Review of Mpow Grip Pro 2 Dashboard Car Phone Holder

This is a review of Mpow Grip Pro 2 Dashboard Car Phone Holder

The Grip Pro 2 arrives in a box dismantled into a number of pieces that you will need to put together to make the product shown below.

Mpow say that the Grip Pro 2 dashboard car phone holder has to go through 5 scrutinising tests at the design stage:

1. Dropping test
2. High and low temperature test
3. Loading test
4. Pulling test
5. Vibration test

After trying out this phone holder I can easily believe on the whole it successfully passes these tests. Although you do need to have cleaned your dash and found a perfectly flat spot to put it on once you have done that there are three elements to how it secures itself to your dash.

1. There is a very sticky gel pad on the base of the suction cup

2. The suction cup itself is what you would find most small items that stick to glass or just hard surfaces would use.

3. There then is the ability to lock it firmly down onto the surface using an easy locking system. There is the option for even stronger suction for a textured surface.

With the 3 levels of securing the holder to your car dash I have to say I do have quite a heavy phone (a CAT S60). At first the holder managed well for the first few days however the weight of the phone (at 223 grams) seemed to be a little to heavy for it and actually pulled it off. I tried it again to make sure it wasn’t that I had not cleaned the dashboard well enough and again after a couple of days it pulled it off. It probably doesn’t help that our dash is not that flat, so if youres is, it may hold much heavier phones. This is quite a heavy phone and I would say with most phones that generally weight around or less than 150 grams there would be no problem. As the image shows below the Grip Pro 2 is perfectly designed to suit most smart phones that range from 4-6 inches in length.

With the added ability to swivel the phone to either a portrait or horizontal position and and extra security feature at the bottom for phone stability or access to your phone charging port, you do feel as though the manufacturer has tried to think of everything.

A well designed car phone holder and charging station, for most phone shapes and sizes just not the heaviest on the market.