Hisense’s P1, a portable projector built around a triple-color RGB laser and a 20,000 mAh internal battery, is now in stock at German retailers at a list price of €1,099, after reaching French shelves at €999 earlier this week and Australian stores at A$1,799 in late September. It is the first battery-powered model in Hisense’s mini laser line, and so far there is no sign of it in the United States.
German trade site Prad updated its launch report on October 30 to say the first online shops either had the P1 on hand or could ship it shortly. In France, AVCesar listed it on October 28 at €999 with immediate availability. Hisense Australia announced it alongside the PX4 PRO and C3 Ultra in a three-model launch covered by ChannelNews on September 28.
The specification sheet is consistent across the three markets on the numbers that matter. The P1 is a single-chip DLP projector with native 1920 x 1080 resolution and 4K input accepted through upscaling. Hisense rates it at 1,000 ANSI lumens, a 6,000:1 contrast ratio and 110 percent coverage of Rec.2020, the wide color space that RGB laser engines are good at reaching and LED or phosphor-laser engines usually are not. HDR10 and HLG are supported; Dolby Vision is not.
The lens is a real optical zoom rather than digital scaling. Hisense quotes 1.3x, and the product photography prints the throw range on the lens bezel as 1.0 to 1.3, which means a 100-inch picture from roughly 2.2 to 2.9 meters. The image size runs from 65 to 150 inches. Setup is handled by autofocus and automatic keystone, which Hisense brands as AutoMagic AI Adjusting 3.0, and the body sits in a U-shaped stand that rotates through 360 degrees vertically, so ceiling projection takes one hand.
The rest of the hardware: two 7-watt speakers with DTS Virtual:X, HDMI 2.1 with eARC, USB 3.0, dual-band Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1. The housing measures 132 x 225 x 196 mm and the projector weighs 2.1 kg, about the size of a large thermos and noticeably heavier than the 1.3 to 1.5 kg class of gimbal portables.
Every market lists “up to 2.5 hours” of viewing on battery. Prad’s German spec sheet adds the condition that the figure applies at 300 lumens, under a third of the rated output. AVCesar’s French write-up gives the other end of the curve: about 45 minutes at full brightness and around an hour and a half with brightness reduced. Music playback over Bluetooth, with the light engine off, is rated at 5.2 hours.
That is the honest trade with a 1,000-lumen laser running on a battery. A 2.5-hour feature film outdoors is realistic at reduced output after dark; a full-brightness session in a lit room will need the charger within the first act. Buyers comparing it with lower-output portables should compare runtimes at the same brightness, not the headline figures.
The P1 runs Hisense’s own VIDAA operating system, version U9.6, rather than Google TV. Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube and Apple TV come preinstalled, AirPlay 2 is built in, and Hisense Australia notes that some features require VIDAA 9.6 or later. AVCesar adds that units on that version get direct access to Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming.
This is the same split we noted when the L9Q Pro launched in Germany on VIDAA while its American counterpart ships with Google TV, and it fits a year in which VIDAA has started appearing on other brands’ projectors too, as with the Wanbo Cube 2S. VIDAA’s appeal for a portable is practical: the licensed streaming apps are native, so there is no need to plug a streaming stick into a device that is supposed to be grab-and-go.
Stripping out sales tax makes the regional pricing easier to read. Germany’s €1,099 list price falls to about €924 before 19 percent VAT, roughly $1,031 at October 31 exchange rates. France’s €999 is about €833 before 20 percent VAT, or around $930. Australia’s A$1,799 is about A$1,635 before 10 percent GST, or close to $1,150. France is the cheapest of the three by a clear margin, and since Hisense’s European prices tend to settle below list within weeks of launch, the German figure is likely to move first.
We could not find a U.S. retail listing for the P1 as of October 31, and Hisense has not announced American pricing. Hisense’s American projector lineup this autumn has been led by the C3 family at $2,499.99 and up, all mains-powered gimbal models. If the P1 does cross the Atlantic, the tax-free European prices suggest a U.S. ticket in the $999 to $1,099 range.
The P1 arrives in the same week XGIMI put a Nichia triple laser into the Elfin Flip Pro (New) in Japan at 1,000 ISO lumens and ¥99,800. Two of the larger Chinese projector makers are now putting full RGB laser engines into compact bodies at around the $1,000 mark, a price point that two years ago bought a large living-room laser box.
XGIMI’s own battery-powered laser in the U.S., the MoGo 4 Laser, sells for $669 on the company’s American store, but French coverage puts it at roughly 550 lumens, about half the P1’s rating. The P1 is aimed at buyers who want a portable that can also serve as the main screen at home, and its zoom lens, eARC port and Rec.2020 coverage back that up.
For U.S. shoppers who want the same VIDAA-with-Netflix software at the same 1,000-lumen brightness class today, the closest thing on sale is Dangbei’s N3 Max. It is rated at 1,000 ISO lumens, runs VIDAA with licensed Netflix, handles autofocus and keystone on its own, and adds 12 W of Dolby Audio. It sold for $449.99 on Amazon on October 31, less than half the P1’s expected price. It does not have the P1’s triple-laser color volume, but for a bedroom or living room where an outlet is in reach, it covers most of the same everyday viewing for far less money. Our N3 Max product page has the full specification sheet.
The open question for the P1 is the one its spec sheet cannot answer: how much of that 1,000-lumen rating survives on battery power before the runtime collapses. Hisense has published the two ends of the curve, but not the middle, and the middle is where most people will actually watch. For a wider look at what battery-powered models can do this year, see our best portable projectors for 2026.