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MiLi HI-P60 Power Pico Projector

Mili HI-P60 Power Pico Projector

Turn your iPhone into a cinema

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Review There sure is a buzz about compact, portable "pico" projectors thanks to notion that they will allow us to cast content kept on mobile phones up onto a handy wall, cinema style. Coupling one with an iPhone, China's Hali-Power, operating under the brandname Mili, reckons it has a winning combination.

MiLi HI-P60 Power Pico Projector

Mili's HI-P60 Power Pico Projector: compact

The Mili HI-P60 Power Pico Projector - to give the gadget its full name - is a chunky clamshell unit that's eminently portable. The top part pivots round to expose the lens and reveal a basic control array. The other half has a dock connector placed so the iPhone or iPod lies flat back against the base, screen upward.

And there's a flip-out stand that angles the iPhone section toward you while the business end points forward.

The HI-P60's controls are touch-sensitive and a gentle tap is all that's required to activate the projector and adjust the volume. Just call up a video file or photo slideshow on your iPhone and you're ready to sit back and view it. Bundled cables and adaptors allow you to hook up composite-video and VGA sources.

Power is provided by the projector's AC adaptor, but the unit also contains a 1200mAh removable battery able to sustain the device for the two hours the manufacturer recommends as its maximum continuous running time.

MiLi HI-P60 Power Pico Projector

The stand could be more sturdy

Why two hours? The Mili gets rather warm. To quote the sticker on the back: "Phenomenon of heating is normal, however, turn off for rest is suggested after display of two hours."

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Dim.

With an image that dim you'd be better carrying a large magnifier around.

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Not anytime soon, I reckon...

And frankly, at $549 USD and at the same light output level (10 lumen), I think I'd pass on it as well.

It's an interesting concept and attempt for a 1st gen product, though.

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Anonymous Coward

Like the idea

but if the implementation is as bad as all that, I'll wait for a better version to come out.

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Yeah yeah yeah

Enough with the LED based projectors, when are you going to review this (simply stunning) laser based projector that was finally released this year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfarRM0BoM

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50%?!

Fifty percent? Crikey, you must have hated it! That's got to be the lowest score I've ever seen in a Reg Hardware review.

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