Mobile phone with built-in video projector

Our friends over at Engadget recently reported ona new mobile phone manufactured by China King which the first to feature a built-in projector!



With this amazing product, users will be able to project a 30 inch image in VGA definition (640 x 480 pixels) for up to two hours using the built-in battery.  For the pleasure, however, your wallet will end up $550 lighter rather more quickly than that ...

The comments from the endgadget reviewers are pretty scathing: they reckon that the built-in projector will probably be used in pubs and bars to show clips of people’s ‘fascinating’ exploits, whether or not anybody actually cares.

Personally, I see their point, but am a little more optimistic.  Of course, this little box of tricks is very much a gadget, and so it brings us one step closer to the holy grail of uniting almost every device in one.  Now that MP3 players, digital cameras, GPS and telephony have all come together, we can now add digital video projection as well.