- A 27-inch smart TV that is also a portable screen and a tablet
- HDMI and USB-C inputs, device mirror and a 4-hour battery
- Available for ordering for $ 1,299 (approx. £ 980 / AU $ 2,000)
If you’ve ever wanted you to hold your smart TV in your hand and roll it around the room as well as stick it on the wall or put it on a nearby surface, LG’s Stanbyme 2 could be just what you’re looking for. The newly updated Stanbyme is a very different kind of TV from the rest of the LG series: It’s a TV that thinks it’s a tablet, or maybe it’s a tablet that thinks it’s a TV.
Let’s start with the normal bit first. Stanbyme 2 is a 27-inch smart TV with a refresher speed of 60 Hz and a QHD resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 with AI image optimization.
You can use it as a normal TV, but it can do much more. Pop it from the booth and you can look wirelessly for up to four hours, which is better than you get from most of the best portable projectors that have batteries.
If you sit on your lap, you can take advantage of a 27-inch touch screen to draw or play games. Or you can hang it on the wall and use it as a picture frame (or just watch TV from there). Or you can roll it around on the heavyweight wheel rack.
LG Stanbyme 2: Key Functions and Pricing
Stanbyme is a webOS TV with all the usual smart features to access the best streaming services, and it also has USB-C and HDMI input plus that is AirPlay and Google Role Crew, so you can use it as a display for other devices. It works in both portrait and landscape mode, and it has both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Support with “Virtual 9.1.2 Surround Sound”.
You can even recharge it from a power bank if there is enough juice: External recharge needs a 65W power supply that lots of the best power banks can offer now.
I could actually see myself using this: 27 inches is the same size as my very missed massive iMac, and that size is a really good screen upgrade from a laptop. Being able to use it as a TV in a bedroom or kitchen to entertain the kids is a great feature as you can then just hide it afterwards. .
The voice recognition can be particularly useful for the kitchen, because when you cook and have messy hands. However, I would describe it as ‘transportable’ rather than fully portable: at 9.5 kg without the standpoint it is rather violent.
It has to be pretty future -proof: LG promises software updates for up to five years.
The disadvantage that you probably noticed is the price. Not only is Stanbyme 2 quite expensive, but it is much more expensive than the first generation of Stanbyme TV. Stanbyme 2 is $ 300 more than the previous model, taking the sticker price at a beautiful hefty $ 1,299 – the same as an Apple iMac M3, and it also has a computer inside it.
Stanbyme is available now in the United States and is being launched in England, Germany, France and Spain in August 2025. Prices for these countries have not been announced yet.
