73&Sunny GripStand assessment: The remote-control case you didn’t know you wanted
Skilled’s Score
Execs
- Renders the distant management simpler and extra comfy to grip
- Protects your distant management from drops
- Can accommodate a monitoring tag to find a misplaced distant management
Cons
- Prices about half as a lot as a brand new distant (when not on sale)
- Provides bulk to the distant management
- Received’t stop the distant’s buttons from sporting out with use
Our Verdict
This ingenious silicone sleeve will defend your streaming system’s distant management whereas making it simpler to make use of and to find when the distant will get misplaced in the home.
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I got here this near laughing off the PR pitch for 73&Sunny’s GripStand distant management instances. Who wants a case for his or her streaming system’s distant management? It seems that everybody wants one–and never simply to defend the distant from harm when it inevitably falls onto the ground.
Created from a rubbery silicone, the sleeve wraps your distant in a decent embrace, with cutouts for its buttons and ports: USB-C, Lightning, headphone jack, microphone, quantity controls, and so forth, relying on the mannequin. The producer makes them for the Amazon Hearth TV Alexa Voice Distant Professional (2022 mannequin), the Apple TV Siri distant (second and third generations), the Roku Categorical distant, and the Roku Voice Distant. I acquired 4 samples in quite a lot of colours, however this assessment is based totally on my expertise with the Apple TV Siri distant.
GripStand instances can be found in numerous colours for the Amazon Hearth TV Alexa Voice Distant Professional (2022 mannequin), Apple TV Siri distant (2nd and third generations) (left), Roku Voice Distant, and the Roku Categorical distant.
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The silicone materials makes the remotes supremely simple to grip, however a lanyard and a strip of vertical ridges in the midst of the bottom of the sleeve makes this even simpler. The additional-thick again and sides of the sleeves cushion the distant and may defend it from a drop from nearly any peak onto nearly any floor. Lastly, the underside of the sleeve flares out, permitting the distant to face up vertically. However the design additionally supplies a second operate: It may harbor a Tile Tracker or an Apple AirTag.
The bulged backside and the grippy sleeve already make it troublesome for the distant management to get misplaced within the sofa cushions; however ought to that occur anyway—or if the distant wanders off by way of another means—placing a Bluetooth tracker inside it is going to make it a snap to seek out. This final characteristic is much less beneficial for the Alexa and Roku Voice remotes, which have already got their very own distant finder options, however the Apple and Tile trackers would possibly provide higher vary.
The bulged backside of the GripStand Distant Case allows you to stand the distant up on its backside, however it’s also possible to put a Bluetooth tracker in that cavity.
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GripStands can be found in each wild and tame colours, relying on the mannequin. The Siri Distant model I reviewed has probably the most choices: Lime Glow, Sky Glow, Extremely Black, Military Inexperienced, Slate Ocean, and Fiery Crimson. The Glow colours, as you’ve in all probability guessed, glow at the hours of darkness. The 2 variations of the Roku distant GripStand can be found in the identical colours because the Siri Distant mannequin, aside from Fiery Crimson. The Alexa Voice Distant Professional model of the GripStand has the fewest coloration choices, simply Coral (pink), Inexperienced, or Yellow.
Do you have to purchase a GripStand Distant Case?
Costs, that are usually about half the price of shopping for a brand new distant, are the one reservation I’ve about recommending the GripStand. And, for no matter purpose, the Siri Distant model prices greater than the remainder of the gathering: $24.99 in comparison with $19.99 for the Amazon and Roku variations. On the time of this writing, nevertheless, the Apple distant was on sale for $19.99, the Roku Categorical mannequin was slashed to $9.99, and the Roku Voice Distant was discounted to $14.99.
These sale costs make the GripStand a greater worth, however it’s an excellent product even at full worth. It would make your streaming distant simpler to carry and use, and it ought to remove the annoyance of sitting down to observe some TV leisure solely to appreciate you may’t discover the distant.
