WixGear Universal Air Vent Magnetic Phone Car Mount Holder with Fast Swift-Snap Technology for Smartphones and Mini Tablets, Black 1 Pack

Searching for something to hold up my cell phone in the car, I saw this on Amazon and thought, "That's too good to be true. It can't be that simple." I had just done the first leg of a super-long road trip (Texas to Canada) with a cobbled-together holder made from the cradle of a suction cup holder that didn't stick, and yarn tied to my AC vents. It was ugly, clumsy, and one of the prongs of the cradle actually blocked off the phone's power port, so that I couldn't seat it in the cradle firmly and charge it at the same time. It was another in a long string of non-successes to have my phone easily visible and accessible on road trips (especially when using GPS). I loved the idea of a magnetic holder - the simplicity, easy on-and-off, lack of obstruction of the phone's screen/ buttons/ ports, and small size that doesn't block the air vent. But I was seriously skeptical that a magnet could be strong enough to hold my phone securely without flopping all over the car, especially in the event of a big bump or sudden stop. But the thing was so cheap, I thought, 'What do I have to lose?" So I ordered one, and I've been using it for several weeks now. It's fantastic! All I can say is, where has this been for the half of my life that I've owned a cell phone? I wasn't too sure about putting a metal plate in the back of my phone... my phone has a very slim design with a tight-fitting back. But I was able to squeeze in two of the three provided metal plates under the back cover with a little effort. (You could probably make do with just one, but I figured two would provide extra security.) Once the plates were in, the phone sticks to the magnet like magic. It holds securely, while still being easy to turn upright or sideways. I can have it plugged in to charge with no problems. If I turn it upright, I even still get some of the air from the vent to which it is attached. The only less-than-perfect thing I can say about the product is that sometimes when I pull my phone off the magnet, it comes off the vent instead. I've never had it fall off when the car is in motion; it's only happened when I'm trying to remove the phone. The mount holds to the vent with four prongs arranged in a square, and after the first couple of weeks, I noticed that the gap had widened between the prongs where the vent horizontal bar went between them. I resolved this by rotating the mount 90 degrees so that the vent bar went between the prongs in the other direction, where they were still tight. Hopefully this will force the original prongs back closer together, and I can just keep rotating as needed. In any case, it's not a big deal if the mount comes off the vent when you pull the phone off - you just need to stick it back on. I really like and recommend this product. TL;DR version: Yes, the magnet really is that strong!

It may have taken the purchase of 4 different cell phone mounts, but I've finally found one that works for me. And best of all? This one is remarkably inexpensive. See, here's the problem. I have a Chevy HHR which has big, huge, super thick European style vents. I tried the spring-loaded mounts that clip onto your vent. Those weren't long enough to reach. I tried a dash mounted vent. That obscured my vision of the road and eventually just fell off. I then bought a CD-mounted vent, and that worked for about 75 days until the arms that hugged the phone completely lost its ability to grip. (Mountek Universal CD mount, by the way. Don't buy that, it's garbage.) I had just made peace with the idea that I'd never be able to have a car mount due to the weirdness of the Chevy HHR's interior. Then I saw this thing and decided to give it a shot. I cannot stop raving about this mount. I am completely in love. Not only is it easy to install, but it stays in place without any sort of issue. And as far as the magnets go...WOW. Listen, I have a Samsung Galaxy S5. As it stands, it's already a pretty big phone. Not the biggest phone on the market, granted, but it's not a small one by any stretch of the imagination. However, on top of that, I also has an Otterbox Defender phone case. It's enormous and weighty. This turns my phone into a heavy, unwieldy brick. I thought there was no way the thin little magnet would hold the phone in place with the weight of my phone. Wrong. I've driven down dirt roads, gravel drive ways, over train tracks, through unpaved roads during construction, and hit my fair share of Ohio potholes and the phone HAS NOT BUDGED. It is nothing short of amazing. I can only think of two cons for this product: Con #1: Yes, it clips onto an air vent and covers it up. Here's the thing, though. It doesn't make an air-tight seal. Air simply blows around your phone. Con #2: This one is actually somewhat problematic. So, the unit itself is capable of rotation, but with my style of air vents (which rotate clockwise and counterclockwise) this can mean having to turn the air vent itself to get the phone to be at a perfect angle. Is this a huge deal? No, but for me, it isn't a simple matter of plopping my phone onto the mount and driving off. I need to take a few seconds to adjust the positioning. But again, if you have normal people air vents and not weird Chevy HHR ones, you'll be able to simply stick your phone to it and call it a day. So, there you have it. Two cons. One is a total non-issue, really, and the other is very specific to my make and model of car. Other than that, there is no one I wouldn't recommend this item to. I'd go as far as to say that if you own a cellphone and drive a car, this should be something you have in your life. It makes driving safer, it helps keep your GPS visible, it impresses anyone who is riding in your car, and unless you're trying to hang a 1970s rotary phone from it, it's very likely going to support your device.

