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Young Optics are mobile phone and digital camera makers to embed pico projectors

Young Optics logoYoung Optics say that they are very optimistic about pico projectors: shipments of embedded pico projectors are expected to enjoy strong growth. They are working with three handset makers and two digital camera makes to embed their modules into the gadgets. They are also working with 'a number of other multimedia device vendors" that have adopted their modules.

Via digitimes

Texas Instruments DLP pico-projector demo

Here's a nice video from the Mobile World Congress show - TI demoing their DLP pico-projector chipsets and gadgets that use it (the Samsung Beam and W9600, LG Expo and NTT DoCoMo dock F-04B).

Hands on with the Samsung Beam

Engadget has posted a first hands-on with the new Samsung Beam DLP projector phone. They say that it's rather thin, and it can also do a nice trick: the projector can display the image seen by the camera (5mp). Nice. Here's a video:

New projector phone available in China

There's a new Chinese projector phone, but we do not know a lot about it, except through this funny advertisement. It's LCoS based (the projection module is made by iView), it supports audio/video/photo files, and also some documents. It's also a TV receiver. The phone is Quad-band with dual-SIM support. The phone is available now in Japan (at least according to the ad).

Oh, and it looks very similar to the Logic Wireless 150LGW... but not exactly the same.

UPDATE: It seems that I mistakenly thought this was Japanese... and it turns out to be a Chinese ad. Sorry!

Taiwan handset makers not optimistic about projector phones

Digitimes reports that handset makers in Taiwan are conservative about the outlook for projector phones. They estimate that sales of such phones will only reach several hundred thousand units in 2010.

Projector phones will only be a niche market segment - mostly because of privacy issues: most users are unlikely to show photos or videos in public places.

Will AT&T start to sell the LG eXpo pico projector accessory soon?

A reviewer from New Zealand is the first one to get an LG eXpo phone with the pico-projector accessory. This might mean that AT&T will soon start selling the projector unit (for $179).

LG eXpo with protector photo

The phone itself is available for $99

Via Slashgear

The LG eXpo projector-phone is available for $49 over at Amazon.com

Amazon.com now lists the LG eXpo projector phone for $99, and you get $50 back (via an Amazon gift certificate).

LG eXpo photo

Interestingly, the eXpo is currently #10 in Amazon's best-selling smartphone list - even before the projector accessory is actually available, the eXpo is selling quite well. It's got a lot of attention and hype over the past few weeks. We hope that other phone makers will follow suit soon with projector phones of their own.

Here's the link to Amazon.com $49 LG eXpo page, again.