13.3" USB Powered Monitor! - GeChic 1303H
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,598 words · ~7 min read
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have you ever just really needed a screen for a second or two or for
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something like a Raspberry Pi or desired a small additional screen for your
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laptop while you're on the road or even just a portable monitor in general well
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gik sent us their onlap 133h portable monitor so stay tuned to see how that
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Stacks up and like the video if you guys are interested in seeing uh an
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exploration kind of video where we see where the value is and 3D printing
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something or just buying it
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processors click now to learn more the
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13303 H portable monitor is a 60 HZ IPS
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1080p 13.3 in screen powered by 5 volts
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running at 2 amps which can be received by up to two different input ports just
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in case you're having a hard time hitting that amperage level off of one
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cable it has a built-in speaker which is really not that great but I didn't
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expect much from it considering the size of the overall package it's good enough
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to troubleshoot things which is cool I guess and if you want to bypass it
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you'll be happy to hear that there's a 3.5 mm audio jack on the side as far as
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inputs go there's a surprisingly large range supported all the way from VGA to
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HDMI and DisplayPort which is awesome because this is an impressive amount of
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inputs for a little monitor one actually fairly major gripe though
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that I have with this setup however is that the inputs require a connector that
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is the same as a micro HDMI connector
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which is the only actual cable that's included in the Box notice how the VGA
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input is the same as the HDMI input this may leave you wanting instead of
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satisfied because the only cable included is for HDMI meaning that if you
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want to use a VGA connector or a DisplayPort connector you need to go buy the
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cable off of their website because I don't personally know anywhere else
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where you can buy something like a VGA cable that terminates in VGA and micro
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HDMI so I tried to do that so I could tell you guys how expensive it was but
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unfortunately their website currently has a program execution error so I guess
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that's not really going to work out for me looking on Amazon also showed cables
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from this company but they were priced at about 20 bucks each which is pretty
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rough considering I found a VGA cable for literally 36 Cents I appreciate the
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range of inputs I just wish they would have either had a better solution for
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this or included all the cables or adapters in the Box on the other side
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there's a bunch of buttons like power and random settings changes that show up
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on standard monitors as well like changing the input or brightness this is
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standard Fair no gripes here the buttons aren't too big so they don't often get
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pressed when you have the case on and they're easy enough to press when you
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really want to speaking of the case this thing is freaking awesome I realize that
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I'm getting quite excited over what many people people are probably going to
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think is the most boring part but seriously it's great not only does it
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double as a multi-positional landscape stand by utilizing an extremely easy to
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use magnetic ARM thing that's hosed on the back of the stand but probably the
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coolest part is the fact that it will protect the screen and transport by
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covering it up and adding some soft padded areas on the inside there are
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other portable screens on the market but having them break and transport has been
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a pretty constant issue with certain ones of them this should help alleviate
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those problems lastly we have actual visual appearance which is actually
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pretty solid the screen isn't all that big which is understandable so the 1080p
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doesn't actually look horribly stretched out like it can on like a TV or
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something the IPS panel looks quite good even at wide angles and its brightness
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isn't anything to complain about Brandon even said that it looks good enough to
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kind of use as an editing monitor on the road which is High Praise Aesthetics
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wise the bezel is pretty huge and it's really not that thin in terms of the
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actual unit itself but I'll give it a pass here due to the added benefits of
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durability I guess so let's run through some usage scenarios the first two I
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wanted to try were pretty straightforward but directly related to what we do for work first I had Brandon
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hook it up to one of our filming cameras to use as an external monitor this could
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really help someone who's trying to film things solo fixing your position or the
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position of some object in the shot would be a lot easier if you can see it
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in a nice large frame which could also will be much closer to you but there
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were some issues here for some reason the screen would throw a signal out of
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range error unless it was set to 60p 1080p60 720p60 480 p60 didn't matter
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just as long as it was running 60p kind of weird this may be look into the
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manual that actually happens to say read before usage on it so yep those
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previously stated working settings are clearly laid out as the only supported
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settings with the addition of 1080i60
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now while I'm sure the master a is like oh well I see literally zero problems
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here this isn't a good thing this can cause compatibility issues for a monitor
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that I really just want to work all the time and while most things will work
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just fine it will actually narrow the potential list of use cases including
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who will use it say what you will about frame rates in movies and videos but our
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camera guys won't normally film in 60 unless they're planning on slowing it
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down which makes this thing useless for them then we have the simplest scenario
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of them all which is probably the most common use case for this monitor a
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travel monitor unfortunately we can't really test this but I put it through a
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baggage handling scenario and then plugged it into a laptop and it worked
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so that's a pass in my condition if it can survive the baggage scenarios of
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going through Transit then we have the idea of a troubleshooting Monitor and
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Raspberry Pi monitor being able to take this thing around and test other
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people's systems and problems especially if they're having a display issue could
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make things a lot easier but my favorite part is actually you could just take it
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around to any of your randomly deployed raspberry pies or other various mini
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computers you have to check in on them and perform diagnosis really easily
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without having to haul a monitor around if you can't connect to them through a
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network for some reason in conclusion yeah this thing's cool and it does have
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its uses but it's still not a Whimsical purchase at
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$330 for a 13.3 in 1080P 60 HZ screen
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that you have to buy really expensive cables to use anything but HDMI with
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you're really going to need to justify the portability aspect and make it worth
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it which I'm sure some of you will totally be able to do so and honestly
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I'm already pretty excited about bringing it on trips in order to help the editors so they can have a dual
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monitor set up for their laptop so I don't know crunchy roll is a site created by
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