Cell Phone Tips & Tricks

You don't always want your phone glued to your ear. Sometimes you want it to stand up, or lean as it were.

Of course there are plenty of folks eager to sell you stuff. That's not what we're talking about here. No, I mean a classic DIY homemade solution.

Let's start off with the easiest, cheapest, and in some ways the most elegant solution to the problem. This DV tape stand qualifies as 100% ghettolicious. Reuse'n'recylce.

For a minimalist approach try this quick and cheap paperclip phone stand, [YouTube video]. Only slightly more complicated is this pencil cell phone stand. Looks like something you could build once and use pretty much forever.

Here's a DIY cardboard phone stand complete with a PDF template. This plastic phone stand fits in your wallet [YouTube video]. I wonder how it'll hold up over time.

Plastic in your wallet and a pair of scissors and next thing you know you've got a credit card phone stand. How about a business card phone stand?

Of course someone had to do a Lego cell phone stand

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