Samsung The Freestyle
Not bad, but room for improvement
07/04/2022 20:03
I've been testing the Freestyle for a few weeks and I've been reasonably happy with it. My household is largely run on Android (Google) TV and so the UI/UX of the Freestyle feels pretty familiar.
As a projector it's average. Brightness could be better, image quality also varies. I didn't test it all the way up to the 100" picture as in my environment the projected images - mostly in daylight settings - degraded at far smaller dimensions.
I found the system to suffer a fair amount of lag, input from the remote often takes a moment to catch up, and the experience was a fragmented one. Once it's in use things improve so it's perhaps just a case of warming up to input (or something).
The automatic adjustment for the image is average at best, really annoying at worst. Almost every position I tried to place the unit would result in a slightly angled picture, on all surfaces, as it overcompensated for it's positioning. Eventually I stopped trying and put up with it.
The preloaded apps were.. fine. I didn't particularly want to log in with a Samsung account to do more than the basics but being a Samsung product it's forgivable.
The audio is reasonable, but nothing special. It's very obvious it's a small system.
I tried the ambient options for completeness and again, fine but nothing special. I doubt I'd use them in future.
The least thought-out product in my package is the Freestyle carry case, and that's because it *only* carries the Freestyle, leaving the power cable, the cable clip (a tiny circle of plastic guaranteed to be lost!) and remote to be inadvertently left behind.
With all that said, it's still a nifty item, and in lieu of mounting a TV in various spaces it fits the bill. Turning the ceiling into a TV when laying in bed is pretty nice, and using it to cast phone media allows for more options as well.
Is it worth the asking price? Not from my point of view. I'd sooner spend half the money on a simpler projector and still mostly get the same results.
jasonb
Newport , Spojené království
Age: 35
Gender: Female