Philips Reveals the 16B1P3302 Portable Monitor

[btarunr]

In today's fast-paced world, mobility is a defining feature of everyday life - and greater mobility demands greater flexibility. Whether at home or at the office, with friends or with colleagues, multitasking or relaxing, users need solutions that can keep pace with their dynamic lifestyle. Thus, the Philips 16B1P3302, a brand-new, lightweight 16" (15.6" / 39.6 cm diag.) monitor is introduced. Rich in features yet highly portable for enhanced entertainment and productivity - all in a sleek, slim, multi-award-winning design.

"The Philips 16B1P3302 portable monitor was made for today's active, on-the-go lifestyle. We're past the traditional work environment and work life, welcoming hybrid work and extreme flexibility. This model combines the productivity and performance-boosting features of a fixed monitor with the easy portability of a laptop." - says Carlos Sanchez, Senior Product Manager for Europe at MMD Monitors & Displays.



Key features

• IPS LED wide view technology for authentic, accurate colours
• 16:9 Full HD (1920 x 1080) display for sharp, detailed images
• One USB dual-mesh cable, for more flexibility and less cable clutter
• Dual-screen viewing for enhanced productivity
• USB-A with DisplayLink for hassle-free presenting and sharing
• Lightweight, foldable, award-winning design for flexibility with style

Portability meets productivity
The Philips 16B1P3302 has all the features required for easy productivity in a variety of work contexts, from lean office desktops to telework or mobile work solutions of every kind. Its enhanced 16:9 Full HD display with SmartImage is compact for easy transport and storage, yet delivers a powerful visual punch, with vivid colours, crisp details and rich contrast. IPS technology provides generous viewing angles of 178°/178°, so users can enjoy the display from almost any angle.

Flexibility is truly guaranteed with the Philips 16B1P3302, thanks to an array of features designed to facilitate on-the-go work and play. The monitor's slim, reversible USB mesh cable is soft and pliable to fit into any bag, while Type C and Type A connectors enable users to enjoy high resolution video from their smartphone or laptop, take advantage of dual-screen productivity, recharge the monitor, transfer data at high speeds and enjoy quick, easy sharing and presentation.

In addition to these flexible, high-performance features, comfort and well-being are key with the Philips 16B1P3302, which includes a multi-angle continuous tilt stand that can bend from 0-90°, as well as eye-friendly LowBlue Mode and Flicker-free technology.

The Philips 16B1P3302 will be available for purchase from July 2022 at the price of £219.99. For more information, visit the product page.

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[DeathtoGnomes]

does this have a protective hard cover for the screen? It seems nice, but if they are marketing portability, why not show how it supposedly protects the screen during transit.

 

[Chrispy_]

All these portable monitors were clearly 2 years in concept, development, testing, manufacture - and triggered by COVID lockdowns. They're making it to market en-masse this quarter and are now a solution looking for a problem that has gone away.

It probably depends on country but in the 3 countries I typically work in, something like 2/3rds of the "work from home" workforce are back in the office full-time. These things are probably just going to sit on shelves for months until heavily discounted and then discontinued, unless we have another pandemic-induced global lockdown. The market value of laptops, webcams, USB headsets and other home-office stuff has bottomed out again, with oversupply now adding to a complete lack of recent demand.

 

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While it may appear that this woman is being very productive, I'm pretty certain she is simply ordering yet another pair of shoes.

 

[mechtech]

All these portable monitors were clearly 2 years in concept, development, testing, manufacture - and triggered by COVID lockdowns. They're making it to market en-masse this quarter and are now a solution looking for a problem that has gone away.

It probably depends on country but in the 3 countries I typically work in, something like 2/3rds of the "work from home" workforce are back in the office full-time. These things are probably just going to sit on shelves for months until heavily discounted and then discontinued, unless we have another pandemic-induced global lockdown. The market value of laptops, webcams, USB headsets and other home-office stuff has bottomed out again, with oversupply now adding to a complete lack of recent demand.

Probably. They would probably serve a niche market for business travellers..............who will enentually start traveling again. Pretty easy to toss one of these in the laptop pouch.

 

[ymbaja]

I’m actually kind of excited about these and think they are going to take off (though hopefully without their premium price). It’s almost impossible to work on a single screen laptop anymore (thank you UI designers). I remember when 640x480 was a luxury… In any case i can see these being super useful working from remote locations on the go (a hotel, remote office, client site, on vacation, at the pool… etc). If it fits compactly in my laptop bag I think it’s one of the more useful gadgets as of late. I think multi monitor laptops are going to become a mainstream thing before long… but who knows that’s just my nickel

 

[Prima.Vera]

Never understood why the portable monitors are so ridiculously expensive. I mean I can buy a full size 1440p monitor with those money.
Really, never understood this bs pricing.

 

[TheUn4seen]

Never understood why the portable monitors are so ridiculously expensive. I mean I can buy a full size 1440p monitor with those money.
Really, never understood this bs pricing.

The question is: Can you take this 1440p monitor in your laptop bag to a trendy cafeteria and scroll Facebook looking like a serious business person?

 

[Prima.Vera]

The question is: Can you take this 1440p monitor in your laptop bag to a trendy cafeteria and scroll Facebook looking like a serious business person?

No, but I can take my Samsung tablet and connect it to my laptop via the usb-c port and have a 2nd monitor with no issue. The problem is I just want a decent and cheap 14" 1200p portable monitor without any fancy features, but everything is above 200$...

 

[Nichotin]

All these portable monitors were clearly 2 years in concept, development, testing, manufacture - and triggered by COVID lockdowns. They're making it to market en-masse this quarter and are now a solution looking for a problem that has gone away.

I bought an Asus portable monitor way before covid, that used USB-A/DisplayLink, so the concept is not that new. I bought a newer model with USB-C last year that I always bring if I travel to offices to meet up with colleagues from other towns or countries. Amazing to have two monitors when on a workshop or similar.

While I can't speculate whether the market for these have grown or shrunk, I wouldn't be as categoric as saying that the problem they try to solve has gone away

 

[Chrispy_]

I bought an Asus portable monitor way before covid, that used USB-A/DisplayLink, so the concept is not that new. I bought a newer model with USB-C last year that I always bring if I travel to offices to meet up with colleagues from other towns or countries. Amazing to have two monitors when on a workshop or similar.

While I can't speculate whether the market for these have grown or shrunk, I wouldn't be as categoric as saying that the problem they try to solve has gone away

Yeah, you're right - but based on enterprise purchasing and comments from my distributor's account manager, these things were like webcams and headsets when the pandemic hit, and now everyone has oodles of unsold stock sitting around because of the supply and demand lag.

Suddenly, we're seeing a lot of companies announce these things when the demand has now dropped off a cliff, whilst there were shortages where production and supply couldn't match demand and all the old inventory was drained in 2020 and into 2021. You can tell there's tons of unsold stock because every shop/etailer/retailer who stocks these has them on discount if they're more than about 3 months old.