Well, surprise surprise: Logic Wireless doesn't have the only projector phone at CES this year. Fresh off the plane from Korea comes the Samsung Show, a Korea-only projector phone that uses TI's DLP technology rather than the Logic Bolt's LCoS system to project images onto a big screen.
I got some hands-on time with the Show, but nobody I talked to knew much about it. It's a somewhat bulky candybar-style phone. It runs a proprietary OS, and includes support for Korea's DMB-T digital TV system. It uses Samsung's TouchWIZ user interface, which involves a touchscreen and movable widgets.
The Show's projector has five options: "File Viewer," which shows movies in a large-screen format; "Album," for photo slideshows, "Story Telling," which appears to project animated Korean children's stories, TV, and Flashlight, which is just a flashlight. You now know as much as I know, and pretty much as much as the Samsung PR people seemed to know. This phone will never, ever come to the US.
More details on the Samsung Show will come out later this week, Samsung reps said. Many more photos after the jump.
Fire up the projector, start a movie, and point the show at a screen ...
Here's what the movie looks like on the screen. It's brighter and clearer in real life, especially in a dark room.
The Show's oddest projecting mode seems to be this one, where it loads up Korean children's stories.
Here's a Korean children's story projected on a screen.
Rear view of the Show.
For PCMag's full CES coverage, go to http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2235882,00.asp.
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January 12, 2009 4:04 AM
It's...big...
January 13, 2009 12:56 PM
this isnt sexy
February 9, 2009 4:38 AM
heck it is projector - how small do u want it?
February 13, 2009 11:36 AM
Just one more thing I gotta pine for that I cannot have. Why even post it? Frustrate the minions. Well, fine, you did your job. Sleep well tonight. You're killing us.
We have sucky services that don't allow phone manufacturers produce phones with every thing installed, and we go to the net for some release from our daily grind, only to be HOUNDED by real cool stuff such as this and none of us will ever be involved. PITY!