This was recommended to me by a coworker who has tried multiple different phone mounts/holders (windshield mount, silicone dash mat, etc) in his car and thus far has liked this one the best. He had liked his windshield mount or the vent mounts that have a grip clamp to hold the phone but his car was broken into when he had one and thinks it may have been related since nothing else of value was out in the car. I really like the magnetic function as it very easy to place and remove in the car. The part of the mount that holds onto the car vent has two perpendicular intersecting cross sections or a in the rubber (silicone?), one narrower and one wider so it should be able to fit on vents with various widths. Mine used the narrower one and fits snugly and securely. Depending on the air vents in your car, you may be limited to a spot or two on the vent that it can be placed. This was the case in my car since my vent has the handle to control the vent angle and direction on the vent itself. The magnet that comes with the phone is pretty strong, I tested it on my fridge first before using it on my phone just to see and it took a bit of force to remove it. If you plan on mounting the metal plate onto your phone/phone case on the outside, then I don't think there will be any problem at all with it holding on the magnet. If you put it on the inside of a case (thus needing to work through the case itself), it's not quite as strong. I have an iPhone 6 Plus in a New Trent Trentium case (http://www.amazon.com/New-Trent-Trentium-Interchangeable-Included/dp/B00NF2J6ZK/ref=sr_1_42?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1430803482&sr=1-42&keywords=iphone+6+plus+case) and mine works fine through the case and changeable backing. However, my sister's iPhone 5s in her Otter Box Defender (http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-OtterBox-Defender-Packaging-TouchID/dp/B00F3SIW18/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1430804353&sr=8-3&keywords=otter+box+defender+iphone+5s) we needed to put it between the plastic case and the outer silicone one. It still works, but I'm not sure how much extra wear & tear it might put on the silicone which already tends to get loose over time. It seems to work in a variety of cars for the vents, but how solidly it sits without you having to support it a little when touching or working with the phone interface varies on your car. My sister's sits more solidly against the car itself because of the angle of her vents which makes it so the dash below the vent is flush with the bottom of the phone whereas in my car they are less angled and so there's more space between the vent/dash and the back/bottom of my phone. It's not problematic at all and it's not unstable, but depending on your case, size/weight of your phone, and how hard you press on your phone to use it, it could be a nuisance. I don't find it to be so, I just lightly support the back of the phone with my index/middle finger on the same hand to better stabilize it but maybe other people wouldn't like it. But when I use my sister's mount in her car I notice the difference. Pros: --Strong magnet --Easy to install --Very easy to use/remove with phone --Works with any car that has A/C vents Cons: --How secure/flush it sits in the car varies with car/vent angle --May not work as well with thicker cases unless you attach the plate to the case --Depending on the size of your vent/phone potentially blocks the vent

THE CAR: Black Lightning AKA Toyota Camry THE PHONE: Samsung Galaxy S3 (yeah I know its old, but i'm getting a discount from Verizon for not upgrading and I can still play Candy Crush like a champ). Pretty bulky with the case, but i likes it. Makes it feel durable. I'd take a picture, but ... phoneception? THE PHONE CASE: Some kind of two-layered thing with a little flippy thing on the back so i can stand it up at an angle. The case itself is as thick as the phone. KITCHEN TEST: I put the metal piece inside both layers of the case and it held to the magnet but it still slid a bit when i shook it , so I moved the metal piece to in between the layers of the case (these metal pieces are SUPER thin) and it held great to the magnet. And I shook it a lot. STREET TEST: **Disclaimer: Female Asian Driver.** This was the real test. There's this place in the parking lot at work where there are 3 speed bumps right in a row. Sometimes I slow down for them. Sometimes I don't. I cranked up Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" (which happens to be the same song that blew the speakers out in my last car) and hit them all in quick succession. Phone didn't budge. COOLNESS TEST: I gave my Scientologist friend a ride somewhere and she was like "How is that staying on there?" She didn't think it was Xenu or magic or anything, but she was definitely intrigued. TL;DR: Californian thinks I have cool stuff. VERDICT: This. Thing. Is. Amazing. It works and it looks cool. I can reach it easily from the drivers seat to change songs or answer the phone (not all of us have built-in Bluetooth you FatCats). The best part i think is how unencumbered it is. I don't have to adjust 14 different things to accommodate a charging cable or audio plug. I've owned a lot of car mounts in my day. I've broken a lot of car mounts in my day. I even had one of those Grip & Go (from the TV commercials). One of the mounts I had actually had a piece break off and fall down into my steering column. I'M NOT SAYING IT'S RELATED, but I had to sell that car soon afterward. I actually had about 4 other car mounts in my cart before I decided to purchase this one. #NORAGRETS

