PopSockets is lastly prepared on your vertical close-up. Unveiled this week, the brand new MagSafe Kick-Out Grip & Stand lastly makes it doable to make use of a PopSocket as a stand for an iPhone in vertical mode. That’s proper, all you TikTokers, PopSockets simply grew to become your hands-free filming pal.
For years, I carried PopSockets on the again of my finest iPhones (I even had one that includes a design created by one among my youngsters). I by no means caught the reusable PopSocket adhesive on to the again of my cellphone and as an alternative at all times positioned a skinny, clear plastic case over the cellphone chassis and caught the pop-out grip to that.
However, when Apple launched MagSafe, it now not made sense for me to cowl the cost magnet. I might, however for wi-fi charging, I needed to pull the cellphone out of the case. So, I switched to a MagSafe-friendly case and attachable stand from Speck that included a fold-out foot for – you guessed it – hands-free vertical video shoots.
Now, although, I may not want the Speck (which is sadly liable to breakage; I’ve gone by means of three stands). The new PopSockets Kick-Out Grip & Stand resembles a conventional PopSocket, however as an alternative of a small glue-covered base, the pop-out grip is hooked up to a bigger, spherical, MagSafe-ready base.
Once hooked up to the again of an iPhone 16 or an iPhone 16 MagSafe case, the bottom incorporates a hinged physique, permitting you to tilt the PopScocket grip away from the cellphone, the place it turns into a stand. You can rotate the bottom to create a stand for horizontal or vertical positioning of movies. In the pictures and movies supplied by PopSockets, the kick-out stand seems to completely attain the desk, placing the cellphone at practically a 90-degree angle.
This appears to be like like a nifty little bit of engineering from PopSockets, because the hinge has a full vary of movement, which means you might arrange your iPhone at nearly any angle.
You might use the Kick-Out Grip & Stand with out a case and connect it on to the again of your iPhone, however PopSockets can also be promoting a companion set of MagSafe circumstances for the iPhone 16 line (no different iPhone lineups are supported). Like the Kick-Out, every case sells for $40. No worldwide pricing is at present obtainable.
Kick-Out and Stand is just not PopSockets’ first MagSafe-friendly design, however it’s the first that may act as a flexible stand. $40 may seem to be quite a bit to pay for an iPhone grip, however the capability to movie hands-free in both mode is difficult to quantify.
I’ve accomplished many TikTok unboxings utilizing my Speck stand in vertical mode, and when a tripod was unavailable, I’ve propped it up on tables to get a full-figure shot.
One factor that’s not clear is that if the PopSocket heads could be swapped for, as an example, seasonal grip heads, as you might do with earlier PopSockets grips. In my home, my spouse likes to modify between a spring one and a winter-friendly head, which is definitely a disc-shaped snow globe.
The MagSafe Kick-Out Grip & Stand is available in six materials types and colours, together with Aluminum Raidal Silver (or Purple), Black, Latte, Putty, and Dusk.
