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Nokia DisplayWare enables display adjustment with the mouse
September 11, 1998
With Nokia DisplayWare, display adjustments can be executed in the same way as ordinary PC operations. The new control software for Nokia monitors enables the user to adjust the display settings solely with the mouse. DisplayWare will become available for Nokia monitors equipped with universal serial bus (USB) monitor function in September 1998. The Nokia models offering the DisplayWare option will be the Nokia 447Xpro, 446Xpro, 445Xpro, 447XS, 446XS, and the Nokia 447DTC.
Until now monitor adjustments have been made by means of control buttons. On screen menus have become the standard way of guiding the display adjustment. With all common PC software based on mouse control, Nokia DisplayWare brings display adjustment into line with intuitive PC operation.
All adjustments with the mouse
Nokia DisplayWare is based on the familiar principle of mouse-controlled menus and commands. With this new software, adjusting the display setting becomes similar to other adjustment operations in PC work.
Nokia DisplayWare offers the user 12 language options, allowing the user to carry out the adjustments in his or her own language. The software includes test patterns designed to help the user in adjusting the monitor. The adjustments effected by means of the mouse cover the full range of picture adjustments, that is, brightness, contrast, convergence, geometry, size, and colour temperature. Detailed instructions on all basic matters will be available under the Help command.
Discover display adjustment
A straw poll among professional PC users, such as graphic designers and CAD designers, revealed that most found the idea of regularly adjusting the display settings too complicated. In many workplaces, care has been devoted to ensuring that the ambient lighting conditions remain constant. However, this leaves out the human factor. Several hours of close attention to the screen image is bound to affect the way the eye perceives the image. Picture adjustment can be used to compensate for the changes in the perceptual performance.
Apart from changes in ambient conditions and the eye, changes in software may call for an adjustment of the display picture. Routine switches from one software to another can be easily managed with Nokia Display Ware. It enables the user to save display setting for different environments and software, eliminating the need of readjusting the monitor for regular changes in ambient conditions or software.
In USB models
Operating in Windows 98 environment, Nokia DisplayWare will become available in Nokia monitors equipped with Universal Serial Bus (USB) monitor function in September 1998. USB provides for attachment and detachment of peripheral devices while the PC is running. The USB system requires, in addition to a USB compatible display, a PC equipped with a USB circuit and connector.
Nokia monitors with a USB option are the 17-inch Nokia 447Xpro, the 19-inch Nokia 446Xpro, the 21-inch Nokia 445Xpro, the 17-inch Nokia 447XS, the 19-inch Nokia 446XS, and the desktop communicator, the Nokia 447 DTC. All these monitors will feature the Nokia DisplayWare. The DisplayWare software can be set up from a CD or alternatively downloaded from the Internet.
Nokia is a broad-scope communications company supplying mobile phones, mobile and fixed telecommunications networks, wireless data communications solutions, multimedia terminals and computer monitors. In 1997, net sales totaled FIM 52.6 billion ($9.8 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the NYSE (NOK.A), has sales in 130 countries and employs more than 41,000 people worldwide.
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