I've tried four different methods for securing my phone in my car. This is the only one that worked. I have a 45 minute commute, and I use my phone for audiobooks, hooked to the car's bluetooth. I also use my phone as my GPS. I have a TomTom, but my phone works better, so the TomTom never comes out anymore. So I really needed something to attach my phone to the car. The first method I tried was the sort that clips into your vent and grips the phone from the sides. That method didn't work. The holder itself was large and heavy, and because it caused the phone to jut out from the vent by about an inch, the vent tilted down and you couldn't see your phone. Plus, not all side-grippers work with all phones, and it's a pain to put the phone into the device. You can't do it once you start driving. The second method I tried was the grippy rubber mat you put on your dash. Supposedly nothing slides off it, so your phone can sit on it. So long as you don't put your charger cord in (inevitably tugging the phone off the dash) it works OK... until the rubber gets dusty. Then it doesn't stick as well. Getting dust off rubber is not easy, let me tell you. And any method you use compromises the mat's stickiness. The third method I tried was one of those devices that sticks into your CD player. It didn't fit into my CD player, though I tried. I even shaved the thing down to try to get it to work. No dice. Even if it had worked, I wouldn't be able to listen to CDs. Having been a teen in the 90s, I still listen to music on plastic discs. The fourth method was this magnet. It's amazing. I put the large flat no-stickum metal plate INSIDE my phone, right on top of the battery, so you can't even see it. Nothing is adhering to any part of my phone. Nothing is glued onto my car. No rubber mats. Nothing jammed in my CD player. How well does it work? You'd be suspicious that the magnet wouldn't work. It does. It holds my Galaxy S4 very well. I've tried taking some turns hard just to see, and it doesn't budge. It holds it firm, even with the charger cord plugged in, dragging it down. If you have the charger plugged in, the phone WILL gradually rotate out of landscape orientation, though, so you're stuck with portrait orientation if you're charging, unless you wrap the cable around the steering wheel or use some other sort of shenanigans. "But Jon!" (you might say) "The S4 is not as big as my phone!" Yes, true, the S4 is a little smaller than a lot of smartphones. But I had a rubber case on, making it larger. OK fine. It's still relatively small. To test it with a bigger phone, I tried it with my wife's Note 4, also with a rubber case on. Nobody would say a Note is a small phone! It stuck on just fine, and I took a turn pretty hard to test that one too. (Howard County Police, please forgive my driving. It was for science!) As for vent tiltage (see failed method 1, above), no problemo! The magnet dohickey only sticks out about a quarter inch, so the phone winds up being flush with the dash, and it doesn't tilt. It also looks good. The black is a little on the grey side, which matches the dark grey of my air vents almost perfectly (Hyundai Sonata) and the device looks attractive and subtle. I can even use the air vent (for AC, but not heat - but you should be using the floor vents for the heater in winter anyway!) because it only covers half the vent with the phone on. All in all, I was very pleasantly surprised how well this worked, especially after trying three other, crummy, methods. Get this thing. It will improve your life. Edit. Weeks later still works fine.

I bought two of these, one for each car. One of them holds a little tighter to the A/C vent because the rubber-covered "fork" is slightly tighter (see photo). Luckily, one car has vent louvers that are a little thicker than the other, so it worked out. If you have only one car and the fork does't grab the louvers tight enough, you can try squeezing the forks in a vise (I suggest using some kind of plastic or rubber vise plates to avoid damaging the rubber on the magnet forks). I did this to get the looser one to hold better and it worked a little, but it was never as good as the one that came tighter from the factory. Neither of these holds strong enough to stay attached to the vent louver when the phone is pulled off unless you slide the phone to one side or the other—pulling straight off will usually pull the WizGear with it. The magnet is actually four rare earth magnets (probably neodymium) in an array under the rubber cover (see photo). They are very strong magnets (DO NOT let your kids or animals play with these—swallowing could be deadly), but they aren't strong enough to hold an iPhone 4S in an OtterBox Defender case (the thickest case made by OtterBox) without a little slippage. In other words, a thick phone case may slide off the WizGear after driving a few miles, but it probably won't just fall to the floor of the car unless you're doing some serious off-roading. The metal plates that come with the WizGear are so thin that they fit inside any case with no outside bulging or fitment issues. Three plates are included—one round and two rectangular. The round plate and one of the rectangular plates have self-stick adhesive and can be used even without a case for your phone. With the cover removed, you can see how the item is held together. There is a metal plate under the four magnets and that plate is held to the plastic base by a single screw through the center. I believe someone else here has a problem with mounting on his car's A/C vent and he disassembled the WizGear and used the center screw to permanently attach it to his car's dash. I may do this in my Jeep as the center dash bezel comes off very easily and I could rig up a mount in a few minutes. EDIT: I stopped using this as the magnet in the holder interferes with the phone's compass. If your phone uses the GPS without relying on the compass for directions, you probably won't mind this issue, but when I'm off-road in my Jeep, I need to know which way is north without any external systems that may be compromised while in the forest.

