Few compromises were made in achieving Insta-Share’s small form factor. The chart below compares the Insta-Share to the Asus S1, one of the popular and highly ranked portable projectors sold by Amazon. Insta-Share projector: Less than a half-inch thick and weighing 4.5 ounces, the Insta-Share projector turns a Moto Z into a projector. Motorola promised that the Moto Mods would operate with new phones released in the future. Motorola engineered lightweight add-on hardware modules: an LCD projector, boom box speakers and a 2,200 mAh battery that adds 22 hours of battery capacity. But Moto Mods is a real differentiator in the top-tier, hard-to-differentiate flagship category. The Z Droid and the Z Force are flagship top-tier phones, but the place to start is with Moto Mods because the high expectations for flagship phones from companies like Motorola, Samsung and HTC are rarely unmet. Management at One Infinite Loop must be wondering how Apple’s designers were caught asleep at the innovation switch. The Moto Z Droid and the Moto Z Force change this with Moto Mods, an ingenious way to add hardware features. And recently, the difference in camera quality in all but the economy-tier improved dramatically. It leaves the reviewer with little to nitpick over other than the cameras. Since then the component quality spiked upwards, delivering clear and colorful screens, smooth performance and long battery life at decreasing price points. Android reached parity with iOS with the Kitkat release. If you’re in the market for a new phone (or have any of the z series motos already), this projector is worth the money.Lately, reviewing Android phones has become difficult-difficult because the quality of the phones has become so consistently good. The projector simply projects whatever is on the screen, and as long as the app has no external display blocking software (I’m looking at you, NFL) you can throw it right up to a huge display. I’d recommend it to anyone that enjoys novelty, can use android, and wants to be able to watch video or share photos or whatever on the go. The projector mod comes with a soft-sided case to carry it around when you don’t want it on your phone.Īltogether, I love both this phone and this projector. As far as I’m concerned, this was an absolute steal. I paid $300 for the Moto z2 force edition (flagship) phone and got the projector for free through Verizon. I don’t know if it will make it to 10,000 but only time will tell… I doubt I would be able to replace the bulb when it goes out, but I almost certainly will have a new phone by then. 10,000 hours is a LONG time for lamp life. It makes it very easy to get up and watching quickly almost anywhere. Auto-keystoning is really good in higher end models these days, and I was skeptical they could fit it into this tiny form factor, but they did very well. The mod is small enough to fit in my pocket (it makes it a pretty bulky phone, but hey it’s also a projector!) Here’s a shot of the whole assembly next to an uncased ipad pro, about the same thickness as the iPhone 6s: I’ve gotten it out intending to show a few people some pictures and wound up doing a full-on demo for a crowd of people that just walked up many times. In most bars and clubs it’s dark enough to share things with lots of people. It’s almost impossible to overstate how cool this is. So, untethered, you’ve got just short of three hours of watch time. At that point it will automatically switch from the projector’s internal power to the phone’s battery, which keeps you going for another ~1.5 hours if you started with a full charge. It’s awesome that the projector has a 1000 mAh battery built in, especially for the form factor of the whole setup, but that keeps the projector going for about 1.3 hours of watching.
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