Scalado provides mobile imaging software solution for Symbian OS

Scalado CAPS™, the imaging solution of choice for next generation Symbian smartphones

The Symbian Smartphone Show, 17 October 2006 - Scalado AB, a leading developer of digital imaging software, today announced that Scalado is providing Scalado CAPS™ as an extended imaging solution in Symbian smartphones with camera. CAPS enables highly efficient capture, editing, browsing, and manipulation of high-resolution mega pixel images efficiently on any mobile camera-phone, thus giving Symbian smartphones with cameras the speed, performance and functionality that end-users would expect from a high-end, mega pixel camera.

As part of the collaboration, Symbian will develop and add an extended C++ API on top of Scalado CAPS in order for the Symbian OS licensees to easily add their own camera, album and photo editing-applications. CAPS will be available in the Software Development Kit (SDK) for testing purposes and can be licensed directly from Scalado for its use in products.

Future users of Symbian smartphones will benefit from the unique features of the Scalado CAPS imaging SDK including feature modules such as SpeedView™ for instant image viewing, and AutoRama™ for automatic panorama function. All CAPS applications will enable faster and more efficient use of the device’s camera function, which in turn should help increase MMS traffic for operators.

“This is a great opportunity for both companies to cement our leadership in respective markets and field of expertise, with Symbian OS licensees benefiting from easier and faster development of camera and imaging applications, and a much shorter time to market”, said Mats Jacobson, CEO Scalado.

Jørgen Behrens, executive vice-president, marketing, Symbian confirms; "With Scalado’s CAPS API, Symbian further strengthens its capabilities in multimedia by offering our licensees a feature rich imaging SDK which will translate into a much enriched user experience compared to other camera-phones.”

Scalado CAPS images are decoded and encoded using Scalado’s patented Image management technology RAJPEG™. RAJPEG reduces the amount of RAM memory required by a factor of 25x while still processing full resolution mega pixel images, and increases performance for image manipulation by a factor of up to 10x.

The new high level API will allow Symbian developers to easily design imaging applications without worrying about image processing, processing power, memory, image filters or poor user experience, which are all taken care of and built into Scalado CAPS.

With Symbian being the OS of choice for most global smartphones with a 67% market leading share, according to July 2006 figures from Canalys*, Scalado can help Symbian provide unprecedented mobile imaging performance while ensuring the lowest possible costs for Symbian OS licensees.

Scalado CAPS will be distributed with Symbian OS from early 2007. The end-user benefits of the solution will be demonstrated on the Scalado and Symbian stand at The Symbian Smartphone show 17t --18th of October 2006, at Excel, London in Hall N4 at Stand 50.

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About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian OS phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit www.symbian.com

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