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Invaluable. I'll never travel without it.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2017

This is a great item for catching those timelapse videos with your phone. Or selfies with a timer. I had an issue where the top part broke, but customer support replaced it very quickly. ... Anthony at customer support, thanks!

I, literally, keep one of these in my car at all times for those evenings when I'm driving home and I see a stunning sunset starting. I pull over, put my phone in the GorillaPod and grab a cool sunset timelapse.

I also use it to get great bird photographs. I put the phone in the tripod, wrap it on my deck rail and put a few seeds on the deck rail. I use a bluetooth remote to snap pics when birds come for the seeds.

This thing is invaluable.

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Jonathan White

Did not last long

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023

This product was sturdy and worked properly for a week. Then the joints became loose and it fell apart.

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Jon

Invaluable. I'll never travel without it.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2017

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

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Michael Thomas

Great product works as described very versatile

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2020

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

I took this on vacation to the mountains, and there was not place to set the tripod down, so I took it and wrapped it around a tree. Very versatile and will work in any place you need. It will only hold the phone in landscape, but that shouldn't make a difference. Recommend the purchase.

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Moccasin

Good concept but not quite as beefy as I'd like for my iPhone

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2019

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

I recently purchased the Joby GorillaPod Stand for LARGE PHONES. As seen in the images, I use a silicone sleeve by Apple for my iPhone XSMAX. At this point the device is stiff to adjust, Perhaps I expected it to hold my phone in portrait orientation more, when it obviously likes the landscape orientation better.

I'm always aware of keeping the bottom of my iPhone clear to avoid heat buildup but also to transmit my voice on calls, or to record notes/memos. The GorillaPod photos show it on a glass topped table, bed sheets, and an upholstered chair. It was fairly stable, but an Otter Box or bulky sleeve would not be easily balanced and steady.

I personally would like a black/chartreuse color combination, much easier to see. And, a bit longer legs to fit around objects. More flexibility would allow me to hang it on the window of my van pointed outside or at the road ahead to snap images of my upcoming route turn markers etc, especially with the location feature of the phone enabled. I can trigger the camera lens with my Apple watch, quite easily, never touching the phone nor bothering the pairing of the phone to my vehicle for phone calls. Using the camera from this setup needs checking, in case road vibration makes the images unacceptable.

As it is, I will take the Gorillapod with me for camping or for travel, to make sure I keep my iPhone above wet surfaces and more visible when I am busy and lay it down somewhere. Perhaps even hanging from the visor or rearview mirror when I use the GPS function....removing the phone from a hot dashboard is always a good idea. Now THAT would be quite handy. The GorillaPod might even fit my Garmin GPS attached to the visor, off the hot dash where it slides out of reach on some roads!

The takeaway in my review is: the GorillaPod is acceptable, a good concept, but not quite universally appropriate. I'm keeping it.

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Dave Lakhani

Great Product And Easily Holds My iPhone 6plus With Case. Very Adaptable And Sturdy.

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2015

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

I'm a fan of Joby products in general and the gorilla pods are awesome. I really enjoy this addition to my iPhone photography kit because the phone holder easily accommodates my iPhone 6plus in a normal sized case with no problem and the tripod easily supports the weight. My only observation is that when it says XL, I expected to get their much larger gorillapod, not the standard small one. I'm sure if I'd have look more closely at the actual dimensions I'd have figured it out, but just looked quickly at XL and made an assumption. That said, I'm not at all unhappy with the functionality of this product at all, I just wanted a larger one for trees etc.

This product easily fits into a day pack or even your back pocket (it will stick out) and adapts quickly to just about any surface, grips and holds very well as does the head that holds your phone. Very good purchase and well worth the money.

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A. Hecht

Versatile holder for smaller cameras and larger phones

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2016

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

This gorillapod is great for holding a phone or camera steady in situations where you don't want to carry a full tripod. I've used it around a railing to take long exposure pictures of fireworks, hanging from a branch to take a selfie in the woods, and even just as a normal tripod on a table. The legs are easy to bend, but hold their shape under the weight of a small camera or phone.

The genuine GripTight phone holder included with this tripod alone is worth the price of this bundle, and can be used on any standard tripod. It does a great job of holding my HTC 10 secure. I had the smaller phone holder before, and it was a bit of a squeeze with my phone in a case, but this one holds it with ease. It is thin enough to hold the phone without pressing any of the buttons, but still keeps the phone secure. Best of all, it folds down flat for easy storage or slipping in a pocket. I've also tried some third-party phone holder attachments for gorillapods, but they've all been much harder to insert the phone, too wide to avoid buttons, and didn't fold down flat.

