Texthook for Your Mobile Life
Texthook for Your Mobile Life
I’ve come to rely on my iPhone. I use it for calls, email, calendar, finding directions with the built-in maps; I’ve even used it to entertain my kids when I’m out. My iPhone goes with me everywhere.
But it can become cumbersome when pushing a stroller. Walking the kids to school with the stroller, my iPhone sits in my pocket, not very helpful if I’m trying to use it.
Then I was introduced to a neat little gadget (and you know how I love my gadgets). The Texthook is designed to strap on to the handle of your stroller and holds your iPhone (or whatever smartphone you have. It’s compatible for a variety).
The Texthook is a black plastic devise that has a Velcro strap on the bottom. The Velcro strap is what holds the Texthook onto your stroller handle; being Velcro means it can also adjust to any handle thickness easily and also makes it easy to remove, though most times I just removed my phone and kept the Texthook strapped to the handle.
The Texthook itself comes in a fixed width but the height is adjustable to work with a number of different smartphones. I found the Texthook a little wide for my iPhone though the top part of the Texthook cradle has a lip to hold the phone in place. The height adjusts with a simple squeeze of two pieces in the back, like pinching them together, and it has some preset locking heights. I did find with my iPhone that the phone started to wobble back-and-forth after a few minutes of walking. It never fell out, I don’t think it ever would because of the top clip, but the back-and-forth movement was a little annoying. I think wider phones that fit in the fixed width wouldn’t have this issue as much.
Sadly I wasn’t able to use my morphie Juice Pack battery case with the Texthook; it was just too thick.
As for functionality though, the Texthook did the job. I could get directions on my map and have it right in front of me while I was walking versus stopping and pulling it out of my pocket. I could check text messages with an easy finger tap. I even took a hands-free call (though I’m sure a headset would have been a little clearer).
The other advantage of the Texthook was using it to entertain my kids. Instead of worrying about my daughter dropping my iPhone, I had it resting in the Texthook and my daughter could play a memory matching game while we walked and shopped. I could only use programs in the vertical position since the device, although it rotates slightly left and right, it doesn’t flp to the horizontal position. I only tried the Texthook on our stroller, but you could probably attach this to any handled item like a bike or shopping cart.
* Product was provided for the purpose of this review
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