[SWLUG] OGG on Sony W810i phone?

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri Jun 30 22:32:43 2006, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> Steve Smith wrote:
> > But that was just for my amusement, at the end of the week I'll 
> be the
> > proud owner (thanks to the wonders of contracts) of a Sony 
> Ericsson
> > W810i phone/MP3 player/2meg pixel
> > camera/radio/might-as-well-sell-my-laptop "thing".  Anyone know 
> if you
> > could make it play OGG somehow?
> 
> Nope - I'm using both the S700i and the W800i, and both are MP3 (or 
> DRM-free ACC) only.
> 
> 
For bizarre reasons I have yet to understand, mobile phone people are 
not yet shipping Ogg or Vorbis support. Perhaps it's more CPU 
intensive to decode than MP3, or something - mobile phone people are 
universally paranoid of anything touching battery life.

However, that said, later versions of Symbian have support for a 
pluggable audio subsystem, for which there exists an open-source Ogg 
Vorbis plugin. This covers at least the Nokia S[eries ]60 
smartphones, for which there's also a standalone player for earlier 
Series 60 versions/editions/feature-packs.

(And yes, it annoys me that Nokia change the name with every release. 
Or version. Or feature pack.)

Dave.
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