Life C-Port™ for press & reviewers
Everything you need to write about the product — the story, the facts, and the images. Questions: lifecport@gmail.com.
The story in three paragraphs
Most phones that 'won't charge anymore' are not electrically broken. The two tiny spring tabs inside a USB-C port relax after a few thousand insertions — helped along by using the phone while it charges — until the port no longer grips the plug. The cable falls out, the phone charges only at one angle, or not at all.
The usual options are a $50–150 shop repair, a claim on phone insurance many people don't have, or a new phone. Life C-Port is a fourth option: a plastic base with a sliding retention bar that captures the cable and keeps the plug seated in the worn port, restoring a reliable charge for $14.99.
The product is patent pending, trademark pending, and currently produced in small batches on 3D printers while injection-molding tooling is finalized. It is intentionally honest about its limits: it does not fix bent pins, corrosion, or a dead charging circuit — only retention wear.
Fast facts
- Product
- Life C-Port™ — a charging-port retention holder for phones
- What it does
- Holds the charging cable seated in a worn or loose USB-C port so the phone charges reliably again
- Price
- $14.99
- Status
- Patent pending. Trademark pending.
- Fit
- Universal — 3.25-inch base fits phones roughly 5–8 inches long with a centered bottom charging port
- Company
- Life C-Port LLC, United States
- Contact
- lifecport@gmail.com
Story angles
The repair-economics angle
A $14.99 fix against a $50–150 repair bill for one of the most common phone failures — at a time when replacement phones cost more than ever.
The right-to-repair angle
A small US company designing a mechanical workaround for a failure the industry usually answers with 'buy a new phone'.
The inventor angle
A patent-pending product designed, 3D-printed, and shipped by a small startup while scaling toward injection molding and retail distribution.
Images
Product photos in all eight colors live on the shop page — right-click any image to save it for editorial use with credit to Life C-Port™. Need high-resolution files, a specific color, or the product in hand for review? Email lifecport@gmail.com and we'll send them the same day.
Covering charging-port wear?
Our USB-C hub has citable, plain-English facts about why ports wear out, and the repair cost calculator compares every repair route side by side. Both are free to quote and link.