[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lacrossev:
Additional note: With the same size button as I used here for the Platinum case, the holder is strong enough to hold a Trident Kraken case up fine.

A while ago someone mentioned the Xway and asked how well it should work with the Evo LTE. I've been using the HTC silicone case with a slipgrip mount on top of a brodit/proclip car bracket, which to my delight also works with the seidio case.

I decided to give this a try because I usually run with either a lightweight case or something more heavy duty for when I go do more outdoorsy stuff for the weekends, and i wanted a good way to have a clean looking and sturdy mount in the car without having to keep swapping mounts.

The kit i got from amazon comes with two of the 1x1 squares for the mount portion, as well as four circular buttons of various sizes. I went with the smallest of all the buttons:

The platinum case has a soft touch rubber coating on it. I wasn't sure if it was going to stick so just to be on the safe side i took some sand paper to it and took a bit down until it was down to the plastic. Its been a few days and the button seems to be holding well.

The placement of the button isn't in the middle because for this particular case, when you place it in the mount the arms would fall in to the opening for the kickstand. At first i thought it would be better this way but in hindsight i should have just placed it right under the kickstand opening and let the arms fall in so that it would be canted towards me and also get stuck in there and not allow any rotation at all.

The soft touch rubber makes it harder for the xway bracket to keep it from rotating, which wouldn't be a problem if the button was placed in the center but since its off to the side in this instance, it does move ever so slightly when i hit huge potholes. This is the case in my car, which is lowered on track suspension, so i would think in SUVs and normal passenger cars it wouldn't be an issue.

For the car half i'm using a vehicle specific bracket from proclip/brodit:

The square base allows you to just remove the xway to make it look like you have anything in the car at all. It was designed to just stick right on the dash, but of course me having that bracket there totally defeats the stealth intentions of the square.

My old setup was on a ball joint so i was able to angle it to face me as well as up and down for glare. This setup is completely flat and not adjustable. EDIT: The mount actually has some tilt you just have to tighten the tetrax section first then force the thing to tilt, its actually a small ball joint under the xway bracket.

Due to the cupholder to the right i needed to make the whole thing off center to allow clearance. Even with the fairly off center mounting it has not had any problems with remaining in landscape without sag unless i hit huge bumps. If the button was placed dead center on the case or the phone itself, around under the kickstand, i trust that there should be no issues with unintended rotation.

When the magnets make contact the bracket bends slightly to use pressure to get the friction required to hold it stable. The notch in the base is for seperating the mount from the 1x1 square as it does hold on quite strongly.

Tetrax boasts that the opposite pole arrangement of the magnets plus the steel button restricts the magnetic field to the button and therefore will not interfere with the phone signal. I am currently using a samsung HS3000 for bt media profile and my headunit handles bt phone profile, having the phone mounted has not produced any interference while playing audio and making phone calls so for those worried about that, its not a problem whatsoever.

Overall, if you want a low profile solution, or would like to use different cases, i would recommend the xway wholeheartedly.

Pros:

low profile

secure hold

can rotate all the way around

Cons:

needs a button to be stuck adhesively to the phone/case, will no longer lay flat

must have a 1x1 spot on the dash to stick the square if you want to see it conveniently

the hold is entirely dependent on whether the button and the square have proper adhesion