These things are great. I purchased four of them, with three to give to my parents and my boyfriend. I was a little skeptical, but it's a great product. My previous phone mount had a bar that you slid over to fit your phone. While it worked, it was very difficult to remove, and you certainly couldn't do it with one hand. This one is incredibly convenient for that reason alone. For the people worried about the magnet affecting your screen - it doesn't. I've been using mine for a little while with no problems whatsoever. I agree with some of the other reviews that the displays on cell phones nowadays are different, so there are no worries of this damaging your phone's display. Some old model GPS displays may be affected, I'm not sure, but my cell phone has not been affected at all. These have been used with a few Samsung Galaxy models, an iPhone 7, and an HTC U11. It is worth nothing that the magnet is on the mount itself, not the plates you put between your phone and the case. With that being said, if you have a case that holds credit cards, then the cards would be damaged when placed on the magnetic mount. The magnet is strong. It held my phone for a four-hour drive with no problems sliding down or falling off the vent. I love the rubber grip that you slide onto the vent; this really makes it universal. The ones I purchased have been used in four different makes/models of cars and it's fit in the vents of every one with no issues of it coming loose. I was surprised that this came with three different metal plates to use, which was nice so you can place them on a few different items. I used the rectangle plate without the adhesive, and I just put it between the case and my phone. It doesn't slide around; it's been solid. I purchased one for me, then bought three more off my experience. If you're looking for a great car mount for your phone that's easy to use, this is definitely what you want.

After switching out my dashboard suction mount for this universal air-vent magnetic phone holder a few weeks ago, I haven't looked back since. I haven't even considered switching back. The rapid, swift-snap technology of the device proved to be really miraculous from the minute I clipped it onto the vent blade. It transformed what was previously a two-handed juggling performance into a single, smooth move. Within a fraction of a minute, the mount was successfully installed. Choosing a robust vent fin in my vehicle, sliding the clamp over it, and giving it a little squeeze until it was securely fastened in place was all that was required of me. All I had to do was make a gratifying click, which gave me the assurance that the base would remain securely secured, even when I turned the air conditioner up to its highest setting. There was no need to worry about screws or cumbersome brackets. The moment I tried out the swift-snap function for the first time, I was blown away by the way the phone managed to almost spring into place. The powerful magnetic panel immediately caught my smartphone as I brought it within an inch of the mount while holding it with one hand. I heard a comforting snap as the gadget was immediately seized. With its quick grasp, I no longer had to deal with the wobbles and readjustments that I experienced while using traditional cradles. My phone was able to lock into position with a single fluid motion, regardless of whether I was getting started with navigation or transitioning to a hands-free conversation. Since the installation, I have driven on roads with cobblestones, gravel driveways, and highways with potholes without worrying that my phone would fall out of my pocket. I have not experienced any shifting or rattling, even when I accelerate rapidly or stop suddenly, since the strong magnet retains the device securely against the mount face. I have not had any problem with this. Because of this unwavering security, I am able to concentrate my focus on the road rather than subconsciously checking to see whether my phone is still connected. The fact that this holder maintains a clean sightline through my windshield is one of the most significant advantages it offers. By putting the phone directly on the vent, I am able to keep it within my peripheral vision without obstructing any essential sightlines, in contrast to devices that are mounted on the dashboard or windshield, which obscure my view. In addition, sending cold air toward the device helps keep it from overheating during lengthy summer journeys. This, as I've seen, helps preserve smooth GPS performance and prevents my phone from throttling due to heat buildup.

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For me this car mount do the job . - It have 2 sizes for vents , good and strong fit on the vent. - The magnet is actually good , the phone dosen't drop even when you drive the car more aggressive. - You can turn your phone 360 degree withouth any problem of droping. - It looks great for a decent price . I use it everyday so buy it with trust .

Excellent product and ontime delivery.

Está muy cómodo y el imán pega super bien. Me gustó mucho.

This is a very useful, no-fuss item. So easy to install - I slot it into an air grill at the side of my steering wheel and there it stays. To use, tap the phone on to it and the magnet grabs it firmly. It has never fallen off or moved. To remove phone is also easy - it slides off. Having the phone in the spot I want it makes glancing at 'google maps' very easy.