Gadgetory

so I've shown you a lot of weird a lot of unique a lot of different types of smartphones over the years it's been years Jack we've been doing this for years how old do you feel how old what we are old that's the thing in YouTube years they're kind of like dog years so a YouTube year seven human years whoa if there's a smartphone out there that needs to be unboxed it's gonna happen here I have a very unique smartphone from a company called BlackVue inside of this box is a smartphone with a movie projector built into it so at any moment you can broadcast whatever's on your smartphone onto a wall into a large image to share what whatever it is you're looking at could could be YouTube there's a projector inside of a smartphone never thought I'd see the day this is called the max one I believe it's available for pre-sale right now around 700 bucks but it's very unique you must admit so let's go ahead and check it out okay type-c cable to charge it up you've got the OTG cable type C 2 micro adapter no headphone jack on here I can tell right now because there's a dongle C 2 mini jack oh and then they include a mini Jack headset to use with your dongle okay there you go this thing's kind of a beast it's a bit heavy I think it has a huge battery otherwise from the front it looks like a pretty standard smartphone but then things get magical when you look at the top right there boom what wait a lens a projector on my smartphone I didn't know I wanted this do I want this I don't know maybe you travel a lot and you're like I want the content on my phone on the wall in the hotel room that's a possible my question is how bright can this thing really be there little fingerprint on it how usable can this be oh I see a projection button it looks like a skinned version of Android going on here so let's see what happens I click on a projection button I think we need the lights off I see some light coming out of here so I mean this is tough to display to you here but this guy right here is outputting that image now on the wall here means not that far away from it that image is probably like 50 maybe 60 inches and we got it set up just in a way that you can see it here with a little bit of light on of course the image improves when you turn the lights out completely with any small projector you just can't have that much light output including one that's built into a smartphone so if you are using this to watch movies you're probably gonna put your other lights down beforehand now you might be noticing some scan lines coming through that's just the way that the camera is interacting with the projection in real life you don't see any of those scan lines so keep that in mind now the other thing to mention the closer you get the phone to the projection surface the better the quality gets of course but the smaller the image so if I move this device closer over here you'll see the brightness and the density of the image improves but of course it gets smaller still better than staring only at a smartphone it's a bit of novelty obviously I mean this is not something that everybody needs but it's a cool piece of tech traditionally originally if you wanted to project any kind of image you we need this giant projector to do so now you can do it from right within your smartphone now the other thing I was worried about is like the portrait mode versus landscape but when you maximize a video it just figures it out the projector figures it out if you wanted to project a game or something that would work too though that would be weird because you couldn't control the game I guess you would need some type of external controller in which case you could go ahead and project the game you know this like an NBA app there's an NHL app NFL MLB all the major sports they have apps you could imagine setting up play an impromptu sporting scenario the UFC app I mean if you had the lights off this thing is usable it's not the greatest projector I've ever seen it's built into a smartphone it's tiny but you get the lights off and it's kind of it's just like a portable 60-inch display is it as bright as a an OLED panel no okay of course not adjust your expectations here it's in a smart phone but better than looking at a smart phone imagine the locker room the other night after hockey we we're watching I had the basketball game the Raptors game on my phone and people gathered around if I had this in the locker room hit the Lights be a little perverted to be honest a cool combination of tech that you wouldn't expect to see and that's what I like to see ambitious weird products are exciting all right so here's the thing this device here this is non retail it's in presale mode right now so a lot of the specs and whatnot might not necessarily be finalized certainly the software itself also not finalized what I do know here is that this thing is gonna have a big battery and of course this active projector it'll also be running Android just take it for what it's worth at this moment right here the specs will get a clearer picture closer to the release date it's a bizarre phone that's why I like it look at this I'm shining I'm glimmering right now can your smartphone do that I didn't think so this is like bringing a party wherever you go if you're a sports fan I don't know I think it's pretty cool it's weird and that's what unbox therapy is about sometimes uncovering the unusual gadgets like this one the black view max a1 if you want to check it out there's a link in the description to the product page or at least where you can eventually order it I think it's a bit of fun all right lighten up you