iCODIS CB-300 Pico Projector 1080p HD Video with DLP 1800 Lumen, Mini HDMI,30,000 Hour Led Life, Portable Pocket Movie and Entertainment Home Theater

I love it. In a small padded cool bag that fits 4 bottles of beer I re purposed to carry this I have the projector, charger, spare battery pack, stand, speaker, handheld mouse/keyboard, hdmi cable. Anytime I’m travelling I know I have a TV/cinema screen with me and when in the house I can put the football on massive wall outside or cinema in the living room, I've had it 3 weeks and not tried ps4 on it yet because I've been travelling but have used it in several hotel rooms and back home where I bought a screen and soundbar..It has limitations and you have to take various factors into account plan a little bit but generally I have found it relatively quick and easy to get an excellent experience out of this bit of kit. I am amazed the tech has got to the point where for £400 in August 2016 you can get this quality in such a small package.It works with some ambient light for trivial stuff like youtube or web browsing but if you are going to watch any tv/movies you really need the room blacked out so you can see the dark scenes. It works great outside at night even with some lamps on around it. The battery is decent, even with bluetooth on it can do at least 60 mins with brightness at 80%, not sure if it charges via usb powerpack while in use though not tried that properly yet but I don’t think it does. Don’t plan to use during the day outside or even in a room with light curtains/blinds with some light making it through, you won’t get the proper effect, same as at cinema when they turn the lights on and screen looks bad.My friend bought one the same day and returned his, he had the issue with the mousepad on the device going haywire and moving/clicking constantly when brightness turned above 80% but mine worked fine. He also complained about the wifi and the wifi/Bluetooth interfering with each other, again I’ve not had any problems. It works with bluetooth speaker connected in the garden 30-40ft through a wall to the router streaming 720p video from my plex server, via basic router I got from isp, think its wireless N.The 720p native resolution is plenty, with screen 200”+ it starts to show it’s resolution a bit but the picture brightness/quality shows very little difference from when using it on smaller screen like in a small room. Watching Game of thrones indoors blacked out room 720p approx. 100” screen it looks fantastic, I’m not sitting thinking I wish I had the 1080p or this looks like dvd quality when I start making the screen bigger. I was concerned about the sync issues reported when using Bluetooth in some other reviews mines worked fine though, I can only confirm Bluetooth works in sync when using the onboard android os though for youtube/plex streaming, I’ve used hdmi cable only a couple of times and can’t confirm Bluetooth works in sync because I used it for projecting football and the image went to projector fine but my laptop stayed outputting the sound, in sync.I read all the reviews and decided to gamble, I got the new version with 3D glasses in gold box with hdmi cable, mouse and stand too and everything has worked as described so far. Overall I’m very happy.Be Aware- You do need low light environment to use- It does get very hot, quickly, don’t plan on using the touchpad on it much- Onboard sound is just a little better than your phone, tinny, only useful in small rooms by yourself, plan on a decent speaker to carry with it or to plug in to soundbar or something for movies.- If you put brightness at 80% zero fan noise guaranteed, over that you get some, only a problem if using onboard sound for a generally quiet use and you don’t like fan noise.- It has standard Android with google play store preinstalled only, works perfectly. No locked down nonsense like amazon with their fire rubbish or bloatware/spyware when you buy Chinese stuff running android.I took the time to write this review because all the other reviews I read helped me buy one of these aware of the potential issues.

This is the second projector from Icodis I ordered. I tried the amazingly small CB-100, but realized was more inclined to compromise on size/price to get better picture performance. So I returned it and ordered the CB-300 – and was blown away...at first.The good/great:Great picture quality - distance to size ratio is great tooVery small - I purchased a 10 cm wide floating shelf to fit above my bed head and project on the white opposing wallConnectivity is great – no cables, Bluetooth sound to speakerNative android is awesome – I stream anything from numerous apps directly from android - this is really a must3D feature works well and is an unexpected bonusThe badThe projector tends to loose focus after a while – have to manually adjust the picture after half an hour or so (while the projector has not been moved)The ugly – I’ve seen other customers complaining about this issue on several icodis projectors featuring a touch pad. It may or may not be related, but one sure thing is that the cursor has a life or its own. That will ruin your film as any android player will react to cursor movement by overlaying playback controls on top of your video. It goes as far as clicking on its own, stopping playback randomly.The cursor issue has been flagged a number of times and suggest with some degree of confidence that Icodis projectors have an issue with their touch pads. Now would be a good time to address as it is seriously compromising my experience so far and I’m about to return this little projector today even though I really like it otherwise. To the manufacturer/distributor – would be great not to ignore this issue further and post something here on how to address (can one deactivate the touch pad if indeed that is a touch pad issue?).Thx.

There are a lot of things good about this product, but ultimately they are outweighed by what is bad. The product has two critical design flaws that make it unusable. Firstly the touch pad on the top of the projector. Through normal usage the product gets very hot and the touchpad then has a life of its own. It is constantly selecting things even when you are not using it (it is doing now as I write this review from the other side of the room). Before buying this product I was partially aware of this problem, but understood that by using the mouse it wasn't an issue. However you should be aware that even when not using the touchpad to control the projector it will still randomly cause the product to play up. Secondly it does not hold focus for any period of time. After correcting the focus, 20 minutes or so afterwards the projector will be out of focus again.It is a real shame because in many ways this could have been an excellent projector, it has a sharp bright image and the built android operating system is very useful. I don't understand how this product could have made it to market though with these two design flaws making it unusable for its primary purpose. I advise against buying this product.