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Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by tehayj »

marcusf wrote: post #42
polshaw wrote: post #17

This is actually really neat. Another step along the 'phone is the only device you need' road. 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 beca…

This does carry the hallmarks of disruption (in the true Christensen sense of the word). If I were a projector company, I'd invest heavily in designing low power projection chips to sell to handset makers / make phone-sized projects to integrate with handsets. Maybe that already exists (beyond this phone)? I have to say I'm not well read on the state of the art here.

The mobile porn industry will like this too.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by Tim-Boss »

As someone who has forgone any TV's in place of a pretty heavy duty projector in my living room, I can say with some certainty that 15 lumens will barely be visible even in a pitch black room! My full-size/spec projector puts out about 2500 lumens and is still hard to see with the curtains open in the day time!

I view this in the same way I view "fun-size" candy bars...an interesting novelty for kids, completely impractical for most everyone else!

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by sparknlaunch12 »

philipdlang wrote: post #44
sparknlaunch12 wrote: post #2

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.

Exactly - what are the odds the battery doesn't actually last 3 hours? And how functional is it to project a movie on your phone, but then have a dead phone that you can't use the rest of the day.

This technology feels ahead of its time. If battery life wasn't an issue on mobile devices this would be a massive product. Unfortunately battery life still sux.

We would all love a projector on our phones, but we need battery power.

Ever run a flash light app on your phone? Imagine watching an hour of video on a projector...

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by marcusf »

Schwolop wrote: post #45
marcusf wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does carry the hallmarks of disruption (in the true Christensen sense of the word). If I were a projector company, I'd invest heavily in designing low power projection chips to sell to handset makers / make phone-sized projects to integrate with handsets. Maybe that already exists (beyond this phone)? I have to say I'm not well read on the state of the art here.

As a budding robot maker, I'd much rather they build a focus-less laser projector that's higher power and daylight visible. I don't give a rat's arse about handheld projection, but projectors on mobile robots are the future, and changing the focus of a regular beam projector on the fly by measuring the distance to the wall and then adjusting feels like a dodgy hack when I know there are laser devices in the market th…

Sounds cool. Are you working on anything in particular where you use a mobile projector today?

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by jim_h »

Tim-Boss wrote: post #52

As someone who has forgone any TV's in place of a pretty heavy duty projector in my living room, I can say with some certainty that 15 lumens will barely be visible even in a pitch black room! My full-size/spec projector puts out about 2500 lumens and is still hard to see with the curtains open in the day time! I view this in the same way I view "fun-size" candy bars...an interesting novelty for kids, completely impr…

My 25 lumen 800x600 res pico projector does just fine when I close my shades.

Of course you can't expect that 2500 lumens much against the power of the sun..

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by aneth »

femto wrote: post #49
sambeau wrote: post #3

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…

Pair it with a camera, to close the feedback loop: * The phone can track the environment and transform the picture to keep it stable. * Augmented reality applications (a la http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ )

Or invisibility!

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by Retric »

Schwolop wrote: post #37
ctdonath wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. That's exactly what I want: a phone to make calls and nothing else. There is, in fact, such a market - and I'm surprised almost nobody has taken it seriously. I carry an iPad darn near everywhere I go. I don't want another device which demands yet another data plan. I don't need GPS, camera, projector, gyros, etc. in it. I want a phone which makes calls really well ... and I haven't found it. The phone I use now…

I'd agree with this if it wasn't for wanting my contacts synchronised. That's enough of a reason to have a data plan on the phone for me. (I guess if someone did bite off this market, they could find a way around that.)

You mean like a USB charger that syncs with your PC.

Re: The phone with a projector

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Post by jahewson »

bwag wrote: post #46

Am I the only one that thinks their use case of leaving the phone in your child's room projecting a unicorn on the ceiling to help them sleep is just pure nonsense? http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxybeam/use_occas...

It's great until you get a text message...!
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