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inside this box we have the Samsung Galaxy Beam it's not even out yet we'll get to the beam part in a minute but we taped it up just so we could have a proper unboxing may I remind you once again that knives always work better than scissors for opening boxes baby paper here we go galaxy beam light up and share let's have a look inside our box here one thing you will note right off the bat is the bumblebee motif with the yellow all around the edges this phone's also pretty big and heavy there are some good reasons for that but you should sort of be prepared for at least the thickness and the bulk all right let's run through some specs the Galaxy Beam has a one gigahertz dual-core processor and eight gigs of built-in storage it has a four inch Super AMOLED display a 5 megapixel camera with a flash and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera it ships with I am sorry to say Android Gingerbread it does have a bigger battery to thousand milliamp Stu help with that projection although it's not as good as the RAZR MAXX which has a 3300 milliamp battery it also has a micro SD card slot which is expandable up to 32 gigs now right about now you're probably thinking why would I buy that phone I mean it doesn't even ship with Ice Cream Sandwich and let's be honest those specs are kind of middling plus the Samsung Galaxy s3 is out okay well here's the hook on this one it's got a built-in pico projector get it beam it's a projector the projector bulb puts out a brightness of 15 lumens it creates an NHD image with a resolution of 640 by 360 and the image can be up to 50 inches it has various apps to control projection and playback and something called ambiance mode which lets you play any song or still image for a specific duration you can use this little phone to beam videos or slideshows or pictures onto a wall up to 6 beat away I'm surprisingly excited about this or at least I was until I watched samsung's collection of heartwarming videos showing you all the possibilities I'm not as pretty as those people but I totally did this with kid pictures well kind of whatever jerk so my videos not as heartwarming as Samsung's videos which by the way we're not very heartwarming at all like you're not really pulling off the Apple FaceTime thing and the music is annoying and all I can think about is how all those kids are too young to have kids and I just I don't know that's not working but the beaming might be surprisingly cool although Samsung has not given us a US release date for this phone right now you can order an unlocked version for about $600 and then route it to get a decent version of Android on it but I think at that price you got to ask yourself if the beaming is really worth it head on over to cnet.com and reject the adult courts full review to find out because she's way less snarky than I am