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Best Arlo camera mounts in 2024
From magnetic plates to clamp-on goosenecks, these 10 mounts are perfect for many different types of Arlo cameras
When choosing the best smart home security system for your space, Arlo is impossible to overlook. Its powerful security cameras safeguard your home and loved ones thanks to many smart features and the support of multiple intelligent sensors. Arlo boasts an extensive range of smart security cameras, like the Arlo Pro 4, a surveillance powerhouse that's easy to use, simple to install, and a quick way to add some peace of mind to any property.
Best Amazon Echo Show 8 mounts and stands in 2024
Elevate your Echo Show 8 experience with these stands, wall mounts, and battery cases
Amazon's Echo Show smart displays are the perfect gateway into the convenience of the Alexa voice control ecosystem. The Echo Show 8 represents the best all-around and most versatile choice for most people, as it has a good blend of screen resolution, sound quality, and camera performance. Plus, its 1280 x 800 display is sharp for its 8-inch size, and the 13MP camera is great for video calls.
Best Google Nest Hub mounts and stands in 2024
Have a Google Nest Hub but can't put it up in the right place?
The Google Nest Hub is one of the best smart displays for any size home or business. Far more than a simple touchscreen device, your Nest Hub can be an active participant in your daily life, allowing you to track everything from shopping lists to calendar events. You can also use Google Assistant to search the web, make video calls, control your smart home ecosystem, and much more.
Best Ring Doorbell mounts in 2024
Ring Doorbell mounts are a great option for boosting security and enhancing video doorbells
Ring Video Doorbells have become well-known smart home security devices. It's no surprise because they allow users to monitor their front doors via recording or live stream, all while functioning as a traditional doorbell and offering two-way communication. Unfortunately (and ironically), the devices' popularity and standard mounting kit have made them vulnerable to theft. While the standard mounts may be suitable for some homes, others may need more security, adjustable positioning, or perhaps even charging assistance for battery-powered models. That's why this list has various models with these and more desirable features.
A good Android phone houses a wealth of essential functions. It’s a communication device, a high-definition camera, and navigational equipment all in one. This storage, information, and communication tool powers much of your daily life, so its protection is important, especially when it's time to be active. Like, biking, perhaps. Securing a phone to one of these swift two-wheelers is exceedingly difficult. Fortunately, quite a few good safe, and sturdy bike phone mounts will keep you connected to your phone and your phone connected to your ride, and this list has plenty of them.
On most phones that feature wireless charging, you typically need to give up that convenience when installing a magnetic plate for phone mounts — or place the mount in a location where it works poorly to keep it. In our testing, though, that isn't the case when it comes to the Galaxy S10+. The phone is able to work with a magnetic mount quite far up the back, with no loss in wireless charging functionality.
Not everyone has a car with Android Auto built in. Some of us have to make do with firing up the app when we pile into our car, sorting through a tangle of cables, Bluetooth devices, and clamps with our phones before we head out. If you'd like to streamline that process a bit, or if you've yet to join the Android Auto app-powered ranks, iOttie has four different car mounts that are Deals of the Day over at Amazon and 30% off. If you'd like the Caddilac-unit, iOttie's Easy One Touch Qi mount is probably your jam. As you'd figure, it supports wireless charging for Qi-compatible devices, with other nice features like an automatic closing mount and adjustable telescoping. Normally $49.95, you can grab one now for just $34.97, which is $15 off.
If you are in the market for an inexpensive phone mount, right now over at Amazon you can pick one up for $4 with promo code HM6MF7KT. It's regularly $8, which makes that a 50% savings. Make a bold note, though, that it will only work if you've got a phone on the smaller side, between 4 and 5.2" in screen size (or 55mm-85mm in width).
The Kenu Airframe+ mounts phones to a vehicle's vent, placing it in plain sight of the driver without requiring dedicated hardware to occupy precious windshield real estate. It's a simple concept, even if it's not particularly groundbreaking. I first came across the concept at a department store selling a mount for cheap. But Kenu's product has a secret up its sleeve - it's hyper portable, and it's really good. Considering just how many complicated options there are out there, it's good to see someone reduce a mount down to the bare essentials and get it right.
