I prefer to keep the apps light weight on the Nebula, keeping bare minimum apps, and only use casting, keeps it running smooth and solid! This is an incredible piece of equipment. Both the speaker and projector are great. The auto-focus and auto-keystone adjustments are amazing. Connectivity works well and the built-in apps are responsive and fun to use. Super Compact and Portable: Weighing only 9.5 oz, your stand reduces to a mere 10.2 in to easily go anywhere.

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There aren't many projectors that both look great and offer the sort of versatility that you get from Samsung's The Freestyle, which is precisely why we love it. A decent image, plenty of smarts, and an affordable price tag. Lovely. Are portable mini projectors worth it?Electrical power is made up of Energy per electron multiplied by number of electrons per second. These are expressed in Volts (Energy per unit) and Current / Amps (quantity). The Anker Nebula Capsule Max is a pint sized, Wi-Fi enabled portable projector capable of creating a 100″ picture with a 4-hour video playtime.

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The resolution is lowish at 854x480, but for a campervan setup where it is unlikely you will have the distance to get a picture above 50 inches, this is not a problem, because at that size it looks perfectly clear and bright. In the end it’s quite a good setup which will be supported for many years, as Android 8.1 won’t be EOL’d for at least four years, so it should continue to be compatible with app updates. Picture & Sound Quality It doesn’t really get more portable than Anker’s beer can-sized Nebula Capsule Max, which is one of the lightest models on our list and definitely the easiest to manage when taking your movies out into the world with you.What I find interesting about the projector is that it offers keystone correction (making the image rectangular even if you are projecting at an angle) of ± 40° both vertically and horizontally, with an “auto-adjust” feature that works quite well. It projects the Nebula logo and the camera on the front captures it, automatically putting the image in focus and with the right keystoning in roughly one second. Once it’s done it does not need repeating until the device is turned off; once turned on the process is done automatically, though I found it to be slightly less accurate than when starting it manually from the settings menu (for some inexplicable reason). Battery Life You really do need a dark setting to get a bright picture though. Trying this in daylight or with curtains drawn in the daytime, will definitely be affected by ambient light coming into the van, so don't expect the 100 ANSI lumen LED buld to give you a brilliant picture in anything less than darkness. Although the Nebula Capsule Max offers a “speaker mode”, which allows one to use it as a speaker, it offers limited audio quality: bass is neither powerful nor very deep and there’s definitely a “boxy” ring to it. Voices have decent enough timbre and there’s good clarity even in action films. Using an external speaker, even a small and portable one such as the SoundCore Flare+ or the Creative iRoar Go, delivers much better results than using the embedded one. That’s absolutely understandable though, and the Capsule Max is indeed decent for watching films.

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If you already have a tripod that swivels then you’re probably fine with that. A number of Nebula’s mini projectors come with a tripod fitting on the bottom, including the Max, Capsule II and Mars II. If you don’t have a tripod and need some elevation, then grab a few books. Just make sure whatever you use is really solid. You don’t want your projector to take a spill. The improved speakers are also excellent, although I would not mind an even greater increase in volume output. Overall, the speakers have excellent clarity and sound quality, however. The device is ideal for personal use and home entertainment purposes as well as for doing a movie or video presentation for the businessman on the go. The Nebula Capsule Max bears a lot of similarities to its masterful sibling, the Nebula Capsule II . That supports my general rule of thumb with portable projectors: you get what you pay for. Liner Notes: Is the Nebula tripod worth it?If there’s one thing that can improve movie night in the summer months, it’s being able to sit out in the garden or bring it over to a mate’s house to enjoy on a big screen with some popcorn and your chosen IPA (ideally having been served from a perfectly chilled beer dispenser). Outdoor projectors untether you from the sofa so you can watch pretty much anywhere you like, with some of the best models offering Bluetooth-enabled smart streaming, huge displays, voice control and great sound.