hi guys Chris here so I have something interesting today this is a 15.6 inch
IPS panel that is anti glare so has matte coating on it but it also supports
touch and a very interesting panel because it's light it's portable it is
powered by Type C and has a type C input it also has our 2 x 1 watt speakers on
here and even HDMI ends so this can be used with a lot of different devices
that can be used with pcs Mac books that it can even be used with for example
PlayStation fours and even the camera that I am recording on I could be using
a portable screen like this so this one here is from then pot it's called the
split let's check it out in greater detail inside the box you have the
screen by itself and I'll just check the weight of that it's 548 grams and of
course you get then the type C 2 USB cable that you're going to need to power
with some devices you get a mini HDMI cable and then the type C 2 type-c cable
that you'll be using to connect with most pcs and with mobile phones I've
also picked up the magnetic case which I highly recommend
it's a thin case that covers it and also acts as a stand and that puts the total
travel weight at one point zero three kilos so there's nothing on the back of
the screen here it has this carbon like fiber design to it but it's not carbon
fiber the case does sits on the back there with magnets and you can fold it
around like that to completely protect the screen and this is still reasonably
light and it's thin to just under 10 millimeters and getting started as easy
just simply open it up flip it around and it has a magnet in the top here so
it's going to hold it there and this is your kickstand for it so similar to the
way tablets are set up and that's about the maximum angle right about there and
get it back a little bit further and that's rubber here so it's going to grip
onto a table and you can press against that without it suddenly just collapsing
- which is good on the left hand side we have the power on standby button right
here we have the control a little joystick so this is up and down and it
presses in and that's to control the on screen
display which I will get onto later on the on screen menu there and we have the
type C port in so this is needed to power if your device does not output
enough from the type C port on the right hand side and then you have to use this
to power the screen it supports power delivery to specs so
it's going to run off five volts right up to 20 volts and on the right is where
all your inputs are so we have a micro HDMI 1.4 spec port there we have the
type C port this one supports data video in and charging as well which is really
good so it will output charge to keep your mobile phone your tablet or your
laptop charged at the same time which is great and then a 3.5 millimeter
headphone port here which is great for perhaps say Mac users that a lacking
ports that you don't need an additional dongle because you can output the sound
through that along the bottom you will find either side two rubber feet and
this tiny little slot here that is in fact a speaker so we've got two one watt
speakers down here I'll give you a sample of them now they're not amazing
sounding but they do actually sound a little bit better than some of the
tablets and take our review
so the calibration op the screen on the standard preset is actually very good
only the whites are slightly off just leaning a little bit towards the blue
side there it's now more of a neutral white once I've calibrated it but for
most people out of the box calibration is actually quite good and normally you
don't see this with some manufacturers it can be completely off so it's great
to see that they have it properly calibrated one area that is
disappointing however is the color gamut coverage so they do claim that it has
89% srgb but with my testing here and with the
panel that I have on my unit I'm only getting 63 percent of srgb color gamut
coverage here and Adobe RGB this is 47% in TSC as 45 so the brightness on my
panel doesn't come up to spec will be a claim so they claimed around 280 Lux and
this one here is only about 160 Lux which is well short I do have it on a
hunt percent brightness which by the way is actually the default brightness you
can see so 100 right here it's always said on 100 you can tone that down of
course using the little controller there so the screen is touch and if you're
using a USB type-c USB 3.1 device which I'm using at the moment which is the
jumper easy book x1 then i have touch now windows already has the driver for
this II just plug it in and it will install the driver and you can see right
now touch is working now it has 10 touch points the screen supports that I have
tested this and it does work well sometimes I have to tap again now that
could be because I'm not on the most powerful chipset that might have
something to do with this so you can see here like scrolling and things like that
with Windows that's all working well the Start menu and all in all it acts like a
normal touchscreen would so this is probably just a little bit slower
because I'm not running the most powerful as chipset I'm only running 4
gigabytes of RAM here but it's just to demonstrate that it's gonna it's gonna
run fine on even low powered hardware like this
so the only real issue here with me with the screen the brightness could
definitely be a bit bitter but indoors it's perfectly fine indoors it looks
great and like the fact that it is matte coated as well and not glossy so you
don't have any problems with the flick and it's a typical IPS so the viewing
angles they are perfectly fine you're not gonna have any issues with that
being an IPS panel one of the main reasons for getting a screen like this
would be what I'm doing right now so you've got dual displays and it's a lot
easier to then multitask you can be a lot more productive doing this now I've
got touch support on both of these devices here and of course it's gonna be
working just fine as you can see right there
now if your device doesn't have a type C port then you will still have touch with
the windows you just need to plug in the type-c cable to the port right here on
the right hand side and then once the drivers load its touch and you plug in
of course the HDMI cable onto the right hand side as I showed you at the start
