Our intrepid reporter, Carolyn Green, heads down to the gadget district in Daegu, Korea to check out Samsung’s latest local offering, the 3.3-inch AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600.
The phone comes complete with a five megapixel camera, a nine lumen projector module capable of up to 50-inch images – courtesy of the third generation of Texas Instruments’ pico-projector chipset – T-DMB TV, Microsoft Office and DivX codec support.
Indeed, Samsung believes this latest model outpaces its previous W7900 iteration and its lesser pico projector by being 1.5 times brighter.
Like the W7900, the W9600 boasts support for photos and video, which can be recorded using the phone’s camera or preloaded.
The device, measuring some 56 x 116 x 15.7 mm in total also sports a DMB terrestrial digital TV tuner, HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a front-facing camera with 11GB of onboard memory and a card slot for adding up to 16GB more.
According to the phone seller – who himself favors Apple’s iPhone – the Samsung Beam is pretty expensive, but then again, Samsung was targeting the business market with this one. After all, imagine being able to beam your presentations onto the wall for your boss to see.
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Samsung’s newest projector phone, the Beam
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