Patent ID: 7910188

Claim:
A frictional holding device in combination with a handheld item and removably securing the handheld item to a surface, comprising: a) the handheld item being selected from the group consisting of: a cell phone, a personal digital assistant, a global positioning system, a radio, a two-way radio, a citizens band radio, a walkie-talkie, a camera, a video recorder, a cassette player/recorder, a mini-cassette recorder, a DVD player, a mini-disk player, a digital music player, and a portable television; b) a pad, having a smoother application side, removably attached to a single side of the handheld item, and a contoured exposed side; c) the smoother application side being smoother than the contoured exposed side and being tacky to contact and cling to the single side of the handheld item by specific or mechanical adhesion; d) the contoured exposed side being contoured over a majority of the contoured exposed side; and e) the contoured exposed side including a plurality of separate and discrete indentations.