AKIYO O7 WiFi Bluetooth 1080p Projector Review
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Currently priced at £159.99 with an Amazon discount offered taking the price down to just £90 at the time of writing, this has to be judged as a budget projector, but with similarly specced rivals costing much more.
The image quality and specifications are pretty much par for the course at this price range but this new projector from AKIYO does offer some features not usually found at this price point.
Inside the box aside from the projector itself was a full sized remote control, a decent quality metal mini tripod, a power cable with a UK plug, an AV Cable, an HDMI cable, an A/V cable adapter, a lens cleaning kit and a well printed and easy to read English language User Guide.
Build quality is first rate, the plastic casing of the compact-sized projector feels well made and robust. Nothing feels flimsy or about to fall off or break. The power cable is heavy duty with a standard UK plug. The User Guide is large, simple and well written and tells you all you need to know. The infrared remote control is full-sized with proper physical clicky buttons rather than the credit card sized soft-touch remotes too often supplied. The main control buttons can also be found on the top of the projector itself. It has all the usual ports and connections: HDMI, 2 USB, audio out, and AV, allowing pretty much any sort of device to be connected to it including external speakers, Amazon Firesticks, Roku Boxes, hard drives and data sticks.
As regards specifications, this projector offers native 1080p resolution with 4K downscaling, a contrast ratio of an impressive 12000:1, brightness of 200 ANSI Lumens, with a best image size of 120 inches over a projection distance of just under 3m with manual keystone and focusing correction. The image can be zoomed from 75 - 100% directly from the remote control, a high end feature often missing at this price point. It offers Screen Mirroring to wirelessly stream from Apple and Android phones and directly from an iOS device using a lightning Cable. I was pleased to see that Bluetooth 5.2 has been used to give a faster and more stable connection and the unit features high speed 5G dual-band Wi-Fi.
To operate you can use the supplied remote control, or the button set found on top of the projector itself. I use it with an Amazon Firestick connected to the HDMI port but external drives and memory sticks can be connected via USB. The USB port can also be used to power HDMI connected source devices such as the Firestick, so it is good that two USB ports are included. When a Firestick or similar device is connected the remote control for that can be used for navigation, audio and general controls.
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