Here's what you will not find on the Serene: a speakerphone, music playback, video, games, custom ring tones, downloadable anything, and an external screen so you know who's calling before you open the clamshell (that's a big one).
The Entertainment Lab has been exploring all aspects of virtual cinema pipelines with animated characters; using full body and facial performance capture, and doing real-time playback in game engines.
The system's two 3260 mAh Li-polymer batteries provide up to eight hours of playback for casual games, eight hours of HD video playback and 10 hours of WiFi Internet browsing.
"I've been working with this engineer, and you just solder it on to a videogame controller and it's like a Tivo – you can play a game and it'll record it and playback that same game over and over in a loop".
But adding music-jukebox capability to a digital video recorder, or enabling DVD playback on a game console that already uses a DVD-ROM drive, is simply a software update.
Watching video playback of a game's key moments is an important part of coaching — but according to the team at AISpotter, it can also be tedious and time-consuming.
But the NFL has strict rules about head injuries and has even implemented independent "concussion spotters" to help them identify potential concussion symptoms using video playback during the game.
For that, you get a bright thin-film transistor screen, quad-band GSM for global travelers, a camera, MPEG4 video playback, Bluetooth wireless, Java games, a Web browser and a powerful little speaker for MP3 audio and polyphonic ring tones.
As the world's largest mobile device manufacturer, Nokia, is in a favorable position to bring all sorts of cool features to mobile games, music playback and the whole mobile device experience.
Simply load the disc, select the required settings from the simple on-screen interface and position the screen image for optimal playback, before loading the game.
