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Still holding you smartphone to get that great selfie or capture yourself for the next great vlog or TikTok video snippet? That's so... 00! You'll love the upgrade to the lightweight and versatile OMOTON O-Mag MagSafe Phone Tripod and Selfie Stick (model VM03). Tech expert and videographer Dave Taylor offers a variety of demonstrates to show the features and capabilities of this OMOTON O-Mag Tripod unit, including its built-in Bluetooth remote control. It's pretty dang sweet, though there's one aspect of the unit's design you'll really want to know about before you make a purchase decision!
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A MagSafe selfie stick and tripod? Let's check this out
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[♪ Music ♪ Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this
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This is the Omaton OMAG MagSafe phone tripod, and as you can see, it's a pretty cool, versatile little device
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Now, the way I have it set up here is at its minimum extension
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but it is a telescoping pole, so it gets pretty darn high
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In fact, my camera is now way off other camera. So, I'll pull this back down
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But this part is a 64 extensible telescoping pole with 7 sections
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so you can get it from this height all the way to where it's actually standing up
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and high enough that it's at eye level for you. This gives you huge flexibility with vlogging or TikTok
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or any other motion or image capture that you want. Now, one of the other cool things is it has hidden on one of its legs
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a Bluetooth remote control. So, all I have to do is push the button, and it's taking a picture
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Or, in video mode, it'll alternate between starting and stopping your video
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This is hugely flexible, and this is Bluetooth. It works up to 35 feet away, and it's iPhone and Android compatible
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But I want to say this device is primarily designed for iPhones
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because it is MagSafe, but if you don't have a MagSafe phone
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or you don't have a MagSafe case for your phone, then it does come with some metal rings that have an adhesive on them
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so you can put them on your case or on the back of your other phone to make it work
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Now, here's an important tip, is that the actual mount has three little buttons around the side
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And what you want to do to take your phone off is you want to push one of the buttons
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and then tilt your phone as you take it off. And it's as easy as that
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Now, you can fold this back up. You can obviously angle it like this, and I can use this for selfies
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In fact, let's go outside. And first off, here's a selfie picture
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But here's also some videos that I took. So this is a demonstration of me using the selfie stick with video
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It's a little tricky to hold it perfectly still, but of course you can use the tripod for that
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I am using the remote control for starting and stopping the video, however
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and that's pretty convenient. For this demo, I have the unit in tripod mode, and it works perfectly well
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You can see it's pretty stable once it settles down. It is a little wobbly, so in high winds
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this probably isn't going to work very well, particularly if you have it fully extended, as I do
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Want to use tripod mode for your next great TikTok? As you can see, it works really well, particularly indoors
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because if you're outdoors and it's really windy, then it's going to be a little wobbly, but indoors it works great
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Ultimately, it's a pretty straightforward device, but I like that it gives you some good flexibility and lots of different options
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It is a little bit wobbly when you have it fully extended on its tripod
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so that's something where you'll want to experiment and figure out the optimal height to get the stability you want
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but as I noted, if you're indoors, that's not a big deal
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It's really if you're outdoors and it's a breezy day, that could cause a little bit of camera motion
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but the flip side is that this whole thing is so incredibly portable and super light
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It's all plastic, so it's definitely not going to be able to handle being an emergency jack for your car
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It's not tough, it's not strong, it's not made out of carbon steel or anything like that
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but if you want something that's super lightweight and highly portable, this is literally under 16 ounces, and when it's fully folded up
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as you can see, it is... Let me take my phone off of here by pushing a button and tilting it
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you can see that's pretty easy to slip into your bag, your overnight bag, your suitcase
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and you are good to go, or you can just carry it. It's so light, it's really easy to work with
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Now, let's see. I talked about MagSafe. Let me just say that that's generally the iPhone 12 to the iPhone 15 line
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and I have a MagSafe case, which is why that circle and the dash are reinforced there
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This is the best possible situation because the case protects my expensive phone
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and it's still MagSafe-friendly, which makes it work the best it can
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with this particular MagSafe phone tripod. Again, if you don't have that, they do include some adhesive metal rings
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which will very elegantly solve the problem. That's really everything. You got the demo
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I talked about all the different ways you can use it. It's really a simple, elegant, and affordable solution for this particular problem
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so hope you check it out. Now, we do need to talk also about the price
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Let me just get this thing set up one more time. I should say that sometimes I find pulling the legs out of the base a little tricky
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so I've found that some of them are a little bit harder than others to get the first one out
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Obviously, once you pull one out, the rest of them are going to come out automatically
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but just have a little patience and know that all you have to do is sort of spread it out
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and then it gets stable all by itself. That Bluetooth control, let's see, make sure I have it oriented correctly
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You just slip it in, and it stays in, and it stays in
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It's not going to fall out, which is nice. So, let's see
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Before we talk about the price, I'm going to invite you to subscribe to my channel
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Now, this is the Omaton OMAG MagSafe phone tripod, and it's normally $99.99, currently discounted down to $59.99
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and as I record this video, there's an additional $5 coupon, dropping it down to $54.99
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That's not a bad price at all for a selfie stick with this much versatility
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and this really very nice Bluetooth control, and most importantly, this MagSafe Plus suction mount system with its 360-degree rotation
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It's super flexible. It's really easy to work with, and again, that's it
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That's all I've got to do, and now I'm ready to go. So, definitely one worth checking out at Amazon.com, as are so many of these products
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Definitely worth checking out for yourself. That's all I got, so I'll catch you in my next video
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