MoviPhone Attention

This is what it looks like when you start getting hype, and this is what it looks like just before you get fast followers.

Those companies that were nervous about sticking their necks out and seeing how something like this would be received are watching this closely.

Yes, at the booth they assured me it can work with Verizon.

Also how we find new investors.



CNET

One of the absolute joys about CES is discovering a random jewel among the hundreds of exhibition booths. That's the case with the company Wireless Mobi Solution (WMS) from San Diego. Its jewel: a midrange Android phone with a built-in HD projector.

The phone is called the Moviphone and as the name so rudimentarily suggests, it's all about movies. And what better way to watch a movie than projecting it onto a wall as big as you can? The 50-lumen projector supports a 720p HD image that can be projected up 100 inches in size.

IBTimes

The Moviphone is being trialled at CES this year and includes a unique feature. Included in the phone – meaning it is not a peripheral – is a 720p HD projector. On the move and want to watch a movie with big screen frills? The Pico projector can display a movie up to 100 inches in size.

The phone also comes packed with a 16-megapixel camera, Android 7.0 Nougat and a fingerprint scanner. Don't worry too much about that stuff though, the reason to buy this phone is definitely the projector. It will cost you $599 (£440 in the UK, but it is rarely a straight conversion).

MWC Day 1

Not the day we wanted to have, but actually interesting anyway.

Two things that improve the ecosystem for PicoP are the most interesting things. 

And some competition that Celluon with PicoP has already outclassed.

5G

5G at CNet

Reasons to be eager for 5G

Expect plenty of benefits from the next-gen network.

• New realities: 5G will push augmented reality and virtual reality into the mainstream. Augmented reality overlays information like walking directions, product prices or acquaintances' names over our view of the real world by, for example, projecting data onto a car windshield. Virtual reality creates an entirely artificial view. Both need to pull in new data almost instantly.
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• Instant gratification: Download speeds should increase from today's 4G peak of 150 megabits per second to at least 10 gigabits per second. That's fast enough to download "Guardians of the Galaxy" in 4 seconds instead of 6 minutes.
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• Lightning-fast response: In addition to cramming more bits into every second, 5G will shorten the lag time before the first bits show up. Waiting a few seconds for a streaming video to start over 4G is no big deal, but that's unacceptably slow for things like self-driving cars, where every millisecond counts. 4G ideally needs 15 to 25 milliseconds for one car to tell another behind it that it's begun emergency braking. That delay will drop to 1 millisecond with 5G."

5G wireless protocol is FAST. So fast you probably won't care about speed again for a long, long time. Download a Blue-ray Quality disk in 10 seconds fast. Download a 4K movie in 40 seconds fast. That's fast. Getting video to your mobile device that has PicoP will NOT be a problem when this rolls around.

5G Article at Fierce Wireless

SANDISK 200GB MicroSD Card

From theVerge

More memory than most Laptops. Will be able to hold four or more HD movies on a portable device.






Lenovo Pocket Projector

From Android Authority

Already obsolete next to the Celluon PicoAir & PicoP.

Where are Smartphones are Going

This accessory has arrived.

At CNET

'Appcessories'

An extension of the smartphone as medical device is what Ideo's Blakely terms "appcessories," a set of highly specialized peripheral software that fulfills very targeted needs, stuff that most people wouldn't want on their everyday phone.

Let's say you've downloaded an art app that maps out a paint-by-numbers schematic of your favorite Picasso. Now let's say you've bought an after-market appcessory, a tiny pico projector with an NFC chip installed that, when you slip it onto the phone, beams out the image onto your surface so that you can get to work on your painting, or vegetable garden planting, or DIY home project.

Snail Gaming Phone

This thing was awesome. It needs a picop, and it's really cool just as it is.

You can't get the 3D effect from the video, but when you look at it in person, the picture goes 3D because it scans your face and knows where your eyes are. If they could duplicate that with the PicoP picture... we'll never see the kids again.

I was dubious when I picked it up, and started giggling when I did... it's so cool it makes me wish I played those kinds of games.



@CNET

@IGN