The Rollei Selfie Stick comes in a blister pack, this can, however, by a, pleasing just open two handles. No tools needed, no tedious cut plastic wrap on hand to hurt only themselves afterwards.
The telescopic rod itself is made of aluminum and has a very high quality. Pulling out of the bar is easy and quickly, still firmly held the rod. About the clamping mount almost every smartphone should be kept safely. Only the handle and specifically the four buttons fall out of the ordinary and work quality is not so good as the rest.
A wrist strap is already tuned, a screw-carabiner is included. This can be screwed with a screw in the bottom of the handle. Unfortunately, it has to the rubber cover also the USB port to be removed hidden for charging. This is precisely when you wear the Selfie stick quite unprotected backpack or belt, the connection open. It would have been better just to let the opening of the bolt open and hide only the USB port / protect.
The handling is basically simple: With the lowest button of the stick is turned on, the second button activates the Bluetooth pairing, what is needed, of course, only the first time use with a smartphone. The third button can be to the left and press right to choose whether you have an Android or iOS smartphone. The top button is used simply as a trigger. Here arises for me a first, smaller problem: With my thick fingers Men I'll press the shutter button every now and then on the button for switching the phone type and then of course nothing happens. The key would be solved as a small, hard gängigerer switch certainly better.
The main problem with my phone, however: The shutter will not release the camera's flash but presents from around the volume. Something foraging on the manufacturer's website shows that when the smartphone is not using the default character map of Android just may happen. The app "Camera360 Ultimate" is recommended which can be downloaded for free via Google Play. This, however, is currently not available in German and also I could find no way to disable the preview function. So it is after every shot needed to use the phone to cancel the preview. Continuous: Wrong!
Conclusion: It Stick is a great idea, in my opinion minor flaws in the processing and construction. I have to download my smartphone an extra app that does not come from the manufacturer of the sticks I find less than optimal, that then fails in a core discipline my onboard camera app you can not accuse directly the Selfie stick, but certainly indirectly , Here you should definitely either an app that corrects these problems, be submitted by the manufacturer or there should be a list of incompatible smartphones are integrated in the product description.
