Thats looks bad ass. But I doubt it will be coming out anytime soon. To beable to shoot a HD screen at 60 inch from a ****ing phone. Gimme a damn break lol... I wonder what a price tag would be when it first hits the market. Has to be well over a 1,000.
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The accessory version of the projector that you can plug into another device will be launched in 2008. As far as buying the version embedded in a phone we are probably 18 months away from that. Motorola signed the first contract to develop a version for their phones. They should have working prototypes by year's end. What's great is it's not an exclusive contract, so Apple, Microsoft, and several other companies are also interested. Once one phone has it, everyone else will want it too.
I've had a stake in the company for 8 years. I've seen the technology, I've been to facility, I've used the prototypes. It's really amazing and it isn't in its final form yet...it will improve. The problem is it's difficult to prove without seeing it firsthand. Below is a clip of it in action, but it doesn't do it justice. Projection displays are impossible to videotape and replay. You lose all the quality and brightness.
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The accessory version is targeted at under $300. Not sure what cell phone manufacturers will do to the price of their phones...that's their call.
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Can others get a stake in this company? Are they public?
I dont usually get to hyped up for any electronics...but if this is the new ipod...i will buy one by the end of the week.
full screen with the touchscreen....had to see this coming, i watch a good ammount of movies on my ipod but the screen is just to small if this is the case....this one will be worth the money.
full screen with the touchscreen....had to see this coming, i watch a good ammount of movies on my ipod but the screen is just to small if this is the case....this one will be worth the money.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits Thursday to customers who shelled out $599 for the most advanced model of the iPhone, only to have the company unexpectedly slash the price $200 in a push to boost holiday sales.
In a letter on the company's Web site, Jobs acknowledged that Apple disappointed some of its customers by cutting the price of the iPhone's 8-gigabyte model and said he has received hundreds of e-mails complaining about the price cut.
But Jobs added that "the technology road is bumpy," and there will always be people who pay top dollar for the latest electronics but get angry later when the price drops.
"This is life in the technology lane," Jobs said.
Immediately after the cuts were announced Wednesday, Jobs' tone was less conciliatory. He tartly rebuffed criticism about whether some of Apple's most die-hard fans would be miffed by the company's latest actions.
IPhone owners who bought their device that morning, he said an interview with USA Today, "should go back to where they bought it and talk to them. If they bought it a month ago, well, that's what happens in technology."
Jobs then apparently had a change of heart. The company is making the right decision by lowering the iPhone price, he said in his letter, but needs to "do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers."
"(W)e need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price," he said. "Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these."
Jobs said Apple will hand out $100 credits for Apple's retail and online stores to iPhone customers who aren't eligible for a rebate.
An Apple spokeswoman said the company did not have an estimate of how much the credits would cost Apple.
Under Apple's refund policy, customers who bought an iPhone within 14 days of the price cut can get a refund of the price difference if they have the original receipt.
The price cut - and the phaseout of the 4-gigabyte iPhone, which retailed for $499 - came less than 10 weeks after the two products hit the market June 29 and angered some early iPhone users, who were startled to have their prized gadgets plummet in value.
Investors were also rattled by the news, sending Apple's shares down a total of more than 6 percent over the past two days, a drop that has wiped out about $8 billion in shareholder wealth.
Some worry that Apple is cutting the price to make up for waning demand, a concern Apple countered by saying the device is now affordable to more people and has the potential to be a blowout seller this holiday season.
Apple has said it's on track to sell 1 million iPhones by the end of the current quarter.
Apple's stock, after falling 5 percent on the news of Wednesday's announcements, fell another 1.3 percent Thursday to close at $135.01, or $1.75 lower than Wednesday's close.
In a letter on the company's Web site, Jobs acknowledged that Apple disappointed some of its customers by cutting the price of the iPhone's 8-gigabyte model and said he has received hundreds of e-mails complaining about the price cut.
But Jobs added that "the technology road is bumpy," and there will always be people who pay top dollar for the latest electronics but get angry later when the price drops.
"This is life in the technology lane," Jobs said.
Immediately after the cuts were announced Wednesday, Jobs' tone was less conciliatory. He tartly rebuffed criticism about whether some of Apple's most die-hard fans would be miffed by the company's latest actions.
IPhone owners who bought their device that morning, he said an interview with USA Today, "should go back to where they bought it and talk to them. If they bought it a month ago, well, that's what happens in technology."
Jobs then apparently had a change of heart. The company is making the right decision by lowering the iPhone price, he said in his letter, but needs to "do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers."
"(W)e need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price," he said. "Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these."
Jobs said Apple will hand out $100 credits for Apple's retail and online stores to iPhone customers who aren't eligible for a rebate.
An Apple spokeswoman said the company did not have an estimate of how much the credits would cost Apple.
Under Apple's refund policy, customers who bought an iPhone within 14 days of the price cut can get a refund of the price difference if they have the original receipt.
The price cut - and the phaseout of the 4-gigabyte iPhone, which retailed for $499 - came less than 10 weeks after the two products hit the market June 29 and angered some early iPhone users, who were startled to have their prized gadgets plummet in value.
Investors were also rattled by the news, sending Apple's shares down a total of more than 6 percent over the past two days, a drop that has wiped out about $8 billion in shareholder wealth.
Some worry that Apple is cutting the price to make up for waning demand, a concern Apple countered by saying the device is now affordable to more people and has the potential to be a blowout seller this holiday season.
Apple has said it's on track to sell 1 million iPhones by the end of the current quarter.
Apple's stock, after falling 5 percent on the news of Wednesday's announcements, fell another 1.3 percent Thursday to close at $135.01, or $1.75 lower than Wednesday's close.
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