It's here! - First Impressions and Thoughts

Got my unit today! (Backerid 14xxx, transport batch: Betty, country of residence: Sweden).
Everything seem to work, the picture is better than expected, albeit a bit “washed-out”. Maybe I can tune this later. Found the S-Youtube app difficult to understand, it starts by asking you to pick a launcher(!). Then it has a number of different ways to let you connect to your account, but none of them seem easy to get to work. I also tried to change language to swedish, but that didn’t work. Netflix works as expected. Next I will try to connect external sources such as a PC.

Overall I am very happy with the purchase. Thanks Philips/Screeneo!

Edit: After a second round of testing, I can now confirm that pairing with a BT speaker works very well indeed. I’ve tried three different speakers and all work well without a noticable lag between sound and picture. One of them required that I went into the Android settings to pair it. It didn’t show up in the Philips settings dialogue for some reason. Once that was taken care of, it works very well (it is an Earfün speaker). I also tested showing a video stored on a USB stick. Worked as it should, however the MX-player seem to have its own volume control controlled by the up and down arrows - in addition to the Android volume controlled by the dedicated buttons on the remote. Confusing!

I also tried connecting my laptop using the supplied USB-C cable to display it’s screen. Worked flawlessly. Even more impressed today. (And I’ve tried a number of portable and stationary projectors before this one).

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