Now let's get this disclaimer out of the way first: it only works in a dark room, so don't think you're getting a £4000 laser projector.But if your room is dark enough (and by this I mean almost completely dark) and you have enough space to place this 3.5m away from the wall (there's no optical zoom) you'll get a massive 120" picture with plenty of detail and more than adequate brightness and contrast. The picture is plenty good enough for all but the darkest of movies (but these would also look dark on most TVs).For its relatively tiny size it packs a punch! It's about the size of a pint-size can of drink and this includes a speaker (which is OK if you're not fussy but I carry an external Bluetooth speaker for better sound) and a battery that lets you watch it in ECO mode (half brightness) for suppisedly 2.5h, or a tad over an hour in standard mode (full brightness) although I haven't done a duration test. ECO mode is not dramatically dimmer than standard and if the room is pitch black it'll still deliver a decent picture, especially if you have it closer to the wall which gives you a reduced screen size. It weighs a tad more than said can of soft drink (around 800g)I travel all the time and this has a permanent place in my cabin bag.The connectivity of little beast is brilliant: it's designed to run Google home, Netflix etc natively which is awesome because it makes it a standalone media centre, but if you're offline you can also cast your screen from another device or even stick a USB stick in it and play it worth an android media player (you can install apps like you would on an android phone). Nifty!I almost forgot the remote! At first I didn't think much of it because you can control the projector with the touch buttons on the top of the unit (which is cumbersome and only good as a backup) or from your phone through the Nebula app (good for typing although the keyboard doesn't seem to work in the YouTube app). However once I started using it I quickly became fond of it because it's small enough that you don't feel it's in your bag and it's easier to operate in the dark than your phone. The most important buttons light up for a moment when you pick it up and you can operate it by feel once you memorise the buttons).Now I'm going to be to almost unreasonably picky and list some complaints just to make this review a bit more balanced: sometimes the response to commands from the remote inexplicably slows down and it's frozen on me once, although a restart sorted it. Internal storage could be much better in an era where storage is cheap. For the price I would have expected at least 32GB, but 64 or 128GB would have been more in line with where the product sits in its market tier. Instead there's a measly 16GB of memory which is barely enough for a couple of FHD 1080p movies and 3-4 episodes of a series. It will do you for a short break or a movie night when you don't have access to or don't want to faff connecting to WiFi or Internet.You can of course still cast from your phone/tablet but you then can't use it for any other tasks while watching.The projector, charger and a 3m cable I bought separately for £7 fit perfectly in the seminrigid case my Gopro 10 came in so takes up minimal space.About the charger: my unit came with not one but two 65w chargers (each with a different plug, UK and Euro), which is pretty cool because these things cost about £30 to buy and I'd just bought a laptop that came without a charger and this charges it at full-speed, as does my phone.The USB C cable it comes with is kind of short, OK for recharging it but I like to run mine off external power to use it at full brightness. A 3m lead usually does the trick but I also carry another 3m one and a USB C female to female adaptor that has never not been long enough even if the power sockets is across the room.I picked mine up during a sale for £430 and while it's no replacement for a TV (which I haven't owned for 20 years and I have no interest in having) this may well be the purchase of the year. I can throw it in a small man bag and bring a cinema to a friend's house, or watch movies on a cinema-like screen in a hotel room (I now choose a hotel based on the size of the wall opposite the bed ha!)Usability-wise it's plenty adequate out of the box, but with a long power lead and an external speaker (and some good curtains) this thing gets closer to a home cinema than its size and price would suggest. Thumbs up.
