ULANZIST-02S Aluminum Phone Tripod Mount w Cold Shoe Mount, Support Vertical and Horizontal, Universal Metal Adjustable Clamp for iPhone 12 11 Pro Xs X Max 8 7 Plus Samsung Android Smartphones

If you are serious about getting the right phone tripod mount you should read this. For such a simple device I have more to say than can fit in one review so I will keep it to the essentials, the stuff you came here to know.PREFACEI don’t usually start reviews like a book with a preface but if you are to know if this is the right mount to get there are some things that I would like to explain. First I am a career photographer who has traveled the world, anything from fashion to photo news. My job has nothing to do with this product but decades of using tripods with cameras has taught me how valuable they are as well as how cumbersome they are to use and the value of minimalism if you want to be good at your trade. I will talk more about the minimal design later but it is very important and shopping for one of these ended up being made a bit frustrating by the companies who sell these insisting on illustrating them with all kinds of weird microphones, humungous lights and other accessories just to make the point that they have a cold shoe. Okay, point made, it has a cold shoe. So let’s get into it in more detail.WHAT YOU GETWhat you get is simple, a surprisingly solid, almost all metal, clamp that has zero frills. If it fits your phone then it will work. It is assembled and never needs to be disassembled. There are no instructions and you don’t need any.HOW IT IS USEDThere are several schools of thought about spring load vs screw-down vs ratchet. It all boils down to the fact you are buying this to hold a phone in position on a tripod while you take pictures. You’re off to a great start because any time you have the slightest inclination that you might need to brace your phone against shaking your decision is 100% correct that you should be using a tripod. What makes this a good design is that you can use any tripod in any way you would mount a DSLR or other traditional camera. There are no swivels or tilts or anything else that moves, in fact the beauty of this mount is there are no moving parts at all other than the fastener that holds your phone in place. You attach this mount using one of two threaded holes in the metal. That’s not not sound ideal but this is a very hard metsl and the weight it needs to support is minimal so I can accept that there are no brass bushings for the threads as not being a negative. If you want to shoot landscape you use one hole and if you want to shoot portrait you use the other - all adjustments from there are made on your tripod, where they should be. I say tripod but this mount is equally at home attached to almost anything you can think of that has a standard quarter inch screw, and that’s a lot of things.WHAT I LOVE1. It is simple, I’m confident my thousand buck phone will stay put for any normal situation whether I orient it horizontally or vertically, no other mount is as secure as one that I know I have tightened it enough to not fall out2. I don’t have to think about any adjustments, I either attach it one way or the other for landscape or portrait pictures.3. The part that grips the phone is relatively soft rubber so it will squish against my phone without leaving deep marks in my eighty buck leather magsafe case. This is important because I haven’t met a spring loaded mount yet that doesn’t squeeze my phone too much, and to reiterate the point, I would never trust any ratchet design - not only don’t they grip tightly enough to keep it from slipping out, especially in vertical position, all it would take is one accidental swipe against the release button and my phone would smash to the floor.4. If you are looking for a mount that doubles as a tripod, handgrip, selfie stick, quasi-SLR camera grip or one that will hold a dozen accessories this isn’t it and from my experience that is not the way to shop for one of these. All those things add complexity, weight, security concerns and at some point will limit you - there is never the perfect accessory gadget so why try getting a mount that locks you in to only what works with it? The one thing that attracts me on some other mounts is a removable remote shutter release but after thinking it over I decided to make my own using my favorite remote button and attaching it to a lightweight plastic cold shoe plate so I could always keep it where I can find it and if I am using my phone’s self timer I can just leave it in the mount to press the button - which is how I would most likely use it anyway.WHAT COULD BE IMPROVEDI wrote some things about the shape of the rubber clamps then I deleted what I wrote. It’s true they seem to favor phones with rounded edges like most android phones and older iphones but the are cut in such a way that they have a firm, but not too tight, on my iPhone 14 Pro with or without the leather magsafe case. I am very sensitive about messing that case up and it is a very rare mount that doesn’t do that. This one doesn’t.YES OR NOYou wouldn’t expect me to not give five stars to the mount that I spent weeks researching until I finally chose this one, would you? I left price entirely out of the equation since the range for various mounts is from about ten to about forty bucks. I could have spent more and in the fifteen buck range there are many other fancier options. But this is the one I will carry with me, because I trust it and that makes it the final winner.

Ok, this was a surprise. I ordered this selfie stick thinking I would just use it for a trip. A "one and done". This thing is super easy to setup and use. It's light, compact, and somewhat multifunctional. It provided a nice grip for using my phone as a camera and although the tripod isn't super stable, meaning as a regular tripod, it did amazingly well. My favorite feature was the wireless Bluetooth trigger. Easy setup and a major convenient feature. They say, "features tell and benefits sell" and this thing is loaded for such a small device. Maybe I'm super easy to please? Or perhaps, with all the complex $$#@ out there this was simple and easy. I didn't even used my stabilizer on this past trip! Just this! If, and I mean IF, I had a critical point it would be that I would have the phone holder tension a little more. There were a few times it felt shaky so I didn't take any risks like over water or a cliff. 😀 Just saying.

Nothing fancy - constructed of durable machined aluminum materials and hand-tightened thumb screws to assure firm attachment to a tripod or hand-held selfie-stick.

This thing is very versatile, bought for my wife, she takes a lot of photos since she works in a boutique. Very small that can go in her purse and a lot of angles to use as a handle, a selfie stick, or a tripod. Too bad the button doesn't work :( battery came drain and can't find a spare locally so I'll have to order one online and see if it works.

I think it’s work good

Easy to assemble

the hinge on the component holding the camera is not tight and has no means of tightening. Thus can only use in one position without it moving when positioning camera for selfie. Not sufficient extension but without increasing size of the unit ....

Perfect