All I can say is this: it works great and if you don't have a tripod for your phone, you need one more than you know. My only caveat is that if you have a bulky case or something thick (like a pop socket) on the back of your phone, the phone might tend to slip out of the tripod; it works fine with a thin phone case, but I had to take my pop socket off, and I wouldn't try it with a thick case like an otter box. Recommended.

There was a manufacturing defect (hence the 4 stars on sturdiness) but the seller sent a new one out to me right away without any hassle.

The new one is working well and there's no defect.
We use this to record our USAR dog training on rubble piles where there are lots of odd shaped concrete slabs, poles, rebar, metal objects, pallets, etc that we can attach the tripod too. It holds my relatively heavy iPhone 7S with heavy duty otterbox case without sagging etc. Thus far I'm happy with item and I would recommend this item to my colleagues and friends and I would purchase this it again. I have another well known brand and this unit is better. If my opinion changes I will update my review.

Pros:
Holds well to objects in the environment and the grip material on the legs is quite nice.
Doesn't 'sag' with the weight of iPhone 7S and heavy otterbox.
The legs are longer than some of the others on the market making it easier to secure to poles with larger circumferences.
The legs are all one unit (i.e. not little 'pod' units that clip together and can pop off in some situations).
The phone holder is secured via a screw bed like many tripods and thus you can add different phone holder mechanisms if you want (I did this and it worked great).
Seller was VERY responsive to the manufacturing defect and the new unit sent out was perfect with no discernible defect.

Cons:
If you have a larger iPhone with an otterbox type case the holder may not extend far enough to hold the phone securely. However, as there is a screw bed attachment you can easily swap it out for a larger holder mechanism.

No other cons that I have found; other than the defect in the first unit (the replacement unit had no defect).

The only problem I had with this item was that the remote did not work. Instead of sending the whole item back to Amazon. It's awesome to know that you can just email the company and they will ask for a short video on why the remote is not working. And in a swift time they had already replied, and sent me out a brand new remote.

Honestly surprised how well this product did. The brand name is weird, I didn't recognize it, so I was skeptical. But this thing worked perfectly. And what really surprised me is that it lasted a whole year before 2 of the legs kinda broke & are half limp. I really didn't expect it to be that durable and last that long, I thought this might break after 2 months. Even with two limp, sort of broken legs, it mostly works for what I use it. Happy to order another.

Very handy little tripod that I use for pet photography and zoom meetings. I like that you can mount phones, cameras, and GoPros.