The world’s first unlocked quadband TV projector mobile phone is here. Surrounded in an oasis of constructed beauty and packed with the most wanted features everyone craves for.

With its unique style, the Titanium TV projector cellphone comes with an LED projector with manual focus, analog TV, FM Radio, video recording, digital camera, picture viewing, Dual SIM, Bluetooth, and a user friendly menu interface for easy navigation. This rich feature packed multimedia projector phone will certainly keep you entertained all day and all night.

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Microvision have released their first quarter results for the 2010 financial year.

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Operating Results ”I’m pleased to report we have received purchase orders of over $16.7 million for PicoP(R) based products, both the accessory pico projector and PicoP display engine, through our distribution channels in Asia, Europe and North America,” stated Alexander Tokman, President and CEO. “We continue to focus on improving our production and supply chain capabilities to meet this strong demand and with the recent addition of a second qualified green laser supplier, we are confident that we can fulfill product deliveries in increased volumes to our distribution partners and continue to accept additional purchase orders.”  

Key business and technical milestones achieved during the first quarter:  

• Commercial release of the SHOWWX(TM) laser pico projector in the U.S.
• Completion of the design and supply of early evaluation samples of the new low power PicoP laser display engine to OEMs.
• Receipt of the largest single product order in the company’s history for the PicoP engine.

Also in the first quarter, Microvision’s SHOWWX laser pico projector won several top industry awards for its notable design and performance at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Macworld, including:  

• The “CES Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Award”.
• The popular vote for “Last Gadget Standing” from CES.
• “Best of Show” selected by the editors of Macworld.

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The P790 is a projector-phone (LCoS, 640×480) with a 3.2″ touch display (QVGA), 1mp camera, TV tuner, Java and Wi-Fi. The P790 weights just 162grams and comes with 64Mb internal memory (with two microSD slots).

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Microvision announced today that it plans to demonstrate a 720p HD ready laser pico projector at The Society For Information Display annual conference, May 25 – 27, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.

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3M has won a couple of Edison Awards, one of them for their mobile projection technology as used in the MPro-150 pico projector.The MPro-150 features 640×480 resolution at 15 lumens and contains built-in memory (and microSD slot) from which it can play back movies, photos and office documents.

3M Mpro-150

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Solomon Systech announces new solutions for pico-projector applications. First the MagusCore, which packs the entire system peripherals and multimedia engine into one chip. They also have a hardware and software reference solution design and a total platform solution to enable production of a new design.

Solomon say that their design features high-speed processing of audio, imaging and video with the shortest loading times, while enjoying a low power consumption. The MagusCore reads and projects Microsoft Office document (powerpoint, word, excel) and PDFs. It also supports several digital TV broadcasting standards, GPS navigation systems, DVD movies, multi-format audio and video and has a photo album. Data can be downloaded from computers to the device through a USB port or any wireless connection including 2G/3G, WiFi or Bluetooth.

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Aiptek has just reduced the price of their V20 Pico projector by $50, from $350.00 to $299.00. The V20 is an LCoS pico-projector (640×480, 15 lumens) with internal memory (2GB) and a micro-SD card slot, from which it can display movies, photos and presentations. It has a RCA and VGA in, and an optional Apple cable for iPods and iPhones.

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TINY was the first word that came to mind when I took this USB projector out of its box.

If normal projectors are elephants, then the Aiptek T20 would be a mouse.

Smaller than my wallet is how compact this appliance is.

So you will think nothing of carting it to a friend’s house to, say, beam a holiday movie clip.

However, be prepared for limited functions.

Firstly, the projector’s 640 x 480 pixel resolution is the bare minimum.

PowerPoint slides and DVD movies will look all right but other things like photos will not.

You are better off viewing those slide shows on a notebook screen as even a 10-inch netbook will manage 1,024 x 600 pixels.

Also, there is no keystone correction for image alignment.

So any slight tilt of the projector will skew the projected image into a trapezoid shape instead of a rectangular one.

As you might have guessed, there is no autofocus either.

At 122g though, the projector has already shaved off a lot of weight.

The lightest ones that run on power from the usual wall socket are around 1kg.

The T20 runs on just USB power.

So the only cable you will need to take along is the bundled USB Y-cable.

One of the two USB plugs is for sending video data from the computer to the projector; the other is to boost its power for brighter projection.

Trust me, you will need the latter USB port as this projector is not terribly bright.

The room needs to be almost pitch dark before you can see images clearly.

Hence, the largest recommended projection size is around the size of a 42-inch LCD TV.

Also, the device gets quite warm after about 20 minutes of use.

Software installation was a bit of a hassle.

You need to switch the projector to Auto Run mode before you install, then switch to Projection mode after restarting your notebook.

It is a good thing that the drivers are loaded into the projector itself.

This means you can plug it into a Windows-based PC without needing any additional setup.

A mini-tripod is bundled with the projector so that it will be stable when resting on tables.

Without the tripod, the smooth finish of the projector makes it prone to sliding.

Final say

Though not as full-featured as larger projectors, this gadget is incredibly portable.

Source: Electronics Info Line

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The 2nd generation Optoma projector seems to have the same projector engine as the PK-101. It has 4GB of memory, can play MP3 files and has a built-in speaker.

The PK-102 weights 118gram, and measures 51x17x105 mm. It is selling now for $249 in the US.

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