So I can’t find this product on Anker’s website anymore (this is the closest thing I can find on amazon), but I won it over the holidays and I’ve been using it, so here’s a quick review:
First of all, the metal plate to magnet mounting idea I think is on the way out because the plate interferes with wireless charging. On my Samsung galaxy s9+ the only place you can add the plate is here if you want to use the qi charging feature of the phone.
This isn’t aproduct killer, although it does make the mounting in the car a bit unwieldy. The phone (especially because it is the plus size model) tends to get top heavy and topple over. Still, it works well enough, even through a case, to make the product useful and my go-to car mount now.
As you can see, the sticky stuff mounts the magnet base to the car dash, which I found very easy to use and superior to my previous mount-on-the-air-vent holder:
Even though the plate had to mount low on the phone, it holds well enough if you carefully position it. I was hooing it would sort of snap-into-place, but no luck. I have to place it exactly every time to get a good hold:
But, it works well, allows access to the back of the phone fingerprint sensor, and lets me bluetooth music through my ROAV F0:
All in all, probably a 3/5 star product considering the plate completely blocks the qi charger if you place it in the optimal middle-of-the-phone location. Probably why you can’t find it on the website anymore. In any case, future models should take wireless charging into account and either:
Integrate qi charging into the mount (that would be amazing)
or
Have some sort of hole in the plate to allow a wireless charge to pass through.(I’m not sure exactly how wireless charging works, so this might not even be possible).
