GIANT Phone Gaming! – Gemini Portable TOUCHSCREEN Monitor #Helpful Post

so there's no doubt that dual monitors

increases your productivity dramatically

whether you're in the office or on the

go be it at the airport in a coffee shop

or just you know hanging out at a

friend's house but oh it's clear that

when it comes to taking two monitors

with you there are a couple of

disadvantages one is that the typical

desktop monitor is a little on the heavy

side and two it's going to require

access to an AC power outlet something

that you won't necessarily have with you

when you're at you know the average

Airport unless you know the airport's

for your from are better equipped than

the ones around here so today's video

then it's all about creating your own

perfect productivity space that you can

take with you and set up virtually

anywhere

yeah but not like that like this that

doesn't better with glass where you can

instantly see your current and past

Network activity detect malware and

block badly behaving apps on your PC or

Android device use offer code Linus and

get 25% off glass wire at the link below

so the thing about these portable

monitors is they're not exactly a new

concept which sort of raises the

question why exactly are we featuring

these ones especially with a portable

monitor display terminal equipment I

thought that was the company's name but

it's not no it's just this is display

terminal equipment inside the box

and in case you were wondering what kind

of resolving power it has they didn't

even check one for us okay have you ever

heard resolution called resolving power

yes in the context of like a Space

Telescope so for all its rudimentary

enos assuming that that's a word the

packaging is actually not bad I think

it'd be very unlikely to be damaged in

the box and they've got actually a

pretty decent accessory package inside

you've got a that's kind of a shame to

see in 2019 but you've got a regular

sort of DC yeah yeah I forget what

they're called

whatever cylinder a remote it actually

looks kind of like the Nvidia shield TV

one HDMI cable type C to type a and

finally a type C to type C cable

so this is pretty nice actually the

first thing I'm noticing is the bezel

yeah actually except the bottom but if

you think about how its intended to be

used next to a laptop where almost all

of them have that that large bottom

bezel then I it's not gonna stand out

whatsoever and in fact it might even be

better for synchronizing your mouse

movements across the displays okay so it

looks as cool as a tablet but how does

it actually stand up no no I've seen

yeah I've seen ones like this before

so the mechanism honestly doesn't feel

amazing in fact you can see a little bit

of kind of flex in the back there I mean

I don't think it's coming off or

anything but I think a couple more

screws right here and right here under

the hinge would have gone a long way

towards making that feel a little less

flexi but the actual kickstand mechanism

feels pretty good you can go all the way

from quite vertical and it's pretty

sturdy actually all the way down to

about as low as I think you'd need to

like my worst case scenario I think is

like jammed onto like a plain assuming I

can actually balance this on the dinner

tray thing this is metal though right

yeah yeah do you think that's a little

scrape II do you think that was scratch

a desk maybe honestly I'd be less

concerned about scratching and I'd be

more concerned about just slipping in

general I'd want to rubberized foot or

something along there just for that even

what's up with that that looks like

rough so here's the thing this is a

Kickstarter project so these are

pre-production samples but I guess this

is our opportunity to give them feedback

for when they do the finished ones I

would

rust on a product that has just been

taken out of the box to be how you say

it

unacceptable that's it it's magnetic

those are the rusty magnets oh and then

here you've got some labels for the

buttons rear labels why is this not

there's not enough room on the bezel for

them is that as bad an experience as I

think it is though well I did play with

it a little bit earlier and it's not

yeah I didn't like just one of the

things that's actually special about

these guys is that they've got a

built-in battery so you can use them

without access to a wall plug just sort

of part of the joke we were making at

the beginning of the video where I was

carrying around a full-size monitor it's

a five thousand milliamp hour battery

and they claim it'll last you five hours

which is pretty sweet because you don't

want to drain your laptop's battery

that's already out of premium yeah and

that's the way that most of these

external laptop monitors have worked in

the past it's just by plugging in via a

couple of USB plugs so that they can

take both display and power from your

laptop's built-in battery okay cool well

why don't we go ahead and set them up

and take a look at the two different

models so my understanding is this one

is actually 4k correct

and that one's 1080 yes so I'll take

this one then yeah well joke's on you

because this one's touchscreen and that

one's not oh okay well that's actually

kind of cool so there are a couple of

things I immediately notice hooking this

thing up

one is that interestingly you can turn

on HDR and wide color gamut so

technically this appears to be an HDR

display with the only problem being that

if the out-of-the-box experience is

anything to go by it is not nearly

