It's never a bad time to pick one up, but the start of the New Year means now is the perfect time to get your dashboard kitted out with some kind of stand. It required less than five minutes to assemble, though the magnetic process wasn’t perfect (possibly due to our tester’s iPhone 11 Pro requiring an extra piece of material).

ROTATION ANGLE The 360-degree rotatable head gives you the best viewing angle and enables you to quickly switch to any orientation you want.If charging your iPhone while on the move is your game, the Sandmarc Active Car Mount is the place to look first. Once you’ve snapped your iPhone in and out of this holder, you’ll wish everything could be this simple. Testers subjected each mobile phone holder for cars to a bumpy driving test, rated how easy they were to assemble and adjust, and put them all through a manual shake test.

There’s every chance you’ve been in at least one minicab where part of the windscreen is covered by a wall of phones. The clamp arm adopts a curved groove design so that the phone grip is more stable crazy can not be thrown off. At the end of the testing period, testers noted whether the mount was hard to remove and if it left any marks or residue behind. They found the installation extremely unintuitive, and the fact that it sits in your cupholder makes it challenging to use for directions. This extra-long car phone mount is perfect for getting your phone in the prime position for viewing without obstructing your view of the road.Each car phone mount we've reviewed has gone through the same testing regimen, in the same car and (where possible) using the same iPhone 12 Pro.