The new bike holder for the Xperia active
We have great news for the Xperia active users of SportyPal. We finally got the Xperia active bike holders out of production. We’re very satisfied with the quality and function, and we already have very positive reviews.
But let me give you a brief presentation:
The holder itself is very light weight, around 20 grams, but it will keep the phone steady in its place. We were really aiming towards minimalist design, because existing phone holders are too big and bulky, and that is one of the main reasons for people not using them a lot when biking.
Mounting is very easy and fast. Just put the zip ties through the holes, tighten them, and you’re ready to go. If you’re worried that the zip ties aren’t strong enough to hold the phone check out this video.
We had a lot of questions whether the holder can be mounted on the bike’s stem – and the answer is yes. Of course, the phone will be in landscape mode, but the SportyPal app has a landscape view, too:)
The bike holder will be available through the SportyPal Store very soon.
More pics and info.
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February 9, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Can be used with the x10 mini pro xperia?
February 9, 2012 at 3:39 pm
No, it is made specifically for the Xperia active.
February 14, 2012 at 5:59 am
Stop dangling the carrot! How much longer do we have to wait?
February 14, 2012 at 2:09 pm
when will this be available?
February 14, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Great! When can I buy it?
February 14, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Thanks everyone for your interest! We have to make sure that everything works well with the store and that takes time and testing. We are a small team, so please be patient. As soon as we’re ready we will notify everyone through this blog, Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks,
Kiril
February 14, 2012 at 10:09 pm
It’ll be great if avalible in Brazil too…..
February 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm
@giancarlo I don’t like to make any promises yet, but it should be. It depends only from the carrier.
February 15, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Shut up and take my money!
February 17, 2012 at 8:57 am
What about price and availability in the Netherlands.
I am very very interested, how soon is soon?
February 18, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Yes please! is there an estimated date???
Another one IMpatiently waiting… this time from Spain 🙂
February 20, 2012 at 10:00 am
I´d love to get my hands on this before i travel to Mallorca for one weeks biking. An Im from Sweden.
February 20, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Please a date Please i check the store every single day for that
February 22, 2012 at 3:55 am
I am in US, and just got my phone yesterday, this bike mount would be perfect, do ya’ll ship to US?
February 23, 2012 at 9:40 am
Yes, we are working on a worldwide shipping, that’s why the set up takes longer.
February 22, 2012 at 9:03 pm
What is happening with your site (sportypal.com)? It can not be accessed. I am from Romania.
February 23, 2012 at 9:19 am
No problems here for the past two days. Still unable to access the website?
February 23, 2012 at 10:17 am
I managed to access it using a proxy server. Otherwise, no go.
February 27, 2012 at 10:28 am
Hi,
on the “Health Sensors Accessories” page you described the product as “Xperia active handlebar and arm holder”. In this blog you only mention the bike holder.
Can it also be used as an arm holder for running since it has this two half shells on the backside or will there be a separate one?
February 29, 2012 at 10:08 am
The arm holder is a bit different from the original one. It has a different back side design, so it can fit better on the arm.
February 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Perfect… that’s exactly what I am looking for!
February 27, 2012 at 11:35 am
Let’s get serious here, I am on the verge of wasting my money on an inferior product because I am so keen to get cracking.
Any vague hint of a date? I lost my last phone to an unfortunate bike holder accident.
February 27, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Ok, come on now! Speed up the process plz. Now people has started to share links on similar products for the SE active. You are gonna lose customers soon.
February 27, 2012 at 5:18 pm
also interested for France.
thank you to your team.
February 29, 2012 at 5:23 am
I will give you my first born + a paypal payment if you can post one of these beautiful units before the sun sets on my side of summer!
March 1, 2012 at 11:17 pm
Like everyone else I’m waiting too (in New Zealand). But I don’t like the idea of mounting it on the stem in landscape so scanned the net for alternatives and found this …
http://www.controltechbikes.com/test/prod/product.asp?pro_id=71
They also do a more expensive carbon one. BDop cycling do another product called the Dashboard Genie.
However, I’m not buying the the mount or the phone until I am assured that I can get the Sportypal bike holder … ???
March 2, 2012 at 9:17 am
“Very soon” was a month ago now. Please guys, at least give us an ETA! Thanks..
March 2, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Hi everyone, the ETA for the holder is march 19. You can leave your email on sportypal.com/xperiaactivebikeholder (in a few minutes) if you would like to be notified when the holder is available.
Thanks for your patience, we like to make this as soon as possible but have to be realistic with the timeline.
March 2, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Nice one. Good luck with the launch, seems they’re going to sell like hot cakes.
March 20, 2012 at 7:33 am
Still waiting.. Any update on the ETA guys?
March 2, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Thanks a lot guys 🙂
March 3, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Awesome news, can you ship to the Philippines?
