Like the name says and as you can clearly see from the picture, this is a video projector with an iPhone dock. It allows you to watch videos from your iPhone on a 15 to 27 inch display. The iProjector also has a set of 2W stereo speakers.

It has a 0.44″ panel with 4:3 aspect ratio and manual focus that provides a 640:480 resolution, enough for videos from your iPhone. It has a 5W led lamp which will last forever, but is only able to provide a 200:1 contrast.

After Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the 2008 MacWorld conference, Nokia soon announced the “Tube”, which is another name for what I’d call the iClone, as it’s literally a copy of the iPhone, well at least I think it is, what do you say?

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When it comes to pure cool, the BlackBerry Storm, the new global smartphone from Research in Motion, is no match for the iPhone.

While the Storm sports a touch-screen interface rather than a physical keypad, it can’t match the iPhone’s finger-flicking, pinch-zooming touch-screen panache.

Nor does it have many of the slick consumer applications the iPhone offers, such as Shazam, which can identify songs being played within earshot of the phone.

Finally, while the Storm is stylish, it is thicker, heavier and not quite as elegant as the iPhone.

So why bother? Actually, many consumers — especially professionals — will find good reasons to opt for the Storm over the iPhone.

For starters, a lot of organizations don’t allow use of iPhones because they offer limited enterprise-management tools and they lack the security of full-device encryption. BlackBerries, including the Storm, excel in both categories, making them a more attractive choice for certain professionals.

Second, while many veteran BlackBerry users won’t want to give up their physical keyboards in favor of the Storm’s touch-screen keyboard, the latter is decidedly easier to use than the touch-screen keyboard offered on the iPhone. The Storm’s touch-screen is unique in that it moves perceptibly when you push on it. As a result, when you use the touch-screen keyboard, as well as menus, you get tactile feedback.

In fact, the Storm allows users to choose between two touch-screen keyboards. When you turn the phone between landscape and portrait mode, the contents of the screen change as well. This makes it handy to get a better view of certain photographs or Web pages.

But it also changes the configuration of the keyboard. In the landscape mode you get a full Qwerty keyboard. In the portrait mode, the truncated keyboard can be configured to employ either a mulitap method — in which you tap the button multiple times to evoke certain letters — or a SureType mode, which tries to guess what you’re trying to enter.

At first, I thought the SureType mode was a loser. But that’s because I was watching what it came up with after each press of the key. When I went ahead and typed without looking at the results, I found the SureType method was surprisingly effective.

By giving up the physical keyboard, of course, Storm owners gain a lot more room for cruising the Internet and viewing photos. Here, too, the Storm has an edge over the iPhone. The Storm’s 480 x 360 pixel display offers just a tad more resolution than the 480 x 320 pixel display sported by the iPhone. As for photographs, the Storm’s 3.2 megapixel camera overshadows the 2.0 megapixels offered by the iPhone camera.

Both the Storm and iPhone can open and read Word and Excel files, a handy feature for traveling professionals. With the Storm, however, you can install DataViz software that allows you to edit these files as well. Of course, no one is going to want to do extensive editing on a cellphone, but the capability to make limited changes is very welcome.

Finally, I found the Storm to have the edge on battery life. The iPhone does show smarts in conserving battery life by automatically turning off GPS when it’s not in use, a trick the Storm would do well to emulate. But if you manually turn off the GPS, the Storm, like other BlackBerries, stretches out a charge better than most. You can expect up to 15 days of standby time and 5.5 to 6 hours of talk time with a single charge.

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Here you have it. Linux running on the iPhone. Yes, it’s only the first port, but it’s the iPhone running the Linux OS, controlled with a USB keyboard running off the iPhone multi-purpose port thanks to the reverser engineering of Apple’s hardware drivers by iPhone Dev Team member planetbeing. And while it is still limited and doen’t have support for many things, this work opens the door to a much more interesting thing than just a character-based terminal: Google’s Android running on the iPhone hardware.

Just imagine that. Google taking the smartphone war directly into Apple territory. Sure, most people would not care about this, but if Google does this—and most probably not even Google directly, but someone else using Android’s codebase—it would really make things interesting. I, for one, would love to see this happening, even while I personally think that Android is half-baked and most people will ignore it. For now.

At this time, the Linux port has the framebuffer driver (for video), the serial driver, serial over USB driver, and drivers for the interrupts, the clock, and miscellaneous hardware components. They don’t have most of the other things, like write support for the NAND memory, wireless networking, touchscreen drivers, sound, accelerometer, and, one big and, the baseband chip, which is what makes the iPhone communicate with the cellular networks.

But the fact is that it’s getting there and, knowing this, I’m sure several Google employees are scrambling to get the codebase for this port, and maybe help in the effort.

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