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This Tripod/Selfie Stick/Phone holder Rocks! Two motivations for me: 1) I decided it would be fun to learn how to take a great headshot for my professional profile and 2) My iPhone 11 is awkward and risky to hold while taking photos or videos - even in a case and I don't want to see my $700 skittering down the concrete. I already have 2 tripods so I was just looking for a phone holder to attach to the tripods and a remote trigger to take photos of myself. So this package solved both of those and actually I ended up loving both the selfie stick and the tripod because it is so compact and functional. A word about physics. The legs of the tripod form an equilateral triangle with 7-inch sides. It will not be stable at its full extension of 40 inches as a tripod. Indoors you might get away with it in landscape mode but even then use caution (unless you add a heavy weight or clamp it down). However, it is great indoors at no or low extension so you can use it to hold your phone as you work. In portrait mode, this works only with zero extension as a tripod since the phone center of gravity is off to the side. The 40" reach is perfect for stable selfie stick usage in either mode. The phone holder does not use a spring but instead uses screw tension which results in a strong clamp on my 3.2" wide iPhone 11 in a case. The Bluetooth trigger was detected easily by the iPhone and works perfectly to take a photo or to start and stop a video (after you have selected the mode on the phone). The extra buttons add no extra functions - they just trigger the photo and video the same as the main button. Fit and finish are excellent but I have only used this for a few days so I have nothing useful to say about longevity. From a design and usefulness perspective though this is definitely recommended!