INNOCN 15.6 inch Portable Monitor 15A1F | OLED | 1080P FHD | USB C, HDMI | Laptop Monitor, Computer Display, Gaming Monitor | HDR, Detachable Stand, Speakers

Fantastic product for the price. When I bought it it was on a %40 discount which made it a no brainer. I didn't technically need a portable monitor, but I bought this as an OLED "trial". You've probably seen those 27" LG QHD 240hz screens already but those are $1000 (insane price gouging), but you as a consumer have likely never had an OLED monitor, so the question remains: will you burn-in that super nice and expensive screen? I wasn't willing to experiment with my money. At $150, this INNOCN is the perfect test: I use it for gaming at %100 brightness and it will blow you away with the quality of the colors and contrast. Looks great during the day, and mind-blowing at night (actually TOO bright for me though, so at night I set it at %47 brightness). The rest of the workday, I have it display my week calendar at %10 brightness - OLED blacks guarantee that there's still plenty of contrast to remain easily readable, and this way I can test if I'd burn-in an OLED monitor after months of use. If it burns? Ah well, $150 isn't an excessive loss. If it doesn't burn? Then I can buy the nice 27" QHD OLED versions that are starting to come up (I don't want/need a 34 inch or a 45 inch ridiculousness).A couple interesting things I've noticed:- %20 brightness on USB-C video is fine at night. During the day, it's not enough, plug in the USB-C power cable as well (and this comes from someone who does not enjoy bright screens, my eyes are sensitive).- INNOCN does something weird with near-blacks in dark images as you change brightness. I noticed that at %47 brightness all detail is retained in a near-black situation, but if you go to %48 instead of making the whole image brighter, it makes near-blacks darker, thus crushing them... it's strange. There seem to be a few "brightness zones" within which the screen manages contrast as you go up in brightness, so I've found 3 perfect levels for my use: %10 induces black crush, but I only use it for a black background calendar, so it's fine (this is my test to see whether the white text at %10 would burn-in after months of use). %37 preserves near-blacks and adds a good a mount of brightness. %47 is as high as you can go preserving near-blacks while increasing brightness. Any higher than that, and blacks get increasingly crushed until about %70 (weird mixture of crushed-blacks but brighter image). After %70 blacks start raising again (along with overall brightness) but it's not a "%47 brightness equivalent but brighter" until you hit %90 to %100. So, I recommend setting the first 3 of 6 "modes" (which seem to do nothing other than change brightness, as I've set them all at %47 and they look virtually the same) at something like %10, %37, %47 for different lighting conditions, and the last three modes at %100 since anything between %48 and %99 messes with near-blacks. Your mileage with near-blacks might vary here, depending on the image displayed.Despite that weirdness with brightness and black crush, it's an excellent screen with a very high DPI - 1080p at 13" (170dpi) is actually higher than 4k at 27" (163dpi)! Everything looks fantastic in it, and if you're as wary as I am to buy a nice but way too overpriced 27" QHD OLED, this is a perfect way to enter the OLED monitor wave and make sure you won't burn-in these nice screens. Added benefit - the stand is quite helpful, as gaming on 13" isn't as nice as on 27", but I can just bring the INNOCN way closer to me and it's fine (though I still use my 27" for gaming regularly, so that tells you 13" can definitely feel too small). The near instant response time of OLED is super noticeable, and despite being 60hz it feels like my 95hz 27" Pixio but with better image quality (I also have a 165hz Gigabyte and despite the added smoothness that VA smear is super annoying, I'd rather have less hz but on a clearer IPS image... same logic applies to the INNOCN - perfectly clear and contrasty 60hz > blurrier 90hz with sub-par IPS contrast).If you find it at the deeply discounted $150, I say go for it. You'll get a taste of OLED monitors, see if you can "safely" use it without destroying it, and then you can move onto bigger and better OLED screens. My money is too hardly earned to gamble away $1K on a nicer screen that might get destroyed in less than a year. Looking forward to taking this INNOCN on a trip, so that I can use it as a second screen for my M1 Macbook Air.

Build quality is really solid, and it's great that it's properly calibrated before it came out. Text is really crisp and clear, colors are OLED good. I was wondering if 4K would be overkill for a 15.6" monitor (it's higher DPI than my M1 Pro). The UI is around the same size as the "more space" option on my 16" M1 Pro (upscaled 2056x1329) which is perfect actually.It looks great connected to the thunderbolt 4 USB-C port on my laptop, though it will drain battery if not plugged in. Every portable OLED monitor does this however, and least there's a battery that'll last a few hours if you don't want to fuss with a second cable. Past that the brightness either needs to be low or you'll start glitching it out / have it shut down due to not getting enough power, but that's every monitor of this class. I haven't tried the HDMI connection yet. Steam deck looks gorgeous hooked up to it directly via USB-C.I have a 140w wall charger with a magsafe and a usb-c cable in it so that's not a huge deal (I can charge something else that needs it while the monitor is on battery). If the charging is a dealbreaker go with a 4k@60 portable IPS. You can get them a lot cheaper, and some even in 16:10 aspect ratio.Touch controls seem to single point on macOS, but I didn't really get it for that and it's convenient using the on screen menu with them.The screen is VERY glossy, more than my M1 Pro, so if you're in a high contrast bright environment that could be obnoxious. I would have traded a little pop for less reflections.The cover is a bit meh. The plastic is very secure once it's on, but the cut outs cover some of the labeling on the monitor. The actual mechanism for having it be a stand feels very secure, but isn't adjustable. The foldable side doesn't really stick strongly onto the monitor - I'll be slipping it in a sleeve in a messenger bag most of the time, but I wouldn't toss it into a backpack. YMMV on how much of an issue that is.I compared this against the only 3k@120 OLED (16:10 aspect ratio, same charging situation) portable monitor. On paper that was a win, but I ended up sticking with this monitor. I was getting some horizontal glitches on the 3k, there was visible banding in gradients, the pattern at the "Clock and phase" page of Lagom LCD test had strong vertical lines in it vs looking what the miniLED on my M1 Pro looked like, and getting the UI to be around the same size as my "more space" option led to the text being blurry. At default resolution (or just bumped up to HiDPI 1600x1000 vs 1440x900) the 3k one looked great, and colors were accurate enough for casual use.