Mobile Phone tripods - price, flexibility and size

You can record yourself giving a speech as a practise run, and on the occasion of an event.

Use
I saw a mobile phone tripod used by others on a desk to record speeches. It could be used by the phone owner and by others.

The tripod can be used for your phone, or loaned to a friend, or kept in the club box or suitcase for use by whoever is speaking at each point in the next meeting.

Size
A small tripod is usually adequate on a desk, but needs to be tipped upwards quickly to get in the head of a tall person. Fiddling with rotating screws is a nuisance. They can't be changed in a hurry. You might dis-assemble the whole thing. You could drop the phone and make a noise and risk damaging the phone. Your discussion, (such as, "Does this knob turn clockwise?") comes out on the video.

I like the idea of the flexible legs. Especially in jolly red.

The one sold on line cost about nine dollars.

Singapore Market
In a Singapore market (at Chong Pang for Chinese New Year) I saw one for 7 and another for 12. (Yes, it might be Singapore dollars, or American dollars or Euros - or a marked price - or a market seller might jack up the price hearing my foreign accent).

Online
When the one ordered on one arrived, it was a Rollei Monkey Pod, twice the height I expected, twice finger to thumb outspread, instead of once finger to thumb outspread. That's too big for a jacket pocket, bulky in a handbag.

Savvy Shopper
But worth keeping. I shall now go back and look at the market and see if they have a smaller one.
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.