Tablet PC Stands

A tablet stand is a small mechanical product whose whole job is to hold a mass at an angle without moving, and the two specifications that decide it are grip range and stability. Grip range is the thickness the cradle accepts, and it has to include the case the customer already owns — a stand that fits a bare tablet and nothing else is returned by everyone who bought a cover, which is most people. Ask for the accepted thickness in millimetres. Stability is about the base rather than the arm: ask what the footprint is and what it weighs, because a light stand with a small base tips when a touchscreen is touched, and that is the complaint. Then ask what the joints are, since a friction hinge holds its angle for a defined number of cycles and a ratchet holds only at fixed positions. Ask what contacts the device, because a hard cradle without a soft facing marks a back in a week.