Battery Powered Portable Display! XtendTouch Review
Most portable displays you can buy right now either need power from the device you connect it to, or separate power from a plug, but this one doesn’t. Lets take a look at it and see if it’s worth the £260 price tag! Quickly though, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos like this every monday, wednesday and friday!
So like I said, most portable displays you can find on the market have a few drawbacks. Either they are ludicrously expensive, not touchscreen, or need power from the device you connect to or from a plug, but thanks to the 10800mAh battery built into this, it doesn’t. That’s a pretty big deal, as it means as long as your device has either USB C with displayport out, or HDMI, you can use this wherever and whenever you want.
You’ll get about 6 hours for usage from it, depending on your brightness settings which certainly isn’t too bad, but on the topic of brightness, it’s not exactly brilliant. At full brightness I got it to 234 nits, which isn’t all that great. Now in fairness I was using it with the MSI prestige 14, a laptop with one of the best displays on a laptop, and a peak brightness of nearly 600nits, so I’m a little bias there, but still it seemed fairly dim in my testing.
Colours wise isn’t much better, it seems to have a problem displaying shades of red, so much so that I could only get it to produce around 50% of the sRGB spectrum, no matter how many settings i tweaked. Now in using it as a secondary monitor for say word processing or even to have something like your premiere timeline on for example, it’s certainly not bad, and watching content back isn’t awful either, but this cannot be used for any level of colour sensitive work, so do keep that in mind.
What about as a portable gaming monitor? Well, it’s only 60Hz, and from what i can see it’s not the quickest panel in the world, with a little bit of ghosting as you can see on the UFO test. In terms of input lag, using HDMI anyway my new Time Sleuth showed about 10ms which is pretty decent – although in game testing the full system, ie from mouse to monitor, it can take around 30ms on average to actually have something like a gun firing to display fully, which honestly still isn’t bad.
Actually gaming on it was a pretty decent experience overall, it felt reasonably responsive, at least for a 60Hz panel, and while it did feel pretty dim, I was playing with studio lighting so that definitely didn’t help. What’s nice is that if you do happen to be near a spare plug, you can charge it with it’s included universal plug while using it. I should note it charges with 9 or 12V over USB C, so it won’t charge with a regular USB C charger.
One other feature I haven’t covered here is the touchscreen, you can actually see the digitiser pretty clearly when the display is off, and when using it with USB C it’s a single cable experience. It really makes a lot of sense for this style of display to have touch screen support, it makes using it so much more intuitive and I actually ended up trying to use the non-touchscreen on the MSI laptop as one because it made that much sense. While you will still need the USB connected to use it if you are using the mini-HDMI in, it’s still a brilliant feature to have supported.
So, is this worth it’s price tag? Well, in the world of portable displays, this is pretty cheap. Sure the panel isn’t exactly the best in the world, but for the build quality – which by the way is phenomenal – the nice leather style cover, and it’s sheer versatility, I’m more than happy to recommend it. The next time I’m travelling and need to get some work done while away, this is 100% coming with me.
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Products shown provided by: Pepper Jobs
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