Cellphone News - Cingular to demo video calls at CES

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Cellphone News - Cingular to demo video calls at CES

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It’s been a long time in coming — and even its latest upcoming equipment doesn’t seem to support it — but Cingular (or should we say AT&T?) wants everyone to know that video calling is still very much on its agenda. Demos of the feature, made possible by WCDMA’s capability to rock voice and data simultaneously, will be taking place at AT&T’s CES booth next week. We don’t know the full lineup of handsets Cingular will be using for the exhibition or whether said equipment will make it into Cingular’s lineup down the road, but one device we know will be shown is the LG CU500v, a video call-capable update to the venerable CU500. Yeah, that’s right — that six month old, HSDPA capable CU500 is obsolete. Some of us haven’t even worn the new phone smell off our 8525s and BlackJacks yet, but we doubt they’re updatable; no front-facing cam, after all.

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Microvision unveils tiny projector for mobile devices

Filed under: Cellphones, Displays

There are monstrous projectors, run-of-the-mill renditions, small versions, and then there’s ridiculously tiny ones, but we’ve got love for ‘em all. It looks like Microvision tends to favor the diminutive kind, however, as the company is looking to showcase its “ultrathin, miniature full-color projection display” at next week’s CES. Hoping to cram this bad boy into your next mobile phone, PDA, or other handheld gizmo, the firm is touting its incredibly small form factor as the next coming of mobile displays. Taking up the same amount of space as Apple’s 2G Shuffle, the display can project “extremely sharp and vivid” imagery onto walls, bodies, screens, or skyscrapers, with a maximum image size “similar to a big screen plasma TV.” Sure, we’re fully aware of the sensationalism they’re tossing in, but this type of development could refine mobile video and the ability to view it on a decent sized screen, so hopefully we’ll catch a glimpse of this miniscule PJ in just a few days.

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