Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Digital Airways | Subject: Kaleido
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 June 2005

Handset MMI gains new multimedia engine

Digital Airways and Actimagine have partnered to add the Actimagine's Mobiclip multimedia engine as a pre-integrated component in Kaleido MMI for mass-market mobile phones

Digital Airways and Actimagine have partnered to add the Actimagine's Mobiclip multimedia engine as a pre-integrated component in Kaleido man-machine interface (MMI) for mass-market mobile phones. The addition of Mobiclip to Kaleido allows mobile phone manufacturers to design new multimedia handsets' user interfaces using best in class software components with reduced integration costs.

Kaleido is a complete solution for handset manufacturers to create sophisticated man-machine interfaces quickly and easily.

Kaleido is unique in the way it separates the MMI specification from its implementation.

The MMI is fully specified with a configurable file, which is read and duly rendered by the MMI engine implemented on the handset.

As a result, manufacturers dramatically reduce the cost and time-to-market of MMI design and implementation, while gaining complete flexibility to produce customised phones.

Actimagine's Mobiclip is a full class multimedia engine notably for mobile phones that allows displaying video, games, animations and any kind of interactive contents including user interfaces at 24 frames per second, with a TV-like picture quality on any handset.

Content is designed using standard authoring tools such as Macromedia Flash for example and then converted on PC into Actimagine Mobiclip format.

For user interfaces, it allows an easy, quick and cost effective content production.

The integration of Actimagine's Mobiclip to Kaleido is carried out with KEELS (Kaleido External Engine Library Specification), an extension of Kaleido that allows for easy integration of third party multimedia components on mobile phones.

KEELS was introduced on 2nd June 2005.

According to Philippe Silberzahn, CEO of Digital Airways: 'Handset manufacturers are looking for easier integration of different software components'.

'Now, when they deploy our MMI solution, they will be able to integrate the Mobiclip multimedia engine to their platform in a matter of hours'.

'Digital Airways' MMI plus Mobiclip engine's joint capabilities can dramatically enhance the user experience, which is a key issue on mobile phones', says Andre Pagnac, CEO of Actimagine.

The joint product is available immediately.

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