The CupFone, after all the back and forth between WeatherTech and me, just wasn’t going to work.īut think about it. Thus, the CupFone was way too loose to be stable with a phone attached to it. Well, I found the right circumference, but the cup holder in my car had a base that stopped the cup after it had gone in a mere inch or so. ![]() WeatherTech, to its credit, mailed two of the beans to me at no charge.Īnd voila! The cup bottoms pulled apart so that I could run out to my car with them to find the right size. Perhaps the bean could have been taped to the cup? But if there had been a “bean-like object,” you could have fooled me. I was lucky I’d pulled the sheet of paper that purported to be the instructions out of the box. Do you know why? Well, WeatherTech answered my email asking for the secret by telling me to insert the “small bean-like object” that was shipped with the CupFone into the bottom of the largest cup and press down.īean-like object? I had tossed the packaging, thinking, as anyone of normal intelligence would, that it wouldn’t be terribly challenging to put a cup into a cup holder. 2 is that the image on the sheet with directions shows these cup bottoms separated from each other. Why would any company spend whatever it must cost to produce five cups so that four would be discarded or stored while the buyer is using the single one that fits the cup holder of his or her car? But there you go you get all five cup holders when you buy CupFone. The first picture shows a photo of cups of descending circumference being pulled apart, like Russian nesting dolls. There are no words, only indiscernible thumbnails of the CupFone being installed. The CupFone arrives with what appear to be badly photocopied instructions. I bought it because WeatherTech has done some super-slick company branding, projecting an image of quality, protection and efficiency. It cost $34.95 on the company’s web site, and I saw it advertised for even more on Amazon. Its excess, in terms of design, is probably the reason this little plastic gizmo costs so much. What’s more, I think CupFone is costing WeatherTech a bunch of money that it doesn’t need to spend. Good idea, right? Well, CupFone fails significantly in the execution department. ![]() ![]() Well, the booby prize in industrial design hasn’t been awarded yet and I’m not sure there even is one, but should one be instituted, it ought to go to WeatherTech for its CupFone.ĬupFone is heavily marketed on television, and it looks like a great idea, something that fits in the cup holder of your car and safely holds your precious cell phone so that it can be easily seen, accessed and even charged while anchored.
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