Luckily, voices also sounded natural and warm, not hollow or tinny. Volume sounded high at midlevel, and while voices did sound natural, with no background noise, they were also muffled and fuzzy enough to give my testing partner a lisp. Call quality was on the better side of so-so. I tested the unlocked Samsung Galaxy Beam in San Francisco using AT&T's 3G network. Shadows are unavoidable on photos taken at noon, but the camera once again lapped up the light. Phones like the Galaxy S3 have a deeper bench of motion options. If you prefer to speak instead of tap, you'll have your choice in the phone settings of two different voice command services - Google's Android voice actions, and Samsung's Vlingo-powered take (this is not marketed as S Voice.) The phone will also work as a portable hot spot, and includes Samsung's most basic motion controls, which do things like mute the phone when you turn it over. I'm a big fan of any phone that includes an FM radio, as this one does. Samsung's app contributions include its usual apps for sharing content across DLNA devices (AllShare) and wirelessly between the computer and phone (Kies Air, in the Settings.) There are also the social networking app ChatOn, a photo editor, and Samsung hubs (apps, games, social.) In addition, you'll find a memo app, Mini Diary, and the aforementioned Polaris Office. The Galaxy Beam has Swype as a virtual keyboard option. Google's services like voice Navigation, Places, and YouTube help define it as an Android phone, and there are the basics like a browser, a clock, a calendar, a calculator, and a music player. Now it would be great to get some software backup to make the hardware even more useful.Īndroid 2.3 Gingerbread gives the Samsung's Galaxy Beam life as a smartphone, with the standard-issue Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, mapping, search, and communication features for text, e-mail, and multimedia messaging. So, there are other ways to achieve most things you'd want to do with a projector - some better than others - but does the physical projector do what it promises? Yes. There's also no shortcut to the presentation app from the navigation tray, so you'll have to reopen the app to do anything else. For instance, you can't simply toggle off the annotation quick pad mid-presentation, you have to navigate out with the back button. In addition, the app more jerkily hops from one task to another. The more graphically limited Polaris Office is much closer to true presentation mode I'd like to see the app automatically facilitate presentation mode for common presentation formats. The projector can beam up to a 50-inch screen. Almost everything I wanted to present looked better in fixed landscape mode, but there's auto and portrait as well. Brightness, screen time-out, and screen orientation are adjustable from the settings. You can also program a flashlight or blinking colored light, and can set a reminder to begin a presentation. Something called ambience mode can be set to play an image and song of your choice for minutes or hours. You'll have the same access to focus and rotation, and to the quick pad, but you'll also be able to project whatever's in the camera's eye by using the "visual presenter." That tool lets you set up the phone over various documents or other 3D objects and demonstrate them through the projection. You can get more granular by opening the more in-depth DLP app. In addition to activating the beam, the action triggers an app that lets you adjust the focus of the image, rotate 90 degrees, or launch the "quick pad" tool bar that lets you annotate with pen or drag around a pointer. Turn on the projector by pressing and holding the button on the right spine. The Texas Instruments-made DLP (digital light projector) has a brightness of 15 lumens and display images up to 50 inches wide at a 640x360-pixel resolution. The bright projection bulb beams out 15 lumens, whereas previous attempts at projector phones topped out at 10 lumens.
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