It was one of the attractions of the South Korean Samsung during the past Mobile World Congress 2012, and one of the most curious terminals on the smartphone scene due to the added options it incorporates compared to its competitors. We are talking about the Samsung Galaxy Beam, an Android phone attached to a projector. To a pico projector, in particular, which is a mini video cannon that we can transport as if it were a small box. This device seems to start its commercial life shortly. Specifically, from next April. This has been stated by Samsung sources to the IBN Live medium.
It will be in India where the Samsung Galaxy Beam begins, where its predecessor "" a phone that responded to the same trade name, although it boasted quite different design and features "" already enjoyed a certain popularity. This terminal, however, will have the support of other markets in the future, although it has not yet been specified when it would arrive in Europe. What sources of the Korean firm have ventured to point out is the price it would reach in the market once it is put on sale: the Samsung Galaxy Beam would cost about $ 500 "" or what is the same, about 375 euros, at the current exchange rate ”.
As we say, during the past Mobile World Congress 2012 we had the opportunity to have a first contact with this Samsung Galaxy Beam. At first glance, it seems that it is one of the terminals of the new batch registered in the Samsung Galaxy Ace line, although somewhat more voluminous "" since it has a larger screen, four inches, and a more pronounced thickness, of 12.5 mm "".
However, its main peculiarity does not take long to focus the attention of its user: the projector. We speak of a small gun which emits a power lumens fifteen "" therefore requires use in dark rooms "" and able to develop a projection equivalent to 50 inches with a resolution of VGA 640 x 480 pixels.
That is not, however, the resolution of your screen or your camera. The first, developed a canvas of 800 x 480 pixels, while the second incorporates a high quality photo capture of five megapixels and 720p HD video with a refresh rate of 30 frames per second. The operating system with which the Samsung Galaxy Beam will go on sale is Android 2.3 Gingerbread. At the moment, the firm has not included it in its roadmap of phones that will update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, although future news in this regard should be expected.
The battery that the Samsung Galaxy Beam carries as standard is 2,000 milliamps, although the manufacturer has not specified when the mobile would hold up at maximum load in situations of intensive use or rest. This phone also uses a dual-core processor at one GHz of power and a RAM of 768 MB.
