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Samsung has launched a new projector-equipped handset in South Korea – Beam SPH-W9600. As it’s not a smartphone, it’s not a device we want — unlike that sexy i8520 Beam (Halo) that was announced during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
We’re talking about a feature phone which rocks a 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED (no Super-AMOLED?) touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, media player with DivX codec support, document viewer, Bluetooth and of course a microSD memory card slot. As expected (for Samsung phones), TouchWIZ is running the show, providing users with quick access to popular phone’s functions and key services.
In other words, we could think of the W9600 as a successor to the W7900 model, which also came with a built-in pico projector.
Price wise, the new phone will sell for 900,000 won, which is whooping $806. That’s through KT, which scored the deal with Sammy to sell this baby — though we doubt it will move many units at that price.
[Via: Engadget]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
