Nokia (News - Alert) will soon be incorporating Dolby surround sound technologies into select handsets worldwide. This is because Dolby laboratories has announced a collaboration with Nokia.
Following the launch of the Nokia N8, Nokia’s latest smart phone based on the Symbian (News - Alert)^3 platform, the two companies revealed their collaboration. This is the world’s first smart phone to incorporate Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound technology.
“The collaboration between Nokia and Dolby, a world leader in entertainment technology, now brings cinema-like experiences to mobile,” Jo Harlow, head of smart phones, Nokia, said.
Harlow revealed that the Nokia N8 was the first smart phone to offer a true home theater experience with HD quality and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by simply plugging the device into a home theater system with an HDMI cable.
Dwelling on the advantages that the inclusion of Dolby Digital Plus in the Nokia N8 brought, Harlow said that it added a new dimension to the capabilities of the smart phone and transformed it into a HD mobile entertainment device, which was capable of transferring high definition content to HD-ready devices, through a HDMI cable.
“Nokia is a market leader in mobile entertainment and we are delighted to be working with them to bring Dolby Digital Plus to the mobile market,”Kevin Yeaman, President and CEO, Dolby Laboratories (News - Alert).
Yeaman praised the Nokia N8 as being a versatile and compact entertainment center, a precursor to the exciting future that was in store for mobile entertainment, and firmly believed that it was set to change how people used mobile devices by allowing them to share HD content with anyone they chose.
Dolby Laboratories is the global leader in technologies that are essential elements in the best entertainment experiences. Founded in 1965 and best known for high-quality audio and surround sound, Dolby creates innovations that enrich entertainment at the movies, at home, or on the go.
Another example of Dolby being the best in entertainment experiences, was revealed ,when Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (News - Alert) and on-demand digital music service Rhapsody announced that Dolby will work with Rhapsody to optimize more than nine million music tracks in Rhapsody's music library with Dolby Media Generator, a highly efficient set of tools enabling content owners, aggregators, distributors, and operators to format content for mobile delivery and playback.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Nokia Announces First Symbian^3 Phone
Nokia has launched a new device, Nokia N8 powered by the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform. Symbian is a non-profit org that develops the open source mobile software platform based on Symbian OS and is actively backed by by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Sony Ericsson, Fujitsy, Samsung among others . In February, at the Mobile World Congress, Symbian announced that it was 100% open source. This will be the first phone to run on the latest version of the Symbian platform.
The Nokia N8 will showcase all the advances in the S^3 platform and will also be the first smart phone to incorporate Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound technology that transforms the phone into an HD mobile entertainment device, which can output high definition content to HD-ready TVs, audio/video receivers (AVRs), and home theater systems via HDMI. Music store integration embedded within the radio lets users to identify a song and learn more about it. The phone comes with one-click connectivity for all internet applications including access to Nokia's Ovi Store apps . The device will feature 2D and 3D graphics architecture suitable for high performance games . The homescreen will be able to carry multiple pages of widgets . In addition, all the hand sets will come with free global Ovi Maps navigation system that can operate in 70 countries worldwide and a 12 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash) .
The phone is integrated with Qt, a cross-platform application development environment that allows developers to build apps once and deploy them across Symbian and other software platforms. The company has released an initial beta for Nokia Qt SDK that can be downloaded here for those who want to experiment right away. Nokia's Symbian^3 smartphone is expected to make an appearance in select markets during the third quarter of 2010 for around EUR 370.
The Nokia N8 will showcase all the advances in the S^3 platform and will also be the first smart phone to incorporate Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound technology that transforms the phone into an HD mobile entertainment device, which can output high definition content to HD-ready TVs, audio/video receivers (AVRs), and home theater systems via HDMI. Music store integration embedded within the radio lets users to identify a song and learn more about it. The phone comes with one-click connectivity for all internet applications including access to Nokia's Ovi Store apps . The device will feature 2D and 3D graphics architecture suitable for high performance games . The homescreen will be able to carry multiple pages of widgets . In addition, all the hand sets will come with free global Ovi Maps navigation system that can operate in 70 countries worldwide and a 12 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash) .
The phone is integrated with Qt, a cross-platform application development environment that allows developers to build apps once and deploy them across Symbian and other software platforms. The company has released an initial beta for Nokia Qt SDK that can be downloaded here for those who want to experiment right away. Nokia's Symbian^3 smartphone is expected to make an appearance in select markets during the third quarter of 2010 for around EUR 370.
Nokia sticks to its stylus roots, offers telescopic SU-36 for capacitive screens
You know what, we're not gonna make that joke. You can, but we'll just move right along to the meat of this story -- Nokia has listed a telescopic stylus for capacitive screens, the SU-36, which seems to have come out right alongside the N8 to serve as its Symbian^3 assistant. Compatible with the N8, X6, and any other phone with a proper touchscreen on it, this retractable accessory will substitute your fingers when they are either too cold or too imprecise to do the job themselves. It's not yet been priced or made available, but you'll be fine using that sausage stylus for another few weeks, won't ya?
Nokia N8 Web Browser Gets Demoed on Video
A video showing the Nokia N8 and its web browser popped up on YouTube. It didn’t have the cool professional lighting from Nokia’s official videos and you had to turn your head to watch it. However, it gave us a nice little preview of the web browser for the upcoming device. Unfortunately it was immediately taken down.
The video started with a preloaded page from Arab Nokia on the browser, then the Nokia N8 proceeded to demo kinetic scrolling, multitouch pinch-to-zoom, flash support, and the transition between landscape and horizontal orientation. Overall, it looked smooth and snappy, but zooming out seemed to be a little slow. Grey and white boxes were visible before re-rendering the page. It was a pre-production device, so I hope that gets fixed when the final version comes out.
