Logic Bolt may have thought it captured the hearts and minds of the mobile-projector-in-a-phone market, but it seems Samsung has other ideas.
Gearlog managed to bag some hands on time with the candy bar handset, showing the device off for being impervious to the huge chassis constraints placed upon other projector phones by sporting an almost-normally shaped handset.
The handset apparently comes with five projection options, including File Viewer, Story Telling, Album, TV, via the inbuilt DMB-T mobile TV system and Flashlight (or Torch to most people).
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The projection, while using LEDs, is based on Texas Instruments' DLP chipset, rather than the Liquid Crystal on Silicon used by Logic Bolt, which goes some way to explaining the way around the patents built up by the latter company.
However, it seems that at the moment the Show is only going to be available in Korea, with all the demonstration features paraded in Korean.
It does build on Samsung's widget based OS, meaning that it shares some technical specifications with the likes of the Omnia, Tocco and Pixon (it's only when you write all the names together that you realise Samsung's product naming department is slightly bizarre).
Even if it doesn't come to the UK, you could always head over to Korea to pick one up... especially if you like watching children's stories played to you in Korean.
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tonywin
January 15th
1. This looks like a great device that will doubtless appeal to the Techno Geeks as well as individuals to whom it will provide a real service. It may however interest readers to note that the 17.6 MILLION individuals in Korea who currently are using the Mobile Multimedia platform known as T-DMB that is featured on this device for Mobile TV reception, are using a EUROPEAN protocol that was adopted by Korea and advanced!
T-DMB is destined for utilisation and expansion throughout Europe and MAY be seen on DAB ensembles in the UK in the not too distant future! Te Eureka 147 protocol seen in the UK mainly as DAB has a very flexible future – and a vast range of Multimedia possibilities. As soon as the UK has a finite path to digitisation – i.e. Analogue switch off, broadcasters will be able to make the investment in Digital Infrastructure to enable the exciting features that will make the listening (viewing and interacting) public sit up and pay attention. And – of course to be able to use devices such as this!!
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