this of course right here is where the power goes into it or that type C port
so it depends on what cables you have how you're gonna set it up and you'll be
able to run this with touch and you can even connect it up to things like in the
Nintendo switch PlayStation 4 Xbox anything really and just run it as a
standalone HDMI portable display then and you can then use a portable power
bank to power the screen or you can just plug it into an adapter so you can have
a powered app they're going to type C so that's going to run five volts right up
to 20 volts there and it does support power delivery and that type C as
mentioned another use too is you can use this as a screen for your mobile phone
that supports if it does desktop mode so for example right here I have my samsung
galaxy s 9 plus I plugged in the type C to type C cable
normally when you're traveling you will have your charger as well so you plug
that into the other end to power the screen because the phone by itself will
not actually be it doesn't have enough wattage the output from the type C port
to power it it's working and even touch which surprised me I thought touch mine
at work and it actually does run pretty good as you can see and if you get
yourself a Bluetooth keyboard and even a bluetooth mouse pair that up a course
with your phone and you've got yourself then a laptop that you can use when
you're traveling and because it's such a thin and relatively light screen too
you're not carrying around that extra bulk if you wanted to do some emails and
do some proper work and whatnot through there
then that is all possible as you can see here I've just loaded up my website tech
tablets I'm able to add articles it does have a file manager too of course with
Android and the phone and if you've got a far way the mate 20 you've got the p20
between hiepro mate 20x it's all going to be working as well with this so the
touch support with that one should also work I think it's just a standard Android
driver that's using to power the screen here so this gives you a little bit of
added productivity with your phone and it's hard to see bit right down there
you can see it is charging my mobile phone as well so when I'm using my
samsung galaxy s 9 plus here with Dex it's going to be charged at the same
time so I'm not losing any battery which is great so the on-screen display your
controls here for the panel it's pretty straightforward here you can control the
brightness contrast black levels you've got different other things that you can
tweak in here as well your colors so the one that I always go for this is the
user one that's the one I have measured and right now you just got some settings
here for the actual menu itself so you can see the transparency of it and to
time it out a few other settings here even an HDR mode and this right here is
quite handy so we've got a blue light filter on here so if you're using this
late at night you just press in by the way with a
button to actually make it work and you can start to tweak that up you can see
it's removing now the blue light so then poke here the split is a very practical
screen is so much you can do with this screen of course you can run it with
anything that has a display out and it's via HDMI so you can run your ps4 and
Nintendo's Switch you can even use this as a large monitor screen for your
camera for example at the camera I'm recording on I could have the HDMI going
out into this to use it as a monitor there to have a look and see if
everything's in focus and are you able to do that so it's got many uses it's
going to work with Mac OS it works for Samsung DeX's your Huawei phones other
phones that support HDMI out and the disk top mode which was really great so
you could perhaps check this throw this into a bag and have your phone there and
if you bring along a Bluetooth keyboard and a mouse then you can use it like a
laptop like a touch laptop or even tablet and it just makes it quite
practical yes you're going to have the cable there now most people would be
carrying around their type C charger with them so that's not
too much of an issue that he can plug it in I would like to see a version perhaps
where the battery on there that you could at least get a few hours of
battery you see didn't have to bring another cable if you didn't have happen
to have one with you but I don't think it's too much of an issue because it
keeps it slimmer you're not going to have any problems in the future of
course with batteries going bad and things like that
what I would really like to see more than a battery as I believe that it
would be great to have on this a USB port so one USB port along here means
that I will be able to plug in a pendrive or something when I have it
connected up to my phone and access that perhaps plug in a Logitech wireless
receiver for my keyboard for my mouse would make this even more practical
hopefully in the next version they can add that so the screen is great it's
good for indoor use but it doesn't have the same color gamut that they claimed
so they claim and then it has an sRGB of 89% and it's nowhere near that coming
out around about 63% the brightness as well it tops out at around about 160 lux
on my unit I've got it turned down to about 50% brightness at the moment you
can see here and indoors it's perfectly fine and even in sunlight you're still
going to be able to read it so that's not really too much of an issue however
if you are a professional you're gonna be using this as a portable second
monitor on your laptop you're doing color work then I don't know is that 64%
srgb color gamut coverage going to be enough for you now this is selling for
around about 200 us and I do believe that you can get various different uses
out it so the price I think it's justified considering out there on the
market there is really nothing like this and I've been looking for a long time
for a type c portable screen with this kind of features but also the nice
modern look with the slim bezels so all in all it does get a thumb a thumbs up
from me I do like it it's not perfect and hopefully that VIN pop they can add
a USB port and perhaps give us just a slightly better panel and this in the
future one that's more closer to their claim spec thanks a lot for watching
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