hey guys EBPMAN here today want to
review what i believe is probably the
smallest pico projector that we've seen
in the channel this projector is brought
to us by ICODIS let's check it out now
the protective we're going to be
reviewing is the ICODIS CB 100S and
this is a mini portable projector that
not only is compact in size and you're
probably saying hey where is it will
watch this
there it is so literally it is virtually
the size of my samsung galaxy s7 you
notice the dimensions here and just
slightly thicker so if i had maybe a
bigger case on the phone they probably
compete when it comes to size so very
compact and very portable
now it's not the highest resolution
projector and available on the market
but it solves a specific niche and want
to talk about the features what's
included in the max and we'll see the
playback and you'll see why I'm so
excited about this tiny projector now
inside the box going to find your
projector you do have a power cord and
micro USB charging cable you have a
tripod a little travel pouch user guide
and warranty card so not taking a look
at the specs for a brief moment
first of all the projector is using DLP
technology it does have android 4.4
embedded in the unit contracts ratio of
a thousand-to-one it has a quad-core 1.3
gigahertz processor it does have a lower
resolution so this is going to be a 480p
resolution projector and i would say a
lot of that has to do with the compact
nature of the projector itself but it's
still very valuable and you'll see that
it's in the review as we go through it
it does have multiple inputs media cards
USB and we're going to see that in a
couple seconds and the light sources led
one of the things I found pretty
interesting about the solution is that
it does have output of hdmi and also has
output for a headphone so the hdmi
output transforms this little box that
you see right here almost into an
android TV box and we'll see how that
works
just a few minutes the projection size
is pretty outstanding because it could
go anywhere from 10 inches to a hundred
inches in size
and it does powered by micro USB
charging cable and it does have an
onboard battery so that's also something
that you're going to get at least like
an hour and a half of battery use from
the device itself now the other thing I
think it's pretty cool outside of the
size which is really light at 270 grams
and great lamp hour battery life is the
fact that it auto Keystone so Keystone
is when you're projecting an image
against the wall and it kind of looks
like it's an angle it will automatically
adjust itself so it looks flat and
doesn't look kind of lopsided on the
projection on the wall that your
projection out so it's it takes care of
that automatically so very decent specs
for such a small device that literally
would fit in your bed pocket in your
front pocket or just you know in a
briefcase
if you're going somewhere you want to
have a full android-powered projector
that little you can connect the keyboard
to it or anything or watch movies and
that's what we're going to see now so
now as you saw during the initial
unboxing or just the intro the
projectors really small it's literally
the size of an iphone it's also the size
of a samsung galaxy s7 edge and it does
have here in the front some controls
that you're going to be able to use to
navigate you could because it has
multiple inputs you could connect a USB
keyboard or one of those wireless key
words to it as well so taking a look at
the front here you have your controls
and they're all touch controls you'll
see them light up in a second on the
side here you do have your hdmi out
which allows you to connect this to a
television a microUSB actually a microSD
slot USB micro USB for charging and then
here's your power area and this side
there's really nothing here except your
focus on the front you'll see is event
the area as well as your this is where
your projection is coming out on the
bottom here you do have where you can
use that tripod to raise it and then you
have this little arm that comes up that
was going to give you the ability to
place an angle if you'd like if you
wanted to paint pointed up now
besides that there's really nothing else
to this it's really straightforward and
the last thing I wanted to highlight is
that you do have a headphone jack there
once again if you're projecting it
against something and then
plug in your headphones directly into
the out up there it is so here you have
what the screen looks like as you can
see the colors are very vibrant i'll try
to make sure that keep it without moving
you do have Cody pre-installed you do
you have netflix you have browser
capabilities you have skype capabilities
and it's a full android operating system
not the most current a operating system
but it's still supports our most of the
app it's not all the apps that are on
the market place right now so as you can
see nice display great color and even
though I do have one light source on I'm
getting good color quality and
brightness out of the unit one of things
i wanted to show you is the keystone so
watch how I as I put the projector an
angle how it auto adjust let's go ahead
and do that again will bring it this way
you can see how it's auto adjusting I'm
just moving it and I as i continue to
move to the just so that's what the auto
Keystone feature does and again this is
going to allow you if you can be
projected on a wall on a ceiling if
you're in a camper wherever you're
taking this with you'll be able to get a
flat image now once the projectors on
the other thing i want to show you is
that the control screen here the buttons
light up that allow you to navigate up
down left right
these are going to also serve as your
volume control buttons you do have a
backhand home button here so this really
eliminates the need of having anything
else with you but their software
included that allows you to use your
phone as a remote or once again you can
connect something via bluetooth to the
side
alright so let's go ahead and take a
look at the interface and see what
things look like here so things are
broken down into four main categories as
you can see in the top of the screen and
I pretty much shut down most lights
