So, the Omoton foldable cell phone stand is pretty decent. It has surprisingly good fit and finish, especially for an unknown brand and its low price point. It looks as good as the photos show.
The hinges are very stiff – deliberately so, since it supposedly works for tablets as well. Personally, I would have preferred hinges that you can loosen or tighten as needed so that you wouldn't have to fight it to fold/unfold it, but as long as you don't have arthritis or something similar, you can probably wrestle it into shape.
I have two primary complaints about this – and they both have to do with the same core issue, which is that this stand wasn't designed well enough with respect to naked phones.
1. If you don't have a case and your camera rings protrude from the back of your phone, then you're going to have to put it slightly off-center when in landscape in order to keep the camera rings from being on the back panel. If you don't, the phone won't sit flat and it won't be stable since it will want to pivot on the edge of the ring. I think if they had left the bottom of the back panel wide but made the top of it (by the hinge) narrower, then it might not have this problem. This is a very minor issue – not a big deal.
2. The sticker pads on the bottom hooks cover the bottom and rising face of the hooks, but they don't come up the back of the panel at all. This means that if you have a naked phone and you're not careful about how you put it in the stand, you're going to hear the phone grind against the powder-coated metal and can possibly scratch the edge of your phone. They could have easily fixed this by putting a sticker pad on the back panel coming up a quarter inch or so from where the hooks are. In a pinch, you can simply fold a single tissue into quarters and lay it against the back covering part of the bottom hooks – but this is something they should have caught and it would have been very cheap and quick for them to address.
All in all, none of these are dealbreakers, and it's still a good stand – but it loses a star for having the potential to scratch a naked phone unless you are very careful or use a workaround.
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