Samsung AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600 projector phone is not what we've been waiting for

Remember Samsung's impressive 3.7-inch Super AMOLED Beam projector phone running Andriod? This isn't it. Instead, Samsung is launching its far less impressive 3.3-inch AMOLED (what, no Super?) Beam SPH-W9600 we previewed back in January into its South Korean home. So yeah, it's the same 5 megapixeler with T-DMB TV, Microsoft Office and DivX codec support, and improved DLP pico projector that replaces last year's W7900. But if it's all the same to you Sammy, we'll be waiting for the true projector phone successor -- your Beam i8520, codenamed Halo -- said to be launching this summer.

AMOLED Beam

[Outsider Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:00AM]

Does it play Halo?

[Outsider Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:01AM]

@Outsider

That was a stupid question, wasn't it. Low rank me.

[glenskey Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:05AM]

@Outsider
oddly enough, i down ranked the comment that said 'low rank me' first..

[mrqs Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:11AM]

@Outsider (assuming you were referring to the "beam i8520, codenamed halo")

actually, since it's running android and there's quake 3 for android and there's a halo mod for quake 3... kinda yes

[juanvaldez Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:56AM]

@glenskey "wasn't it." added to the confusion without the question mark to make it a rhetorical question. I think I read that 3 times before realizing the somewhat obvious.

[jessavorah Posted Apr 17th 2010 11:42AM]

@Outsider Price wise, the new phone will sell for 900,000 won, which is whooping $806. Opinions. http://bit.ly/samsung-sph-w9600

[eternity0022 Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:00AM]

ugly looking

[TareG Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:05AM]

whoa.... I thought projector phones would be a LOT thicker than that... we can ACTUALLY see those in production next year.... awesome.

[tonicboy Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:14AM]

@TareG
How can you even tell how thick it is from one straight-above pic? They could easily be using a "trick" such as the HTC Hero's bevel to make it look thinner. I need to see more angles before I can decide how chunky it is.

[juanvaldez Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:57AM]

@tonicboy Next to the tiny Korean fingers? :)

[MattsZ Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:12AM]

If it had more stickers on it I would have been sold on it

[simvalue Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:18AM]

"Running andriod" ... sure

[Herr Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:19AM]

There's a typo.

"Andriod?"

[xmonkey Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:45AM]

What's the point of a phone with a projector again?

[RobGee Posted Apr 14th 2010 4:53AM]

quake 3 for android? Can't find it on the market.

[mrqs Posted Apr 14th 2010 5:11AM]

@RobGee

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/quake-3-ported-to-android-shows-off-droids-graphical-prowess/

[mrqs Posted Apr 14th 2010 5:12AM]

what's up with the pretty girl's left eye on the first two pics (especially the 2nd) ?

[jinjin Posted Apr 14th 2010 12:53PM]

@mrqs what the hells up with the phone is as big as her HEAD?

[mrqs Posted Apr 15th 2010 4:28AM]

@jinjin

perspective fail

[mrqs Posted Apr 14th 2010 5:14AM]

@CupertinoSweat

do you know a screen technology that isn't hard to see in direct sunlight?

judging by the amoled on my samsung galaxy, it fairs as ok as anything else (once i turn the brightness up, which i have set to min usually)

[mrqs Posted Apr 15th 2010 4:30AM]

@mrqs

why on earth was his comment deleted ?
all he did was ask about amoled performance in sunlight ?

am i on engadget.cn ?

[darkmax Posted Apr 14th 2010 5:38AM]

How much for the model?

No, not those two in front. I'm interested in the one in the background.

[krosref Posted Apr 14th 2010 7:14AM]

what's with the black nail polish, elvira?

[cookiemawnstah Posted Apr 14th 2010 8:59AM]

@krosref The chrome doesn't stand out as much, just by itself.

[N900 Posted Apr 14th 2010 7:14AM]

Android 2.1 onboard?

[madrabbit Posted Apr 14th 2010 7:21AM]

what's the resolution of this projector?

[planner Posted Apr 14th 2010 8:46AM]

I dun find THIS sammy's model attractive... Rather crippy ~

[cookiemawnstah Posted Apr 14th 2010 8:58AM]

Looks like the b*****d child of wave and devour, working for the mafia.

[VF34WRX Posted Apr 14th 2010 9:10AM]

Certainly that girl is whom I've been waiting for. Korean girl + cosmetic surgery + Korean makeup = so much win!

[hond Posted Apr 14th 2010 2:20PM]

What's with all these new phones. I don't need 3d/games/touchscreen/internet/etc.. on my phone. What I need is a normal slide/clam-phone that has a decent amount of memory/mp3-player and a camera. And I don't want to spend 500$ on a phone.