SeatBuddy: Product Review

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Yana Siganur | Category: Attorney Gadgets, Featured, Lead Article

The SeatBuddy is a rubber silicone case for your iPhone or iPod Touch. You put your device inside and use the two straps on its side to fasten it to something in front of you, including car/plane/bus headrests, treadmills, etc. The idea is that now you can watch videos or browse your device hands free while you’re exercising or travelling and not worry about it falling off whatever you propped it on.

Advantages

Hands free action! Long distance trips (where you’re not driving of course) are definitely more bearable when you have a couple of videos on your device to get you through it. It’s also much easier to run for a while on the treadmill when you’re audio/visual sensors are distracted. And the straps are durable enough that you can close a kitchen cabinet drawer on them and watch clips while washing dishes.

Disadvantages

It will only hang horizontally. I can’t think of anyone who prefers watching videos with their iPhone or iPod Touch in vertical mode but if that’s something you do, then it’ll be hard to maneuver.

The case also has velcro strips that you can stick onto the straps so that the case hugs whatever’s in front of you. Though this does add a different means of propping it up, these strips are not sticky enough to stay put. I hung mine from a cabinet handle and it fell down after 10 minutes – with one strap bare and the other strap having both velcro strips (and it fell every time I tried to fix it, maybe I should try super glue?).

Purchase Information

You can order SeatBuddy at www.seatpods.com. Pricing (with shipping) is as follows:

One for $23.90
Two for $39.90
Three for $44.95
One (international) for $25.90

In the interest of full disclosure:

This review was a result of www.fuelmyblog.com teaming up with www.theseatbuddy.com. FuelMyBlog.com simply asked us to do the following in return for keeping the seatbuddy:

-Disclose the fact that we were taking part in this campaign and that we were keeping the product

-Write an honest review based on our experience of the product from a user point of view

-link back to http://www.theseatbuddy.com/

-Suggested key words: iPhone, iPhone Travel, iPhone case,

-include our own picture or one they attached to an email (we used our own)

-review the SeatBuddy within two weeks of receiving it.