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Jonathan White

Did not last long

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

This product was sturdy and worked properly for a week. Then the joints became loose and it fell apart.

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Justin A Ritchie

Not everything I expect in a gorillapod

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2019

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

This is functional, and it holds my Note 9 up. The build looks and feels cheap to me, but I'll see how it lasts. I bought it because I had a first-gen small camera gorillapod and loved it. Maybe I should have looked at the copycat brands since this product is what I would expect from an imitation.

The Good:
It's lightweight and smaller than I expected, so it'll be easy to carry around
The phone 'grabber' is big enough with room to spare, even with a rugged case on my already giant phone

The Not-as-good:
It just looks and feels cheap. My first gorillapod was sexy. This feels like it came from a CVS clearance bin.

You cannot swivel/pan the phone, which is frustrating. Once you screw the mount on, that's where it is relative to the legs -- period.

Lacks the ability to easily tilt the phone to portrait orientation. My small-camera gorillapod, which you'll remember I loved dearly, had this functionality. You can simulate it by standing the phone itself on a surface and using the tripod feet to balance it (or hang it sideways off a thin pole). The manual also shows a weird bending of the legs to accomplish it as well, so I guess I'll give that a whirl try.

It has a lock feature for the button that releases the mount from the tripod so you can't accidentally bump it. Nice thought, but poor execution. Shame on the engineer responsible. It's a bizarre twist lock that I managed to lock, but now can't grip anywhere to release. The button itself covers the notch area I need to grip it. The engineer probably still thinks he's super clever. This might also be why they couldn't allow the head to swivel -- bad trade-off.

For $20, it'll probably be OK, but if I were Marie Kondo, it'd be gone. I'm less concerned with the lack of thoughtful features as with (my perception of) the build quality. That said, this review was written April 2019. If you don't see an update, assume it's still working and I underestimated it (and am very sorry to everyone except the swivel lock engineer).

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JLJ

Very weak. Poor construction. Works for very basic setups.

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2016

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

Bought a few of these - all three of the tripods popped a joint (always the second from the center) and then can never quite stand or grip as intended... because each of the ball joints is made of two pressed pieces of plastic, and the seam splits if you put even a slight bit of pressure on it.

The phone grip is okay, but barely strong enough to hold onto a Samsung Galaxy S6 in anything other than a very balanced angle.

I got some decent use out of it - but they all seem to break from the slightest little bumps in backpacks / camera bags. Something even slightly more sturdy would be great.

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K. McDonnell

Excellent tripod with one minor quibble.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

With 912 reviews at the time of this writing, I imagine my review will get lost in the noise, but here goes...

This thing mostly lives up to it's reputation. It provides a reasonably solid platform to anchor your phone to, it's adjustable to fit a multitude of devices, and of course, you can wrap it around a branch or what not. The only change I would make to the design would be to increase the length of the lip at the end of the mount. With my setup (Galaxy Note 5 with Supcase Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Case, SUPCASE Unicorn Beetle Series Premium Hybrid Protective Bumper Case for Galaxy Note 5 (2015 Release) (Frost/Black) ) I find I have to be very careful inserting the phone into the grips. It has a tendency to want to slip out until it's been completely, uh, gripped. Once it's attached it's just fine, but the process of grabbing the phone is ever so slightly tricky. YMMV, of course. It may just be the combination of the grip and the case. I've attached a picture showing the grip lip.

Earns my official seal of approval.

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RyanFromQA

Don't expect it to wrap around just anything. Put a case on your phone

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2016

Style: GripTight GP Stand XL for Large PhonesVerified Purchase

Like an idiot, I thought this would hold my phone up over a hand railing. It felt solid and tightly wrapped, but when I stepped away, it swung under the railing and flung my phone to the floor. I would be very cautious mounting my phone in some of the poses they show in the product pictures.

That said, it's a good lightweight stand, the folding phone grip mount is high quality, and it is useful. Some successful uses:

- Tripod on a table
- Stand on a flat surface holding phone at odd angle
- Mount phone hanging under something

Twice I used this to mount a phone to my rear view mirror to take some video. It didn't fall but the car moving around did loosen the grip of the joints.

If you have something sturdy of small diameter, where you can wrap the arms around it more than once, you should be fine. But a 2.5" diameter hand rail was too thick.

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