Consumer Electronic devices
Connected consumer electronic devices such as portable media players, mobile Internet devices (MID), digital picture frames, set-top boxes and GPS terminals must provide stunning user experiences while addressing industrial requirements in their production such cost effectiveness and time to market. All this and more in a context of increasing feature sophistication and platform fragmentation.
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The Kaleido user interface solution is designed to address these needs. Kaleido brings to life the most sophisticated customized experiences quickly and cost effectively by addressing the three key requirements of a modern user experience solution: rendering cutting-edge visual effects, managing the user application logic, and interfacing with the underlying platform. Kaleido reduces development costs in new device design, allowing manufacturers to react quickly to market trends, diversifying their product offerings and improving their differentiation. By supplying a single software base upon which application can be quickly developed, the Kaleido user interface solution brings an dramatic increase in productivity and a long term reduction in costs. |
Benefits
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Increased flexibility With Kaleido, vendors quickly and easily adapt their devices for specific market requirements (operators’ UI, branded phones, niche segments, etc.) |
Reduced cost Kaleido significantly reduces the cost of creating and updating the UI in various ways. With Kaleido, devices become more generic, and significant changes can be made to the UI without changing code.
Shorter time to market What used to take weeks of hand coding is now done by a few drag&drop actions in minutes with Kaleido. Kaleido includes generic UI functions such as event management, screen transitions, lists, graphic display, etc. that reduce the need for programming. 
Easy integration of third party components Thanks to Kaleido’s specific plug-in architecture, third party components such as browsers, MMS, vector graphic engines, 3D, video, predictive text engines, etc. can be added to a platform with reduced engineering time.
Better differentiation With Kaleido, vendors can implement any UI specifications quickly and cost-effectively. As a result, they are able to better differentiate from their competitors both in their responsiveness and customization of offering for market specifications
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