Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

You've no doubt noticed that most of the companies that make cell phone peripherals just crap poorly-designed junk out of the lowest-bidder Chinese factory, or even worse, rebrand somebody else's steaming turd as their own. I've gone through a half-dozen mounts from both no-name to brand-name and ended up returning them all. My BMW probably doesn't help. It's got a dashboard with a pebbled/textured finish. It's not perfectly flat. And I drive like a jerk. The latter is a crucial point of failure for mounts with a longer reach that multiply the leverage of a heavy phone on a suction cup. Read: mount (with phone attached) goes flying off to the side, usually into my passenger's face. I figured this one had physics working in its favor off the bat, being so short (but I was a tad worried about it having the phone out of reach). Turns out that's not a problem. Neither is the AMAZING grip on the dashboard side. As others mentioned, it's a suction cup AND an (reusable) adhesive pad. This means it ain't going nowhere. I've verified this with plenty of...brisk driving in both hot and cold climes. Also nice is the simple, fail-proof, spring-loaded holster. It's a very robust spring so there's no chance of the phone falling out accidentally, and it doesn't try anything funny in terms of foam pads or awkward positioning. It's deep/wide enough to accommodate even a slightly bulky hard case as well. True, it DOES take some practice/effort to insert and remove the phone one-handed. But it's not impossible, unless you're an invalid or really, really uncoordinated in which case, you should ask yourself: should you even be driving? That said, this is a very well-buit, well-engineered, simple mount that will hold your phone and not launch itself into someone's eye socket when taking a freeway offramp at three times the recommended speed. A+ would buy again.