Projector Phones

By Chaaya

This year many new gadgets and technologies are being introduced. You might have heard of the new 3D televisions and projector phones. The LG Expo is the first cell phone with a projector system. Initial cost of one of these new phones is 300 dollars. Now it may have a projector and camera but how much energy does it use compared to the regular cell phone. Qualcomm Snapdragon processor is the projector that is used in the LG phone. It only runs at 1 GHz (giga-hertz) which is one billion cycles a second. Though this is a pretty cool cell phone, a rep from the company found out that the processor is "leaky," confirming that it is not energy efficient. It would literally need to be plugged in almost all of the time for using the projector.

According to the TerraPass website, which provides many ways to "go green", says that only 5 percent of the power drawn from the charger actually used to charge the phone. The 95 percent is just excess energy, but when the phone isn't being charged it is just wasting energy. Energy that your paying for! So when you have a projector phone that has to be plugged in almost all of the time, your money is just pouring out of your wallet. Next time your in verizon wireless or your local phone store. Think about the money you'll be spending for charging it than actually using it!