Motorola is planning to design tiny display projectors in its mobile phones and has signed a deal with US-based Microvision to develop the miniature laser-based display systems.

The attraction to Motorola is that miniature projectors could enable a larger viewing screen for mobile handsets, by projecting content displayed on the device screen onto a wall, object or even a curved surface.

“Working together with Microvision, we are pursuing ways that projection technology can redefine how mobile consumers view and interact with the media they take with them," said Rob Shaddock, CTO, Motorola Mobile Devices business.

The firms are working together to integrate Microvision's PicoP projector inside a functioning mobile handset as a demonstration system.

The prototype handset will use the a 854x480 colour pixel wide angle scanner, which was first demonstrated by Microvision in May 2007 at the Society of Information Display annual conference.