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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

Versihold : An iPhone Travel Essential

12.05.2010 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

How to hold your iPhone while watching a movie on a flight … it’s a problem that has plagued users since all the way back to June 29 2007 (OK, its not that long ago) … but now there is a solution that is better than most others.

The Versihold Personal Media Stand is an ideal mini-tripod for comfortably watching videos on the iPhone.  Unlike many other iPhone stands, the Versihold allows users to easily adjust the pitch of their iPhone screen to make viewing easy and relaxing rather than requiring iPhone movie watchers to adjust their head to find a comfortable viewing angle.

The Versihold’s sturdy tripod design, its quick ability to adjust and fine tune the viewing angle and its extremely east ‘packability’ set the gadget part from its competitors.   Versihold’s simple design is proof that a design need not be over complicated to be effective.

The design of the Versihold allows for it to be used with a number of other devices, including many Droid and Blackberry devices.

Unlike the few other iPhone media stands companies have sent me to demo … this one has found its way into my bag rather than into the bin of “things I’ll never use again.”

Below is a photo of my iPhone and the Versihold happily working together on board a JetBlue Airbus A320.

Happy Flying!

4 Responses

  1. Jeff December 5th, 2010 at 9:19 am

    I too have used (and discarded) dozens of iPhone stands. Questions for you:

    Is it primarily metal or plastic?

    How wide will it open? I use an Otterbox Defender on my iPhone 4 and not every “universal” accessory will squeeze it in.

    Any chance of supporting a smaller DSLR on this thing?

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

    Jeff

  2. flyingfish December 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Jeff,

    The Versihold is plastic. One thing to note is the ‘loop’ on top intended to making opening the Versihold easier breaks off easily. I actually prefer the Versihold with this loop ‘removed’ and have sanded it down. It makes packing easier and does not impact the actual use of the gadget at all.

    I am not familiar with the Otterbox products, other than having seen them a few times, so I am not sure if the Otterbox would fit in the Versihold. My Phillips ‘bumper’ is no problem, but I believe the Otterbox is a bit bigger.

    While the Versihold can hold a small P&S, an SLR is out of the question with the current design.

    Happy Flying!

    -Fish

  3. Marc-André December 6th, 2010 at 9:14 am

    When you don’t have that tripod in your bag, there is another solution…

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mireault/4093944993/

    Happy Movie!

    Marc-André

  4. Jeff December 6th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

    Steve, we’d be happy @Versihold to replace the product that had an issue. We guarantee our Versihold Grips to stand up to the rigors of world travel.

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