bright enough for me to consider it to

be really truly HDR ready the spec says

300 nits so after trying to enable HDR a

handful of times including disabling the

built-in display here we've determined

that it's not turning on and quite

frankly given that it's really not much

brighter even than the display built

into my blade stealth which is not a

particularly bright display I would say

that you're not going to be having a

true HDR experience on this thing anyway

so I probably wouldn't stress out about

that too much

so the 4k one has got HDMI in and is 4k

60 Hertz by the way so that would be

HDMI too it's got mini DisplayPort it's

got USB type-c and then it's actually

got a couple type-a ports so that USB

type C is an uplink you can use the

thing as a hub plug your keyboard and

mouse into it which is a pretty useful

feature in the age of the dongle given

that you can't take for granted that

your laptop will actually have a type-a

port on it

speaking of things you can't take for

granted on modern devices I had phone

jet so if you're using HDMI and you've

got audio a overreach DMI then you can

pass that through to yourself how's

yours looking no DisplayPort mini or

otherwise but we have HDMI we have two

instead of one but they're the tiny tiny

fine I hate mini HDMI why do you hate it

it's a really flimsy connector so both

the receptacle and the plug itself are

prone to easy breakage because it's so

thin and so wide and plate honestly it's

just pretty poorly designed and what

else do we have here well instead of

having your full-size USB A's

you have micros and then you've got a

USB see again and again your headphone

jack so this is all pretty cool so far

but one of the key pieces of information

that's missing up until this point is

how exactly these stack up against other

options available on the market because

if you can get something like this for

the same price from a brand that you've

ever heard of maybe one with slightly

better build quality obviously I would

recommend going that route instead so we

fired up bnh and it turns out the Zen

screen go 15.6 inch IPS monitor from a

soos is two hundred and eighty nine

dollars so that's actually less than the

MSRP but more than the Kickstarter

pre-order price for the 1080p model here

and it's got a 7800 milliamp hour

battery and that is a significant

increase yeah so these are 5000 however

we haven't been making this video for

nothing I swear there was a reason that

we bothered and that's this the main

difference here is that this has a

touchscreen interface and that just

isn't something

that we've seen for as cheap as this in

the past so that is pretty darn cool

if you've ever tried to find a

touchscreen monitor like not a

replacement for your phone or anything

like that but a touchscreen monitor for

your computer you'd be shocked to find

out how expensive they are so $300 for

one like this that's honestly not the

most amazing display I've ever seen in

terms of the trails behind objects or

the contrast but what it does have is

something that's utterly unique right

now at this price point and that is

touch capability also a matte finish on

the screen which is very unusual for a

touchscreen as for the 4k model well

this one's quite a lot more expensive at

around $500 but it's a 4k portable

monitor which again at the time that we

requested these was not something that

we had seen before

it's definitely sharp but it is not the

best-looking 4k display that I've seen

how was the color accuracy on this guy I

think the deltas are around 5 okay so

that's that's acceptable if you're not a

pro but we've kind of introduced this as

being useful for those people doing

remote work if you're a contract graphic

designer or something you want to be at

a coffee shop

well how about gaming then yeah how

about gave me let's go I've got a type C

2 HDMI and then I can go ahead and plug

into we've got the 1080p touch model

here and theoretically I should be able

to fire up LeFort night

all right you play some fortnight baby

is this even gonna be worthwhile you're

gonna tap the screen you're not holding

a controller we completely could pull

the controlling BRB is that you or me

nice that's not bad that's pretty sweet

that's pretty cool being able to just

like unpack your 15 inch display you

already have a phone pull out a

controller dongle so now that we know

with a little bit of searching for a

controller that doesn't brick things we

could have basically a mobile console

experience just with this and a

controller packed in our bag a couple

cables but James wants to try something

else

so this one actually has a USB type-c

input so we're gonna get rid of this

crappy HDMI mini and try this and see

what happens

do you actually know what's going to

happen nope oh I said well I looked at

their Kickstarter page so we've got the

aspect ratio difference here but that's

possibly something we could adjust as

well actually I want to know what this

is

Oh touch screens on no way yes it's

working yes because it's USB see you can

chill like this and then have it kind of

out do this is like having a 70-inch TV

whoo so we're gonna try an iPhone now

but unfortunately because iPhones don't

use USB type-c that lightning we can't

just use our direct connection we're

gonna have to go back to HDMI dude oh

sure okay and a dog lock it picked it up

right away

interestingly we are piller boxed and

letterboxed but we're getting audio over

the display now why do we why didn't we

