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Mobile phone with built-in projector

Last year Texas Instruments announced their digital light processing (DLP) “pico” projector, a tiny movie projector that can fit inside a mobile phone. The word is out that the first mobile phone using this technology are in the production phase and will be available in a couple of months.

The DLP Pico chipset is being manufactured and will allow the cell phone to beam DVD-quality video onto a screen or a wall, serving as a video player or a television. There is no need to by a big LCD display so that you can watch a game with your friends, the chip inside your phone could drive images for a widescreen television.

Sales of DLP TV`s have largely remained flat in a market being gobbled up by LCD televisions. The majority of DLP chips end up in projectors, not TVs. Frank J. Moizio, business manager Texas Instruments states that the continuously improvement and transformation of the possibilities of viewing the multimedia content on the mobile phone represented important steps in the development of the DLP Pico chipset.