Loading the phone reliable, and is actually a good idea, but: with a gel casing can be the phone does not load, the terminal at the dock is then too short. And take each of the shell is too cumbersome. A resilient, longer USB port you can at this price but do not expect. And why the 2nd side of the docking station is not designed for the use of the phone's in landscape format? Who designed that? Not thought through.