March 3, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Most probably, we will be able to ship everywhere where UPS ships.
March 6, 2012 at 3:58 am
Sony should be paying you guys royalties, they are about to sell a fair few handsets.
March 7, 2012 at 11:06 pm
Agreed with the last comment! This bit of kit was definitely a deciding factor to me buying this phone today!
March 14, 2012 at 10:49 am
can’t wait for this. then time to buy the phone 😀
March 18, 2012 at 6:49 pm
I want to buy it in russia, how could I?
March 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm
18 euros is fair as a price (that is about 30 New Zealand dollars), but 70 euros for shipping!!!? Is there no way that you can use ordinary postal services? I think you are greatly diminishing your market for what is a good product.
March 20, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Ok, the bike holer is out now… what’s about the arm holder?
I MUST HAVE IT!!!
😉
Cheers,
Andreas.
March 20, 2012 at 7:41 pm
117 Euro to ship to Fiji !!!
A padded envelope and registered mail would be about 10 Euro whats the story?
March 20, 2012 at 7:56 pm
The shipping cost is ridiculous!
I was up to buy four holders but the shipping cost to Sweden was 111 euros.
Sending it from Sweden to USA would have cost less than 10 euros.
No deal 😦
March 20, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Fortnight ago to buy a holster for mobile, I was sent from China to Spain.
result:
Amount of the purchase € 29 (Leather Case)
Shipping “free”
Delivery time 10 days (official postal service)
I’m sure the Chinese have made money in the transaction.
March 20, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Finally it popped up the store! I started to make an order but then suddenly the price jumped to almost 100E! Shippingcost 74E to Sweden. Ridicolous! No deal 😦
March 21, 2012 at 9:44 am
117.5E to Ukraine, maybe this price includes personal assistance trainer that installs holder to your bike and give consultation how to use it?
I wanted to buy 3 of it, but even than – 73E per item is toooo high.
March 20, 2012 at 9:08 pm
It is not fair to compare shipping costs from China – their normal postal service costs next to nothing, it keeps half their economy afloat.
However, I absolutely support your seniments: Are you flipping kidding me?!
70 EURO shipping for an item so small and light? Put it in a padded envelope and put it in the regular mail. Nobody in their right mind is going to give you guys 4 times the product price for shipping on an item that weighs so little and is so small…what sort of twilight zone reality are you living in?
Again, Put it in a padded envelope and put it in the regular mail!
For an item that only costs 18 EURO, nobody is going to give a rats about insurance or item tracking…we could order the item 3 times and lose 2/3 and still be in a better position than the current arrangement.
Please tell me there is some mistake here.
March 20, 2012 at 10:20 pm
I guess it is the first day of its release so there could be some gremlins in the system…
March 21, 2012 at 5:33 am
Maybe gremlins but I don´t think so. But considering this statement he situation might improve in the near future?!
“Sorry for the current shipping prices.
Shipping hubs for Europe will become available soon.”
March 21, 2012 at 1:34 am
Macedonian postal rates do appear to be higher than the norm (I just checked their online postal calculator, which indicates approximately 20 to 25 euro for a small parcel delivered outside of Europe). Perhaps you could arrange postage direct from the production facility, which I assume is in China?
March 21, 2012 at 1:47 am
They are shipping with UPS via New Jersey.
March 21, 2012 at 6:11 am
Shipping cost to Thailand is 92 US$ , ha ha..
March 21, 2012 at 8:54 am
I have been waiting for this product and I am ready not to wait until you find a European distributor (if you are considering this at all) but I am a bit let down by the comments. I do hope you find a solution soon enough.
March 21, 2012 at 9:49 am
Hi all,
The UPS costs for shipments outside US are too expensive. There was no way to foresee this in the tests we made, because we could only use local addresses (US).
We’ll have a solution for this very soon – we’ll have another shipping provider for Europe and the rest of the World.
Thanks for your patience, and sorry for the delays.
March 21, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Hi,
We will have worldwide shipping available later today. It will cost 4 euros. Stay tuned!!
March 21, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Great news guys! I have ordered four holders 🙂
March 21, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Perfect, ordered.
Cheers from France!
March 21, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Thanks for listening to the feedback regarding postage and correcting it so quickly. I’ve now now placed my order. Cheers.
March 21, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Vinaka Vaka Levu! (Thank you very much! in Fijian) Just ordered one.
On the next batch you get made, could you do another version with the clips rotated 90 degrees so that it can be mounted on the stem in portrait.
March 21, 2012 at 11:42 pm
That is more like it! Winner. Thank you so much and well done guys, I look forward to making a positive review of the product.
March 22, 2012 at 1:54 am
Ordered!!! 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 4:23 am
ordered 4! Maybe you can open up that little tab that covers the camera lens on the next production run. That will be awesome since you won’t need to get the go-pro cameras anymore – you’ll end up with a smart phone/gps/hrm/speed/cadence/power/camera all in one unit!
