Mascom International stocks the UGREEN CM297 for people who present for a living: consultants moving between Westlands and Upper Hill boardrooms, lecturers at the University of Nairobi and Strathmore, pastors running Sunday slides, and sales teams pitching inside client offices across Nairobi CBD. Most current laptops, including the MacBook Air, Dell XPS, HP Spectre, and Lenovo ThinkPad, dropped full-size HDMI ports years ago. That leaves you borrowing a converter three minutes before a meeting starts. The UGREEN CM297 removes that scramble entirely. It fits in a shirt pocket, a laptop sleeve, or the front pouch of a backpack.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya who stock unbranded converters with no chipset information printed anywhere, Mascom International sells the UGREEN CM297 as genuine UGREEN stock carrying model number 70444 on the box. Buyers throughout Kenya tell us the difference shows in week two: cheap converters flicker, drop to 30Hz, or quit once they warm up. At Mascom International, we're seeing steady repeat orders from IT departments buying the UGREEN CM297 in fives and tens for meeting rooms. Walk into Kimathi Street to test one on your own machine, or order for countrywide pay-on-arrival delivery.

It converts the video signal coming out of a USB-C port into a standard HDMI output, so your laptop, tablet, or phone can drive a television, monitor, or projector. The CM297 carries a male USB-C plug on one end and a female HDMI socket on the other, joined by a short braided lead. You supply your own HDMI cable between the adapter and the screen. Picture and sound both travel across the connection, so television speakers or a soundbar handle audio with no separate cable.

Any device whose USB-C port supports DisplayPort Alt Mode. That covers MacBook Air and MacBook Pro from 2016 onward, Dell XPS 13 and 15, HP Spectre and Envy x360, Lenovo ThinkPad, Microsoft Surface Pro, USB-C iPad Pro and iPad Air models, Steam Deck, iPhone 15 and 16 handsets, and Samsung Galaxy S and Note phones. Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 ports work as well. Budget phones and older laptops often carry USB-C for charging and data only, with no video output, so check your model first.

Yes, provided both ends support it. The CM297 runs HDMI 2.0 with VL100 and PS176 chipsets rated for 3840 x 2160 pixels at 60 frames per second, and it steps down cleanly to 2K at 120Hz or 1080p on older screens. The limiting factor is usually the display or the HDMI cable rather than the adapter. A 1080p projector caps at 1080p, and an ageing HDMI 1.4 cable caps 4K at 30Hz. HDCP 2.2 support keeps Netflix and Showmax playing without copy-protection errors.

No. The CM297 carries video and audio only, with no charging pass-through built into this model. Your laptop keeps charging through its own second USB-C port or barrel connector, which suits MacBook Pro, ThinkPad, and XPS machines that carry two or more ports. Single-port laptops and phones run on battery while the screen stays connected, so plan around that during a long session. If you need charging and video from one port, ask our Kimathi Street team about UGREEN multi-port hubs.

Yes. UGREEN lists Samsung DeX compatibility, so a Galaxy S22, S23, or S24 handset can push a desktop-style workspace onto a television or monitor, with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse handling input. Huawei PC Mode behaves the same way on Mate and P series phones. Output resolution from a phone depends on the handset itself, and many cap the DeX picture at 1080p even where the adapter can carry 4K. Bring your phone to our store and we will test the output before you pay.

At KSh 1,800 the CM297 costs less than one missed meeting. Unbranded USB-C to HDMI converters sell around KSh 700 to KSh 1,100 across Nairobi CBD, but they commonly use unmarked chipsets that drop to 30Hz at 4K, flicker during long sessions, or fail inside a few months. Spread across a two-year working life, the UGREEN CM297 works out at roughly KSh 2.50 per day. Users consistently report that the aluminium shell stays cool through hour-long presentations where plastic-bodied converters grow hot.

Three reasons: named chipsets, build materials, and after-sales cover. UGREEN publishes the VL100 and PS176 chipsets inside the CM297, so the 4K 60Hz rating can be checked against real silicon rather than a printed claim. The aluminium alloy housing spreads heat instead of trapping it, and four-layer shielding keeps interference off the signal path. Mascom International backs every CM297 through our Nairobi CBD service desk, rather than a market stall that has moved on by the time a fault appears.

It works with any HDMI display, which covers nearly everything installed in Kenya over the past decade: Epson and BenQ boardroom projectors, hotel televisions in Naivasha and Diani conference rooms, church projectors, and hall screens at the KICC. Mirror mode duplicates your laptop screen for the audience. Extend mode keeps notes private on the laptop while slides run on the large screen. Windows switches between the two with Windows key plus P, and macOS handles it under Displays.

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Every unit carries the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above, coordinated from our Nairobi CBD service desk.

Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for honest specifications, current market pricing, and dependable after-sales backing on every connectivity accessory we stock.