What’s up everyone today on TV Box stop we have the next step in the evolution
of portable monitors, delivering more features with ultra HD display.
This is the InnoView 4K ultra HD touchscreen portable monitor.
This is their 14 inch model, and there’s also a 15.6 inches model.
In the past year I’ve featured a couple of 1080p models on this channel,
but this is my first 4K ultra HD touchscreen model. so I’m quite
excited to see what improvements in quality it brings to the table.
In this review we take a detailed look at its design, button placement and connecting ports.
I’ll try out the touchscreen feature both when connected to a mobile phone and an Android TV box.
And I’ll also do a side-by-side picture comparison
with a 1080p model to to see if there’s a true difference in picture quality.
So stay tuned that’s up next.
This portable monitor has a resolution of 4K 3840 x 2160p.
It has a touchscreen feature.
It has a brightness level of 400 candela per square meter (cd/m2) or equivalent to 400 lumens.
It has 100% sRGB abundant colors.
It has 16.7 million 8 bit color pixels.
It features HDR display.
It has a 178° IPS panel for wide angle viewing.
Along with no splash low blue-light eye protection.
It has built in speakers plus a headphone jack.
It can connect to Android mobile devices and iOS devices, but iOS devices needs a special adapter.
And to top it off it has 180° auto screen rotation to portrait mode.
Contents of this package include.
The 4K monitor itself. A pair of type C type C cables.
One HDMI to micro HDMI cable. One USB A to type C cable.
One USB a female to micro USB male adapter.
A switching power adapter ranging from 5V 3A to 20V 1.5A
A lint free cleaning cloth. A warranty card and a user manual.
And it comes with a durable padded felt material carrying case.
For its design the entire body is made of plastic,
with the actual display size being 12 ¼ inches wide, by 6 ¾ inches tall, by 14 inches diagonally,
with a 1.2 inch bezel at the bottom that houses its speakers and electronic components.
It has a very thin bezel to the top and sides, with rounded edges
to facilitate touch and swipe functions without your fingers coming into contact with rough edges.
To the left side it has 2 type C display ports and one micro HDMI port.
On the right side it has a headphone jack,
one micro USB port, and a power button that also functions as the menu button.
To the back of the monitor you have a very sturdy kickstand.
And below the monitor you have antiskid rubber pads
both on the monitor itself and on the kickstand.
Below here is where you’ll also find the built-in dual internal speakers.
Before you begin using this monitor there are some power requirements that you need to take note of.
In other 1080p monitors your standard 5V 2A power supply from a phone charger,
or reverse charging via your mobile device would have been sufficient to power those monitors
because on average they use 7W of power to run themselves, and around 12W while in desktop mode.
However this 4K monitor requires more amperage and wattage to run
itself and power devices connected to it. So with mobile phones it requires a 9V 3A power
source, and for other devices such as handheld gaming consoles it may require up to 45W of power.
This cannot be provided by your regular phone charger hence they have included
a power adapter that ranges from 5V to 20V between 1.5 to 3A up to 45W.
So this means that unless your device has that kind of power to reverse charge it.
It will not work without using the included power adapter.
So here it’s without any device connected and it’s drawing 13W using .20 amps of power.
When connected to a mobile phone in desktop mode it uses 21W .29 amps of power.
So the most common way to use a portable monitor
is with your mobile phone or tablet that has a desktop mode.
This is usually done by connecting directly to your
phone or tablet and using your phone’s touchscreen to navigate the desktop.
A more popular way is by using a type C hub, where you can connect a wireless
controller such as a PC mouse or air-mouse which makes navigation a whole lot easier.
With the InnoView 4K portable monitor, it has two features not seen in other models.
The first one, is that you can perform touchscreen
functions when connected to your mobile phone or tablet.
And the other, is that it has a built-in USB hub
and a micro USB adapter, that allows you to connect USB controllers to navigate the desktop.
This takes away the need to use a type C hub.
Accessing and navigating the settings area couldn’t be simpler.
Simply press the power button once to gain access. Then everything is touchscreen thereon after.
The settings area is divided into three sections.
The first section is where you can adjust the volume, brightness, and contrast.
You can switch between the type C display or micro HDMI display
if you have two devices connected at the same time.
You can select to force the display to remain fixed in portrait mode in the both directions.
And it’s also where you can activate the no splash low blue light eye protection.
You can disable auto screen rotation to portrait mode,
you have a mute button and a reset button.
The next section is for color adjustment. You can choose from one of the color presets.
You have standard, movie, game, text, FPS, and RTS presets.
And you have red blue and green color temperature adjustments. You have a 6500 color Temperature,
a 9300, and you have the option to set your own custom color settings.
The last section is where you can select to turn HDR always on,
you can turn it off, or you can set it to activate automatically.
You can change the language, and there is a feature to enable when used with Mac devices.
You have a free sync button, which is a function that allows the display to
delay the output of the picture and wait for the graphics card to render so that
the picture output by the graphics card and the picture of the display are synchronized.
And there’s an OD button which activates refresh rate overdrive.
When connected to a mobile device you can rotate the screen 180° in portrait mode
and it will change its display orientation automatically.
However it does not have a Gyro function for playing Android games.
This is a 4K monitor but it can also show in any resolution below that
such as 480p, 720p and 1080p.
Most mobile phones that has a desktop mode has a maximum resolution of 1080p
From the most popular desktop UIs such as Samsung Dex and EMUI.
So to achieve or 4K with HDR, you will have to connect it to either a gaming console,
an Android TV Box or Windows mini-PC.
So here I have it connected to an Android TV Box that has HDR display,
and there are advantages and disadvantages of having it connected to the device.
Firstly when connected to an Android TV Box you get various display resolutions such as:
480p. 720p.
1080p. And of 4K 2160p with HDR.
The major disadvantage is that touchscreen function does not work
because the box itself does not have that feature.
its 4K HDR display is good as it gets when compared to TVs and other monitors with HDR.
And that this is how it looks with 3D gaming.
So for my final demonstration here I have it connected to a Windows 10 mini-PC
in dual display mode with my best 1080p model.
And for a fair picture comparison I duplicated both monitors
in 1080p resolution, and I will now play a YouTube HDR video.
So
using the same settings on both models such as brightness
HDR and color temperature, the InnoView producers brighter colors and display.
When connected to a Windows 10 mini-PC the touchscreen function doesn’t work.
It will only work with a mobile Windows 10 device.
So in summary the InnoView 4K portable monitor is my best
model yet, and I would very much like to see the quality you get from their 15.6 inchs model.
There is one challenge, and that is seeing that it’s a touchscreen monitor, you will often have
to clean it with the included cleaning cloth as it tends to gather lots of fingerprints.
And with that said I’ve come to the end of this review. Thanks goes out
to InnoView for sending their monitor for review, I really appreciated the support.
If you are impressed with this new model and would like to get your hands on one,
you can get it directly from InnoView at the lowest price
possible using the special link in the description below this video.
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