Samsung has unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Beam, a smartphone that has an in-built projector capable of displaying a 50-inch high definition image.
The company claims that the Android 2.3-powered device, which was revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, will enable users to create “shared experiences” with friends and family.
Samsung says that, despite the inclusion of the projector, it has taken measures to ensure that the device does not compromise portability. The phone is just 12.5mm thick, has a four-inch display and is powered by a 1GHz processor, with 6GB of RAM and a powerful 2000 mAh battery, which should result in greater display power.
Content, including photos taken using the phone’s five megapixel camera, is stored in 8GB of internal memory, although the addition of MicroSD slot means that this can be expanded by a further 32GB.
“The Samsung Galaxy Beam gives people freedom to share what’s important to them instantly with friends and family,” commented Simon Stanford of Samsung’s UK and Ireland Telecommunications and Networks Division. “With the Galaxy Beam, people can share content from their smartphone with people around them, using it like a pocket projector to create shared experiences – whether that’s watching movies, sharing holiday snaps or a spontaneous presentation.”
Earlier this month, Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 2, the first tablet to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, while its Series 9 notebooks hit UK shelves last Saturday. The Korean manufacturer is also set to unveil a direct rival to Apple’s iTunes U educational service at MWC, the Samsung Learning Hub, which will offer 6,000 textbooks from 30 different education providers.
No matter how many products it announces, Samsung is unlikely to win many fans at Apple, with which it is engaged in a number of worldwide legal disputes.
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Maybe you should check the specs before you post things up? like 1Ghz dual core processor? 768mb of RAM? No phone has 6gb of ram, not even my computer has that much.
Here are the specs as published by Samsung. http://www.samsung.com/uk/news/presskit/samsung-launches-galaxy-beam
We agree that 6GB is a lot of RAM, but that is what Samsung claims to have put in the phone.
Peter Judge
It’s not the first time Samsung has launched a phone with a projector, nor the first time it’s called it the Samsung Galaxy Beam. Yet this is a new and upgraded version than the two year old predecessor, plus it runs a much newer version of Android.