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The back of the housing. The part with the diamond pattern
is the magnetic Smart Case.
The actual screen has a diagonal dimension of 13.3 inches. The resolution is Full HD, which means 1920 × 1080 pixels. The front surface is fairly reflective, but that is usually unavoidable with a touchscreen. The viewing angle of the IPS screen is good in all directions. If you look at the screen from an angle, the image is a bit darker but the colours remain reasonably good. The image contrast is good and the maximum brightness is an impressive 300 Cd/m², comparable to my standard monitor and the screen of my laptop. You can even work in a brightly lit room or outdoors in the shadow, but I wouldn’t try to use it in full sunlight. The colour rendition is good, although the colours look a bit too saturated to me, but that can be adjusted somewhat with the menu settings. The on-screen menu offers quite a few options, but using it is not especially easy. To activate the menu, you have to press the menu rocker button, which requires pressing the bump on the rocker button fairly deep. That’s also true for selection of the menu items, with the result that I sometimes ended up with the wrong menu item. Fortunately, you don’t need the menu very often. Once everything is configured the way you want, you only rarely need to use the menu.

Connection options

The screen with the Smart Case folded out.
With its two USB‑C ports and a mini HDMI port, the Joy-View 13 can be connected to a large number of devices, from PCs to smartphones. I tried a variety of combinations. But before describing them, I would first like to mention the options for powering this portable monitor. This can be done through both USB‑C ports. The port on the left side is only suitable for power, while the port on the right side is suitable for both power and data. Either the included AC mains adaptor or a powerbank can be used as the power source. One of the included cables can be used to connect the monitor to the power source. If the monitor is connected to a USB‑3 port, it can provide communication with the screen as well as power, as you would expect.