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Love your MagSafe phone and want a low-profile holder for your car? No reason to hassle with clamps with that big magnetic ring on the back of your iPhone 12 or iPhone 13! Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the Andobil MagSafe Car Vent Phone Holder and finds it's a simple and quite effective solution!
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A magsafe car mount, let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. Well, it's in the box. We'll get there in a second, but this is the Andobill MagSafe Car Vent Mount, and it's a great idea
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So if you have an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 13, you already have this magnetic wireless charging system built into it
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and it's called MagSafe, and it means that when you go to charge it wirelessly with a MagSafe compatible charger
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it aligns correctly and gives you a faster charge. But it also means that it's a much stronger magnet, which makes it a great way to mount your phone in your car
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Enter this. This is, like I said, the Andobill solution. So I have my unboxing tool. Let us open this up and see what's inside
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Now, first thing is it might just be me, but do you also kind of dislike the way that they do these packages where there's the flap that goes in and you end up either ripping the box to shreds opening it or you have to use a tool like this to actually open it successfully
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A little annoying. But let's see what's inside. Well, right off the bat, here's the actual mount unit itself
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And since I have not just an iPhone 13 Pro with MagSafe, but a MagSafe friendly case from AutoBox
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you can see that is pretty nice. And that's going to work really well in the car because as long as the whole unit stays on my air vent
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then my phone's not going anywhere in either orientation. That's totally fine, easy to adjust
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So if anything, it's a little tricky to take it off. But let's see
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So this is the actual mount plate. So I'm going to peel off the sticker as it recommends
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And it was pretty smart looking. Let see what else is in the box So there is the sticker we just took off go figure But there a base mount system and this is actually pretty slick too
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because it has a big, gnarly clip on it, and that's how you actually adjust it to get it to clip
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not just on your vent, but it's designed to go behind the vent blade
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jump into my car in a minute and see how this all works. But it's designed to go behind the
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blade and then you just tighten it and it's not going to go anywhere. And then the other end of it
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is a ball and this has a little gizmo you spin so you can get the ball in and let's see
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I suspect you probably are supposed to take it off. Put the ball in like that. That was wrong
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because now I can't get the rest of it. So let's try it like this. Okay. So then
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I'm going to put the ball in, and then I can screw this to tighten it
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and it's going to work with your fan, even whether the blades are vertical or horizontal
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It'll work fine. And again, imagine this in my car in the air vent, and then it's that easy
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I mean, pretty darn easy to work with. Now, here's an interesting tidbit is that this is made out of something called PTFE
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What's that? Ready? It's polytetra-fee. fluorophthalene. And your most common use of PTFE is Teflon. So this is a tough, durable material
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It's not going to just like get hot from your heater and then snap or break. In fact, this has a
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24-month warranty. So that's a nice long amount of time for this thing to work. And obviously you can
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loosen this to adjust this part. And then you can loosen this if you need to adjust the fan part
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Cool. Now, what if your phone? doesn't have bag safe. They got covered there too. This actually also includes three magnetic
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rings which are in here and they basically just metal rings and they have adhesive on them so you can just stick them on for example the outside of a case or probably even the inside of a
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case and then use it as if you had a magsafe phone which lets you address things like a samsung
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phone or a google phone or really an older iPhone that might not have magsafe you could still have
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wireless charging, but the MagSafe adds that really powerful magnet. So there's three of these
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and that's pretty darn handy. There's also a cleaning cloth. So before you put it on your phone
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or your case, then you can clean it to make sure there's no dirt to get the best possible
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adhesion. And let's see in the box. Also is a welcome guide. Seems like a pretty simple product
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to have a welcome guide and operating instructions. So if you can't figure out, put it up
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vent, tighten, put phone on, then now you have operating instructions for that
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Speaking of which, let's go out to my car and try this out. We're in my Mazda, and I have horizontal slats on my air conditioning vents
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which is easy to work with. So I take this and I loosen it with the lower of the two controllers to get the jaws open
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put them on where I recommend the lowest possible slot, and then just tighten it up until it's nice and tight and holding on well
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which is there. And then remember, there's another adjustment you can make
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so now I can loosen this, and this gives me lots of freedom of motion
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so I can get it to be just the angle I like, and then tighten that one
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And generally, these are only something you'll have to do once, because once you have it all set up, you're in perfect shape, right
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So here we go. And now it's as easy as it could be. So here's my MagSafe phone in a MagSafe case
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and it's now mounted in this orientation. and if I want to do it the other way, you could do that
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And honestly, it is literally as easy as it could be. And if I keep that relatively loose I could adjust it so I could maybe have it like this Or maybe I a driver an Uber driver and I want to be able to have the customer in the backseat also see the map All of that works just fine That all there is to it
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So let me jump back on camera. That was pretty straightforward, and it works really well
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I'm a fan. And as I said, you know, it's not going anywhere
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It's going to hold onto your phone, even if you're going through a bumpy terrain or you're offroading or something
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It's really great. And then when you're ready to take your phone off, it just comes off because it's a
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magnet. Now, what they have here is they actually have a 12 magnet, rare earth magnetic link or ring
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And so it's a very strong magnet, and it's not going to lose its magnetism over a short period of time
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That's important. And then this surface itself is 100% silicone, so it's not going to scratch anything
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So as I put my otter box case on it, I'm not worried about it being scratched by on or off or anything like that
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Super handy. Really nothing else I can tell you about this. It's just a
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It's a simple, straightforward solution to a problem a lot of us have, and it's one where
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they've just really thought it through and engineered it well. So what we need to talk about is the price
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and honest reviews like this one. So, excellent. This is the Andobill MagSafe Car Vent Mount
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And it's 2895 at Amazon.com. And if you're currently dealing with your phone slips sliding around every time you're in your car
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this is a great solution. And if it's an iPhone 12 or an iPhone 13 with MagSafe, it's even better
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Definitely going back into my car. That's all I got. I hope to catch you in my next video
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