Rivet Rave Star Belt Clip System for all phone types

Rating:
Summary: WAY more trouble than it's worth
Review: Descriptions of this item (even on the manufacturer website) are pretty bad, so I'll explain it. This is a gear item to clip your cell phone to your handbag strap or belt loop or whatever, so that your phone is more readily available than inside the handbag, etc. It comes with a clip for your bag or belt loop - this is the standard looking lobster-claw clip with the chain attached in the picture. The other end of the chain has a thing on it called a "MicroClip." Then there is a thing you attach to your phone. This is the black thing with the cord attached in the photo. This is called the Multi-Pin. The one I bought also had an item called the Universal Pin, which is the pin end mounted on a disk that you can glue to your cell phone. However, that seemed extreme and I didn't want to deface my new phone that way.

The theory with this product is that you clip the lobster-claw to your handbag strap or belt loop, and then you can slip the multi-pin into the micro-clip when you want to carry the phone on the chain. If you need to remove the phone to make a call or just want to carry the phone without a chain attached, you remove the multi-pin from the micro-clip. (Aren't these terms confusing, too?)

So, for starters, I bought this item at a cell phone accessories store so of course I paid nearly double what Amazon is asking (silly me). My phone (the SE Z600) has the little holes to thread a hand-strap through, and I mistakenly thought I could slip the cord on the multi-pin through these holes - but the Rivet cord is too thick to slip, doubled, through the holes. So I cut the cord off and tried attaching it using the ring. (This is a small keyring-style ring, shown in the picture, that you are supposed to put through the teeny holes in the multi-pin and then through the holes on your phone. This would also allow for less dangling so the phone wouldn't swing around so much.)

Well, it took me 45 minutes to get the little keyring through the multi-pin holes...because the overlap parts on the ring keep wanting to squeeze shut, just like every other overlap-style keyring I've ever used. Also because the ends of the cut cord were still stuck inside the multi-pin, so I had to keep working the end of the keyring around inside to try and bypass those frayed cord edges. And I broke a nail :-( I finally got the ring through the multi-pin, but I can't get the ring to open up large enough to go through the phone's hand-strap holes. Of course, having cut off the cord, I've butchered it beyond returnability, so now I'm stuck with this.

I could spend another 45 minutes, more or less, trying to get this ring through my phone's hand-strap holes, but I don't feel it's worth it. It will be much easier for me to either try to sell this thing (damaged as it is) in the Z-Shops or just bin it. Most cell phones can fit in a carrying case that has a hand strap so I'll just look for one of them instead.

Rating:
Summary: WAY more trouble than it's worth
Review: Descriptions of this item (even on the manufacturer website) are pretty bad, so I'll explain it. This is a gear item to clip your cell phone to your handbag strap or belt loop or whatever, so that your phone is more readily available than inside the handbag, etc. It comes with a clip for your bag or belt loop - this is the standard looking lobster-claw clip with the chain attached in the picture. The other end of the chain has a thing on it called a "MicroClip." Then there is a thing you attach to your phone. This is the black thing with the cord attached in the photo. This is called the Multi-Pin. The one I bought also had an item called the Universal Pin, which is the pin end mounted on a disk that you can glue to your cell phone. However, that seemed extreme and I didn't want to deface my new phone that way.

The theory with this product is that you clip the lobster-claw to your handbag strap or belt loop, and then you can slip the multi-pin into the micro-clip when you want to carry the phone on the chain. If you need to remove the phone to make a call or just want to carry the phone without a chain attached, you remove the multi-pin from the micro-clip. (Aren't these terms confusing, too?)

So, for starters, I bought this item at a cell phone accessories store so of course I paid nearly double what Amazon is asking (silly me). My phone (the SE Z600) has the little holes to thread a hand-strap through, and I mistakenly thought I could slip the cord on the multi-pin through these holes - but the Rivet cord is too thick to slip, doubled, through the holes. So I cut the cord off and tried attaching it using the ring. (This is a small keyring-style ring, shown in the picture, that you are supposed to put through the teeny holes in the multi-pin and then through the holes on your phone. This would also allow for less dangling so the phone wouldn't swing around so much.)

Well, it took me 45 minutes to get the little keyring through the multi-pin holes...because the overlap parts on the ring keep wanting to squeeze shut, just like every other overlap-style keyring I've ever used. Also because the ends of the cut cord were still stuck inside the multi-pin, so I had to keep working the end of the keyring around inside to try and bypass those frayed cord edges. And I broke a nail :-( I finally got the ring through the multi-pin, but I can't get the ring to open up large enough to go through the phone's hand-strap holes. Of course, having cut off the cord, I've butchered it beyond returnability, so now I'm stuck with this.

I could spend another 45 minutes, more or less, trying to get this ring through my phone's hand-strap holes, but I don't feel it's worth it. It will be much easier for me to either try to sell this thing (damaged as it is) in the Z-Shops or just bin it. Most cell phones can fit in a carrying case that has a hand strap so I'll just look for one of them instead.

Rating:
Summary: Style and Function
Review: Finally someone developed a cool and functional way to carry your phone. I am so tired of lame plastic belt clips for my cool new phone. It works great to attach to your belt loop and drop you phone in your pocket or attach to your briefcase. My wife took the first one I bought and uses it with her purse. She calls it her "phone leash" so now she can find her phone in her purse.

Rating:
Summary: *****
Review: It's been a fabulous experience for me to purchase this item. It was actually gifted to me by one of my best friend. I would rather suggest every body to purchase this item.

Rating:
Summary: Cheaply made of poorly selected raw materials
Review: Title says it all.