Cradle for supporting various portable phones

A cradle includes an arm attached to a casing and having a flap for engaging with the phone piece, a slidable arm having a beam slidably attached to the casing and having a flap to engage with the phone piece. The beam includes a rack, a gear includes a pinion engaged with the rack of the beam. A lever is rotatably attached to the casing and has one end biased to engage with the gear and to lock the beam to the casing. A button is slidably received in the casing and engageable with the lever, to move the end of the lever away from the gear and to release the beam from the casing when the button is moved into the casing, and to allow phones of different widths to be solidly locked between the flaps of the arms.