Magnets and Phones – A Match Made in Heaven

For years we have been conditioned to know that magnets and electronics don’t go together. Not just electronics, but magnetic strips such as credit cards or anything with chips. So while phone grips like the PopSockets® are all the rage, a magnetic grips like the Grip On The Go seems to make no sense, but we are in a new age, and the problems of the past need to be left in the past. This is a new age, and magnets are a phone’s best friend.

The Read Deal on Magnets – Why are we so Scared?

Magnets have been a problem for electronics for many years, and there are good reason. Mangers could cause havoc on computers and on cell phones in the past, however those issues don’t exist any more. In fact, phones these days are so totally unaffected by magnetic fields that the new iPhone 12 is coming with a built in magnet ring. The goal is to have a built in magnet to provide additional functionality for externally connected tools … like your grip.

Storage and Magnets

Data has historically been stored using magnetic storage and this has been one of the primary issues for computers and magnets. Obviously these drives that were common place would have issues, however today most computers are moving to solid state drives which operate very differently, and all cell phones these days use Solid State storage, which has no interaction with magnets, and is therefore safe. Solid State does not suffer the problems that removable storage devices, hard drives with spools and floppy disks have. Magnets are a solid state drives’ best friend.

Displays and Magnets

Similar to storage devices, displays have come a long way from the years when magnets would affect the picture displayed. In the olden days a magnet on an pre-flat screen TV could cause lines and distortion on the screen, but that is a thing of the past. Current cell phone screens are LCD (liquid crystal display) or AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology, both of which are controlled by electricity and there are not affected by magnet. In fact, TVs these days can actually be connected to the wall using magnets. Magnets are a digital screen’s best friend.

Other Components and Magnets

There are numerous other components that could potentially be affected by magnets, but they have also come a long way and the technology is now no longer affected by magnetism. Historically components like speakers and antenna have been affected, but that is no longer the case. For example today antenna come with magnetic bases to attach to cars. And speakers are simply not affected because of their design. And as for NFC (near field communication) that is used for Apple Pay and Google Wallet, that is a different type of technology that is not magnetic and therefore not affected.

Phone Grip Magnets

A phone grip magnet is simply the next evolution of the partnership between the magnet and the phone. The Grip On The Go is a simple, but it is the perfect tool to have the best of both worlds: a phone grip attached when you need it, and nothing attached when you don’t. The idea of being able to have a grip that can come and go whenever necessary is as revolutionary as the original invention of the phone grip by PopSockets®.

And it’s achieved by adding the functionality of magnets to the fantastic functionality if a phone grip. Magnets are a phone’s best friend, not only for all the fancy new stuff that Apple and other phone developers will shortly come out with, but also for the simple beauty of a movable/removable phone grip.