At £99 the Tom Tom car cradle is expensive but if you look closely at the picture above you will notice the iPhone has no protection. I went into the Buchanan St. Apple store with the sole intention of purchasing a Tom Tom car adaptor but had the sense to ask if the cradle could take my iPhone with my protective plastic skin. Stupidly Tom Tom have designed their cradle to fit the iPhone only ! This is a major design fault in my opinion as most of us have a tight fitting snug skin on the iPhone as in my opinion it’s far to easy to drop without an external rubberised skin.
Before you ask I don’t know the price nor do I care, Zacuto are renowned for trailblazing expensive grips, loops, camera mounts etc. You also get a lifetime guarantee with all their products. This in my humble opinion is taking things too far, the 3Gs is far from usable as a video camera, let alone warrant an expensive tool like the ZGrip.
The video part of the 3Gs is very basic, fixed lens, in fact the only plus point is it’s ability to instantly send small 47 sec video emails to your friends so why on earth is a company like Zacuto even bothering with it, your guess is as good as mine.
Good luck to Zacuto they seem to have the finger on the pulse but I think they should have waited for the 7Gs with HD before making expensive iPhone handles.
At £99 the Tom Tom car cradle is expensive but if you look closely at the picture above you will notice the iPhone has no protection. I went into the Buchanan St. Apple store with the sole intention of purchasing a Tom Tom car adaptor but had the sense to ask if the cradle could take my iPhone with my protective plastic skin. Stupidly Tom Tom have designed their cradle to fit the iPhone only ! This is a major design fault in my opinion as most of us have a tight fitting snug skin on the iPhone as in my opinion it’s far to easy to drop without an external rubberised skin.