For every person who buys a tablet to use as a media consumption device, there’s another who buys one with intentions of transforming it into a full blown laptop or desktop PC via clunky third-party accessories. No, really, you shouldn’t have.
Satechi’s $50R1 Arm Hinge Holder stand puts a bevy of seven- to ten-inch tablets on the road to becoming a (very, very) faux iMac. While most tablet holders only cater to the iPad, the solid aluminium R1 stand will work with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the BlackBerry Playbook, the HTC Flyer, the Motorola Xoom, etc.
The list goes on and on, but it’s just a stand. As long as gravity’s still in place it should work with any flat object seven to 10 inches in size, right back to the ancient stone tablets used by cavemen. So I guess they can add backwards compatibility to its feature list. [Satechi]
light487
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:33 PMYes.. it’s a bit silly really.. it looks like something that would work in a car.. but not on your desk. I have a case for my SGSII that has a little flip open stand on the back so that it can stand on its side.. something like that with a swivel to allow it to be on the side or vertical would make sense but these desk stands for tiny touch screen phones are just silly.
sulli
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:39 PMcould be useful if you were doing something like this: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-display/id368158927?mt=8
StevoTheDevo
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:44 PMUseful for propping up the device if you’re watching and not interacting, but seriously $50!?
olearymo
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 3:44 PMI don’t understand the point for something like this that doesn’t charge the tablet.
Richard
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 1:09 AMYou can run a cable through it if you need to. If they had an inbuilt connector then it would no longer be universal.
TBH I quite like it. I likely wouldn’t get one, but I think its quite good. Also contrary to the article, I think it is perfectly suited to media consumption. Would make a quite decent movie stand, even if it is a bit pricey.
MotorMouth
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 1:13 PMWhat’s wrong with stuff like this? Who wants to “consume” a film whilst holding their tablet up to their face or craning their neck to watch it in their lap? And isn’t $50 what Apple charges for their segmented cover thingie? Seems like this thing is as good as that.
LGB
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 5:09 PMYeah I’ll remember that next time I’m on the train…
Bloody nit…