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Samsung SP-H03 pico projector offers media playback, fits in the palm of your hand

By | June 11, 2010, 12:50am PDT

Summary: Samsung has debuted a small gadget with quite a bit of punch packed inside. The SP-H03 pico projector weights only six ounces, but it offers playback of multiple media file types and even boasts an LED source with a projected 30,000-hour lifetime.

Samsung has debuted a small gadget with quite a bit of punch packed inside. The SP-H03 pico projector weights only six ounces, but it offers playback of multiple media file types and even boasts an LED source with a projected 30,000-hour lifetime.

The ultra-petite SP-H03 projector is meant to be brought basically anywhere in any type of bag you own (i.e. briefcase, backpack, purse and maybe even a fanny pack if you still have one). It’s an on-the-go gadget that doesn’t require a computer, and it hosts built-in software to project numerous common document types in their native formats, such as Microsoft Office files or PDFs.

Projection quality isn’t too shabby for a 2.5-inch wide device, with an image size range of nine to 80 inches and a WVGA (854 x 480) native resolution.

It might also make a useful portable media device given the integrated 1W speaker and media playback support for over a dozen different music, video and image file types. All of this can be saved directly to the 1GB of on-board storage space, or via either the USB port or microSD card slot (up to 16GB).

The downer is the battery life, which is only up to two hours. So don’t plan on going to far from a power source with this little guy.

Samsung’s SP-H03 will be available at some unknown date in June for $299.99.

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  • Watch DVD or Blu-ray on Samsung SP-H03 pico projector
    "Computer-free Document Viewer allows for content playback for Microsoft? Office Suite and Adobe? PDF documents and movie, image and audio files in native formats, including:

    Movie: AVI, MP4, ASF, MPG, RM, FLV, WMV

    Image: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF

    Music: MP3, MP2, WAV, WMA, FLAC, APE, RA

    Supports standard VGA signals (PC), composite video (smart-phones, DVD players), "

    A good way to watch DVD or Blu-ray on SP-H03 with 720p size, good job. I tried it, worked fine, I use iPhone 4 Video format, and use Pavtube, great!
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    neal2324
    13th Jul 2010
  • Help Plz
    I am having problem in my samsung SP-H03 pico projector.i cannot add and delete files in internal memory..whats the problem??where can i download the firmware?
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    rameshbista5
    26th Oct 2010

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