Nero has announced they will preview Nero Mobile, a state-of-the-art mobile multimedia center for Smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), at CeBIT 2006. Nero Mobile, a complete mobile media center, allows users to browse, play and organize media (Photos, Audio and Video clips) on a mobile phone or a PDA by streaming content from a home media center (e.g. Nero MediaHome) over the UPnP protocol. With it, users can also enjoy online Internet radio and TV broadcasts on their hand-held devices.
Nero Mobile supports latest codecs supported by Nero Digital, including MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 Video and High Efficiency AAC v2 Audio, MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP/ASP, Ogg Vorbis and many more. Nero Mobile is also optimized for the many hardware platforms powering modern mobile phones, such as Intel XScale, ARM, TI-OMAP and Freescale mx.21. Nero Mobile runs on Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and mobile Linux platforms.
“The parameters of the digital lifestyle have expanded beyond the home to anywhere consumers may find themselves, such as commuting, working remotely, relaxing outdoors, or waiting in a doctor’s office,” said Jim Corbett, Executive Director of Nero AG in the press release. “Nero Mobile gives people the opportunity to stay connected, informed and entertained with high quality video and audio content at any location via their phones and PDAs.”
More info: http://www.nero.com/
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
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clone is a strong word
Didn’t Nero fiddle while Microsoft burned?
Clone is the correct word. My God, can’t anyone come up with anything “new” other than Apple?
MDN Magic Word: “Ill” as in “Sputnik and this Nero thing make me ill”
its an accidental clone.
its simply a good interface design – and i can imagine its been in development for a good while on both sides.
front row was certainly not the first time i’d seen a ‘rotating’ interface.
pull your head out ya ass for a second.
PIRATES PIRATES PIRATES……wow
Didn’t the PS2 use a “rotating icon” interface for selecting functions as its top level interface? I seem to remember it from SOME game console….
Not that I like admiting it, but the X Box had a rotating interface like what B-Sabre is talking about. It was all green and wireframe, but the rotation aspect of it was very similar.
OK, Andrew.
Try to be a little more specific – WHERE in the hell have you ever seen a “rotating” interface used for accessing multi-media stored on a device – other than on a Mac?
Exactly.
Apple’s forthcoming lawsuit has “look and feel” written all over it.
Start them engines, Apple esquires.
I dont think it looks like it all that much, not to mention its a completely different STYLE, anyone who works in graphic or design can tell, sure similar “ideas” but the style and design are different than each other…
Alice: the style and design are different than each other
Sony Ericsson has no shame.
um…. yeah, clone is a strong word indeed… its obvious products like front row will come out, but just because they do come out doesn’t make them clones.
Not every car that comes out is a “clone” of the model T
If you thought Apple came up with this idea, you are a loser and obviously haven’t been around long enough to separate facts from blind faith…
Not to say you are idiots… just that you really need to dig deeper to see that not all ideas are Apple-first… It’s just that Apple has been the first one to make them better…
Before you start flaming, I am a Mac-freak myself… But at least I am grounded enough to know that some of Apple’s technologies/UI designs have been around before Apple’s implementation..
In the case of Front Row style UI…. check out, of all companies, Sun’s implementation YEARS before Front Row:
http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/
It’s a shame that Sun isn’t exactly a big player in the consumer desktop market…
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And that Mighty Mouse they started shipping last year? It’s been Jef Raskin’s idea in his book for YEARS!!!
http://www.wiredatom.com/blog/2005/09/27/apple-listens/
So, yes… Apple “pirates” too!
Off topic, but I am posting this here because it is a newer thread.
Click on the link below, it will take you to the DigitalLife TV site – EPISODE 42. They encode it in many formats including H.264 – cool. This episode has quite a bit of Mac stuff in it (it’s usually Win stuff). They talk to a guy who went to the Intel Developers Forum and he talks about the new Intel Conroe(sp?) processors that may possibly go into the PowerMac line. 3-4 instructions per clock cycle, 300% gain in rendering speed, and at minimum a 100% gain in video encoding speed. It’s a good show and well worth the download. It’s says it’s 153MB (H.264), but its actually about 240MB. With a decent broadband connection it takes about 5-6 minutes. Oh, and they also talk about the Mac mini briefly and in the next episode they are going to show how to upgrade the memory in it on your own. Check it out – worth the download if you’re interested.
DL TV Episode 42
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I just want to clarify that…
Project Looking Glass has only defined the primative look/feel of the initial Front Row screens. The rest of the stuff is all Apple… The navigation into each library, song, playlist… etc. Looking Glass wasn’t even anywhere close to what Apple has implemented…
So, there… Apple scored big on that one.
Imatation is the sincerist form of flattery.
Got a few facts mixed up about the DL TV show – 2.66Ghz Conroe processors will give a 300% increase in Video encoding. It also can do 5 instructions per clock cycle.
Unless you are really interested, just fast forward through the Slashdot interview – I found it boring, you may not. After that is the Mac mini stuff.
Anyway, check it out if you’re interested………
Yep, the playstation 2 has a similar browser menu. Maybe not as polished as Front Row, but similar regardless.
The similarity between the PS2 browser menu and the Front Row interface is *gasp* about the same as the similarity between Nero and the Front Row interface.
LordRobin:
“Sony Ericsson has no shame.”
First off, it ain’t Sony Ericsson, it’s Nero doing this. It’s only being displayed on a Sony Ericsson unit.
Second, who made the PS2? Sony. I guess I can turn around and say that “Apple has no shame.”
You know what? I won’t.
What Apple does is not necessarily come up with things first, it’s just that they *do* things better (i.e. the GUI, iPods). Except for mice.