I Bought a Nobody's-Heard-Of Portable Screen for 298 Yuan — What Was I After?

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Introduction

The previous two articles both covered portable screens and got quite a bit of attention, so it seems people are fairly interested in this category of products.

Recap:

• Pairing a Portable Screen with a Laptop Is More Useful Than I Expected: Patriot aigo14 Unboxing
• What's the One Feature a Portable Screen Absolutely Can't Lack? ARZOPA Offers a Cautionary Tale

Today I'll continue sharing another portable screen. I think most people have probably never heard of the brand — it's called Eimio 🤣

To be honest I don't even know why I bought this one. Maybe I wanted to try a portable screen with a leather case…

This portable screen cost 298 yuan when I bought it in October. Can't really call it good value, but compared to the Patriot and ARZOPA I introduced before, it still hasn't gone up in price 🤣

Specs

• Resolution: 1920*1200
• Refresh rate: 60Hz
• Panel: IPS
• Weight: 0.48kg
• Brightness: 250 nits
• Contrast ratio: 1000:1

Packaging

This packaging is even more bare-bones — it doesn't even have a brand logo.

There's a sticker on the back indicating the manufacturer and model of this portable screen.

Unboxing

After opening the cardboard box, the display inside is wrapped in foam.

Accessories are on both sides.

Accessories

The accessories are the same as the Patriot aigo14 — two cables.

They're a mini HDMI cable and a Type-C cable respectively.

Leather Case

When this leather case is folded shut, it actually looks quite a bit like a tablet 😄

Usage

This leather case can both protect the screen and serve as a stand.

You can see the ports are on the left side.

Actually this portable screen looks basically the same as the Patriot aigo14, just without the stand on the back.

Display Quality

The display is pretty average. Feels like it's not even as good as the one I bought for 268 before 🤣

Rant

This portable screen supports DDC/CI, meaning you can control the display's brightness and contrast from the computer.

But it might as well not support it 😅

It's completely messed up!

The Patriot aigo14's problem was that after turning brightness to 70% it started becoming the darkest.

And with this portable screen I have no idea which setting corresponds to what brightness 😂

Maybe 20% is already the brightest, then 30% becomes the brightest again — completely chaotic. Might as well not support it 😅 This feature is as good as not having it.

That's why I don't really have much desire to keep using it. In other respects this portable screen is about the same as the Patriot aigo14, just a bit worse in max brightness.

Wrap-up

The leather case is indeed a bit more convenient, but the overall experience of this portable screen isn't great.

If you want both protection and support, actually a "sleeve + a model with a built-in stand" can achieve a similar effect, and it's much more stable.

Recently I've seen quite a few people in the comments discussing touch-enabled portable screens, so next I'm planning to try one with touch.