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Introduction

You privation a projector to instrumentality everyplace with you oregon conscionable 1 that doesn't instrumentality abstraction successful your surviving room? Thanks to the magic of LED and DLP technology, projectors travel successful galore sizes. The smallest of these are mostly referred to arsenic Pico projectors, and the Yaber Pico T1 is surely among the astir breathtaking prospects successful the category. It is 1 of the astir pocked-friendly projectors we've seen to date, measuring conscionable 0.52" successful thickness.

The limitations to show are inevitable tradeoff of a pico projector. The Yaber Pico T1 advertises 110 ANSI lumens of brightness and 540p resolution. Despite its powerbank-like signifier origin it lacks an onboard battery, but what it does person is Android TV connected board, making it a nifty self-contained multimedia subordinate that lone needs outer powerfulness to function.

Yaber Pico T1 specs astatine a glance:

• Dimensions: 150x75x13.1mm, 150 grams.
• Optical parameters: DLP projector; 540p (960 x 540 pixels) optical resolution; 16:9 facet ratio; 350:1 opposition ratio.
• Projection parameters: 110 ANSI lumens (advertised); 10~100-inch surface diagonal; 0.3 - 2m projection distance; 1.2:1 propulsion ratio; 30,000 hours RGB LED airy root life; luminance uniformity > 85% (advertised).
• Optical adjustment: Automatic vertical keystone correction; manual focus.
• Audio: 1.5W azygous speaker.
• Internals: HiSilicon Hi3751V350 (4xCortex-A53 @ 1.0 GHz); Mali-450 GPU; 1GB of RAM; 32GB storage.
• Hardware video decoder: H.264, H.265, MPEG1, MPEG2, VP6, VP8, VP9; AAC_LC, HE_AAC, HE_AACV2, LPCM, MP3, APE.
• I/O: 2xUSB Type-C port: 1 for powerfulness (Quick Charge only,
• Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi ac; Bluetooth 4.2; IR distant control.
• Software: Android TV 9.
• Other features:Remote power successful box; Wireless projection enactment (Miracast, Apple AirPlay, Eshare); Wired Android telephone mirroring done proprietary app.

Other highlights see a compact yet precise functional distant power connected apical of integrated interaction controls connected the portion itself. And the Yaber Pico T1 tin bash automatic vertical keystone correction, which is not thing we would person expected retired of a projector of this size.

But tin the small feline impressment america successful practice? Follow on for our reappraisal to find out.

Unboxing and accessories

The Pico T1 comes successful a beauteous non-descript box. Inside, you get a USB Type-C 20W QC partition charger on with 2 USB cables - 1 Type-A to Type-C and the different Type-C to Type-C. There's besides a nifty compact tripod that attaches magnetically to the projector arsenic good arsenic a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable.

The $28 much costly IndieGoGo peculiar battalion besides nets you a 10,000 mAh powerfulness backmost with integrated cables, including a Type-C 1 to usage with the Pico T1. The IndieGoGo crowdfunding leafage for the task besides shows a bully carrying case, but that's not a portion of immoderate of the presently disposable merchandise bundles.

Controls and connectivity

The Yaber Pico T1's right-hand broadside houses a powerfulness fastener and measurement rocker, overmuch similar a smartphone would. Above that, we find a manual absorption wheel. The near framework of the Pico T1 is bereft of control.

The beforehand of the portion houses the optics of the projector, arsenic good arsenic a vent. The tiny instrumentality present seems to lone person 1 speed, and it's astir arsenic large arsenic a laptop instrumentality going afloat steam. There is besides a mysterious sensor here, apt immoderate benignant of laser oregon TOF, that is successful complaint of the automatic vertical keystone correction.

The rear broadside of the Pico T1 has a 1.5W talker arsenic good arsenic a trio of ports - 2 Type-C ports and a mini-HDMI port. Of the 2 Type-C ports, 1 is conscionable meant to powerfulness the device. The Pico T1 supports Quick Charge powerfulness with rated inputs of 5V@3A, 9V@2A and 12V@1.5A. The full powerfulness standing for the projector is 9W.

The different USB Type-C larboard is simply a information port. It has USB Host functionality and tin instrumentality things similar a modular HID instrumentality similar a rodent oregon keyboard and connect retention mediums. This larboard tin besides beryllium utilized to reflector an Android phone's display, but lone by utilizing a proprietary eShareLine app. It is important to enactment that this USB lacks immoderate modular video implicit USB functionality similar you would find on, modern outer monitors.

The Pico T1 tin either beryllium controlled done the touchpad, and capacitive combo connected the apical of the instrumentality oregon the included mini distant control.

Built-in Android TV and features

The Yaber Pico T1 is simply a 110-lumen pico projector with an HDMI input and built-in wireless casting functionality, which is already intriguing. However, the built-in Android TV guts marque it peculiar beyond that. Let's rapidly spell implicit what is included present and what limitations and issues we encountered.

Yaber has its ain TV launcher of immoderate sort, which looks and works decently. It revolves astir a vertical paper with immoderate self-explanatory options.

Smart TV launcher

There is simply a basal record browser close connected the main paper to browse section media and speedy entree to a wireless streaming app that supports Miracast and Apple AirPlay, arsenic good arsenic a proprietary Eshare connection scheme. There are besides options for wired streaming from some Android and iOS phones.

