Hey guys, what's up? I'm Christian Taylor and I tried a PopSocket for one week
now I'm almost positive you've heard of these things by now
but in case you haven't, a pop socket is a device that mounts to the back of your phone
via adhesive. It sticks there and then it pops. So, it gets close to flat when
you're not using it and when you want to use it you pull on it, and it's almost like
a handle of sorts, a place to put your fingers. Now these things have been
popping up like crazy. I see them everywhere. First it was mainly the girl
demographic, then I started seeing guys with them. Now I see tons of people with
them and I got to thinking what is the point of a PopSocket? I've never felt
like I have trouble gripping my phone before having a PopSocket, so do they
add any value, or is it just a fad? I wanted to get to the bottom of this and
figure out whether these were actually useful in my everyday life or whether
it's just a fad that is a trend that's going to die. So, I went to Best Buy,
I bought a brand new PopSocket, and I've been using it for just over a week
So I'll be honest when I first attach this to my phone I felt ashamed. I honestly
felt like I was gonna get made fun of. Because these are still a new thing and
I felt like I was just falling victim to some trend, and, well, the first couple
days I felt like it was kind of useless because, like I said, I don't have trouble
gripping my phone. I was like, really, what is the use to this? It was a different
way of holding my phone, but I haven't struggled to hold my phone like this.
I have this little lip under my case where I usually put my hand without having a
PopSocket, or even if I'm taking something in landscape I've found ways
to do that perfectly fine, but then I started noticing some hidden values
Number one is security. I went to a metal concert, I was near the mosh pit, and I
wanted to film the concert. Now if you've never been to a metal concert, they're
very intense
and this gave me added security that I was not going to drop my phone. I don't
know about you but sometimes I get in awkward situations where people might be
bumping into me, or it's just my hands are really slippery or something, this is
an added layer of security that your phone is going to be secure. It's not
gonna go anywhere, so that was the first benefit I immediately saw. Number two is
using it as a tripod. This has become my favorite perk of the PopSocket. You
don't really realize how useful it is to be able to prop your phone up until you
have it, and now that it's something I've been doing with the PopSocket, if I'm
watching a YouTube video, I just open it up and throw my phone on the table and
let it sit there, I find it invaluable and, I'm very pleased with the
functionality this offers as a kickstand. And finally number three is a discreet
mount. So after using this for seven days, I actually went to Best Buy to pick up a
mount for this for my car, and I gotta say it's pretty cool. You know, there's a
lot of car mounts out there that are chunky, they're obnoxious, this one is
really low-profile, [I] just peel[ed] back the sticky tape and threw it on the car
dashboard, and I can just dock this while I'm driving and be able to see my map
and see where I'm going. And the mount is versatile. You can throw this thing
anywhere you can think of as long as it's a flat surface you can just slide
it right in and it sits there. So in conclusion, after seven days am I
going to be sticking with the PopSocket, or am I gonna remove it and
throw it out? Well, I gotta say I like it. I really do and I'm gonna be sticking
with it, and I will say if you have the $10 to spend and you're curious
I'd recommend trying it out. If you have trouble gripping your phone, I think it's
a necessity, but if you're just curious like me it's not really something you
need per se, but if you have ten dollars to spend and you're willing to spend it
and you're curious, I say give it a shot. Now the question
you're asking is do I think this is a fad? And, well, yes and no. I think it's
gonna find its niche and its market. Right now I think it is gonna tend to be
a fad because so many people have it. I think that everyone's gonna get it out
of curiosity, but the people who end up keeping it and buying another one when
their first one breaks or another one when they get a new phone or a new case,
those are the people who are going to really turn it from a fad to a product
so I sort of expect it to go like this as far as product usage
right now we're spiking I think it's gonna level off for a while then it's
gonna drop just slightly, but I do think PopSockets is going to be able to
sustain themselves as a legitimate business for many years to come. So this
has been an interesting experiment. I want in skeptical, I went in thinking I
was just falling victim to a trend, but I came out convinced that this is actually
a useful phone accessor. So what do you think? Do you think PopSockets are the
stupidest thing ever? Do you have one and you love it, or do
you have one and you hate it? Or maybe you're just curious about it and you'd
like to try one. Answer the poll and drop your thoughts in a comment below, and if
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