There are some weird phones at every CES (I’m looking at you, Neutrano) but the weird-award winner so far goes to something called the Logic Bolt. According to Logic Wireless, the brand-new company behind the phone, the Bolt is a GSM phone that will be sold subsidized by T-Mobile for $100 and has a built-in pico-projector.
Logic Wireless is a 19-person, Arizona-based company founded by Aasim Saied, the former owner of two software companies. “I built the whole company in the last three months,” Saied said. “There was an existing company that made a prototype of the projector-phone. I took over the exclusive rights and redesigned all the features of the phone,” he said.
According to Logic, the Bolt can project a two-hour movie on a 36-64″ screen. The projector can route video from almost any source, including an XBox or Nintendo Wii, Saied said.
The phone uses an LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) projector with an LED backlight from Butterfly Technology, a Chinese company that makes micro-projectors and projector modules.
The phone also has a 320×240 touch screen, the ability to read Microsoft Office documents, Bluetooth, GPS and a 3-megapixel camera. The Bolt runs a Java-based OS on its 100 Mhz MTK 6225 main chipset, and is made in China, Saied said. Bizarrely, the phone has a huge 1800 mAh battery but only gets 2-3 hours of talk time, which seems very short for a battery that size. Said said they’re working on a 5-hour battery.
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