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AM3D's 3D Mobile Handset Audio Now Available for Beatnik's Mobile Audio Engine
Bass Boost, 3D and Virtual Surround Sound successfully Integrated into the mobileBAE™
AALBORG, Denmark and San Mateo, California — September 19, 2008 —
AM3D A/S and Beatnik today announced that AM3D's Zirene® Audio Enhancement and Diesel Power MobileTM 3D Audio products are now available for Beatnik's Audio Engine mobileBAE™.
"AM3D's 3D audio products provide outstanding audio quality, 3D and special effects for mobile phones and portable music players," stated Gavin Bourne, Beatnik's VP of Marketing and Sales. "By adding AM3D's audio software to our mobileBAE product line, our customers now have an easy way to provide 3D sound and Audio Enhancement features like Bass Boost, Stereo Widening and Virtual Surround Sound in a state-of-the-art quality."
"Beatnik's mobileBAE is known in the industry as one of the de facto music players in Mobile Phones. By making our solution ready for the mobileBAE we have access to a very large portion of the Mobile Phone world market," stated Sven Vestergaard, CEO at AM3D. "Now Beatnik's customers will be able to provide true 3D audio and quality sound in a very low-power, low-area solution."
Zirene® Audio Enhancement
AM3D's Zirene® product, including features such as Stereo Widening, Power Bass, Equalization, Reverb and Virtual 5.1 Surround sound, creates a broad and spacious sound image, available through mobile device speakers and headsets. AM3D's patented 3D Audio technology, combined with an in-depth knowledge of psychoacoustics, lets people listen to music with an overwhelming 3D audio experience incorporating a broad and spacious sound image.
Diesel Power Mobile™ - 3D Audio Game Engine
Diesel Power Mobile™ is a true 3D Audio gaming engine giving the player a feeling of being in the real environment while playing. Diesel Power Mobile™ is compliant to key customers' demands and market trends such as Vodafone VFX® and JSR-234.
Mobile BAE
As a flexible and highly configurable pure software solution, the mobileBAE enables the real time generation of high quality audio by any application on the phone, including polyphonic and digital ringbones, music players, multimedia messaging and interactive games.
Providing a complete audio subsystem, mobileBAE incorporates a synthesizer, mixer, sample rate converter, digital audio player and support for MIDI, SP-MIDI, Mobile XMF, Mobile DLS, RMF, WAV, MP3, aacPlus and Windows Media Audio file formats. Beatnik has licensed its BAE technology to industry-leading wireless handset manufacturers and platform providers including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, SAGEM, LGE, Texas Instruments, and Freescale Semiconductor. Beatnik's software has shipped in over half a billion devices globally.
About AM3D
AM3D is a leading global supplier of 3D audio technology. The technology is found in Mobile Phones, Audio Systems, LCD TVs, In-Car Entertainment Systems and mission critical applications like flight simulators and F-16 jets. AM3D is part of Nordjyske Holding. The group has a history dating back to 1767. The group has more than 1000 people employed in the fields of newspapers, radio, television, call centers, new media research and multimedia development. For further information, please visit www.am3d.com or contact Hans Christian Løgsted at +45 99349836 or am3d@am3d.com.
About Beatnik, Inc.
Beatnik licenses scalable, standards-based structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, which enable rich multimedia content delivery and an enhanced user experience for music, games and device interaction. Beatnik markets its core software technology and audio content development tools to mobile device manufacturers, service providers and a community of creative professionals. Incorporated in 1996, Beatnik was founded by musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson.
www.beatnik.com
Beatnik®, Beatnik Audio Engine, BAE, mobileBAE, and RMF® are trademarks of Beatnik, Inc. All rights reserved. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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