The new Samsung Galaxy Beam phone includes a projector that can "show films and pictures at up to 50".
Samsung's new Galaxy Beam phone incorporates a
projector to show films or pictures
The Beam is the first
mainstream phone to directly incorporate projector technology, which has become
increasingly common on top-of-the range compact digital cameras
cameras.
Photos and videos can be
viewed on any flat service, and Samsungclaims the 15-lumens projector is even
useful outdoors.
So-called pico projectors have
long been
slightly too big to
incorporate into mobile phones. At 12.5mm thick the Beam is slightly larger than
other models, which are sometimes under 8mm, but well within the range existing
phone consumers routinely purchase.
It features a 5MP camera, and
runs Google’s Android 2.3 software on a 1.0GHz dual-core processor. The
projector is run through a dedicated application, and the phone features a large
2000mAh to cope with some of the extra demand.
The Beam announcement was one
of the first to be made at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, where
the largest phone companies demonstrate their forthcoming products. Samsung has
already announced that its widely anticipated follow-up to the popular Galaxy
SII smartphone will, however, be announced at a separate even later in the
year.
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