Chinese projector brand JMGO has launched a special edition version of its powerful and highly portable N1S 4K home theatre model, which first debuted at CES 2025 and launched globally last April.
The original device was designed as the company’s answer to LG’s popular Cinebeam Q, which led the way in creating a new class of portable yet much more powerful than normal projectors. It was pretty capable, with the ability to throw up a massive 200-inch picture on any surface, significantly larger than the 120-inch output of the Cinebeam Q, and it had decent brightness of around 1,100 ISO lumens.
Now, the company has launched an upgrade in the shape of the JMGO N1S 4K Special Edition, and the main difference is that it’s getting ever brighter. According to JMGO, the Special Edition model delivers brightness of up to 1,650 ISO lumens, which represents an improvement of approximately 15% on its predecessor. As before, it’s able to project 4K images with a 1.15:1 throw ratio, which means you’ll be looking at a maximum image size of 200-inches, which is way bigger than the usual 120-inch max size of most portable models.
Other specifications include a 30,000:1 contrast ratio, an impressive 110% coverage of the BT.2020 colour space and support for MEMC motion smoothing.
There’s also some interesting settings on the JMGO N1S 4K Special Edition, with no less than five separate gaming modes, including RPG, FPS and RCG, as well as a virtual crosshair tool that should make those first-person shooters all the more exciting. It supports variable refresh rates and boasts ultra-low latency of just one millisecond.
The chassis boasts an integrated stand, which makes it easy to swivel around to adjust the projection angle, and it sounds like it should have a decent audio output too, with a pair of 5-watt speakers built in capable of supporting Dolby Audio and DTS-HD surround sound. As for ports, there are both HDMI 2.1 and USB 2.0 slots, and there’s 3GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage on board.
The JMGO N1S 4K Special Edition is currently exclusively available in China, where it costs 4,374 RMB (around £468) and runs the Bonfire OS 7 operating system, but we do think it’s likely that it will go on sale globally soon enough, where it’s likely to switch out that software for Google TV, as with the standard model.
