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LG eXpo: Serious Projector Phone with a Seriously Unfunny Unboxing Video

If you’ve been dying to see the LG eXpo (the world’s first projector smartphone) in action, get a sneak peak of Avatar, the new James Cameron flick and also get your fill of pedestrian stabs at flaccid cubicle humor, then it’s definitely time for you to check out the “Funny unboxing of the LG eXpo mobile phone with DLP Pico projector accessory” video from DLPTechnology and LG.

Luckily, even the unfunniness of this 5 minute epic isn’t enough to dampen the sheer awesomeness of the LG eXpo. While most of the consumer-oriented smartphones (such as the HTC Droid Eris from Verizon and the T-Mobile Tap) have been touting their multimedia fun-factor, the LG eXpo flexes some eye-popping productivity chops that make this a serious business phone. Most notable for the LG eXpo is, of course, it’s ability to project a 40-inch viewing area of whatever’s already playing on the phone’s 3.2-inch touchscreen. The phone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 with Microsoft Office Mobile included, which means you can project anything from web pages and videos to Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and Word files. The DLP Pico slides off, making the phone a slim 4.45 in. by 2.16 in. by 6.3 in., but even with the Pico attached, this sure beats lugging around the briefcase sized projectors that this smartphone will replace.

S-Class User Interface

One of the cooler features of the LG eXpo is the S-Class User Interface, which builds intuitive tweaks onto the OS almost to the point where it’s no longer recognizable as Windows Mobile 6.5. You get easy-to-navigate rows of icons that can scroll independently from each other as well as a completely reworked QWERTY that works great with the touchscreen’s vibrating haptic feedback. The dedicated multitasking key on the righthand spine let’s you zip between applications and thanks to the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, you can do so without the phone getting sluggish. Plus, since this is an AT&T phone, you can browse the web and talk on the phone at the same time.

Smart Sensor

The LG eXpo is also the first phone to feature Smart Sensor, which lets you Turbo Scroll through long menus but, more importantly, let’s you secure your phone with fingerprint recognition technology. Smart Sensor will learn your unique fingerprint so that only you can unlock it, which just might come in handy if you lose your phone (and all of its sensitive data) while on a business trip.

Other Features

Besides the groundbreaking highlights, the LG eXpo packs everything you’d expect from today’s smartphone: WiFi, Bluetooth, side-sliding physical QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel camera (with camcorder, flash and 3x digital zoom) and a built-in GPS which enables turn-by-turn directions with on-screen and voice prompts. The LG eXpo is also a world phone, which means it won’t go into “paperweight mode” once you take it across the border. Memory is expandable to 32gb with microSD and HSDPA 7.2 3g data connection is the fastest available for mobile technology.

All we can say is that this phone definitely rocks – and the next time LG rolls out a killer business smartphone, please just send us a spec sheet. The features speak for themselves – we don’t need two office nerds wiggling their “magic fingers” and getting creepily aroused by alien babes to get the picture.

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