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White Paper Z300
24 October 2005
Unified messaging
The user typically receives a short message notify-
ing them that they have a new message in their uni-
fied messaging box, with icons or formatted text
further enhancing the message.
Ringtones
Downloading ringtones from the Internet.
News & commercials
World news illustrated, sports scores and news
headlines, finance and stock market news with dia
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grams and tickers, commercial product promo-
tions, weather reports with maps, tunes from TV
commercials as ringtones.
Info & entertainment
Ringtones, e-greetings, football club logo, joke-of-
the-day illustrated by pictures or sound, horo
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scopes, movie-related animation or theme song,
TV show promotions, music artist promotions, lot
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tery results, food and drink pictures and recipes,
mood-related pictures.
Corporate
Flight schedules, pre-installed corporate logos,
map snippets and travel info, company branded
icons and ring tones, corporate e-mail notifications,
affinity programmes where companies notify cus
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tomers of product updates, banks notifying cus-
tomers about new services and interest rates, call
centres providing answers to questions about a
product, vehicle positioning combining EMS with
Global Positioning System (GPS) position informa
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tion, job dispatch with delivery addresses for sales
or courier package delivery, using EMS in a retail
environment for credit card authorization, remote
monitoring of machines for service and mainte
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nance purposes.
Polyphonic ringtones
The Z300 uses the new and improved Oki chip for
superior sound quality. The reason for changing
from the Yamaha chip to the Oki chip was based on
sound quality as opposed to the number of availa
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ble voices.
Although Yamaha offers 40 voices only eight are
based on wavetable or real music sounds. The
remaining 32 voices are all FM generated, which
means modulated tone generators. This influences
the sound quality making it synthetic or toy-like.
Treble instruments sound more like modulated
noise. It also makes finding suitable content diffi
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cult in terms of matching the sound of other prod-
ucts.
The Oki chip bases its 32 voices on real music
sounds from a wavetable (originally from Casio
Musical Instruments). Consequently, the sound
from the Oki chip is much more natural and musi
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cal. We have used Oki chips in a number of phones
with good results (T30, T310, T610, T630, Z600
etc).
Protocol
The Z300 has a hardware synthesizer chip, built
into the mobile phone. The software controls the
MIDI files, and makes sure they fit into the hard
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ware chip. It is possible to modify the dynamics of
the sound.
The Z300 supports the MIDI 1.0 detailed specifica-
tion. Please visit www.midi.com for more informa-
tion.