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Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop?

eggled writes "My boss makes mobile presentations fairly frequently, but is sick of lugging around his gargantuan laptop (a Toshiba A25-S207). It's fallen to me to see if I can solve this for him. I began looking at netbooks and such, but many of them are slightly high for our price bracket (being that he already owns a fully functional laptop; this will be a presentations-only machine). His current cell phone, a Motorola RAZR, is getting decrepit and the contract is up, so I figured I'd look at smartphone-style replacement, and let AT&T subsidize the cost of the new phone. What I'm hoping to find is a phone that can be attached to a VGA-input projector, and play Powerpoint presentations (PDF would work, too). Web access is a must, but I think I'd be hard pressed to buy a high end phone that won't have internet access, so I'm unconcerned on that topic. Anybody out there have experience with this sort of thing or have suggestions on what route to take?"

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  1. Simple by Turiacus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Any phone/pda with windows mobile and a usb/cf port will do.

    You just need:
    - A USB/CF VGA card
    - Microsoft Office PowerPoint Mobile

  2. Re:Asus Eee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The EEE (at least the 900 I have) has a VGA port, which is usually all you need to hook up to most projectors.