get audio ever before maybe we just have

a game volume turned down I might have

had it off those speakers really are not

amazing the latency is not terrible it's

noticeable too

see that yeah but it's usable like if

you're used to gaming on a TV or

something anyway I don't think you're

gonna notice the difference that much

I'm actually considering taking one of

these on my trip that I'm going on today

and it doesn't really add like a ton of

weight especially if I truck it in my

carry-on instead of carrying my backpack

or something that feels very light it's

definitely lighter than an iPad and all

the new ones are pretty thin they're

pretty light it's impressive I think

this probably feels lighter just because

it's bigger it's like lowering density

well what about the iPad pro that's that

size I can look it up damn it it's 1.57

pounds so conclusion here then portable

displays are as cool as they've ever

been even cooler now that they have

built-in batteries and these ones while

not amazing are certainly coming in at a

price where I think that they look

pretty compelling especially if you're

after that touchscreen functionality ok

lines but the people wanted a definitive

answer so can you give us one of those

like emperor gladiator thumb things

he lives okay so here's the thing if

money's no object

I like the 4k one I'm gonna take this

one on my trip however money is a

concern so base n test these but if

you're actually buying one this one

looks like the more compelling option it

does have some significant shortcomings

I don't like the limited brightness and

I don't like the inaccurate colors out

of the box but at anywhere from 240 to

300 depending on whether you pre-order

it or whether you wait wait it looks

like a pretty compelling value if you

have any use of the touchscreen that is

absolutely the killer half of this

display right here the coves drive

wireless earphones feature noise

cancelling to reduce unwanted ambient

sounds they've got a built-in microphone

to answer calls hands-free and they

feature ipx7 water resistance meaning

that the headset can actually be

submerged for up to thirty minutes in

three feet of water the battery provides

five to seven hours of playback and they

stay in place while being lightweight

and durable use code line is 65 to save

over fifty percent for a limited time at

the link in the video description so

thanks for watching guys if you disliked

this video you can hit that button but

if you liked it hit like get subscribed

or maybe consider checking out where to

buy the stuff we featured at the link in

the video description also down there is

our merch store which has cool shirts

like this one mmm

like it made by us like it but they

don't you don't have that one and our

community forum which you should totally

join

so there's no doubt that dual monitors

increases your productivity dramatically

whether you're in the office or on the

go be it at the airport in a coffee shop

or just you know hanging out at a

friend's house but oh it's clear that

when it comes to taking two monitors

with you there are a couple of

disadvantages one is that the typical

desktop monitor is a little on the heavy

side and two it's going to require

access to an AC power outlet something

that you won't necessarily have with you

when you're at you know the average

Airport unless you know the airport's

for your from are better equipped than

the ones around here so today's video

then it's all about creating your own

perfect productivity space that you can

take with you and set up virtually

anywhere

yeah but not like that like this that

doesn't better with glass where you can

instantly see your current and past

Network activity detect malware and

block badly behaving apps on your PC or

Android device use offer code Linus and

get 25% off glass wire at the link below

so the thing about these portable

monitors is they're not exactly a new

concept which sort of raises the

question why exactly are we featuring

these ones especially with a portable

monitor display terminal equipment I

thought that was the company's name but

it's not no it's just this is display

terminal equipment inside the box

and in case you were wondering what kind

of resolving power it has they didn't

even check one for us okay have you ever

heard resolution called resolving power

yes in the context of like a Space

Telescope so for all its rudimentary

enos assuming that that's a word the

packaging is actually not bad I think

it'd be very unlikely to be damaged in

the box and they've got actually a

pretty decent accessory package inside

you've got a that's kind of a shame to

see in 2019 but you've got a regular

sort of DC yeah yeah I forget what

they're called

whatever cylinder a remote it actually

looks kind of like the Nvidia shield TV

one HDMI cable type C to type a and

finally a type C to type C cable

so this is pretty nice actually the

first thing I'm noticing is the bezel

yeah actually except the bottom but if

you think about how its intended to be

used next to a laptop where almost all

of them have that that large bottom

bezel then I it's not gonna stand out

whatsoever and in fact it might even be

better for synchronizing your mouse

movements across the displays okay so it

looks as cool as a tablet but how does

it actually stand up no no I've seen

yeah I've seen ones like this before

so the mechanism honestly doesn't feel

amazing in fact you can see a little bit

of kind of flex in the back there I mean

I don't think it's coming off or

