![]() ![]() With a normal phone, you can easily and naturally find the perfect situation for watching your content. If you're in bed, outside, anywhere other than a flat surface, you won't be able to recreate the ideal setting for projection easily. However, you won't always have the tools necessary to pull this off. Look, in the proper situation, a projector phone's image can be nicely centered and sized for the optimal viewing experience. Don't Miss: Side-By-Side Browsing & Faster Multitasking on the iPhone.Even if you could enable your movie to play while you text away, how are you going to do that without shaking or moving the projection? It's either impossible, or extraordinarily difficult. Not fun.īut, let's pretend that you can multitask with a projector phone (although there is no evidence that Moviphone or any other phone allows you to do this). Well, what happens when your mom texts you halfway through or you remember you need to write that personal email to your boss? You can't just allow the movie to continue as normal while you use the phone however you wish - whatever you do on the phone is going to be projected for the world to see. Let's say you want to screen a movie for your friends. You Can't Multitask When You're Projecting While the phone may have been granted certification after the time of this writing, that's discouraging for users who want to buy projector phones like this as early as possible. It seems the Moviphone is not designed with network connectivity in mind and is more of an afterthought to the whole process (you wouldn't see a debate on whether certain carriers even work with your Galaxy or Pixel 2).īuilding off that, in its initial stages, Moviphone does not appear to be Google certified, meaning users cannot access the Google Play Store to download apps, media, and games. That's not to say Moviphone is incompatible with carriers - this discussion seems to invite the idea that the phone works with T-Mobile and AT&T the best, although it appears it does not work with Verizon, with no mention of Sprint. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Moviphone accomplishes this. No matter how good of a projector an OEM manages to build into a smartphone, they still need to connect to a cellular network as well as any other smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Beam2 shipped with a 480p display and a quad-core 1.2 GHz CPU, while the Galaxy S5, released earlier that same year, featured a 1080p AMOLED display with a quad-core 2.5 GHz CPU.Ī projector that you will only occasionally use should not be the sole driving decision in what phone you buy, and manufacturers making projector phones just haven't realized that yet. That's always been the story for projector phones. It's just difficult to justify buying a Moviphone over the lineup of great smartphones out there when it doesn't quite reach the standards currently set. Don't Miss: The OnePlus 5T's New Sandstone White Color Already Sold Out.And, yes, while the Moviphone costs less than many leading smartphones at only $599, the OnePlus 5T is even cheaper, and dramatically outperforms the Moviphone. Why buy a smartphone specifically for projecting movies or photos when other non-projector phones look way better in the palm of your hand?Įven those with displays matching the Moviphone outclass it in terms of pure power - the Moviphone struggles with a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU, while the standard SoC on most Android phones is the Snapdragon 835, which provides eight-cores of 2.35 GHz processing. Many smartphones today ship with 1440p displays, more still with OLED. While those specs are great, they just can't compete with the current competition. ![]() A cool $1,000 won't get you that last one on the iPhone X. And, of course, it's built with a pico projector. That's not to say the Moviphone doesn't impress in some areas: it has a respectable 5.5" 1080p LCD display, with a massive 4,000 mAh battery. Moviphone might ship with internals that rocket above the projector phone competition, but it just can't compare to other major flagships. They Can't Beat Flagships for Day-to-Day Use But they're not there yet, and these are some of the factors hindering projector phones from holding their own in the smartphone arms race. The niche market of people wanting to play videos on any wall they come across or project photos larger than life is still very appealing to manufacturers, and if they can figure out the right formula, they might just succeed in transitioning into mass appeal to compete against iPhones and Galaxy devices. ![]()
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