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Making Mobile Presentations Without a Laptop?

Posted by timothy on from the mail-a-PDF-of-presentation-in-advance dept.

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. iPhone's not a bad idea by Bananatree3 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You can convert powerpoint to run on your iphone, and it's not a bad idea considering the portability. Wifi is there, internet browsing is there, and you can an iPhone to a TV with proper cables.

    Its not going to be drag and drop, but it is pretty straight forward

  2. iPod, Treo, Blackberry by NevermindPhreak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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