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The Ingenious NiteIze STEELIE Phone & Tablet Mount Kit - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
There are any number of mounting kits that let you stick your smartphone - whether an iPhone, Android or even small phablet - on your car dashboard, but none of them are part of a wider ecosystem of products. That's where the NiteIze STEELIE system comes in. Based on a ball-and-socket magnet system, the STEELIE turns out to not only be an extraordinarily flexible car mount system, but a great way to better manage your phone and tablet everywhere in the home and office. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the NiteIze STEELIE system and is impressed by what he finds... Learn more: https://www.niteize.com/ Dash Mount Kit: http://amzn.to/2BPpVkP Pedestal Stand: http://amzn.to/2FFaKwO
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is this the best device mount in the
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world let's check it out Dave Taylor
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here and this time I want to talk about
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mounting systems for your smartphone or
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for your tablet now there's a ton of
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different companies out there that makes
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something that glues on to your car or
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glues on to the little vent on the
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air-conditioner or clips onto it and
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then your phone works and you have
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somewhere to mount it the problem is is
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that they tend to be one-off solutions
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rather than looking at the overall
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problem of what do we do with our phones
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when we're not holding them enter these
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this is the steely system from a company
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called nite ize now fair disclosure nite
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ize is just down the street from me so i
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know them they make a great product but
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I'm looking at these because I actually
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have the product in hand and here's the
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basic idea it is a magnet that you put
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on the back of your phone or tablet
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and then it connects and sticks to
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anything metal so I could pick my phone
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right now put it on the side of the
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fridge that's handy and it'll sit there
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it will not slide down these are some
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strong magnets but the heart of the
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system is really the idea of it being
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sort of a ball and socket so here's the
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ball and with this now as you can see it
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is plenty strong enough to hold my
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iPhone and the ball actually I can
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actually mount this on my dashboard or
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somewhere else how smart is that and
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it's a pretty darn strong magnet but
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what they did one thing that's really
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smart is they have some silicon in the
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middle so it doesn't get stuck where you
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can't move it around so it's really easy
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to move it now this is not the only
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device in their line let's look at this
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- this is their tabletop stand and when
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you look at this you'll understand the
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brilliance of what they've done here
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with their product line because they
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didn't say let's figure out how to mount
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this in your car they said what the heck
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can we do with this idea of really good
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mounts and so they have this entire
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ecosystem it's pretty impressive if you
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go on there
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website and look so stand base the
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pedestal screws in that's all I got to
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do right now for this this just sits on
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a table why is that interesting because
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now I can put my phone look at that
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sideways I can put it at any angle I
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like and it'll stay there the magnets
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strong enough that that works and then I
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just pop it off now to be fair you saw
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there was a little bit of effort
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involved there and the reason for that
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is because what I'm actually testing is
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what they call the dash mount kit plus
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so that's the base magnet and the ball
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and this particular magnet that I got is
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twice the power of their regular ones
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and it's designed for those plus size
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phones and bigger tablets and stuff
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probably a little bit of overkill when
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it comes to just a regular iPhone so
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probably a little bit stronger than it
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needs to be you know worse there could
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be worse problems but one of the other
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interesting things they've done is that
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when you have something like this this
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is something that you don't necessarily
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want to stick to your phone and have it
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be permanent forever so number one you
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can put it in a case as I've done here
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but the other thing you can do that's
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really kind of cool is they have
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something called their multi stick
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adapter so you see in this close-up kind
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of that the metal ring is the magnet and
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it sticks to a pad and then the pad is
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what's stuck to my iPhone case now the
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pad is actually the multi stick adapter
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and it takes a little bit of work prying
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it off but it comes off and now I can
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put it back on if I'm using it in a
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different context or got a new case or
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whatever and where that's really nice is
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you can do that 50 times with that
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little sticker with that adapter so I
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really like that because you know I put
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this on here and obviously they're using
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super strong adhesives as they need to
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but that doesn't mean I want this on my
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case forever so I really like that they
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thought that through and came up with
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this solution for those of
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that maybe have slight commitment issues
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when it comes to magnets on our
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cellphones now speaking of magnets on
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cell phones there's nothing to worry
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about it doesn't distort the screen
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there's no ill effect or anything from
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the magnet on your phone modern phones
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can handle it however your credit cards
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aren't necessarily quite so powerful so
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you don't want to have this on top of
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your wallet you don't want to have this
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near anything that can be adversely
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affected by a magnet
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because this is a strong magnet so
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that's the deal
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Knight I steel II system I am just such
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a fan of this where you put this on your
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car you can have this baby in your
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kitchen or by your bedside table and
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notice also hoops when I put this on
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here it doesn't get in the way of access
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to the wires it's no issue with speakers
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or anything so it's just a really simple
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elegant solution now before I tell you
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the price let me ask you if you can go
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ahead and click on that subscribe button
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I sure appreciate that cool now how much
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would you pay for this setup well it's
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kind of spendy so the base system that
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you need to start out with this is the -
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mount kit plus which as I said has these
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slightly more powerful sorry 2 X 2 X
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more powerful magnet this will set you
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back $39.99 but once you have that then
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you have access to the whole ecosystem
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of all the other stuff they do and this
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little pedestal very nice it's a
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beautiful piece of I assume milled
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aluminum it just has a nice feel to it
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very professional I could see that on
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the CEOs desk for example this will set
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you back 29.99 you can learn about all
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of this stuff at nite ize dot-com and if
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you happen to visit their factory we
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know that I'm just around the corner so
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cool stuff nite ize steel ii really like
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it
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steve taylor and i'll catch you in the
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next week
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