Xgimi MoGo 3 Pro

Xgimi's innovative projector is home entertainment in a can

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Xgimi has rapidly established itself as one of the most imaginative and dynamic projector brands on the market, unafraid to blaze new feature trails, push picture quality to startling new extremes, experiment with a wide range of different projector types, and get playful with projector designs. Not every innovation has fully paid off, but most of the brand's projectors are at the very least interesting. That's a trend kept very much alive by the new ultra-portable MoGo 3 Pro.

The Xgimi MoGo 3 Pro is good value; its price beats that of another barrel-shaped ultra-portable projector, Samsung's The Freestyle, while undercutting such more performance-led portable models such as the Nebula Mars 3 Air and LG CineBeam Q.

Its really cute and premium design combines with a promising set of features, including HDR playback, builtin Google smarts, long LED lamp life and an integrated stereo sound system designed with the audio gurus at Harman Kardon.

Robustly portable

We pretty much instantly fall in love with the MoGo 3 Pro's design. For starters, the way it locks down into a sealed cylinder with a rigid spine on the back and a builtin carry loop makes it one of the most robustly portable projectors we have seen. Its lock down/open out process is also bizarrely satisfying, as well as making you feel weirdly cool while you do it. The projector slides up from the speaker-sporting base and then rotates around on the spine for use smoothly and robustly; and we are pleasantly surprised by how stable the unit feels once the projector is angled to the correct position.

The projector barrel can be rotated through an impressive 130 degrees to help get the image in the right place on a wall or screen - a degree of flexibility bolstered by a wide-ranging auto setup system.