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February 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Mobile World Congress, held each year in Barcelona, Spain, is a CES-style trade show for gadgets like smartphones and tablets. And since Apple doesn’t exhibit at Mobile World Congress, that leaves devices powered by Google‘s operating system, Android, to dominate.
Unlike with Apple’s iPhone, Android devices are made by an array of different manufacturers, in a wide variety of form factors and price points. You don’t need Google’s permission to make an Android devices; Barnes Noble and Amazon.com took the open-source Android code to make their own e-reader tablets. And even Google-approved devices (which can use Google apps and the Android Market) can look like just about anything, and have extremely unusual features for a smartphone or tablet.
Case in point? These Android gadgets, which were on display at MWC this year.
Despite being PlayStation Certified and running the PlayStation Suite of Android software, Sony‘s new tablet more closely resembles a competitor’s product: The 3DS, Nintendo’s dual-screened handheld. It doesn’t have 3D displays, but it does have two separate screens, each one 5.5 inches across. And unlike on the 3DS, both of them are capacitive multitouch screens, instead of only the bottom one being resistive (or based on pressure instead of skin contact).
Very few apps are designed to take advantage of the dual screens, but a selection will be available from Sony’s “Select App” market. Aside from that it’s a basic, somewhat underpowered tablet, with 4 GBs of flash memory and last year’s 3.2 “Honeycomb” version of Android. The Tablet P was actually unveiled last year, in fact, but it was just now announced that it’s finally coming to ATT, for $399 on a two-year contract.
It has basic specs for a midrange smartphone, a 4-inch screen, and last year’s “Gingerbread” smartphone version of Android. So what makes the Galaxy Beam so unusual? Take a look at what’s on top. That’s not an unusually-placed camera, it’s a 15-lumen projector.
David Ruddock of Android Police posted a hands-on. According to Ruddock, the Beam is “pretty useless even in moderate lighting,” but will project a clear image up to 50 inches across diagonally inside a dark room.
The Vu is unusual in more ways than one. First, it’s a direct competitor to Samsung’s Galaxy Note; with a 5-inch screen, it straddles the line between tablet and smartphone just like the Note does, and it even has a stylus accessory (which isn’t particularly good according to Ruddock). But second, it has a 4:3 screen ratio, like the iPad or an old CRT computer monitor, which may pose a challenge to app compatibility.
Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.
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