einsatzbereit ist und schnell und sicher das Handy fixiert. Funktioniert sowohl beim iphone als auch beim Samsung Galaxy. Schwanenhals mit schöner Länge. Hält auch an der Fensterbank.