December 18, 2001
Pixo Inc. (www.pixo.com), a leading provider of platforms and applications for mobile devices, today announced the availability of the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator application to navigate thousands of MP3 songs quickly and easily on small screen, mobile MP3 players.
The Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator features a graphical user interface built on the Pixo OS Platform, a small code size operating system designed for mobile consumer electronics products.
As mobile MP3 player capabilities advance to make downloading and playing thousands of songs a reality, Pixo provides device manufacturers with the software needed to make a compelling user experience, so consumers can quickly sort through their music with an easy-to-use graphical interface.
A PC evaluation of the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator is available for download today at http://developer.pixo.com/downloads/mp3_download.htm.
In addition, Pixo has aligned itself with PortalPlayer Inc., a leading provider of platform solutions for digital audio entertainment products. The two companies will work together to provide consumer electronics and computer manufacturers with the tools to build more intuitive MP3 products.
"Managing thousands of tracks on a small display and without a keyboard is a challenge for the consumer. Even more difficult is the system designer's task of creating the interactive experience for these new types of devices. The release of the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator gives manufacturers a tool to easily implement a user-friendly GUI," said Michael Maia, vice president of marketing at PortalPlayer.
"Together the PortalPlayer digital media platform and the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator provide manufacturers a complete solution to create feature-rich, user-friendly entertainment products."
According to IDC, worldwide portable digital music player unit shipments will grow from 3.3 million in 2000 to more than 25 million in 2005. "As the market grows, there will be greater pressure on manufacturers to add capabilities which will increase device complexity," said Rich Rifredi, vice president, corporate development, Pixo.
"Consumers demand easy-to-use devices and the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator makes it easy to navigate thousands of songs sorted by song, album and artists."
The Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator provides maximum flexibility in product design as the user interface can work on 2-way, 4-way and dial/wheel input designs and can run on nearly any small screen resolution from single line text displays to 240 x 320 and larger high-resolution displays. This provides manufacturers with the ability to have a common user interface across various hardware designs in their product offering.
For manufacturers who want to differentiate within a product line, the Pixo User Interface (UI) Builder provides a tool to quickly change the look and feel of the user interface for unique branding and navigation across products.
The Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator is a Pixo OS Platform application and leverages more than five years of OS Platform development. In addition to the MP3 application, the Pixo MP3 Mobile Navigator supports telephony, games, personal information management, Pixo M-Script applications and Web browsing for manufacturers creating convergent devices such as mobile phones with MP3 player capabilities, smart phones with telephony, PIM and MP3 player capabilities, and handheld game devices with MP3 player capabilities.
Key features include:
-- A graphical user interface to navigate thousands of songs fast and easy with search options by artist, song and album
-- Personalized playlists that can be created by the end-user
-- PixoInvasion and Snake graphical games that can be played simultaneously with MP3 playback
-- Flexible user interface design provides manufacturers with a choice of input devices including 2-way navigation buttons, wheel/dial and touchscreen
-- Application framework and reference applications to reduce development time
-- Pixo UI Builder tool to develop customer user interfaces for unique product branding
-- A flexible software platform that can support a variety of displays from single line text displays to high resolution bit map displays and porting APIs for various hardware designs including ARM, PowerPC, X86, and Dragonball providing manufacturers with greater product design choices
-- Advanced graphical capabilities including 32-bit color and animation for a compelling user experience -- Small code size for cost-effective manufacturing
More information and screen shots of the Pixo Mobile Navigator are available at www.pixo.com/products/products005.htm.
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