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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?"
Its not going to be drag and drop, but it is pretty straight forward
The N95 has a TV-output cable and there should be some Symbian program to play powerpoint slideshows if the integrated office apps don't.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;625432195;pp;2;fp;;fpid;
You could also just convert the PowerPoint file into a movie file, then use an iPhone to play it, pausing on each frame. Looks liek that;s exactly what this guy did:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=366966
Agreed. I frequently get compliments on my Keynote presentations along the lines of "How the hell did you DO that?!?". Last week I gave a 104 slide talk in 90 minutes, with questions, and it was a huge hit.
If I have more than a dozen words on a slide, I consider it a bad slide, and break it up... or replace it with an illustration while I just, y'know... talk.
I think the difference in quality of presentations between Keynote and PowerPoint has very little to do with the software itself. They're both just slideware, and PowerPoint is every bit as capable of making good presentations as Keynote is of making bad ones. Bullet points in Keynote are equally ineffective as those in PP.
Rather, it has everything to do with the person giving the presentation. Perhaps those using Macs just tend to be a little more receptive to the "tell a story" method of presenting, rather than the "data dump" method that is the hallmark of bullet point riddled slides.