Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Samsung launches Android 2.1 powered W9600 Beam projector smartphone


Today Samsung announced the W9600 Beam, the successor to the Samsung Haptic Beam, for the Korean smartphone market.

The 56mm x 116mm x 15.7mm (2.2in x 4.5in x 0.6in) W9600 Beam has a 3.3-inch 800 x 480 pixel resolution AMOLED display that Samsung says is 1.5 times brighter than the one offered on the original Haptic Beam phone.

The W9600 Beam also comes equipped with a 5 megapixel camera and a projector, which can be used to display presentations, or even to project a movie up on the wall. It offers a 1,200mAh battery as well as up to 11GB of internal memory tha can be upgraded to 16GB via a microSD card.

The W9600 Beam also runs the latest Android 2.1 operating system. As we noted in our hands-on video back at Mobile World Congress, the device also has a custom Samsung user-interface on top of Android 2.1.

Samsung did not announce pricing.

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