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Samsung's DLP Pico Projector Phone at CES
The Samsung Beam I8520 Redefines Flagship Android
The world's number 2 mobile phone maker from Korea, Samsung created some stir at the recently concluded 2010 Mobile World Congress with a couple of handsets that not only took a couple of world's first but are superb smartphone specimens its competitors can only sigh as onlookers in the event. You have two handsets with 3.7-inch Super AMOLED multitouch capacitive touchscreens on the world's first Bada smartphone and the world's first Android smartphone with a built-in pico projector.
The latter gets special focus as it attracted the most crowds for a mobile phone. This is the Samsung Beam i8520 that finally confirmed the Halo rumors online for quite some time now. Its pico projector is modest at a mere 6 lumens of brightness and can project up to 50 inches of image without blurring and in darkroom conditions.
While the handset runs on an 800 MHz processor running the Android 2.1 Éclair, the Beam uses a separate Texas Instrument DLP chipset specified at the same wide-VGA resolution as its display. Many will find the projector frivolous but it proved to be quite convenient when you don't want people to crowd at your shots on the display and just have them projected on any vacant wall. Salesmen will delight at this feature as their 30 minute product presentations to clients can now be carried inside their pockets.
Unbeatable Features…for now
The Beam is your basic 3G phone on a tri-band UMTS with HSDPA/HSUPA and a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on the 2 G network. Local data transfers get served with WiFi 802.11/b/g/n with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0. SatNav functionality comes with its built-in A-GPS receiver.
Entertainment comes with capable media players for the popular audio and video files formats including DivX and Xvid video. You get stereo FM ratio with RDS and DNSe for stereo widening and surround sound effects and stereo listening options from its 3.5mm headphone jack or wireless A2DP.
You get a brilliant 3.7-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with multitouch, 16 million colors and WideVGA resolution (800 x 480) and a scratch resistant surface. It comes with the usual accelerometer for auto-rotate viewing. You get an 8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, geo tagging, face/smile/blink detection and 720p video recording at 30fps with video light. There's also a front VGA camera for your 3G video calls.
Phone memory is a generous 15 GB with 512 MB ROM and 384 MB RAM expandable to 32 GB from its microSD slot. You get the highest 14 hours of talk time and 630 hours in standby mode using its 1800 mAh li-ion battery on a single full charge.
The Samsung Beam i8520 takes a nod to the socially networking crowd with the relevant SNS apps for live automatic updates to your favorite social networking sites as well as media sharing sites like YouTube. There are the pre-bundled Google apps like Google Maps, Google Talk integration, Google Search and access to the online Android app store as well.
Availability
The Samsung Beam i8520 won't be shipping anytime soon as Samsung hasn't confirmed any timeframe bit we hope to see it hit the markets in Autumn possibly in time for the holidays. Pricing is another matter for speculation but with its upscale feature set, you'd need to save up for this one.
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samsung w7900 / samsung i7410?
when is this phone being released in europe/ uk?
and wouldnt the projector need replacing or the bulb?
i was under the impression that projector bulbs only last so many hours?
it will be out in the next few weeks, you could just buy it online and have it sooner if you want it plus i reckon you would find a better bargain.
