Video: Samsung Show W7900 projector phone gets specced, demoed

Samsung's Show (formally known as the W7900) made a brief but resonating appearance at CES this year, and now, the lucky kids over at PopSci have managed to acquire a few more juicy specifications as well as a few moments of coveted hands-on time. The forthcoming projector phone, which is apt to land in South Korea first, includes a 3.2-inch OLED display (400 x 240 resolution), quad-band GSM connectivity, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, a five megapixel camera, support for video calling and the obligatory ten lumen projector that shoots 480 x 320 images out at up to 50 inches. The entire device measures in at 4.4- x 2.2- x 0.7-inches, and it actually doesn't emit a half bad image when the lights are all down. Have a look for yourself just after the break.

[A7 Posted Jan 28th 2009 1:49AM]

lolz....this would do to your battery life what a 300pound lifer would do to a scrawny blonde kid in jail.

[semikyopo Posted Jan 28th 2009 3:08AM]

Just spotted this on some Korean shopping sites. Price is coming up as 670,000 won (about $486 US), but with some sort of contract obligations. I'm guessing it'd be near twice that w/o a contract?

http://www.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=158814823&pos_shop_cd=SH&pos_class_cd=111111111&pos_class_kind=T&keyword_order=w7900&search_keyword=w7900


According to this blog you can use the projector for 2 hours 45 minutes on a full charge:

http://bzt-inside.tistory.com/646

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2009 6:07AM]

Wow, either the touch calibration is way off or touch just sucks.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2009 10:10AM]

SHOW is not really the name of the phone
It's just KTF's 3G brand

[wildting Posted Feb 1st 2009 2:18AM]

Will this work if I bring it from Korea to the United States on ATT's network? I am almost positive the phone portion will work but I'm just curious if the data / web-browsing capabilities will work. Please excuse my ignorance as I was previously a CDMA Verizon customer so I have no experience with using "outside" phones. Thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 1:12PM]

I'm flying to Korea to pick one up for myself. I was going to bring back a few to sell on eBay or something, but KTF (exclusive carrier) requires a 24month service contract, so it's going to be too expensive. We'll see if there is a way to somehow obtain the phone without a contract, but not likely.