Yaber has a proprietary app store arsenic well, but that has a precise constricted enactment of apps.

Proprietary app store

The settings paper is precise simple. All of the basal options similar show rotation, keystone adjustments, brightness, connection and input methods are convenient to access.

Basic settings

There is simply a much precocious settings paper arsenic well, which brings you to the modular Android TV settings menu. This is wherever we ran into our archetypal large issue, though. The regular Android TV settings paper conscionable crashes careless of what enactment we selected.

This made it intolerable to acceptable up immoderate apps similar a fastener remapper oregon immoderate further app stores since we were incapable to alteration the accessibility entree and instal privileges, respectively. Hopefully, this is conscionable an aboriginal bundle bug with our unit, which volition beryllium ironed out.

Advanced settings paper and breached Android TV settings

Speaking of installing things, we are blessed to accidental that the Yaber Pico T1 has functioning Google Play Services. That means entree to the Google Play Store and its beauteous important postulation of Android TV apps. At least, that's large to spot since the proprietary app store is barren.

Google Play Store

We mightiness not person the quality to easy sideload apps, but astatine slightest the Google Play Store has a fewer bully Android TV launchers, similar our idiosyncratic favourite - the ATV launcher.

Alternative Android TV launchers

Once you instal it, you tin adjacent acceptable it arsenic the default by pressing the location fastener connected the Yaber Pico T1. However, you volition beryllium stuck with your launcher enactment without due entree to the Android TV settings until you instal different launcher to get the enactment paper again. It's a clunky regulation to woody with.

Performance

Let's present speech astir however good the Yaber Pico T1 performs erstwhile you are done mounting it up.

The Yaber Pico T1 isn't peculiarly bright. The advertised 110 lumens lucifer reality. With brightness connected this scale, you tin lone expect a vaguely pleasurable acquisition successful a light-controlled country oregon astatine nighttime and astatine a diagonal of nary much than astir 60 inches.

The 960 x 540-pixel solution is besides a spot excessively debased for astir substance successful modern UIs to beryllium legible. You tin get distant with a ample font presentation, but hide astir activities similar browsing the web.

The Yaber Pico T1 is champion suited for precise casual movie watching successful a pinch.

What tin you expect retired of the tiny Android TV internals? Well, present are immoderate screenshots from Aida64 and DRM Info to cheque connected its specs.

Hardware specs

The Yaber Pico T1 packs a HiSilicon Hi3751V350 chipset, which has conscionable 4 Cortex-A53 cores astatine its disposal and a Mali-450 GPU. It is paired with 1GB of RAM and 32GB of interior storage. That's a beauteous anemic chipset you would astir apt find successful a set-top-box alternatively than an Android TV device. If you truly privation to get into the nitty-gritty, you tin caput connected implicit to the official chipset specs page.

The astir important specs, arguably, are related to the hardware video decoder. The Hi3751V350 tin grip H.264, H.265 (HEVC), VP6/8/9, MVC, MPEG1/2/3/4, AVS and VC-1 astatine up to 1080p@60fps. That's plentifulness to saturate the 540p solution of the Yaber Pico T1 projector.

We did immoderate show investigating and tin verify that the UI runs beauteous smoothly. Also, 1080p video from YouTube runs conscionable good without hiccups oregon stutters.

YouTube and Plex testing

We pushed the Yaber Pico T1 further inactive by installing Plex connected it. Its UI ran precise creaseless arsenic well, and we adjacent managed to get immoderate 4K streams moving astatine astir 20 Mbps with minimal stutter. Not that you would adjacent request to propulsion prime past HD oregon FullHD arsenic this is simply a specified 540p projector.

We had immoderate jellyfish bitrate video trial files lined up for investigating arsenic good connected an outer USB SSD, but the Yaber Pico T1 failed to work the drive.

Failing to work an outer drive

It mounted it without contented but past failed to work the exFAT record system. We tried an NTFS thrust arsenic well, with nary luck. Again, we anticipation that this is conscionable an aboriginal bundle contented with our portion that volition get ironed out.

We tried moving immoderate benchmarks connected the Yaber Pico T1 arsenic well. The lone happening that really managed to tally was the aged T-Rex trial successful GFXBench, which scored nether 10fps connected screen.

Running benchmarks

It is harmless to accidental that you won't beryllium gaming connected the Yaber Pico T1. Though that being said, GeForce Now ran conscionable good connected the small projector.

Final thoughts

The Yaber Pico T1 is simply a chill gadget that mostly delivers connected its promises to beryllium a precise slim portable projector with coagulated built-in smarts. It's conscionable that you request to cognize this people of device's limitations. One 100 10 lumens is beauteous dim, and 540p resolution, portion bully for a pico projector, is excessively debased for astir good UI elements and text.

If you privation a chill gadget to whip retired successful a pinch and entertain yourself oregon possibly your kids with a movie oregon immoderate animated series, the Yaber Pico T1 delivers. Even successful the current, admittedly unsmooth and aboriginal authorities we experienced it in. You should look elsewhere if you expect immoderate show oregon flexibility beyond this straightforward usage case.

You tin work much astir the Yaber Pico T1 oregon prime 1 up connected their IndieGoGo page.