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Belkin Debuts Official MagSafe Car Charging Mount
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It does not always work and I don’t exactly want the AC when it’s cold outside.
Thank you! At current Amazon pricing you can nearly buy two of these plus two Apple MagSafe adapters for the price of one of the Belkin mounts. Belkin's pricing is idiotic.
They saw the new Apple pricing strategy and decided “Yup, let’s do that too”
I actually hate both those features personally, vent mounts have overheated my phone in the past with heat on, or I have to turn off that vent, which sucks, and integrated cables mean soldering or throwing out the whole device if the cable gets damaged
I prefer these types of mounts without a swivel. Lower profile in the car and more stable, less prone to breaking down over time.
Not fond of vent holders and doubly unfond of a phone stuck to a vent with a dangling wire.
It can definitely handle it, I have their 7.5W magnetic mount. But $100 is overpriced, definitely.
Good thing they made it white, to match all those white interiors that 99.9% of cars don't have.
Where is Belkin's MagSafe monitor mount for Continuity Camera? Not the laptop mount, the monitor mount. C'mon, we need this now Belkin!
The same people who spend $250 for ear buds, $1200 for an phone, $3500 for a laptop. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but this is an Apple forum 😂
I hope it stays on the vent better than their non-charging mount. That was TERRIBLE. My car has a stiffer sport suspension, but it was constantly falling off. I think it’s buried in the center console of my car. The one from Mophie stays so much better.
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I think it depends on your car. I have a small compact car that rides like a tank. It’s not the vent clip that’s the weak point, but MagSafe just isn’t strong enough for hard bumps. If you have a nicer car, that’s larger then you don’t feel those bumps.
I have the same problem. Which one from Mophie do you have?
I got it at a kiosk at the mall. I use the Mophie Snap in one car, and this one in another car.
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I was about to say, can’t you just use a cheap mount like that and the Apple charger for the full 15w?
I just got a cheap one off Amazon that has a built in cooling fan but it charges very slowly.
And nobody says what happens in the winter when you’re ruining the heater! Forget summer heat, my ac is always on and my phone is ice cold. But what happens for people in cold climates blasting 95 degree heat out their vents straight into the phone in winter?
Price aside seems nice
I have the regular version of this and it’s great
In some ways I prefer it doesn’t charge because I have a cigarette outlet lightning charger for when I want and need it and pick up and mount my phone a lot. I feel like finicky charging patterns all the time wouldn’t be great long term. Or it charging while it’s already at the max. Etc.
I have the regular version of this and it’s great
In some ways I prefer it doesn’t charge because I have a cigarette outlet lightning charger for when I want and need it and pick up and mount my phone a lot. I feel like finicky charging patterns all the time wouldn’t be great long term. Or it charging while it’s already at the max. Etc.
It’s a vent stand. Turn the AC on in the car and you’ll have cold air blowing directly on the phone. It’s more than enough to keep the phone cool.