I recently purchased the “In Your Face” flexible iPhone holder from the official In Your Face website.
First, here’s what I was looking for:
After recently downloading a navigator application, I found myself struggling with where to keep the iPhone in my car so that I could see the navigation on the screen. I tried to put it on the dash where the speedometer was, but it keep sliding side to side or falling over. I tried holding it, but nearly got in a wreck.
I went to my local electronic store and found several “holders” for the car. All of which had little suction cups that I could stick on the windshield. At first thought, that would work great for me, but what about plane trips? I take a few plane trips a year and I don’t want to hold the iPhone up the entire plane ride. What about bike rides? Can’t really suction cup anything there.
Enter, the In Your Face flexible holder. This thing is perfect. It has a large clamp at the bottom allowing me to clip it to the review mirror, the ash tray (finally a use for that damn thing), the tray on the air plane, the handlebars on the bike. Basically anywhere that I wanted.
After checking the pictures and videos out at the site, one of the key things I noticed was the swivel on the clamp. Most of the clamps all suffer from the same problem, they don’t clamp odd shapes. If you have a flat surface, you’re okay… but try to clamp it to a pole or something like that, and you’re screwed.
Not with this device though. This thing firmly grasps just about any surface. My other concern was with the holder for the phone. Some of the holders made you snap the iPhone in place, which is great if you don’t have your phone in a case… but I do. I don’t want to have to remove it every time I go to put it in the holder.
No problem here, the sides expand so that you can put your iPhone, case and all, in there without any issues. It’s also wide enough to hold other devices like a PSP or several other navigation units.
Oh, and here’s another great feature… The flexible stand and ball and socket join on the holder allow you to move this thing into pretty much any position that you need. It’s long enough to reach where you want, but not so long as to not be sturdy.
This item is rock solid guys, it does exactly what it says it will do and with a $30 price tag, you can’t go wrong. They’re website was also easy to order from and I got the item within about 3 days. I got one for myself and for my wife, and I told several other iPhone owners about it at work.
5/5 – Definitely worth checking out.
P.S. It also helps to make a killer iPhone as seen in the picture above 
**NOTE** Just for full disclosure, the makers of the product are sending me a free one. However, I bought and paid for one, made the robot, and wrote to them telling them how awesome their product is PRIOR to them offering me a free one (for my wife). They did this as a thank you for the support as they recently debuted their product. Had they not offered me one, my opinion wouldn’t be changed in the slightest.
As I’m sure you guys are aware, the novelty of items I purchase wears off pretty quickly. Bad for my wallet, but good for you. The other day a friend sent me a link (damn you Karhu!) to a site that had cases for the low low price of just $24.99.
In an epic case of irony, we have discovered that those who have jailbroken phones are the most capable of protecting it. For those that jailbreak, this is no surprise. Imagine if the only way to protect your windows pc was to wait around on microsoft to release a patch.