Belkin’s Continuity Camera mount for desktops is right here

When Belkin launched its Continuity Camera mount for Mac laptops in October, it promised {that a} model for desktops could be coming quickly. Now, it’s lastly right here. You can get the accent that attaches to your show and magnetically holds your cellphone so you need to use it as a webcam from the Apple Store for $29.95 — although it’s price noting that worth might not stick round, as Belkin spokesperson Cassie Pineda tells me that the right worth is $39.95 and that the corporate is engaged on getting it mounted.

Compared to the mobile-friendly model, which is designed to remain in your cellphone and latch onto your pc with somewhat hook, the Belkin iPhone Mount for Mac Desktops is a little more versatile. It has a tilting mechanism that permits you to level the digicam down by as much as 25 levels in case the highest of your monitor is above your face. It’s additionally appropriate with a variety of shows, with Belkin saying that it’ll work with iMacs from 2017 and later, the iMac Pro, the Apple Studio Display and Pro Display XDR, in addition to “most external displays and monitors.”

If you don’t need to hold your cellphone off your monitor whereas utilizing it as a webcam, or if doing so together with your setup would end in a foul angle, the mount additionally has a thread that permits you to connect it to a typical tripod.

Compared to a high-end webcam, there may be one draw back to utilizing a mount and your iPhone, and that’s energy — just like the cell model earlier than it, this mount gained’t wirelessly cost your cellphone, which could possibly be an issue when you’re in conferences all day lengthy. It does, nevertheless, have a cable administration gap when you wished to route a typical Lightning cable to your cellphone, however that’s undoubtedly extra of a problem than when you might simply plug within the mount and have it do MagSafe charging. Thankfully, this most likely isn’t a lot of a priority when you’re simply planning on utilizing it for infrequent, brief conferences.

This isn’t the one desktop-focused mount meant for use with Continuity Camera, however when Apple introduced the function, it promoted the mounts from Belkin. That’s to not say that the piece of plastic you mount your cellphone to can have an enormous impact on the efficiency of an iOS 16 and macOS Ventura software program function, nevertheless it’s good to have choices. That’s very true provided that this accent is barely inexpensive than Moment’s version.