The video started with a preloaded page from Arab Nokia on the browser, then the Nokia N8 proceeded to demo kinetic scrolling, multitouch pinch-to-zoom, flash support, and the transition between landscape and horizontal orientation. Overall, it looked smooth and snappy, but zooming out seemed to be a little slow. Grey and white boxes were visible before re-rendering the page. It was a pre-production device, so I hope that gets fixed when the final version comes out.
Nokia’s Symbian^3 Web Application Development Tools Shift Out of Beta
So, the Nokia N8 features Symbian^3. It’s something that we’re very curious about, and we’re holding our final judgement until we get to see it in action in our own hands, but for now it doesn’t seem like the word on the street has the N8 being the next greatest device. But, if you have been transitioned to the idea of Symbian^3, then maybe you should take a crack at creating applications for it. After all, Nokia says it’s super simple.
The Symbian^3 web application development tool has had the sticker of ‘Beta’ on it for awhile now, but apparently now that the N8 is official, they’ve decided to let the rest of the world take a crack at it. Lee Williams, Executive Director, the entire application process is super simple, because its rooted in CSS, JavaScript, and HTML language, meaning that a developer of any caliber can jump in and start developing their own app for the platform.
You can go download the software for development purposes from the Symbian site if you’re interested, and we think you should give it a shot. After all, if you’re even remotely a fan of Symbian ^3, then it’s going to take a lot of strong developers out there to make it last in an apps-crazy world like today’s world.
The Symbian^3 web application development tool has had the sticker of ‘Beta’ on it for awhile now, but apparently now that the N8 is official, they’ve decided to let the rest of the world take a crack at it. Lee Williams, Executive Director, the entire application process is super simple, because its rooted in CSS, JavaScript, and HTML language, meaning that a developer of any caliber can jump in and start developing their own app for the platform.
You can go download the software for development purposes from the Symbian site if you’re interested, and we think you should give it a shot. After all, if you’re even remotely a fan of Symbian ^3, then it’s going to take a lot of strong developers out there to make it last in an apps-crazy world like today’s world.
Nokia N8 Smartphone Bows Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound, 12 MP Camera
Dolby and Nokia have joined forces to bring Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound on the Nokia N8 smartphone. This will be the first smartphone to offer true surround sound…with more phones to come.
The Nokia N8 runs on the new Symbian 3 operating system and with Dolby Digital Plus included on the phone, high definition surround sound content can be output to HD-ready TVs, audio/video receivers, and home theater systems via HDMI.
Additional features include a 3.5 inch touch screen display, 12 megapixel digital camera, HD video recording, HDMI out and 16GB of internal memory.
"The collaboration between Nokia and Dolby, a world leader in entertainment technology, now brings cinema-like experiences to mobile," said Jo Harlow, head of smart phones, Nokia. "The Nokia N8 is the first smart phone to offer a true home theater experience with HD quality and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by simply plugging the device into a home theater system with an HDMI cable."
The Nokia N8 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2010.
The Nokia N8 runs on the new Symbian 3 operating system and with Dolby Digital Plus included on the phone, high definition surround sound content can be output to HD-ready TVs, audio/video receivers, and home theater systems via HDMI.
Additional features include a 3.5 inch touch screen display, 12 megapixel digital camera, HD video recording, HDMI out and 16GB of internal memory.
"The collaboration between Nokia and Dolby, a world leader in entertainment technology, now brings cinema-like experiences to mobile," said Jo Harlow, head of smart phones, Nokia. "The Nokia N8 is the first smart phone to offer a true home theater experience with HD quality and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by simply plugging the device into a home theater system with an HDMI cable."
The Nokia N8 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2010.
Nokia N8 Now Official
The capacitive touchscreen Nokia N8 has been officially unveiled for Nokia. The device runs Symbian^3 OS and is more finger-friendly than current Symbian OS devices, adding three home screens for shortcuts and widgets as well as a media player with cover flow. The star of the Nokia N8 is its ability to capture and share media with a 12-megapixel camera, Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss lens and the ability to capture video in 720p HD resolution as well as share that with an HDMI out connection. It looks like there may be a variant for AT&T and T-Mobile compatibility, though Nokia has yet to announce availability for the US market.
All the other Nokia high-end smartphone features are present, including WiFi B/G/N, Nokia A/V connector via the 3.5 mm port that doubles as a headphone port, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, and free turn-by-turn voice guided navigation with OVI Maps.
The Nokia N8 comes preloaded with 16 GB of memory onboard, though total memory can be augmented to 48 GB with a micro SDHC card. The N8 will be available in five different colors.
The device is expected in the third quarter. With Symbian^4 coming in 2011, Nokia hasn't announced whether Symbian^3 devices like the N8 will be upgradeable. According to a Nokia rep on Twitter, "That's still to be determined. Symbian^4 is still in development."
All the other Nokia high-end smartphone features are present, including WiFi B/G/N, Nokia A/V connector via the 3.5 mm port that doubles as a headphone port, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, and free turn-by-turn voice guided navigation with OVI Maps.
The Nokia N8 comes preloaded with 16 GB of memory onboard, though total memory can be augmented to 48 GB with a micro SDHC card. The N8 will be available in five different colors.
The device is expected in the third quarter. With Symbian^4 coming in 2011, Nokia hasn't announced whether Symbian^3 devices like the N8 will be upgradeable. According to a Nokia rep on Twitter, "That's still to be determined. Symbian^4 is still in development."
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