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hi I'm David Connelly executive editor for cnet.com and I'm here with the Brookstone HDMI pocket projector this projector is considered a pico projector weighs in about half a pound it has a nice compact form factor and is obviously very portable you do have to plug it in at least to charge it up and you can leave it plugged in when you're showing a video on it it gives you about two hours of battery life and our test it did hit that number but it does not have a any sort of battery indicator that tells you that it's about to go off this is called the HDMI pocket projector for a reason because it does have an HDMI port in the back there are also a couple adapters for it however if you have an Apple device you will need a $40.00 adapter to make that work with it and this won't work with all smartphones necessarily it does have two built-in speakers one watt speakers they do provide some sound not great sound pretty tinny but there's enough sound to hear a movie you can also plug in an external speaker to this device or perhaps you want to listen with a small Bluetooth speaker that you can pair with a tablet or smartphone on the box it does say something about accepting a 1080p signal but this is not an HD projector it is an 854 by 480 resolution projectors so it will take a 1080p signal but it will downsize it to that 854 by 480 it does deliver a good picture it has about 85 lumens so it's a pretty bright little projector you can project to around 50 to 60 inches from about 6 feet away the room doesn't have to be totally dark when you're showing a presentation which is good a couple of other small things worth mentioning this does have a little manual focus control on it it also has a USB out port which allows you to charge your smartphone this does have that built in battery so you can charge a device while you're using projector ideally of course you'd have the projector plugged in while you're charging couple of things this projector doesn't have there's no built-in memory or any sort of micro SD card slot but all in all a pretty solid little project it does cost $300 that may be a little bit expensive for folks now but these pico projectors have come a long ways since what we saw a few years ago should also check out Roku streaming projector which is also at this $300 price point which allows you to stream Roku services right from the projector I'm David Conroy and that's the Brookstone HDMI pocket projector thanks for watching