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Beam me up, skattie! The upcoming Samsung Beam

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Jake in Gadgets

I remember when phones had one purpose and one purpose alone – to phone people. They had receivers, which were attached to the phone with a wire and dials instead of buttons. Those were the good old days, back when it only cost 3 and tuppence to go to bioscope and you still had enough money left over for an Eskimo Pie at interval. Sigh. These days if you launch a new phone it has to have 3G and Qwerty keyboards and GPS and a bleeding flux capacitor. I once had a phone with a camera and a torch. I thought it was just the coolest. Nowadays that’s just not good enough. And Samsung knows this. Which is why their upcoming smartphone has a projector. Yes, a projector, those fancy newfangled things they have at the bioscope. Now there can be one on your phone. Oh this crazy modern world.

The phone, which will run on the Google Android 2.1 OS , will be called the Samsung Beam. Aside from its built in DLP Pico projector, it will feature, um, well, everything, ever. I will list it for you. Try not to drool. It will come equipped with Samsung’s TouchWiz 3.0 user interface, a 3.7 inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, an 8 mega pixel camera, an FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, GPS, and, of course 11 b/g/n wifi. It also comes bundled with a 2GB card, and can take up to 32Gs.

This is the kind of phone that will herald a new era of telecommunication. On its global release, the heavens will open up, and the Lord will descend unto earth, to witness the glory of the Samsung Beam. On its release here, the South African constitution may have to be altered so that union between man/woman and phone is made legal. No, but really, it probably won’t be as cool as an iPhone. But it has a projector, and you have to admit that’s pretty neat.