With the number of options that are out there, our smartphones have gradually become more useful for in-car navigation than dedicated GPS units. Unfortunately, holding a phone in your hand isn't the safest (or most legal) driving habit, and mounting your device to the dashboard doesn't work as gracefully as many accessories out there claim. Yet Scosche might be on to something with its latest products, the magicMOUNT magnetic mounts.
Texting and driving is a pretty heinous crime. Bad enough that it's spawned entire ad campaigns devoted to educating the public on the dangers of such acts. Of this, you are no doubt aware. What you may be less aware of is the fact that figuring out where you're going is exactly as dangerous as sending someone a message that says "Doesn't the Peachoid look like a giant..."
My significant other likes to pretend the next car we buy will have TVs integrated into the headrests to keep our kids occupied on long trips. I can assure you, it will not - after all, that's an option that costs thousands of dollars, and is usually only offered on luxury cars (which we can't afford) and minivans (just no) as it is. But, as it turns out, it's not all that hard to one-up integrated TVs: you can slap on a sleek, adjustable headrest mount.The benefits of using a mount rather than buying integrated are obvious. The first is, of course, cost - most people can't afford to buy a high-end luxury car or topped-out minivan plus the few thousand dollars it costs for the option. Even those who can will likely find outdated systems, and one that's probably not touch-driven and definitely doesn't have the flexibility of Android. In other words: limited capabilities, no touchscreens, and no Play Store. Finally, you're stuck with what whatever mediocre hardware the car manufacturer saw fit to stick in there, unless you were willing to fork over thousands more for a custom system. All told, an aftermarket mount is not only much cheaper all 'round, but it's also infinitely more flexible.
[Quick Look] Arkon Dash Mount For Smartphones: The Most Versatile Dash-Mount Solution We've Found Yet
One of the biggest benefits of having an Android phone is undoubtedly Google Maps/Navigation. However, it's a really bad idea to hold your phone and
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After surprising (and delighting) users by selling the acclaimed Galaxy Nexus directly from the Play Store (at a substantially reduced price), Google has upped the ante, offering a trio of handy Samsung-branded Nexus accessories for purchase starting today.
I love gadgets. Not only that, but I love gadgets for my gadgets: cases, docks, stands, mounts, keyboards, and pretty much anything else you can think of. There's also a dark side at work here, though: I'm also a perfectionist. As such, I'm always on a quest for the perfect thingy-majig, which, in all likelihood, probably doesn't exist.
I recently took up bike riding as a good way to get outside and get active. Being a tech-junkie and overall stat-lover, though, I immediately wanted a good way to track my rides in detail, including real-time MPH, distance traveled, and all the other info that may help me better keep up with my progress. Instead of going the traditional "bike computer" route, though, I decided to use my smartphone to accomplish the task at hand.
Ever since we started calling camera phones "phones," we've been trying as hard as we can to replace as much of our prohibitively expensive camera equipment as we can. Our phones' sensors have been beefed up to "actually pretty good" quality, we've seen several different attachable lenses. Now, thanks to Kickstarter, we've also found the last camera mounting accessory we'll ever need: the Slingshot, which functions as handheld stabilizer, mini tripod, and professional tripod mount.
The main factor that has kept me from buying a windshield mount for my Android phone or tablet is the fact that, for the most part, each device requires its own mount, adding a significant amount of clutter to my window.
If you've visited Android Police over the past weekend, you've probably already seen my enthusiastic review of Total Commander for Android, which for me is replacing both ASTRO and Root Explorer going forward as the top Android file manager. Ad-free, $0, root support, dual panes, plugin support, and other advanced functions, which you can read about in the review, make Total Commander an easy choice for both novice and advanced users.
While I may love many, many things about Android, that doesn't mean that it lacks any annoyances. Of those annoyances, the inability to mount the SD card in the phone and PC simultaneously ranks close to the top of the list. Thankfully, there are apps like Dual Mount SD Widget to save the day.