anything but I think a couple more

screws right here and right here under

the hinge would have gone a long way

towards making that feel a little less

flexi but the actual kickstand mechanism

feels pretty good you can go all the way

from quite vertical and it's pretty

sturdy actually all the way down to

about as low as I think you'd need to

like my worst case scenario I think is

like jammed onto like a plain assuming I

can actually balance this on the dinner

tray thing this is metal though right

yeah yeah do you think that's a little

scrape II do you think that was scratch

a desk maybe honestly I'd be less

concerned about scratching and I'd be

more concerned about just slipping in

general I'd want to rubberized foot or

something along there just for that even

what's up with that that looks like

rough so here's the thing this is a

Kickstarter project so these are

pre-production samples but I guess this

is our opportunity to give them feedback

for when they do the finished ones I

would

rust on a product that has just been

taken out of the box to be how you say

it

unacceptable that's it it's magnetic

those are the rusty magnets oh and then

here you've got some labels for the

buttons rear labels why is this not

there's not enough room on the bezel for

them is that as bad an experience as I

think it is though well I did play with

it a little bit earlier and it's not

yeah I didn't like just one of the

things that's actually special about

these guys is that they've got a

built-in battery so you can use them

without access to a wall plug just sort

of part of the joke we were making at

the beginning of the video where I was

carrying around a full-size monitor it's

a five thousand milliamp hour battery

and they claim it'll last you five hours

which is pretty sweet because you don't

want to drain your laptop's battery

that's already out of premium yeah and

that's the way that most of these

external laptop monitors have worked in

the past it's just by plugging in via a

couple of USB plugs so that they can

take both display and power from your

laptop's built-in battery okay cool well

why don't we go ahead and set them up

and take a look at the two different

models so my understanding is this one

is actually 4k correct

and that one's 1080 yes so I'll take

this one then yeah well joke's on you

because this one's touchscreen and that

one's not oh okay well that's actually

kind of cool so there are a couple of

things I immediately notice hooking this

thing up

one is that interestingly you can turn

on HDR and wide color gamut so

technically this appears to be an HDR

display with the only problem being that

if the out-of-the-box experience is

anything to go by it is not nearly

bright enough for me to consider it to

be really truly HDR ready the spec says

300 nits so after trying to enable HDR a

handful of times including disabling the

built-in display here we've determined

that it's not turning on and quite

frankly given that it's really not much

brighter even than the display built

into my blade stealth which is not a

particularly bright display I would say

that you're not going to be having a

true HDR experience on this thing anyway

so I probably wouldn't stress out about

that too much

so the 4k one has got HDMI in and is 4k

60 Hertz by the way so that would be

HDMI too it's got mini DisplayPort it's

got USB type-c and then it's actually

got a couple type-a ports so that USB

type C is an uplink you can use the

thing as a hub plug your keyboard and

mouse into it which is a pretty useful

feature in the age of the dongle given

that you can't take for granted that

your laptop will actually have a type-a

port on it

speaking of things you can't take for

granted on modern devices I had phone

jet so if you're using HDMI and you've

got audio a overreach DMI then you can

pass that through to yourself how's

yours looking no DisplayPort mini or

otherwise but we have HDMI we have two

instead of one but they're the tiny tiny

fine I hate mini HDMI why do you hate it

it's a really flimsy connector so both

the receptacle and the plug itself are

prone to easy breakage because it's so

thin and so wide and plate honestly it's

just pretty poorly designed and what

else do we have here well instead of

having your full-size USB A's

you have micros and then you've got a

USB see again and again your headphone

jack so this is all pretty cool so far

but one of the key pieces of information

that's missing up until this point is

how exactly these stack up against other

options available on the market because

if you can get something like this for

the same price from a brand that you've

ever heard of maybe one with slightly

better build quality obviously I would

recommend going that route instead so we

fired up bnh and it turns out the Zen

screen go 15.6 inch IPS monitor from a

soos is two hundred and eighty nine

dollars so that's actually less than the

MSRP but more than the Kickstarter

pre-order price for the 1080p model here

and it's got a 7800 milliamp hour

battery and that is a significant

increase yeah so these are 5000 however

we haven't been making this video for

nothing I swear there was a reason that

we bothered and that's this the main

difference here is that this has a

touchscreen interface and that just

isn't something

that we've seen for as cheap as this in

the past so that is pretty darn cool

if you've ever tried to find a

touchscreen monitor like not a

replacement for your phone or anything

