I am so impressed by the Mogo 4 Budget Portable Projector – It takes everything from photo to sound to actually good streaming software
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When we wrote our XGIMI Mogo 3 Pro Reviewwhich led it to be crowned as our favorite budget option between the Best portable projectorsWe noticed three errors: it had no built -in battery, the speakers were weak and it could not stand well in clear circumstances.
The last of these is not unique for the Mogo series, and you have to pay much more for brightness that can be based on sunlight, so that is fair enough.
The other two, however, are soluble problems – and in the Mogo 4, XGIMI has not only solved them, it has made a better, tighter portable projector everywhere, based on my time with it.
This is far from a full review, but the improvements on the Mogo 4 were clearly visible only from my early days that test. This is such an impressively portable entertainment device for its price of $ 499 / £ 509.
I pulled the Mogo 4 out of his box at home, and because of the new built -in battery it was going on a handful of seconds, pointing to a handy white wall. The design is actually even smoother than the latest version, but still with the same smart ‘folding rug’ cylinder shape that protects the lens when you don’t use it and this is everything despite adding the battery.
XGIMI says that the battery should last approximately 2.5 hours, and I have not yet completely put this on the test (of course we will check for our full assessment), but one thing that I immediately noticed is that it does not reduce performance on battery power.
Sometimes with striking devices that switch to batteries, you see some delay in the Smart TV software or in other areas but one of the elements that made an early impression on me here is how smooth are Google TV integration.
It immediately responds to every button that presses the remote control, so scrolling is completely frustration-free and there are some expensive options between the Best TVs What I can’t say about that.
During the setup, the automatic keystone correction and focus did not seem to go into immediately. Instead, I had to clearly look on the Focus button on the remote control to make the Setup screens look clear, and the keystone -fixing started to work when I entered the process at a certain point.
Then the Keystone correction was activated every time I move the projector – even when I just staggered him a little too much. This again worked incredibly fast – every time in less than a second it had a stable new photo.
The other element that I noticed today, even before I got something, was that the sound seemed to have improved enormously. And once I fired a few film images, it was clear that this is the case – the Mogo 4 sounds ridiculously good for speakers built into a small projector frame.
I tested the Mogo 4 in my guest room, where I have a TV with a Sonos Ray Soundbar set up – My partner was confused about the type of projector it was because she was convinced that I have it with the Sonos Ray, given the sound she heard from below.
The sound is full, it is wide, it is Bastrijk and the dialogue remains clear. It is clear that it still has the potential problem that if it is behind you, it will sound behind you – but I had it in the front and on the side of me, and I felt that I got a satisfactory film experience by simply removing this thing out of the box, pointing it out on the wall and shooting something. No extra equipment, no cable involved.
The image quality itself is very similar to the Mogo 3 Pro and able to produce really rich colors, well detailed (although this is an HD projector, not 4k) and enough brightness to view clearly, even with a considerable amount of ambient light – I had a (not particularly clear, but still normal) light in the room, and it was generally perfect to view.
As you would expect, dark tones are the problem, especially when they are projected on a wall instead of a screen that can help with it. With ambient light it is not really able to call everything you would call ‘black’ in the image below the jellyfish is supposed to be on a black background, no transparent but I do not stop this, because it is a problem with all portable projectors.
Looking at brighter scenes, I was completely brought in by the combination of the solid colors and the rich sound, on a 65-inch-like screen that I just immediately thrown from about six feet distance.
Given the quality of the viewing experience, and the convenience of the battery packing design and elements such as having a full-size HDMI port and a mini-remover that is linked to it (so that you can leave the regular Google TV remote control at home), I think this looks like a real winner for the price.
There is also a more expensive laser version, which is about 25% brighter, and that XGIMI says it is the most compact laser projector to date. I look forward to seeing what that is possible.
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