LG Electronics PV150G LED Minibeam Projector with Embedded Battery and Wireless Screen Share

First impressions here. I will update later as I test all the functions, but out of the box and initial setup, highly impressive. This thing is light, small and easy to use. I was surprised by the number of settings, from picture quality, audio, sizing, volume, on and on. It has both auto settings for most functions, and the ability to tweak to your hearts desire if you like to fiddle. Casting my first screen, with sheer curtains on a bright California sunny day, it was a little hard to see. If you are going to buy this, it is mostly for nighttime/dark environments. However, I was impressed with the picture it did cast. It was big, bright (given the day conditions), colors were awesome and image quality was vivid. I can't wait for tonight!!The auto keystone feature is the best. You can set it to auto-adjust in a few seconds, or manually set it. I have mine mounted on a normal camera tripod, which I highly recommend. You can tweak the screen placement on the wall with the tripod easily, and it is very stable. You can also easily move it around if need be. Using the tripod, I flipped it up and onto the ceiling. Once the auto keystone function did it is thing, I had a movie playing above my head. This will be awesome to use while in bed.A couple of negatives; I have only tested the USB input, which works great. Just note, the Minibeam only accepts FAT32 and NTFS drive formatting. If you are using a MAC computer and work in large sized movies, that is kind of an issue. MACS can't write to NTFS, and FAT32 has size limitations of only 4gig. It unfortunately does not accept the exFAT format.Speakers are a little tinny, but I kind of expected that. There are a few settings for audio I have yet to try, but if you want great sound, expect to connect headphones or an external speaker.As noted here, it does not support Apple's Airdrop, but luckily I do have an Android tablet, so I will be testing screen sharing using my Sling TV and Kodi media player.Have not tested HDMI either, but will do so and report back. To sum up, excellent purchase at an even more excellent price thanks to Amazon's Prime Day!!Update: Still enjoying this device. Watched a couple of shows from the USB stick last night and the picture was HUGE and amazing in color and appearance. I did try to cast my screen Android Xperia Z3 compact tablet to Minibeam and it worked. It took a few tries, and I changed back and forth from the MInibeam's 2.4/5GHz signals and channels (yes, this thing lets you tweak channels) to get a good signal. Picture was awesome and I did not have any of the out-of-sync audio issues other reviews are reporting, but what I noticed after about 5 minutes, the picture started to lag on the Minibeam. It kept lagging about the same time period on each attempt, so I suspect maybe a cache issue or something inside the Minibeam. I finally gave up. So, buyer beware that screen casting via wifi may not work all that well. The user has to factor in their network situation, how many people are using the network, etc, so it is all subjective.I did try my Chromecast and my Macbook Pro on the HDMI port, and WOW.....really works well. Can't recommend the Minibeam enough!!

This is a pico projector with lower resolution and brightness compared to a full size projector, if you need a projector for large groups in a typical lit room pico projectors aren't for you. This is my second pico projector having owned the Samsung HP03 until it became unusable with the stuck DLP mirror issue. The Samsung was more of a novelty with its 30 lumen output and poor sharpness, it found very little use. This LG PV150 however can be quite usable if you can control the lights in the room. Video quality and color is good, the sharpness is even throughout the image unlike the Samsung whuch was soft at the edges. The buit in media player was able to handle 1080p videos, however it does not support DTS audio. Dolby Digital works fine as it is Dolby Digital Plus certified. The speaker is not very loud, about the same as a typical laptop but you have the headphone jack output to make use of headphones or external speakers. The remote is nice with all the settings accessible and buttons typically found in a full size projector remote.For displaying data like presentations from a computer you do run into the main limitation of this projector which is the low 854x480 native resolution. Small text can be hard to read and line graphics will be a bit jagged but it is usable in a pinch if you keep the projected image to a smaller size to get the better brightness and contrast. Most, if not all, modern laptops come with HDMI outputs so the lack of an analogue input should not be an issue. You will need an adapter if your computer has a smaller mini or micro HDMI port.I tried the wireless function with my Nexus 5 and it works fine. There is a a bit of lag though such that what appears on the projector is about a second delayed vs what is on the phone. As many other people have noted, wireless does not work with iOS devices.I have not run it on batteries enough to tell if the 2 hour claim is true. (UPDATE) Using the built in media player to play movies from a USB flash drive (x.264 encoded 1080P video) I get less than 1:20 minutes before it shuts off, I guess the decoding takes a lot of power.Overall I like it. As long as you are aware of its limitations in resolution and brightness I think you can find a use for it if portability is your top priority. I do wish LG included a case comapct HDMI cable and smaller power adapter to round things out seeing as they are marketing it as an Ultraportable Projector..

When it was delivered the remote was broken and there is no way to use the projector or even set it up without it.

IOS to stream wirelessly to Android devices is obsolete and cannot be updated. Its one of the main reasons why I purchased it. The other reason being the Auto keystone correction, which works great. The picture quality is good, not great, but sufficient. Still deciding if I'm going to return it.

I was so excited to get this, and within 5 minutes of opening the box, it becomes apparent that the "effortless" connection to smartphones and tablets does NOT include Apple IOS devices. Seriously? It's 2015, and you introduce a cool new gizmo like this without some sort of IOS support? No app, no anything? That's fine if it would have said this in the product description, but it definitely does not (at least as of now). Nothing on the Amazon site, nothing on the LG site. The only place I have seen any discussion of this issue is from another reviewer on here, who was obviously surprised and disappointed as I was. Bottom line, I'm really disappointed and kind of pissed that this wasn't disclosed somewhere, and I am almost certainly sending this back to Amazon. ps - if anyone has a "work around" or a solution that would allow me to use this with an iPhone and an iPad (cables or whatever), it would be greatly appreciated.