360° Swivel Phone Stand — Folding Metal Desk Holder with Rotating Base

360° Swivel Phone Stand

A metal desk stand that turns on the spot

Most phone stands hold the phone at one angle, facing one way. This one sits on a circular metal base with a turntable built into it, so the whole stand spins in place without lifting it, sliding it, or knocking whatever is next to it.

That is the difference worth paying attention to. Everything else here is a well-made version of a familiar object: a flat metal base, a folding arm on two knuckle hinges, and a metal cradle with two curled lips that the bottom edge of your phone rests in.

What the swivel is actually for

Turning your phone to face someone else is a small thing that happens constantly. Showing a photo across a kitchen island. Turning a recipe toward the stovetop. Angling a video call away from a window that is blowing out the exposure. Getting your face out of the frame while a call keeps running.

Without a turntable you pick the stand up, put it back down, and re-aim it. With one you push the cradle with a fingertip and the base stays exactly where it was. The rotation is in the base, under the arm, so the phone can be turned while it is still plugged in and still upright.

It is a convenience, not a mechanism. We are not going to dress it up as anything more.

Two hinges, so height and angle are separate

There is a hinge where the arm meets the base and a second hinge where the arm meets the cradle. They do different jobs, and having both is why this shape works better than a single-fold wedge.

The lower hinge sets how tall it stands. Fold the arm forward and the phone sits low and close, the way you want it while you are typing. Open it up and the phone climbs to about eye level for a call.
The upper hinge sets the tilt of the screen. That one is independent, so you can have a tall stand tipped back for video, or a low stand tipped steeply for reading.
Both hinges are friction hinges. They hold wherever you leave them; there are no detents, notches or preset positions to fight with.

Fold both hinges down and the arm lies flat against the base, so the whole thing collapses to roughly the base disc plus the thickness of the folded arm.

The gap in the cradle is there on purpose

The two lips at the front of the cradle are separate, with an open gap between them in the middle. Your charging cable goes through that gap and into the bottom of the phone while the phone is still sitting in the stand.

So it charges while it is propped, and it does it without the cable levering the phone forward out of the cradle. It works in portrait. In landscape the port ends up at the side of the cradle rather than over the gap, so a cable will run off the edge instead of through the middle.

Size, from the supplier's dimension drawing

These four numbers come off the manufacturer's measured drawing for this stand. They are the ones that decide whether it fits your desk and your phone, so they are here rather than buried.

3.8 in

Base diameter

97 mm — the whole footprint on your desk

2.4 in

Cradle width

60 mm across the back plate

3.3 in

Height, folded forward

85 mm at its lowest working position

4.8 in

Height, fully open

121 mm at full extension

For scale: the base is about the width of a saucer, and fully open the stand is shorter than a tall drinking glass. It is a desk object. It is not a pocket object — the base alone is a solid metal disc close to four inches across, and the page this replaced implied otherwise.

What we will not tell you, because nobody has told us

We rewrote this page from the supplier's own drawings and photography. Several things that a previous version of this listing stated turned out to have no documentation behind them at all, so they are gone rather than quietly reworded.

No weight limit and no maximum device thickness. Neither figure is specified anywhere. We describe this as a phone stand and we do not rate it for tablets. The previous page showed it under full-size tablets; those pictures were the supplier's, they were not of this stand in use, and they are not on this page any more.
No stated cradle lining. The old copy described a soft-lined cradle. Nothing in the supplier's photography of this model shows one, so we are not repeating it. Treat the cradle as metal and use a case if that matters to you.
No alloy specification. The stand is metal — that is visible and it is in the name — but the supplier does not state which alloy or what finish process, so we do not either.
No weight for the stand itself. Not specified. What we can say from the drawing is that the mass is in the base, which is where you want it on a stand this shape.

Two finishes

Gray is a dark gunmetal anodized finish. Silver is a bright natural aluminum finish. They are the same stand in every other respect — same base, same hinges, same cradle, same dimensions.

Who it suits

It suits a desk that is shared with other people or with a camera: anyone who turns their phone toward someone else several times a day, anyone running calls from a phone rather than a laptop, and anyone who wants the phone up at eye level and charging at the same time.

It is less interesting if your phone lives in one position facing one chair. A fixed wedge does that job for less money and takes up less room. Buy this one for the turntable, or do not buy it.