Dolby Digital shows off Dolby Surround Sound on Nokia N95 8GB
Posted by Will on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm under CTIA Wireless 2008 @ Las Vegas, Nokia, Applications, Symbian, Announcements
Nokia and multimedia handsets. Mention one and most people will reflexively think of the other. The Finns are known for their N-series mobile phones that can take amazingly sharp and crisp pictures, shoot high-quality video, and store gobs of media. Unfortunately, Espoo's expertise in surround sound processing is a bit lacking.
Enter Dolby Digital. Dusan and I mentioned the Dolby Digital surround sound signal processing application back at Mobile World Congress 2008 Barcelona. The technology is amazing and really makes movies and music come to life. Last we heard, Dolby was looking for manufacturing partners to load devices with Dolby's surround sound processing app for complete and rich out-of-the-box multimedia experience.
Dolby's strength lies in their ability to take plain, old stereo sound and give it a 3D feel and increased depth. The Symbian booth at CTIA Las Vegas 2008 was small, really small. They didn't have much to show off, other than the Dolby Digital surround sound app.
The application installs and runs in the background when viewing movies or listening to music. When paired with a decent set of headphones, the Dolby signal processing is really amazing. Look for new Nokia N-series handsets to start offering Dolby enhancements in the near-term (according to the rep).
UPDATE
Apparently the booth rep didn't know what he was talking about. There is no set deal for Nokia to distribute the Dolby Surround Sound application with any N-Series devices.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Is that a copper N95 8G?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 am
"(according to the rep)" so no idea when it comes out
Nokia have had really good sounds quality compared to many it's rivals and this will up it a notch again.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:18 am
http://nseries-phones.blogspot.com
April 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
That's a Black N95 8GB. The booth lighting must have made it look copper-ish.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
tannks man
April 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Um… kinda old technology.
This was totally last year if you didn't know.
My SHARP SH905i keitai already has DOLBY mobile along with a 2001: Contrast ratio 480×854pixel screen.
And Dolby is barely putting this on a Nokia? Wow. So behind.
My 2 cents.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:10 am
hey this is cool.. but is there an update or installation for n95. or it is only included in the new made n95s only?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
thanks for the news
May 9th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Nokias have always had a good sound quality to their devices so this will definitly boost that up even more.