This is one of the most exciting press releases we’ve seen to date. The industry is really starting to move forward now. And it looks like the competition is starting to yeild the smartphone high volume market to TI and their DLP technology. The Samsung made Android has just announced their Galaxy phone will have [...]
I have notice many TV ads for the new LG phone with a DLP projector mounted to it, as have most of my friends. This is really amazing - we are watching the brith of the cell phone projector in its infancy. The projector seems to work well in dark rooms as expected but also [...]
LG is launching a new projector phone using Texas Instruments DLP projector. This phone will debut on the AT&T network likely in time for Christmas. This would be the first cell phone to carry an embedded projector - sort of (remember, the China phone with a projector doesn’t count because of lack of performance and [...]
We got our hands on 3M’s Mpro110 and Optoma’s DLP projector. Now we know that 3M has commercialized and LCOS micro projector engine that is in multiple projector brands so this is really a comparison of projection performance of all of those brands to DLP. We also know DLP is proprietary to TI and so [...]
We have officially entered the era of microprojection! 3M and their LED LCOS solution has done it first. They have launched the world’s first micro projector. This engine is now inside 2 projectors on the market, including 3M’s own brand - the MPro 110. This is launching in Germany but will be global by the [...]
After Optoma announces with TI that they have the world’s smallest projector and that they will be launching in 2009, Aiptek announces it will manufacture the Mint V10 by Mint Wireless. The engine apparantly is powered by 3M’s micro projector technology of LCOS and LED. This is said be launched very soon in Australia. So, while many [...]
We were there to document several companies moving fast in this area of technology. The products are very close to market. 3M Tells us that they will launch early this year! From looking at what they had on the floor - we believe them! They say “they are ready now.” MicroVision seems to have fallen [...]
It looks like 3M has entered the cellphone projection market by introducing a new micro projector that will fit into any handheld device, including a cell phone. From the press release, it looks like it’s an LCOS based system lit by LED, and with proprietary 3M optics inside. From what we can see, it appears they [...]