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Innovators use ST-Ericsson Platform to Showcase Futuristic Apps

February 08, 2011

ST-Ericsson's dual-core smartphone platform helps developers turn great ideas into reality

ST-Ericsson, a world leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, and a group of innovative software partner companies are demonstrating an array of innovative multimedia applications and services running on a powerful ST-Ericsson smartphone platform at the Mobile World Congress. The demos in the App Planet, hall 7, show how ST-Ericsson’s dual-core processor U8500 platform can enable innovative software companies to turn their great ideas into exciting and immersive smartphone apps that captivate consumers.

metaio is showcasing its very advanced augmented reality browser junaio, which uses GPS data, combined with state-of-the-art image-recognition and processing, to overlay information and graphics on to the real-time images being captured by the smartphone’s camera. Very computationally-intense, junaio exploits the U8500 platform’s efficient graphics utilization, processor extensions and camera integration to provide a smooth and responsive user-experience.

Movial, globally recognized for its user experience design know-how and long-term expertise in working with different platforms on embedded devices, is building an open innovation forum and developer community on ST-Ericsson’s U8500 Android, MeeGo and Linux platforms.

Nomovok, an application developer for the MeeGo operating system, is demonstrating a Skype video call prototype running on MeeGo on ST-Ericsson’s U8500 platform. The U8500’s embedded smart video accelerator, video rendering pipeline and dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor ensure that the Skype video call prototype is displayed smoothly and in high-resolution.

Scalado is showcasing its Scalado Album, which enables people to easily view, search and organize large numbers of images on the high-resolution touchscreen of their smartphone. The Scalado Album uses the U8500’s powerful dual-core processor and graphics acceleration to rapidly preview, browse and enlarge images.

Tieto is demonstrating high definition WebM format video running on the Android operating system on the U8500. To produce smooth, sharp images, Tieto is harnessing the U8500’s dual core processor and a VP8 decoder optimized for multiprocessing, which ST-Ericsson intends to contribute back to the open source WebM project.

 

“Our software partners are tapping the cutting-edge capabilities of our latest smartphone platforms to develop exceptional and life-enhancing apps,” said Edgar Auslander, Senior Vice President strategic planning of ST-Ericsson. “These demos illustrate that ST-Ericsson’s smartphone and tablet platforms have the computing power, imaging and multimedia features developers need to really push the mobile envelope forward, while keeping system cost and power consumption down.”

 

Notes to Editors

ST-Ericsson’s U8500 is the first complete integrated smartphone platform to combine a dual-core Cortex A9 application processor with an integrated HSPA+ thin modem. Designed to run Symbian, Android, MeeGo and other Linux Based operating systems, the U8500 can support an HD 1080p camcorder and 20 megapixel camera.

Read about U8500

 

About ST-Ericsson

ST-Ericsson is a world leader in developing and delivering a complete portfolio of innovative mobile platforms and cutting-edge wireless semiconductor solutions across the broad spectrum of mobile technologies. The company is a leading supplier to the top handset manufacturers and ST-Ericsson’s products and technologies enable more than half of all phones in use today. The company generated sales of about USD 2.3 billion in 2010. ST-Ericsson was established as a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson in February 2009, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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