LG and Dolby Laboratories announced that LG will incorporate Dolby Mobile into handsets bound for the global market. The companies signed an agreement that grants LG a license to embed Dolby Mobile technology into its handsets. Dolby Mobile is designed to allow customers to optimize and tailor audio for an enhanced entertainment experience.

“Being the first company to incorporate Dolby Mobile technology into handsets for the global market reinforces LG’s role as a leader in the mobile industry and in multimedia phones,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “We believe this technology will raise the bar for audio quality on multimedia phones and expect Dolby Mobile to help us create a new trend in the mobile phone industry. LG is committed to providing our customers with the best features available and our new collaboration with Dolby helps us deliver on this pledge.”

LG plans to apply Dolby Mobile technology to a wide range of multimedia features on its phones. Some of the Dolby Mobile features that LG plans to incorporate into its phones include:

* Mobile Surround, which delivers a realistic surround sound experience using headphones
* Sound Space Expander, which creates a wide, rich, and spacious soundstage experience especially suited to music playback
* Natural Bass, which adds powerful boost and bass extension
* High-Frequency Enhancer, which enhances music and other content by restoring high-frequency effects
* Graphic EQ, which helps tune the audio experience for different content types
* Sound Level Control, which helps level out audio for a more consistent playback volume
* Mono-to-Stereo Converter, which improves the playback experience of user-generated content

LG plans to begin launching high-end multimedia phones that incorporate Dolby Mobile technology from the fourth quarter of this calendar year.

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