Galaxy Beam review: A smartphone with a built-in DLP pico-projector for 50" video projection.
A phone with a projector.
Galaxy Beam crammed a tiny DLP pico-projector into a phone, capable of throwing a 50-inch image at 15 lumens. Modest as a smartphone and dim as a projector, it remains one of the most distinctive Samsung concepts ever shipped.
01Display
56/10056/100 trails the 61-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2012.
02Camera
52/10052/100 trails the 54-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2012.
03Performance
44/10044/100 is one of the weaker performance results among mid-range phones of 2012 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker battery results among mid-range phones of 2012 — 9 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
60/10060/100 trails the 62-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2012.
06Value
56/10056/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2012.
- Built-in 15-lumen DLP projector.
- Projected up to 50" WVGA from a phone.
- Removable battery + microSD.
- Quirky, unique party-trick device.
- Projector was dim by any standard.
- Modest specs for the price.
- Niche use case.
- Heavy 145 g.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 17-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .