A month ago we wrote how Scalado’s CAPS imaging technology is chosen as reference component to ship within Symbian OS. Now we have Symbian going out to officially sign a licensing agreement with Scalado to bring their “state of the art image handling capabilities” to Symbian OS.
Scalado’s solution for Symbian OS will significantly improve Symbian’s imaging performance for higher megapixel images. It will deliver faster rendering, scaling and rotation and superior image editing features – with the added benefit of reduced memory consumption. Importantly, Scalado’s patented Random Access JPEG technology allows imaging operations to occur while the image is in compressed form, greatly reducing RAM consumption.
Symbian will offer Symbian OS with built-in Scalado’s technology free of any additional royalties to Symbian OS licensees, starting from Symbian OS version 9.3 and higher. End users will enjoy higher usability while handset makers will see a cut in hardware costs.
To make things work smoothly, the two companies will create a joint team of skilled imaging and camera engineers.