like that but a touchscreen monitor for

your computer you'd be shocked to find

out how expensive they are so $300 for

one like this that's honestly not the

most amazing display I've ever seen in

terms of the trails behind objects or

the contrast but what it does have is

something that's utterly unique right

now at this price point and that is

touch capability also a matte finish on

the screen which is very unusual for a

touchscreen as for the 4k model well

this one's quite a lot more expensive at

around $500 but it's a 4k portable

monitor which again at the time that we

requested these was not something that

we had seen before

it's definitely sharp but it is not the

best-looking 4k display that I've seen

how was the color accuracy on this guy I

think the deltas are around 5 okay so

that's that's acceptable if you're not a

pro but we've kind of introduced this as

being useful for those people doing

remote work if you're a contract graphic

designer or something you want to be at

a coffee shop

well how about gaming then yeah how

about gave me let's go I've got a type C

2 HDMI and then I can go ahead and plug

into we've got the 1080p touch model

here and theoretically I should be able

to fire up LeFort night

all right you play some fortnight baby

is this even gonna be worthwhile you're

gonna tap the screen you're not holding

a controller we completely could pull

the controlling BRB is that you or me

nice that's not bad that's pretty sweet

that's pretty cool being able to just

like unpack your 15 inch display you

already have a phone pull out a

controller dongle so now that we know

with a little bit of searching for a

controller that doesn't brick things we

could have basically a mobile console

experience just with this and a

controller packed in our bag a couple

cables but James wants to try something

else

so this one actually has a USB type-c

input so we're gonna get rid of this

crappy HDMI mini and try this and see

what happens

do you actually know what's going to

happen nope oh I said well I looked at

their Kickstarter page so we've got the

aspect ratio difference here but that's

possibly something we could adjust as

well actually I want to know what this

is

Oh touch screens on no way yes it's

working yes because it's USB see you can

chill like this and then have it kind of

out do this is like having a 70-inch TV

whoo so we're gonna try an iPhone now

but unfortunately because iPhones don't

use USB type-c that lightning we can't

just use our direct connection we're

gonna have to go back to HDMI dude oh

sure okay and a dog lock it picked it up

right away

interestingly we are piller boxed and

letterboxed but we're getting audio over

the display now why do we why didn't we

get audio ever before maybe we just have

a game volume turned down I might have

had it off those speakers really are not

amazing the latency is not terrible it's

noticeable too

see that yeah but it's usable like if

you're used to gaming on a TV or

something anyway I don't think you're

gonna notice the difference that much

I'm actually considering taking one of

these on my trip that I'm going on today

and it doesn't really add like a ton of

weight especially if I truck it in my

carry-on instead of carrying my backpack

or something that feels very light it's

definitely lighter than an iPad and all

the new ones are pretty thin they're

pretty light it's impressive I think

this probably feels lighter just because

it's bigger it's like lowering density

well what about the iPad pro that's that

size I can look it up damn it it's 1.57

pounds so conclusion here then portable

displays are as cool as they've ever

been even cooler now that they have

built-in batteries and these ones while

not amazing are certainly coming in at a

price where I think that they look

pretty compelling especially if you're

after that touchscreen functionality ok

lines but the people wanted a definitive

answer so can you give us one of those

like emperor gladiator thumb things

he lives okay so here's the thing if

money's no object

I like the 4k one I'm gonna take this

one on my trip however money is a

concern so base n test these but if

you're actually buying one this one

looks like the more compelling option it

does have some significant shortcomings

I don't like the limited brightness and

I don't like the inaccurate colors out

of the box but at anywhere from 240 to

300 depending on whether you pre-order

it or whether you wait wait it looks

like a pretty compelling value if you

have any use of the touchscreen that is

absolutely the killer half of this

display right here the coves drive

wireless earphones feature noise

cancelling to reduce unwanted ambient

sounds they've got a built-in microphone

to answer calls hands-free and they

feature ipx7 water resistance meaning

that the headset can actually be

submerged for up to thirty minutes in

three feet of water the battery provides

five to seven hours of playback and they

stay in place while being lightweight

and durable use code line is 65 to save

over fifty percent for a limited time at

the link in the video description so

thanks for watching guys if you disliked

this video you can hit that button but

if you liked it hit like get subscribed

or maybe consider checking out where to

buy the stuff we featured at the link in

the video description also down there is

our merch store which has cool shirts

like this one mmm

like it made by us like it but they

don't you don't have that one and our

community forum which you should totally