March 22, 2012 at 4:41 am
You would not be able to simultaneously see the screen and make a video at the same time unless you were filming the ground 🙂
March 22, 2012 at 6:58 am
Great news on the shipping, thank you. I will order mine later today.
March 31, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Anyone who had received their holder? I am a bit curious about the time for shipping them..
April 2, 2012 at 10:26 am
Still waiting…
April 3, 2012 at 12:30 am
Just got this in my email…I ordered on the 21st.
Your order:
1 x Xperia active Bike Holder
has been processed and sent to your address.
Thanks and have nice workouts!
The SportyPal Team
April 4, 2012 at 7:14 am
Bump… any news on the arm holder? Waiting for it…
April 16, 2012 at 9:11 am
My Bike Holder was shipped to Sweden on 2nd of April but has not arrived yet. Anyone received theirs yet?
April 16, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Mine was shipped to Sweden 2nd of April too but haven´t arrived. I sent a mail yesterday to Sportypal but no reply so far…
April 16, 2012 at 8:35 pm
I bought/paid for mine on 22 March. I got an email on 3 April saying it has been sent but still nothing yet. I guess if it takes 12 days to go from placing an order online to a dispatch confirmation I imagine that I would be optimistic to expect it to turn up at my place in only an additional 14 days.
April 16, 2012 at 10:52 pm
Mine has arrived 🙂 It is a cracker. Approx 1 month shipping to Aus.
April 18, 2012 at 5:13 am
Received mine aswell (New Zealand). Seems to fit really nicely, will test on a trail ride tomorrow and post an update for you all!
April 19, 2012 at 11:01 pm
My order showed up this morning in Fiji, packaging intact (just!) I have already hacked it and mounted it on the stem in portrait mode. I filed down the middle of the two mounting tabs with a rounded file and it fits securely onto my FSA stem with one of the supplied cable tie. This wouldn’t work so well on my other bike which has more of a rounded square-section (profile) stem. Now I just need to go for a ride…
April 19, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Mine arrived on 19 April in NZ. It was very well packaged. Thanks Sportypal.
April 21, 2012 at 11:03 am
I found a small nice parcel in my mailbox on April the 20th. Nice 🙂
Sweden/Sthlm
May 3, 2012 at 6:54 am
Hi
I am a runner and I read somewhere there is an arm holder for Xperia active. Anyone can confirm this post pics? Thanks.
May 4, 2012 at 11:27 am
Hi Allan,
Yes, we have a prototype, but it is not in production as of right now. We don’t have such plans at the moment.
May 10, 2012 at 6:09 am
Sent to my address (Philippines) April 3. To date, May 10, still waiting 😦
July 31, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Has anyone else noticed cracks in their mount’s plastic where the zip ties feed through the curved bits at the bottom of the mount? Mine is 3 months old and the front of the curve on one side is completely broken and the front on the other side is cracked most of the way through. If the back part of the curve cracks too then the zip ties will have nothing to hold on to. I am thinking of slicing them off completely and gluing the mount to another generic bike mount.
Photos:
I think the design of the bike mount itself is superb. However, I think the plastic that has been used is not suitable for the purpose. I don’t know whether it’s the stress placed on it by the zip ties or the extremes in temperatures but the plastic used is not up to the job.
Any thought or feedback?
July 31, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Giving it a little extra thought, I think it may be that the circumference of the curve on the zip-tie mounting points are set for a 31.8mm diameter. The extension that I have (as seen in the photos) that extends forward of the stem and bars which I have the mount on has a slightly smaller circumference. This would would result in increased stress on the SportyPal mount that wasn’t factored into the design/development process. As an aside, most bike component manufacturers provide shims to allow handlebar attachments to work on the older 25.8mm as well as the current 31.8mm diameter standard. For most people these are nothing but scrap. Perhaps other SportyPal mount users could look to use something like this to prevent the mount from cracking. Best of luck.
August 8, 2012 at 9:11 am
Delivery time is horrible!!!
How much longer do I need to wait to process my order! It’s been over a month and no sign of the bike holder 😦
“Order information – 7/3/2012 7:22:32 PM – Id #30071”
Today I still have in my order:
Shipping: Possible
August 8, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Sorry, the links above to my photos (2 posts higher up) aren’t working. Please try this one…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83946908@N02/with/7742003882/#photo_7742003882
Cheers
September 14, 2012 at 4:07 pm
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January 20, 2017 at 8:36 am
Bonjour, y aurait-il de nouveaux stocks? ou peux ton trouver ce produit maintenant?
Je vous remercie d’avance.
January 20, 2017 at 9:04 am
There are currently no plans to produce additional bike holders for the Sony Xperia active.