The phone with a projector
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The phone with a projector
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Re: The phone with a projector
#2Nice idea but heat and battery life will be an issue.
There is a market for this but most will just hook up to their monitor or iPad. People serious about projection will must likely have a real one.
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#3This sounds great at first but I'm unclear about how usable it would actually be. Any pressure on the device would cause the screen to jump about.
I could see it being ok in start-then-put-down mode for Movies and Slideshows. But how often do we use phones like that? I look at photos in tiny batches normally with one other person, usually in a crowded place: pub, restaurant, car. I rarely watch movies on my iPhone but when I do it is usually on a train or in a car.
The need for a static white wall and a conveniently tall table in an uncrowded space makes me question the utility of this at all.
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#4The gimmick-ness of this is just astounding.
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#5It sorta looks like Samsung is turning into the next Nokia. Putting out a lot of devices with gimmick features. I guess there must be a market for it.
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#6Well, it certainly looks sleeker than LG's attempt at this [1].
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/lg-expo-projector-hands-o...
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#7Does anyone know which projector technology they are using in this?
Edit: Should have googled first, its a TI DLP nHD projector apparently.
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#8This is a new version of the Samsung i8520 [1], announced/released in 2009/10, but with a lower resolution camera and projector (although that says little about quality).
Re: The phone with a projector
#9It sorta looks like Samsung is turning into the next Nokia. Putting out a lot of devices with gimmick features. I guess there must be a market for it.
There will be a huge market for this, especially among the younger generations and when combined with access to video services like YouTube. Projectors in phones will become a standard feature just like cameras imo. They just need to make the pico projector unit smaller.
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#10This sounds great at first but I'm unclear about how usable it would actually be. Any pressure on the device would cause the screen to jump about. I could see it being ok in start-then-put-down mode for Movies and Slideshows. But how often do we use phones like that? I look at photos in tiny batches normally with one other person, usually in a crowded place: pub, restaurant, car. I rarely watch movies on my iPhone bu…
The one place I'd see being used is mostly precluded by the "youthful" design (which I think looks like shit, by the way): impromptu meetings or small demos, replacing a dedicated pico-projector.