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Sony has a history of failing to launch some of its smartphones in the US market, simply it's bringing a new Android-powered device to US-based consumers. It'southward just non a phone. Sony's latest product is the Xperia Touch, a portable projector with touch detection. Y'all tin can jot down notes, play games, and scout video via the projector, just it'll cost you. Sony has priced this sci-fi device at an astronomical $1,700.

The Xperia Touch is what's known every bit an ultra-short-throw projector, meaning yous identify it against (or close to) the surface onto you're projecting. The projector beams the Android UI onto the table or wall with a 100 lumen laser. Information technology has a resolution of 1366×768–not the highest for a projector or a phone. However, yous can brand the prototype anywhere from 23 to 80-inches in size. Try doing that with your phone.

You tin can interact with the image being projected but similar it was a giant touch screen. It can track up to ten multitouch points at a time with an infrared sensor. Information technology too has a motion detector that wakes up the projector when you walk past. Sony has congenital a custom interface that tin can show you the time, notifications, notes, the weather, and more than.

Existence an Android device, you tin can run all your apps. The video beneath shows off a lot of interesting things you can exercise with the Xperia Bear on, only they're all apps that are available generally in the Play Store. You don't need a $1,700 projector to play Fruit Ninja or use djay2.

Whatever you're using it for, y'all can only do it for an 60 minutes without ability. That's all the internal battery can manage, and then it'south best to keep it tethered to an outlet for extended use. It also has stereo speakers and can respond to voice commands via Google Assistant. Within y'all go 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. Sony hasn't listed the processor in any of the specs, though.

The Xperia Touch runs on Android 7.0, only information technology seems like the sort of product that won't get a lot of OTA updates. Sony's probably not going to sell many of them at $1,700, and engineering resources are best spent on devices people are actually using. Still, peradventure this will be a surprise hit for Sony. Goodness knows it could use 1. Information technology's listed on Amazon, merely out of stock at the moment.