LG and Dolby get together for 5.1 mobile surround sound

Talanzar17 February 2010

This looks to me like another flash in the pan sales gimmick just waiting to fall flat on its lemon and sugar pancake face! Surely the point of 5.1 and 8.1 etc… is that you have multiple speakers to create a proper 'real' surround sound experience!? You can't get that from a mobile unless it has multiple speakers, and even then it would only be pseudo surround sound created using software algorithms, which again would only work correctly in the right environment. You could get 'real' surround sound is you hooked the mobile up to multiple external speakers or 5.1 surround sound headphones, but I doubt the current headphone variants will support the LG GD880. And you certainly wouldn't want to commute on the train carrying and balancing 5 speakers between the woman with the bacon roll, the man reading his newspaper and on top of his briefcase! Either way, if integrated properly with mobile phones/headphones this tech advance could as the report says "revolutionise game-playing or movie-watching on the go", as long as the hardware can keep up and is fully supported! But i'm very suspect that it's another selling gimmick for 2010/11.