Airframe Pro | Universal Vent Car Phone Mount Holder

Let's face it. Our phones are way better technology than the junk in our cars. Either you have the latest, most state of the art navigation and music playing system in your car (in which case in 2 years you will laugh at it) or you don't and your phone is already better.Over the last few years I have realized that I'd much rather prefer to use my phone as a navigation tool (such as the Waze app) or a Music Player (to stream spotify or an audio book). When I do find the instance that I use my car navigation system, I am dismayed that I don't have dynamic routing, traffic reports, updated map data and so on.If you car has bluetooth, then you are pretty much set. All you need is power (an article for a future post) and a mount for your phone. I have been doing some research on phone mounts for our cars, and one that I can take on trips where I am driving a rental car around and using my phone to find my way.My research has ended with what I have found to be a fantastic solution to having visibly of my phone in a hands free configuration... so enter the Kenu Airframe.What is it?The Kenu Airframe [24.95 @ Amazon in Black and White] is a contraption that you attach to your heating/AC vent in your car. It attaches to the plastic fins, and stays secure. Then you attach your phone to it. It has the added benefit that when you have the AC on it cools your phone down, which on a hot day is necessary as the GPS can burn up the battery, heat the phone and prevent it from charging.Why did you get it?I wanted something that was easy to place my phone in for my commute every day, and have the ability to stream music or use Waze to find the best route home in traffic. I was particularly interested in something that did not attach to the dashbaord (possibly ruining the dashboard) or the front windshield (illegal in some states).I also wanted something portable that I could take on a vacation or trip.I ended up buying 3 of them. One for my car, my wife's car and for travel.How has it made your life better?It's really high quality, easy to install and remove, and won't damage the car. It allows me to keep my phone at a convenient arm's length and keep me focused on driving and not looking around for my phone.

This is an ingeniously simple design that blows all of those gigantic, ugly, protruding dashboard mount ones to shame. The Kenu Airframe is really unobtrusive and looks great in the car with the phone on it or not, almost as if was specifically designed by the manufacturer to look good with my car. The slider that holds the phone in place is really strong, as is the clip that hooks into your air vents: no phone movement even over bumps. Very easy to type (stopped at a red light, of course) with the phone clipped into the Kenu or to select an app. Once clipped in, the device allows you to revolve the phone from horizontal to vertical and vice/versa with great ease, so you can readily use google traffic or waze, or what have you, as a driving aid. And surprisingly, I can put the phone into the clip holder just using just one hand (I do find I need both hands to release it).As some have noted, the tradeoff is that you are giving up an air vent, but, in my case, only partially so. It takes up two thirds of my air vent in vertical orientation (all of it in horizontal orientation), but that one third still put out more than enough air for me, and I have the other full unused center vent next to it that I could always aim at myself. I am not at all worried about the heat from the vent affecting the phone. I really have been trying to think of any negatives, and I can’t think of any. While the price is higher than a lot of other mounts, I think you are paying for the very good engineering that went behind the Kenu. It’s also really great to take with you and put in a rental car (although I hope to always remember to retrieve it). Very happy with this device.

I prefer a cell phone holder that clips unobtrusively to a vent (as opposed to mounting to the dash or windshield) and is small enough for travel if need be, so I went with a Kenu since I own and very much like the previous generation Airframe+. This one is marginally bigger because of the clip mechanism and swivel joint that increase the stability and convenience mounting big or heavy cell phones. Price point seems a bit high, but it for sure is not a cheaply-made product.This takes up very little footprint in your car and once clipped to your vent, it is very sturdy. Note that the vent itself may move, so heavier phones will tilt down due to gravity, and in most cases, that problem is solved by attaching toward the lower third of the phone so that it has little room to tilt before resting on the console face.Unfortunately, this one won't mount to any recessed vents, such as the center horizontal vents of a 2017 Lexus ES 350, where there's not enough clearance above or below for the shallow clips to grab onto something. If the vent clips were longer, it could protrude deeper into a recessed vent for secure contact.

Hands down the best vent mount I've used. No issues with phone slipping out of mount. The one issue I've had is that if the brackets are on one of the phone's buttons it's enough pressure to be registered as a press, and I've accidentally shut it off that way. That being said, moving it further up solves this and has never compromised grip. High marks for durability, I accidentally dropped it in my work parking lot and didn't notice til a day later. Had clearly been run over, but is still in perfect working order.

Good quality. Fair price! Works Well!