Samsung Projector Phone: Do we really need projectors on our mobiles?

Here’s the latest in mobile phone technology, the Samsung projector phone. It’s impressive enough that they have made a projector  so small, but they’ve also managed to get a fully functional phone in there as well. It certainly gives you something that you won’t find on your current iPhone or Blackberry, but although impressive do we actually need projectors in our mobiles?

Technology found in mobiles is only successful if people feel the need to use it regularly or at least want the technology to be permanently accessible. At present people might want to use a projector when they need to show images or video to a large group or when a particularly large image is desirable, at other times projecting an image might seem unnecessary. On the surface of it the vast majority of people don’t really need projectors on their phones, but then did people need to always have a camera with them before camera phones, or need the internet on the bus before the iPhone? They did not, but as technology became effortlessly accessible people started to use the technology, they found it offered new opportunities, this in turn lead to new behaviours which eventually let to a new standard. The new level of accessibility for projector technology could allow it to function in ways beyond it’s original (and static) purpose and uses, and it would be these uses that would make the projector an essential part of a mobile phone.

It’s hard to tell if people will embrace the projector as a mobile technology, whether it’s effortless accessibility will lead to new behaviours and a new mobile standard, but if they do the world might look like a very different place. Just imagine all the people playing loud music out their phone in public with the power to project what ever they want where ever they want, Samsung might just have a lot to answer for in the future!

News source: Electric Pig