Phone carry

[Thomason]

How do you guys carry your phone? I have a iPhone 7+ and it just seems a little big for pocket carry. I mean sure it fits but feels kind of bulky or something. What do BFCers do?

 

[tiguy7]

View attachment 796723 In the cold weather, my iphone 7+ lives in the right hand breast pocket of a North Face Denali vest. In warmer weather, it lives in an OtterBox Defender on the outside of my waist band. Excuse the gravy on the garment. Time for a laundering.

 

[Piso Mojado]

Craghoppers Kiwi trousers have a cell phone pocket inside the right leg cargo pocket. It's handy unless you have something else to put in the pocket. They also have zipper pockets under the cargo pocket and the left and right side pockets: not as handy, but it doesn't matter if you use a Bluetooth headset. Lots of travelers' pants have multiple pockets for large flat objects like passports, wallets and phones.

If I wore a suit or sport jacket, I would consider a cell phone shoulder holster.

You could balance the phone with something useful, like a digital voice recorder or a ham sandwich. Of course it could also lead to awkward questions.

 

[A.L.]

Got myself iPhone 8 and one of the reasons why I didn't get the 8 plus besides the price tag was that it fits in to your pocket better (and is somewhat manageable with one hand).

 

[gadgetgeek]

between the size of my phone (moto g 3) and the otterbox defender, it takes a pretty hefty holster to carry. so 90% of the time its in a maxped radio holster on my pack-o-doom.

 

[jmh33]

I got an ancient flip phone that goes into the rfp.. Those I phones are too big and too easily hacked.. John

 

[gonebad395]

iPhone 6 and I carry it in my back pocket

 

[Low_rez]

I carry it in my left front pocket with nothing else or in a belt pouch. I own a leather one I got made on Etsy and 2 Skinth pouches for when I need to work on occasion outside on location. I own a Shinth Milky Way and Command Post (I thought I lost one so I bought the second). They are made very well and are made custom to what you want. All will fit Plus versions of an iPhone. The leather pouch I wear often and frees up my pockets for other stuff. I usually wear my shirt untucked which hides any knife clips, lanyards and the pouch until needed.

 

[Shann]

I carry my iPhone 7plus in a casemate leather case which also holds a couple credit cards, id and business cards. I carried it as my only wallet for a while, but found it easier to have a regular wallet in my back pocket with cash, etc.

Takes up about the same space as the "old days" when I carried a check book. I just keep it in my front pocket most of the time. It also fits in my shirt pocket on a regular button down shirt. It is much heavier though.

 

[Scott321]

I got addicted to phone belt holsters since the early 2000's. The fancy ones which clip the phone in let you use your flashlight hands free if you need a path light at night.

Unfortunately, the fancier (and many not so fancy) clip-in holsters tend to break with a lot of use from one thing or another. I now just use a NiteIze universal cell phone holster for my large phones.

I haven't had any breakage issues, but there is no flashlight hole. One added benefit, there is a divider on one side which I can fit a Spyderco Military in without scratching my phone (don't remember which size the holster is, but it's the one that fits the LG V20). I don't carry that large of a knife often, but I tried it a few times with no problems. Right now I use the divider for a second phone.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

I carry my phone in the ample chest/document pocket of an old 5.11 shirt, but it is getting ratty, and they don't make it any more. I am on the lookout for a replacement method myself.

 

[jkwithawave]

Mostly in my back left pocket next to my flashlight. The rectangularness of the phone fits that pocket better than front pockets. Besides front pockets are reserved for knife, pens, spare mag, or keys sometimes. It will got in my jacket pocket on the few cold days we get here in Florida.

 

[22-rimfire]

I wear Carhartt pocket tea shirts a lot and typically have my cell phone in that pocket along with a pen. If I'm doing something where it is likely to fall out, I'll slip it in a back pocket for a while.

 

[Mongo]

Cargo pocket of Duluth Trading Co. cargo pants.

 

[McFeeli]

My left front pocket. I have an iPhone 4s so it's normal sized and not quite so bulky. Funny how cellphones went from big to small to big again, haha.