Samsung’s portable projector could’ve been so much more.
What Samsung has shipped is a dim, flawed, and often sluggish projector that fails to realize its potential. For a company that’s been on a run of home theater hits with products like The Frame, this is an uncharacteristic misstep.
The barrel-shaped hardware is exactly what you’d expect from Samsung and feels well made. I think The Freestyle has a good look to it, and it blends into rooms nicely. It also comes wrapped in a preinstalled, white silicone sleeve. Samsung sells other colors that you can swap between — this is a projector being marketed to Gen Z after all — andthat inexplicably lacks anywhere to store the remote or wall plug.
I’m not sure whether it’s a case of the projector being too front-heavy or the plastic screws being too weak to keep it locked at all angles. You can tighten them with a flathead screwdriver or a coin to alleviate this problem, but Samsung cautions against over-tightening, and I’ve seen a few mentions of cracked screws in some Freestyle customer reviews. This sagging issue isn’t a frequent hassle, but it’s very annoying when it happens and not at all what I’d expect from a $900 projector.
Setup is straightforward and can be done either with Samsung’s SmartThings mobile app or step by step through the projector’s menus. The first time I set up The Freestyle, it was a tediously slow and laggy process. The remote would often register double presses after a single click, which made entering Wi-Fi and account credentials more annoying than necessary. Even after I was up and running, the software experience was dreadfully laggy.
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