except for light source behind me yes
you can appreciate the brightness and
the kind of image you're going to get
and what I'm looking at is probably
about a 32 inch screen at this time
so what we're gonna do is just saw it
from from left to right you have an appt
center this app center does have the
standard Google Play Store app store it
does also have gmail it does have
miracast so this is going to allow you
to connect both what your android phone
as well as your iphone so you can
actually do screen sharing you do have a
video player as well a lot of you
playing software capabilities as well as
if we go to the to the other area we're
going to smart apps
here's where you having
all the apps are getting installed it
does kind of have a custom skin to it so
even though it's using android 4.4 you
do see kind of like this custom skin
interface here so i'm using actual a
wireless keyboard that has a mouse
pointer on it just to make things a
little bit easier
I just wanted to give you kind of a
sense of you know the kind of apps that
are installed to see what's there and
what's not
pretty much it's any apps on the app
store that's been installed it does come
with you to pre-install the times come
on facebook and it does also have an
asian market place as well and there is
kind of like an office application
that's available there as well so now
let's take a look at the settings area
so what we'll do is we'll just come into
the Wi-Fi area here you can see the
Wi-Fi with that you connect the two as
well as many at existing open Wi-Fi
access points that you can choose you
can set up your Bluetooth you can set
this up as a portable hotspot do you
have here your display and this area
you're going to be able to adjust the
font going to be able to adjust the
brightness color temperature it does
have the ability to do rearview
projection to see it will basically flip
the image for you and it does have key
stoning and like we saw where it does
the auto key stoning as we moving to a
TV and stand will take a look at see
what's in there
I'm here you have a lot of the settings
that you would mess with that are part
of the standard android operating system
have been cleaned up for you so you can
access that and then manipulate anything
you've seen here that's important to you
now device on info just going to give
you build information and you know just
device serial numbers clear is going to
allow you to clean up the overall memory
so I like that it has that as well
now let's talk about video because this
is what it's all about now you have
netflix built-in you have facebook you
have YouTube one of things i really like
from cord cutter perspectives Cody
now the version of cody that comes
pre-installed version 14 1i went ahead
and updated it's a quote e16 one and
we're going to do is go ahead and select
that it immediately just overwrote it
replaced it and i also configured it so
it does come with cody pre-installed but
again 14 that one and it doesn't have
any of the add-ons but it's really easy
to find the add-ons online and just
choose it now again once you start using
Cody Cody for those of you who are not
aware is a and applications a media
center application then with add-ons
gives you the ability to download
content off of the internet and one of
the most powerful apps or add-ons that
are available is this ad on here that is
known as Exodus i will go into Exodus
and exodus is going to give you access
to several things it's gonna give you
access to movies TV shows will go into
TV shows for a second you can see the
most popular TV shows you can see TV
shows are going to be hearing today and
it really gives you that cord cutter
experience you can see these are all the
TV shows shows that are available and
you can choose any TV show and start
playing so if I choose this TV show
westworld which happens to be a popular
one now i can see that it's broken down
by every by season then also by each
episode if i choose one of the episodes
all i do is i select on it and once I
select that it's going to go through and
try to source the video this is what
Cody does and with this android being
projector combine it just gives you that
media experience where you don't have to
connect it to your phone to see a movie
you don't have to connect to your phone
to watch netflix everything is
self-contained and it's going to give
you a full media experience so now we're
going to do is going to just let this
source the movie and then once it pops
up we'll come back and show you how I
place now once your Cody choices come up
just going to choose one of them so that
we can get the movie playing or in this
case a TV show it's about streaming so
it's going to go out to the internet is
going to find the content and then it's
going to start to play and again this is
just to give you kind of a sense of what
kind of video quality going to get out
remember 240p not 720 and that 1080 so
the quality
of it is adequate for device of this
type and what I'm going to do is just
fast forward so that you can see
playback gonna come all the way down
here and then what I'm going to do is
I'm just going to see if we can
fast-forward to the tow this gives you
kind of a sense of you know what kind of
video quality you're going to have and
again 4a projector of this size
something that's so pocketable you're
getting some are standing quality and it
also has an 8 watt speaker so while it's
not adequate for very large settings you
can connect bluetooth speakers to it or
for personal settings you can connect
the bluetooth speaker or bluetooth
headphone as well as that you can
connect to the headphone jack to
actually see or listen to it for
personal viewing alright so now things
look a little different and that's
because I've connected it to my TV and
i'm using the hdmi out that's built into
the projector so now the projectors
turned into a smart TV box which is
again outstanding so now if I go down
and I go into Cody again and i'm just
going to go ahead and select it down
there
let's go i'll select Exodus now that
I've selected the stream you can see the
constant coming across and it looks
pretty good
this concludes my review of the I code
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