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Back in the late 90's i laughed at Salesforce pitch people coming in dragging two carry-ons on wheels - one for the laptop one for the projector.
Now they can slip them into pockets.
Its a real market, and the next step is I put down my phone as a projector, you control the projector from your phone.
This 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…
Nice 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.
Sure, but that leaves out all those not serious about projection, and even for the rest, they don't have a projector that fits in their pockets.
Compare with cameras: Before smartphones came with decent cameras, most people would just get out their good, regular camera. Less than ten years later, Instagram sells for ~$1bln.
It 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.
It would be great for quickly sharing stuff like a youtube video. Kids could use it to watch a movie in their room, or at a friend's, or grandma's. Similarly, it could be great for the travelling. I can see some really great augmented reality uses for this, provided there is enough developer interest.
Don't scoff at it because it doesn't match up to your 'real' projector-- it has some cool uses. The specs may not be so great yet (640x360 resolution, 15 Lumens), but it's very impressive that they got this into just 12.5mm thick phone, and specs (particularly resolution) will improve in future products.
It 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.
Perhaps when the tech has improved (both sound and vision) this becomes the replacement for the TV in the kids room - just plug it into a charger and project it onto the wall streaming over the net - but it doesn't feel like a mobile thing for them.
Remember, while this tech improves so do other displays. The expected standard will go up and the price of competing products will go down.
When you can have a large screen, hi-def TV in every room that you can wirelessly and effortlessly connect a mobile device to, which comes without the issues associated with projection (shadows, light and so on), why would you want a projector?
This 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…
Yes, that's because you don't have a choice. You can't do it any other way with a phone right now.
> I rarely watch movies on my iPhone but when I do it is usually on a train or in a car.
Same thing.
This 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…
You could probably use it in more impromptu ways - e.g. by holding it above a sheet of A4 paper in a suitably dark pub, to allow an entire table to view a photo or video rather than having to pass a phone around. It wouldn't be stable at all, but being able to just beam a photo onto a random surface is pretty cool (although: cool enough to buy a phone solely for that feature? I'm not sure.)