Looks like Apple and Nokia are going to join the Pico Projector race after all. No way of knowing exactly how this is going to come down at this point, but a Taiwanese news source, Digitimes, is reporting that a company by the name of Foxlink, which is a subsidiary of Apple, is currently developing it’s own pocket projector technology.
It’s thought this technology will make its way into integrated devices as early as this year with Apple due to offer an iPhone projector and Nokia presumably an N-series device with projection.
The mini projectors would see the new handsets capable of projecting images and video, usually in VGA resolution, up to around 60 inches.
DigiTimes states: “International brand vendors, including Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Apple, reportedly all plan to launch handsets with built-in micro projectors by the end of this year, indicated the sources, adding that Foxlink is likely to benefit from the emerging trend due to its strong business relationships with Nokia and Apple”.
It’s like I said earlier this week, the Pico Projector market is about to boom. Just in time for Christmas, of course. But it will be next Christmas before either of these major players brings any new projector technology to the table. That is my guess anyway.
I can’t help but wonder what the feelings of smaller pico manufacturers are. Companies like Optoma, AAXA, Beambox, and even Samsung have got to be feeling a little pressure when considering the two heavyweights, Apple and Nokia, are coming into the ring. With their own, new technology even.
Time will tell.
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